Fasig-Tipton Saratoga

Zedan Racing's Barnes (c, 3, Into Mischief--All American Dream, by American Pharoah), a $3.2-million Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling, has always been heavy on promise, but perhaps lighter than hoped on actual visits to the winner's circle. That changed Saturday in Keeneland's GIII Perryville Stakes when the bay sophomore left no doubt as to his prowess with a 8 1/4-length tour de force over the Lexington oval. With just five to post in the Perryville, it was recent Churchill allowance winner Taylor's Version (Into Mischief) who set the :21.69 first quarter pace....

3rd-KEE, $120k, Alw (N2L), 2yo, 6f, post time: 2:04 p.m. ET Amo Racing USA, Wesley Ward and Two Eight Racing's OUTFIELDER (Speightstown) was scratched out of Friday's GIII Futurity Stakes in favor of trying the main track for the first time in a two-lifetime allowance at Keeneland. The $850,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga graduate was named a 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard at first asking when streaking away by better than a half-dozen lengths sprinting on the grass at Churchill in May, but was forced to skip Royal Ascot and was...

5th-Churchill Downs, $122,025, Msw, 9-13, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:10.55, ft, 3/4 length. BARACCA (f, 2, Oscar Performance--Shop Again {SW, $122,274}, by Wild Again) belied odds of 8-1 to score a good-looking victory while making her career debut sprinting over the main track at Churchill Downs Saturday afternoon. Away smartly from a wide gate, the $500,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase was content to force the pace from the outside through an opening quarter in :22.52. With 3-2 favorite Frolicking (Not This Time) warming up to the task three deep approaching the...

Not 24 hours removed from a victory from 'TDN Rising Star' Time to Dream in Wednesday's P. G. Johnson Stakes, Final Score (Not This Time) gave his can-do-no-wrong sire, owner Repole Stable and trainer Todd Pletcher a sweep of the meet-ending juvenile turf stakes with a pillar-to-post success in Thursday's GIII With Anticipation Stakes at Saratoga. Given the presence of impressive first-out winner 'Rising Star' Capital Partner (GB) (Kingman {GB}), the long odds-on favorite Thursday afternoon, the punters took a bit of a skeptical approach to Final Score's maiden-breaker over...

In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this weekend running at Chukyo and Niigata Racecourses: Sunday, August 31, 2025 6th-NII, ¥14,250,000 ($97k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800m MATENRO DA VINCI (c, 2, Uncle Mo--Spring Eclipse, by Unbridled's Song) was sold to trainer Mitsumasa Nakauchida for an even $1 million at last year's Keeneland...

3rd-Del Mar, $81,000, Msw, 8-16, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 1:03.64, ft, 3/4 length. LITMUS TEST (c, 2, Nyquist--Study Hard, by Malibu Moon) took plenty of pari-mutuel support as the 11-10 favorite while making his career debut over 5 1/2 furlongs at Del Mar on Saturday, and ran to the money, earning a hard-fought victory over his once-raced stable companion Falcon Jet (Justify). Off fairly from gate two, the $875,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase was beaten for speed, as Sendit Mo (Yaupon) sped to the front from an outside draw. Driven along...

6th-SAR, $100k, Msw, 2yo, 6f, post time: 3:19 p.m. ET SASSMASTER (Curlin) was purchased by Alistair Roden on behalf of his client Mark Breen for a sales-topping $550,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October Sale and the early April foal has drawn widest in a field of eight for this first visit to the races. Bred by Stonestreet, the bay is kin to a pair of winners, including 2019 GII Prioress Stakes and GIII Victory Ride Stakes heroine Royal Charlotte (Cairo Prince), who is in turn the dam of the 3-year-old...

by Jessica Martini & Christina Bossinakis SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY - The record-smashing Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale steam rolled to its conclusion Tuesday night, setting highwater marks for every metric and culminating with a head-turning gross of $100,715,000. At the close of business, 160 yearlings had sold for an average of $629,469 and median of $450,000--numbers which dwarfed records set just last year when 154 yearlings grossed $82,160,000 for an average of $533,506 and a median of $425,000. It was the third straight year of across-the-board statistical records at the Saratoga sale....

Spendthrift Farm, the stallion home of the all-conquering Into Mischief, gave a sales-leading $2.6 million for a son of treble Grade I winner I'm A Chatterbox (Munnings) at about the midway point of Tuesday's second and final session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale in upstate New York. Spendthrift also owns the year-older full-sister, named Bad Manners, after paying $700,000 for the filly during last year's Saratoga sale. Hip 163 is the 14th million-dollar seller over the course of the first session and a half and was the fifth of the...

by Jessica Martini & Christina Bossinakis SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY - The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale had its first million-dollar yearling when the two-day auction was just 13 hips old Monday evening and bidding stayed strong throughout the session, with the very last horse through the ring bringing $1 million. In all, nine yearlings reached seven figures Monday, led by a colt by Gun Runner, bred by Bobby Flay and consigned by Stone Farm, who sold for $2.7 million to Winchell Thoroughbreds. Twelve hit the million-dollar mark during the entire 2024 auction....

A Good Magic colt out of a half-sister to the dam of dual Canadian champion Are You Kidding Me (Run Away and Hide), GSW & GISP Kehoe Beach (Omaha Beach), and SW & GSP Core Values (Honor Code) sold for $1.6 million to the Hudson family's Hoolie Racing Monday night at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Sold as hip 36 and signed for by Legion Bloodstock as agent, the dark bay colt out of the winning Alpha Zulu (Shanghai Bobby) was bred by Mesingw Farm, LLC in Kentucky and consigned to the...

The past few months have been a rollercoaster of emotions for Liliana Solari, Carlos Heller and their team at Don Alberto. In April, the farm's homebred superstar Journalism (Curlin) scored the first of three Grade I victories in the Santa Anita Derby. Three weeks later, his dam Mopotism (Uncle Mo) foaled a picture-perfect Flightline filly. Journalism finished second, first, then second again in the Triple Crown series, taking his ownership group on an unforgettable journey on racing's biggest stage. Then suddenly, the highs gave way to heartbreak when Mopotism passed...