Jody and Michelle Huckabay

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 260 offerings for its February Digital Sale and with bidding now open through Tuesday, Feb. 24, beginning at 2 p.m. ET. over half of the catalogue includes broodmares or broodmare prospects, the online auction said in a press release on Thursday. If savvy bidders are in the market for a broodmare, then this month's sale certainly has a diverse buying bench. For instance there is Paynterbynumbers (Paynter) (hip 3), the dam of MSW Counting Stars (Honor A.P.). Mill Ridge Sales is the agent for this broodmare and...

They were already through the show ring and into the Keeneland pavilion, circling for their turn. Jody Huckabay knew that the dam's only previous foal, a Ghostzapper colt, had coincidentally been declared to make his debut at Churchill the same afternoon. Still more fortuitously, the rate of selling that session last September had now conspired to let him advertise their genes even as his half-sister by Flatter was strolling the back ring. "I couldn't see the race but had people watching," Huckabay recalls. "And suddenly my phone was going off,...

Broodmare prospect Bordeaux Belle (Quality Road) topped the Wanamaker's March Sale, selling for $42,500 to Jody and Michelle Huckabay. Consigned by StarLadies Racing, the unraced Bordeaux Belle is out of MSW & GSP Shanon Nicole (Majestic Warrior). Plans are to breed the 3-year-old to Upstart. "It was very easy and is a great way to sell throughout the year with their consistent sales," said Laurie Wolf, managing partner of StarLadies Racing, of Wanamaker's. Wanamaker's March Sale closed Mar. 24 with a total of eight horses bringing a gross of $77,000....