Leif Aaron

Reigning Eclipse Champion Female Sprinter Soul of an Angel (Atreides--Factor One, by The Factor) set a new record price for the Fasig-Tipton Digital platform Tuesday, selling to Australia's Chatsworth Stud for $2.6 million in a one-horse flash sale. Winner of the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint in November, Soul of an Angel was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. Throughout the sale, Soul of an Angel remained at her current base of Gulfstream Park in Florida. "Soul of an Angel took us to the pinnacle of horse...

In the flourishing digital age, people can buy pretty much anything they want online. And while offering 2-year-olds online is nothing new for the Fasig-Tipton team, selling a juvenile in training on a digital platform accompanied by many of the traditional resources seen at bricks-and-mortar sales is. Case in point: at the conclusion of the February Digital sale Tuesday evening, a 2-year-old colt by Yaupon out of MSW Frosty Margarita (Frost Giant) realized a session-topping $250,000 from Dennis O'Neill, bidding on behalf of Shane Yeager. Consigned by De Meric Sales,...

Bidding is now open on the Fasig-Tipton Digital platform for the "Soul of an Angel Flash Sale," a one-horse online auction of Eclipse Champion Female Sprinter Soul of an Angel (Atreides--Factor One, by The Factor), which will close Tuesday, Mar. 4, at 6 p.m. ET, the auction company said via a press release on Wednesday. Soul of an Angel clinched Eclipse Champion Female Sprinter honors after she won the GI PNC Bank Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Del Mar last fall. With a strong turn of foot, she...

A 2-year-old colt by freshman sire Yaupon attracted the top bid of $250,000 during the Fasig-Tipton February Digital Sale which concluded Tuesday evening. A total of 157 horses sold during the online auction for a gross of $4,965,400, an average of $31,626 and a clearance rate of nearly 80%. Fasig-Tipton offered a selection of 2-year-olds in training for the first time on its digital platform during the February sale and eight of the 13 offered juveniles sold for $585,000 and an average of $73,000. Two of the sale's top six...

Bidding is now open for the Fasig-Tipton February Digital Sale, which includes among its 240 offerings a 'no guarantee' season to sire Street Sense with a portion of the proceeds going to recent Special Eclipse Award winner Stable Recovery, the auction company said via a release Thursday. The online sale will close Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 2:00 p.m. ET. The catalogue offers horses of racing age, breeding stock--including mares with foals at foot, 2-year-olds in training, yearlings, a stallion prospect, and a no guarantee stallion season. "We are heating things...

The Fasig-Tipton February Digital Sale, which runs from Feb. 20-25, will include the company's first online sale of 2-year-olds in training. The boutique offering of 16 juveniles, presented with gallop videos, but no timed workouts, are a "proof of concept," according to Fasig-Tipton's Director of Digital Sales Leif Aaron. "It felt like there was a large enough segment of the market that wanted to see more of an untimed sort of 2-year-old sale, so we felt the digital platform would be the perfect opportunity to provide those buyers with that...

Bidding has officially opened for the flash sale of GSW Gigante (Not This Time) on Fasig-Tipton Digital and will close Friday, Jan. 31 at 12:00 p.m., the auction house announced Monday afternoon. The son of Not This Time claimed the 2023 GII Secretariat Stakes at Colonial Downs, and continued to be a frequent face in the black-type rankings, including most recently with back-to-back stakes victories to his name in the Dec. 21 Buddy Diliberto Memorial Stakes and Jan. 18 Colonel E. R. Bradley Stakes at Fair Grounds. He has won...

A total of 206 horses of all ages have been catalogued for the Fasig-Tipton January Digital Sale, which can be viewed at digital.fasigtipton.com. Bidding has begun and will close on Tuesday, Jan. 21 beginning at 2 p.m. ET. Among the offerings are 70 horses of racing age and racing prospects, in addition to broodmares, broodmare prospects and newly turned yearlings. Among the covering sires represented are Authentic, Complexity, Epicenter, Girvin, Omaha Beach, Tiz the Law, Uncle Mo, and Vekoma. The January Digital Sale will also feature a no-guarantee season to...

The Fasig-Tipton Digital Platform launched in March 2022, with 10 lots selling for $856,000, topped by a share in the stallion Almanzor (Fr) that made $250,000. Suffice to say that 33 months later, the platform has found its footing and has increasingly gained acceptance in the marketplace. The just-concluded December Digital sale looked a whole lot different than that inaugural event, as better than 400 horses were reported as sold, resulting in turnover of over $10 million, believed by sales officials to be the highest-grossing sale of its kind anywhere...

In what is believed to be a world record for a Thoroughbred auction conducted exclusively online, Fasig-Tipton's December Digital Sale closed its two-day run Wednesday evening with gross sales of $10,031,000. With more than 1,200 bidders registered, 401 horses changed hands at an average of $25,015. "We're ecstatic over the results of the December Digital Sale, and over 2024 overall," said Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales Leif Aaron. "We've done over $10,000,000 in sales over the last few days, with more than $45,000,000 in gross over the year. We couldn't...

The first session of Fasig-Tipton's December Digital Sale--with more than 670 horses catalogued--closed Tuesday, topped by 2023 Sovereign Award winner Millie Girl (Hard Spun). Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency as hip 11, Canada's reigning champion older main track female sold for $450,000 to John Stewart's Resolute Bloodstock. The multiple graded stakes winner was sold from her base at Woodbine, where she has been trained by Catherine Day Phillips. "We are really excited about purchasing Canadian champion Millie Girl," said Stewart. "She fits right into our breeding program. We will...

It used to be that your options around this time of year were limited when you went to sell a broodmare at auction. There was Fasig-Tipton November, Keeneland November and Keeneland January, all industry staples that had been around for decades before anyone had ever heard of the internet or digital horse sales. "I never would have believed it and I hadn't been a proponent of digital sales because I'm old school and I like to go and see and look and poke and prod," said Hume Wornall, who operates...