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Graded Winner Stormcast Among Latest Supplements to Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale

Graded stakes winner Stormcast (Mitole) is among 19 additional entries to the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale, which will be held Feb. 9 in Lexington. The latest group of supplements to the auction are catalogued as hip 386-404 and include several stakes winners and a half-sibling to a recent Grade I winner. The 5-year-old mare Stormcast, winner of the 2024 GIII Bessarabian Stakes, will be offered as hip 395 and will be consigned as a racing or broodmare prospect by Taylor Made Sales Agency. Other supplemental entries include: Athena's War...

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Mandy Pope Goes to $3.2 Million for Tiffany Case, Dam of Nitrogen, at Keeneland

 Tiffany Case (Uncle Mo) (hip 465), the dam of Eclipse finalist and Grade I winner Nitrogen (Medaglia d'Oro), lit up the board at Keeneland Monday when selling to Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm for $3.2 million. The 13-year-old mare, in foal to Not This Time, was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, as agent for the Green family's D J Stable. D J Stable purchased Tiffany Case, in foal to Violence, for $320,000 at the 2019 Keeneland November sale. That in-utero foal became Love to Shop, who co-topped last year's...

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Tom Hamm to Rejoin Taylor Made as Thoroughbred Advisor

Tom Hamm, who previously served in a leadership role as the Taylor Made Sales Agency's farm manager, will be returning to Taylor Made. His new role will be as a Thoroughbred Advisor, with an emphasis on the growing Digital Sales marketplace. "Tom has remained close with our team since his successful tenure as our Farm Manager several years ago," said Mark Taylor, President and CEO of Taylor Made. "We believe the time is right to bring in a new Team Member to add more focus on Digital Sales. Our approach...

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Keeneland To Offer Nitrogen's Dam Tiffany Case At January Horses Of All Ages Sale

Keeneland will offer the dam of top-ranked 3-year-old filly Nitrogen (Medaglia d'Oro), Tiffany Case (Uncle Mo)--who is in foal to red-hot sire Not This Time--during the 2026 January Horses of All Ages sale on Monday, Jan. 12, the auction company said via a Friday release. Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, is consigning the 12-year-old, a winning stakes-placed mare whose two foals to race are both stakes winners. "Tiffany Case transcends mere investment value--she's young, proven and in foal to arguably the top stallion in the country," said Jonathan Green, general...

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Porta Fortuna
“Great Result All Round”: Porta Fortuna Knocked Down To MV Magnier For 4.5m Gns

Queen of the course and queen of the ring, four-time Group 1 winner Porta Fortuna (Caravaggio) was knocked down for 4.5 million gns to MV Magnier during Tuesday's Sceptre Sessions of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, the daughter of winner Too Precious (Holy Roman Emperor) has the option of racing again. Bred by Whisperview Trading, the four-year-old filly is out of a full-sister to multiple group winner Numerian, second in the G1 Australian Cup and G1 Doomben Cup. Porta Fortuna raced for Medallion Racing,...

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'It's Been Remarkable': Keeneland November Sale Concludes with Record Average, Median

The Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, which continued straight on from the strength of the company's record-setting September Yearling Sale, concluded its eight-day run Tuesday with new highwater marks for average and median and the auction's highest gross since 2007. "This year marked a watershed moment for Keeneland Sales," said Keeneland President and CEO Shannon Arvin. "From a record-shattering September Yearling Sale that topped $500 million in gross sales to the continued momentum into an outstanding November Breeding Stock Sale, the confidence in this marketplace has never been stronger. These...

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Crevalle d'Oro Supplemented to Wednesday's Keeneland November Horses of Racing Age Sale

Keeneland's Horses of Racing Age, slated to begin Wednesday, Nov. 12 at noon ET, has 216 catalogued entries including the latest supplement in Grade III-placed Crevalle d'Oro (Constitution), the auction house announced Monday. The daughter of Constitution, consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, was third in the GIII Selene Stakes in Canada and came a half-length short of hitting the board last out Nov. 1 in Del Mar's GIII Goldikova Stakes in a blanket finish for the minors. The winner of that race, MGSW & GISP Special Wan (Ire) (Belardo...

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Lush Lips at Keeneland
Domestic Buyers Fuel Powerful Keeneland November Opener

$3.7-Million Lush Lips Tops Book 1 by Jessica Martini, Christina Bossinakis, & Alan Carasso LEXINGTON, KY - The Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale blitzed through its opening session Tuesday with 17 offerings--including a pair of weanlings--selling for $1 million or more and figures up dramatically from the auction's Book 1 session in 2024. "It was a really strong day," said Keeneland President Shannon Arvin. "The broodmare market was very, very strong. We had 15 who brought $1 million or more, seven of those brought $2 million or more. The weanling...

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Well-Related Justify Mare Greenfinch Brings $1.5 Million at Keeneland

The stakes-winning Greenfinch (m, 4, Justify--Misty for Me {Ire}, by Galileo), in foal to Gun Runner, brought $1.5 million from Marette Farrell on behalf of Mt. Brilliant Farm at Keeneland November Tuesday. She is a half-sister to top-level winners Roly Poly (War Front) and U S Navy Flag (War Front). She was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency as Hip 93. The 2024 Irish Stallion Farms E.B.F. Cairn Rouge S. heroine was campaigned in partnership by Westerberg, Mrs. John Magnier, Derrick Smith and Michael B. Tabor and trained by Aidan...

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Ted Noffey's Dam Brings $6.2M from Amo Racing

Streak of Luck (Old Fashioned), dam of Friday's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Ted Noffey (Into Mischief), sold for $6.2 million Monday night at Fasig-Tipton's 'Night of the Stars' November Sale to a final bid from Amo Racing. The 10-year-old mare was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for Aaron and Marie Jones, as Hip 220. In addition to Ted Noffey, a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' who is unbeaten in four starts and also captured the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity and GI Hopeful Stakes, the gray Streak...

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Dam Of BC Juvenile Runner-Up Added To Fasig-Tipton November Sale

Trenchtown Cat (Discreet Cat), the dam of Friday's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile runner-up Mr. A.P. (American Pharoah) has been supplemented to Monday's Fasig-Tipton November Sale, the auction house said in a release Saturday afternoon. The 9-year-old mare, who is being consigned to the sale by Taylor Made Sales Agency, is one of two winners from two to race for the mare, a sister to Japanese Group 3 winner Air Khalifa and the Grade III-placed winner Princess Princess. The current yearling out of the mare, a colt by Constitution, fetched $325,000...

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Stallion Share in Not This Time Brings $3 Million, Tops Keeneland Championship Sale

by Steve Sherack & J.N. Campbell DEL MAR, Calif. - A stallion share (2% interest) in leading young sire Not This Time brought $3 million from John Sikura's Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa to top the Keeneland Championship Sale held in the Del Mar paddock Wednesday evening. The share was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for Aaron and Marie Jones, as Hip 3. In a unique feature of the offering, the buyer receives all income from Not This Time's 2025 breeding season. Not This Time is already the...

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