BY FASIG-TIPTON PRESS OFFICE (Edited)
The August Digital Sale closed Tuesday afternoon with 154 horses sold for $4,886,500. The sale averaged $31,730 with a clearance rate of 81%. The catalogue offered horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, breeding stock (including broodmares with foals at foot), yearlings and a stallion prospect.
Hip 39, Snow Face Princess, winner of the $145,000 Bolton Landing Stakes (Listed) at Saratoga on Aug. 17, sold for $775,000 to Winchell Thoroughbreds to the top the sale. The 2-year-old Midshipman filly was offered as a racing/broodmare prospect by Claiborne Farm as agent. Snow Face Princess has a record of two wins from three starts to date with earnings of $142,600.
Hip 1, Ascot Walk, in foal to Horse of the Year Cody’s Wish, sold for $550,000 to Erdenheim Farm Thoroughbreds from the consignment of Turning Point Bloodstock as agent. Ascot Walk is the dam of three foals of racing age, all of whom are winners and stakes performers. Most notably, she is the dam of 2025 Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) runner up Drexel Hill, who won this year’s $200,000 Busher Stakes (Listed) on March 1 at Aqueduct. Her first foal, Regaled, is four-times stakes placed, including in last year’s Delaware Oaks (G3). Ascot Walk received a timely update on Aug. 22 when her current 2-year-old, Grazie, by Modernist, finished third in the $145,500 Seeking the Ante at Saratoga in her stakes debut.
Hip 6, Crevalle d’Oro, a 4-year-old racing/broodmare prospect, sold for $220,000 to Brandon Bowen from the consignment of Taylor Made Sales Agency as agent. The daughter of Constitution is a multiple winner who is also graded stakes placed. She has earned $183,724 to date.
“We are very grateful to the buyers for supporting the sale, and the sellers for entrusting us with their horses,” said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales. “The sale today was fantastic and a great way for us to end the summer digital sales season. The outlook for the fall digital sales is already very strong and we are gearing up for a big October and December. Demand this week was strong from the top of the market all the way down. What a great day for Bill Johnson and his team capitalizing on multiple big updates with their super mare Ascot Walk. Also thankful to Claiborne for consigning the very exciting Snow Face Princess to the sale.”
Full results are available online.
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