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Fasig-Tipton's Kentucky October Yearling Sale, to be held next week in Lexington, is the last chance for buyers to acquire yearlings before focus shifts to the breeding stock sales, and it's also the final major auction before the Nov. 1 and 2 Breeders' Cup World Championships. Breeders' Cup-bound sales graduates include British Idiom (Flashback, $40,000 in 2018, GI Juvenile Fillies) and Mongolian Groom (Hightail, $11,000 in 2016, GI Longines Classic), and there are also several runners heading to Santa Anita who have siblings set to sell at this year's October sale. See below for a list of some those offerings. Note that this list may not be exhaustive, as fields for the Breeders' Cup have not yet been finalized.

Hip 631 is an Oxbow half-brother to major GI Breeders' Cup Sprint and Eclipse Award player Mitole (Eskendereya), who has enjoyed a five-for-six season including highest-level victories in the GI Churchill Downs S., GI Metropolitan H. and GI Forego S. most recently.

The Apr. 11 foal was acquired as a short yearling by Bob and Sean Feld for $17,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale about a month before Mitole–who had last been seen taking Pimlico's Chick Lang S. by 6 1/4 lengths the previous May–made a head-turning return to the races in an Oaklawn allowance in March.

Hip 631 is consigned to the sale by Small Batch Sales, Agent V.

“He's a big, pretty, Classic physical type,” said Small Batch's Fletcher Mauk. “He stands over some ground, has a lot of leg and a nice shoulder. Everything ties in really well. He's possibly a tiny bit immature right now–he's just now sort of growing into his frame.”

Mauk said the decision to wait for October was to give hip 631 as long as possible to mature.

“He was a growthy horse–he was never one complete horse,” Mauk said. “I didn't see him when they bought him in February, but I saw him in May. From May until now, every time I've seen him, he's sort of been multiple pieces and parts. Now he's one whole piece, which is pretty cool.”

Small Batch consigned the $300,000 topper at the 2019 Winter Mixed sale in GSW broodmare prospect Cheekaboo (Unusual Heat).

Hip 631's second dam is stakes winner Glacken's Gal, who also produced Grade II winner Live Lively (Medaglia d'Oro). Mitole and the colt 2-year-old's half-sister Lucky Dime (Creative Cause) has hit the board in a pair of New York maiden special weights this year.

Hip 1138 is a Karakontie (Jpn) half-brother to none other than Code of Honor (Noble Mission {GB}), who will attempt to seal up champion 3-year-old honors, and possibly Horse of the Year, in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic. Last year's GI Champagne S. runner-up annexed this March's GII Fountain of Youth S. and was moved up to second in the GI Kentucky Derby. He's won his last three, taking the GI Dwyer S. at Belmont in July and the GI Runhappy Travers S. at Saratoga in August before getting promoted to first by the stewards in the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup Sept. 28.

Both Code of Honor and hip 1138 were bred by W. S. Farish, and hip 1138 is consigned by the Farish family's Lane's End.

Dam Reunited (Dixie Union) was a speedy graded stakes winner herself, and is also responsible for GSP 'TDN Rising Star' Big League (Speightstown) as well as the dam of last year's Sapling S. runner-up Successful Zip (Successful Appeal).

Hip 1371 is a Super Saver half-brother to Got Stormy (Get Stormy), who bested the boys in the GI Fourstardave H. at Saratoga and will look to do it again in the GI TVG Mile. Got Stormy was just a $23,000 KEESEP yearling turned $45,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-old. Sold privately after two solid efforts in maiden special weight company, she has now racked up more than $910,000.

Her dam Super Phoebe (Malabar Gold), is a half to Grade II winners Smooth Air (Smooth Jazz) and Overdriven (Tale of the Cat). Super Phoebe cost $4,500 at KEENOV '10 in foal to Smooth Jazz.

Hip 1371 is consigned by Pope McLean's Crestwood Farm. McLean bred the May 8 foal along with Mt. Joy Stables and WinStar Farm.

“He's a nice horse,” said Crestwood's Marc McLean. “He's a little bit of a later foal, but he's pretty well put together and a pretty solid individual.”

Are there any similarities between he and his older sister?

“He's got a lot of muscle–she was pretty well put together, and this one is too at the same stage of their development,” McLean said. “She was a super aggressive filly, and he's got a little of that fire in him as well. We loved her as a yearling; she was the alpha of the group, and he seems like he's got a little of that attitude, too.”

Got Stormy's campaign has been rewarding for the Crestwood team, which also stands MGISW Get Stormy.

“It's been phenomenal,” McLean said. “She was a filly we really liked, and we tried to get people on her. To have it turn out that she ended up being that kind of filly, and to do that for Get Stormy too, it's really been exciting. That Fourstardave was one of the most exciting races I've seen, with it being won by a homebred by our stallion.”

Hip 1506 holds the distinction of being a half to two potential Breeders' Cup starters–the Distorted Humor colt is sibling to back-to-back GI Turf Sprint champ and Eclipse Award winner Stormy Liberal (Stormy Atlantic), as well as late-blooming GIII Troy S. hero Leinster (Majestic Warrior), who could take on his big brother in the turf dash.

Bred by Jeff Bowen's Gryphon Investments, hip 1506 is consigned by Lane's End.

Dam Vassar (Royal Academy) is also responsible for GISP Coast Guard (Stormy Atlantic), MGSP Shimmering Moment (Afleet Alex) and SP $1.8-million 2-year-old purchase Garifine (Belong to Me).

 

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