Miss Temple City (Temple City–Glittering Tax, by Artax), a three-time Grade I winner who added to her considerable resume with a game victory in the Kentucky Downs Ladies' Turf S. Sept. 9, will go under the hammer at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale in Lexington Monday, Nov. 6. She joins a star-studded lineup that already includes champions Tepin (Bernstein), Songbird (Medaglia d'Oro), Catch a Glimpse (City Zip) and Finest City (City Zip). She will be consigned to the sale by Select Sales.
Owned by The Club Racing LLC, Needle In a Haystack LLC and Kevin Plank's Sagamore Farm and trained by Graham Motion, Miss Temple City annexed each of her two starts as a juvenile and won the 2015 Hilltop S. while placing in five graded stakes, including a desperately unlucky runner-up effort in the GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup and a second-place finish behind Lady Eli (Divine Park) in the GIII Appalachian S. She was also a respectable fourth against some top European 3-year-old fillies in the G1 Coronation S. at Royal Ascot.
Ambitiously campaigned at age four in 2016, Miss Temple City kicked off her season with a defeat of males, including future GI Breeders' Cup Mile winner Tourist (Tiznow), in the GI Maker's 46 Mile at Keeneland (108 Beyer, video) and had that rival behind yet again in the GI Shadwell Turf Mile (106 Beyer, video), becoming the only female to complete that remarkable double and joining the likes of two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan (Wiseman's Ferry) in accomplishing the feat. She recorded a third seasonal top-level success in the Matriarch S., while her fourth in the G2 Duke of Cambridge S. at Royal Ascot was full of merit.
Her victory Saturday, just her third run of 2017, came on the heels of a third in the GIII WinStar Matchmaker S. July 31.
“What an incredible ride it has been with Miss Temple City,” said Bob Feld, who bred Miss Temple City and co-owns her. “From the day she was born she was truly a star, but to watch her amazing career unfold into such a remarkable racehorse is incredible.”
“Select Sales is truly honored to consign a mare as special as Miss Temple City at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale,” said Amy Bunt, Director of Sales for Select Sales. “Very few race mares have had such a historic and international racing career as she. Her accomplishments, pedigree, and beautiful conformation make her uniquely suited to fit any number of major breeding programs throughout the world.”
Miss Temple City was bred from the stakes-placed Glittering Tax, also the dam of Miss Temple City's Grade III-winning full-sister Pricedtoperfection, who sold for $650,000 at Fasig-Tipton November last fall. Second dam Nancy's Glitter (Glitterman) and third dam Starfire Voyage (Fire Dancer) are both stakes winners and stakes producers.
Miss Temple City, who was using Saturday's victory as a steppingstone to a next start back at Keeneland Oct. 7 in either this year's Shadwell Mile or the GI First Lady S., has a record of 19-7-3-3 and earnings to date of $1,677,868.
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