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Bought by West Point Thoroughbreds & L E B Agent for US$1.5 million at Fasig-Tipton
Day one of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds In Training Sale was topped by a Quality Road (Elusive Quality) colt who was bought for US$1.5 million by West Point Thoroughbreds and L E B Agent and the session saw increases across the board in the figures from both the 2020 and 2019 renewals.
Sold by Eddie Woods, the session topping son of Lane's End Farm's Quality Road was catalogued as Lot 211. He is out of Stormy Welcome (Storm Cat) making him a half-brother to three winners while his second dam is Grade 3 winner Welcome Surprise (Seeking The Gold) who is herself a half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner and successful sire A P Indy (Seattle Slew). The colt had breezed in a time of 10.0 seconds.
"He's a big, strong horse that worked in :10 flat. You take a look at him and he's not supposed to work that fast. He did it the right way," said Terry Finley of West Point Thoroughbreds.
The colt's sale price tied the record price paid for a colt at the Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training sale, set in 2017 when subsequent multiple stakes winner Curlin's Honor (Curlin) sold for US$1.5 million, with the most expensive filly to be sold at the sale being Gamine (Into Mischief) who was bought at the 2019 renewal for US$1.8 million.
The second highest price of the session came for Lot 164, a colt by the Spendthrift Farm-based sire Malibu Moon (A P Indy) who was purchased for US$700,000 by Alex Elliott and Ben McElroy and the colt will head into training with Simon Callaghan in California.
Another consigned by Eddie Woods, the bay colt is out of the unraced Seeking The Gold (Mr Prospector) mare Seeking Atlantic who to date has produced four winners from as many to race, including stakes placed fillies Seeking Her Glory (Giant's Causeway) and Castellani (Quality Road).
His second dam is multiple graded stakes winner Atlantic Ocean (Stormy Atlantic) and he had breezed in a time of 10.0 during the Monday session of the under tack show.
One further lot made over US$500,000 with West Bloodstock as agent for Robert and Lawana Low going to US$550,000 for Lot 72, a daughter of Classic Empire (Pioneerof The Nile).
Overall on Monday, 170 of the 210 juveniles offered were sold for US$15,856,500. At the 2020 sale 303 of the 375 lots offered were sold for US$23,572,500. The average on Monday finished at US$93,097, up 20 per cent from the 2020 figure of US$77,797. The median was US$45,000, up 12.5 per cent from the 2020 figure of US$40,000.
"From what I was hearing at OBS, people were just excited to be back for sales and wanting to buy horses," Fasig-Tipton's Midlantic sales director Paget Bennett said.
"I heard so many people didn't get their orders filled in Ocala. We are the next stop and here we are. We are thrilled we had a great catalogue to give them and the horses matched up."
The second and final session will be held on Tuesday.
