EMPIRE MAKER COLT TOPS F-T DAY ONE
Article taken from the TDN
A colt from the second crop of Classic winner EMPIRE
MAKER (Unbridled) elicited the highest price at yesterday's
opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearlings sale in
Lexington, Kentucky. Preston Madden purchased the son of Grade I
winner Nonsuch Bay (Mr. Greeley) for $320,000. Warrendale Sales, as
agent, consigned the colt, who was catalogued as hip 251. He is the
first foal out of his eight-year-old dam, who counted the GI Mother
Goose S. among her victories. Nonsuch Bay was purchased for $1.15
million by NeverTell Farm LLC at the 2004 Keeneland November sale.
Stonewall Farm Stallions bred hip 251, who failed to meet his
reserve at $370,000 at last month's Keeneland September sale. The
second and final session of the sale gets underway today at 10 a.m.
For complete results, visit www.fasigtipton.com.
Article taken from the Daily Racing Forum
$320K COLT LEADS FASIG-TIPTON
SALE
By GLENYE CAIN OAKFORD
The open yearling market in Kentucky produced several six-figure
youngsters Monday at the first session of Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's
October yearling sale in Lexington.
A flashy purchase by Hamburg Place owner Preston Madden, who
bred 1986 Kentucky Derby winner Alysheba, was the opening-day
highlight at 5:30 p.m. Madden bid $320,000 for Hip No. 251, an
Empire Maker colt who is the first foal out of Grade 1 winner
Nonsuch Bay. Warrendale Sales, agent, consigned the colt.
Two other yearlings had brought $100,000 or more by that point.
One was Hip No. 204, a $165,000 Hennessy colt out of the
stakes-placed Lode mare Mighty Lode that Longhorn Ranch bought from
Peter O'Callaghan's Woods Edge Farm. The other was a $140,000 A.P.
Indy colt out of Louve Mysterieuse, by Seeking the Gold. Fourteen
Enterprises made the purchase from Crossroads Sales Agency, agent.
Crossroads represented Fortress Pacific Equine.
The sale was to continue through Tuesday.
Date:
23 October 2007