Emmanuel de Seroux Goes to $3.6M for Surge Capacity

With seven-figure mares coming fast and furious at Fasig-Tipton's Night of the Stars sale Monday night, Surge Capacity (Flintshire {GB}) set the early benchmark when realizing $3.6 million to the bid of Emmanuel de Seroux for Narvick International/Grand Stud. Consigned by Elite, agent as Hip 197, Surge Capacity won the 2023 GI Matriarch Stakes and was bred this past spring to Into Mischief for her first foal. Surge Capacity is a half-sister to GISW and 'TDN Rising Star' Ways and Means (Practical Joke) and a full-sister to GSW Highly Motivated. Her dam, Strong Incentive (Warrior's Reward), went through the ring one hip earlier and was led out unsold at $2.7 million, but later sold post sale for $2.75 million to M.V. Magnier and White Birch Farm.