ftboa.com • Thursday • November 7, 2019 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FOR ADVERTISING Florida Blood Popular at information or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or Fasig-Tipton November email: [email protected] BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____________ In This Issue: Florida bloodlines were in demand Tuesday night at the Fasig-Tipton Del Mar Opens Friday November Sale in Lexington, Ky., includ- Feinstein: Horse Racing Failed “Critical ing Shamrock Rose, the Eclipse Award- Test” at Breeders’ Cup winner and champion daughter of Double Diamond Farm stallion First Dude, who Obituary: Tom “TC” Robertson, Sr. brought $2.5 million from new owner Breeders’ Cup Attendance and Handle Mike Shannon as an agent. Announced Fasig-Tipton sold 128 head of wean- lings and broodmares for $68,011,000 for Covfefe, British Idiom Return to an average price of $531,336. Last year at Churchill Base this sale, Fasig-Tipton sold 140 head for Breeders’ Cup Announces New $89,473,093 for an average of $639,093. President and CEO Shamrock Rose is out of the Elusive Stirling Drives Shines in Showing Up Quality mare Slew’s Quality and during her racing career won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Gulfstream Park West Charts Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, the Grade 2 Florida Stallion Progeny List Lexus Run Stakes, the La Lorgnette Stakes and the Malvern Rose Stakes to post a Florida Breeders’ List record of five wins from 13 starts with Wire to Wire Business Place earnings of $968,962. Consigned by Bluewater Sales LLC as an agent, the 4- year-old Shamrock Rose is also a half-sis- Featured Advertisers ter to stakes-placed Bet On Mike and was Ocala Stud bred by Thomas and Lori Fackler in the name of their Best A Luck Farm LLC locat- FTBOA ed in Reddick, Fla. She was sold as a Hip 178 Shamrock Rose/FASIG-TIPTON PHOTO Florida Department of Agriculture broodmare prospect as Hip 178. and recent Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company Selling for $1.6 million to Mt. Brilliant (G1) third-place-finisher Sweet Melania. Berrettini Feed Farm LLC and Marette Farrell as an agent She was bred in Florida by E. Paul Stonehedge Farm was Hip 216, the Florida-bred mare Sweet Robsham Stable LLC. N Discreet, who is believed to be in foal to Diva Delite was another Florida-bred to Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Liam’s Map. The 9-year-old daughter of bring seven figures as the 12-year-old Seminole Feed Discreet Cat out of West Side Dancer, by mare generated a final bid of $1.2 million Journeyman Stud Gone West was consigned by Lane’s End Peterson & Smith Farm and she is the dam of stakes-winner See FASIG-TIPTON on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Fasig-Tipton Continued from COVER from David Redvers as Hip 173. The dam of multiple-Grade 1- stakes-winner Midnight Bisou was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency as an agent and is believed to be in foal to 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify. Diva Delite is by Repent out of Tour Hostess, by Tour d’Or and she was bred in Florida by Clover Leaf Farm II Inc. Multiple-stakes-placed Florida-bred Just Talkin was another who drew attention from potential buyers as she went for $675,000 as Hip 136 and believed to be in foal to 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. By Midshipman out of Sumthingtotalkabt, by Mutakddim, Just Talkin was consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency as an agent and Mountmellick Farm LLC was the buyer. Just Talkin was bred in Florida by Randall E. Lowe. Bradford Farm went to $475,000 to acquire Florida-bred Florida Fabulous, who is believed to be in foal to Good Magic. Sold as Hip 19 and consigned by Indian Creek as an agent, Florida Fabulous is a 5-year-old mare by the pensioned Ocala Stud resident High Cotton out of West Side Dancer, by Gone West. She is a half-sister to graded stakes-winners Discreet Dancer and Travelin Man and Grade 2-placed stakes-winner Sweet and Discreet and was bred in Florida by Ocala Stud. Hip 42, a gray or roan weanling filly by Frosted out of Meets Expectations, by Valid Expectations sold for $335,000 to Paca Paca Farm out of the Hunter Valley Farm as an agent consign- ment. Meets Expectations is also the dam of multiple-graded- stakes winning Florida-bred World of Trouble and Florida-bred stakes-winner Money or Love and she is a half-sister to multiple- graded-stakes winning Florida stallion Bucchero, who stands at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla. The filly was bred in Florida by Daryl and Sandy Clark’s Darsan Inc. of Plantation, Fla., and Godolphin. Mountmellick LLC purchased their second Florida-bred of the evening when they went to $325,000 to get Hip 158, Munny Spunt, a 5-year-old mare who is believed to be in foal to Candy Ride (Arg). She is by Munnings out of Spin the Blues, by Hard Spun and she was the winner of the Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes during her racing career. She was consigned by Kingswood Farm and is a half-sister to multiple-graded-stakes-winner Blues Street and stakes-placed Beale Street. Two Florida-breds brought $200,000 in Hip 69 and Hip 199. Hip 69 is a weanling filly by Candy Ride (Arg) out of Spice Island, by Tabasco Cat and she was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency as an agent. She is also a half-sister to Grade 1 Florida Derby-winner Ice Box and stakes-producer Nothing to Declare. September Farm signed the purchased ticket on the filly who was bred in Florida by CESA Farm. Hip 199, Lovesick, is a 3-year-old filly by Ocala Stud’s current leading stallion Adios Charlie out of the multiple-graded-stakes producer Almost a Valentine, by High Cotton, making her a half- sister to Cigar Mile (G1) and Kelso Handicap (G2)-winner Patternrecognition and stakes-winner Florida Fuego. Bred in Florida by Ocala Stud, Lovesick won the Liza Jane Stakes and the Juvenile Fillies Sprint during her career and was sold as a brood- mare. She was also consigned by Indian Creek as an agent. The top seller on the night was Blue Prize (Arg), who just won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Santa Anita Saturday. By Blue Prize out of Blues for Sale (Arg), by Not for Sale, Blue Prize was sold to Larry Best in the name of his OXO Equine LLC for $5 million. 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Pending state approval. 45591 Back to Top Page 5 Del Mar Opens Friday BY DEL MAR PRESS OFFICE _________________________ In keeping with its Bing Crosby/Hollywood theme, the major- DEL MAR, CA—The eagerly anticipated return of horse racing at ity of the track’s stakes are named along those lines, most saluting Del Mar begins this Friday as the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club stars from the past who had Del Mar connections. Among the hosts its sixth consecutive “Hollywood” fall race meeting, known black type events that will be offered are races named for Desi affectionately as the Bing Crosby Season in honor of the track’s Arnaz, Bob Hope, Betty Grable, Cary Grant, Jimmy Durante and illustrious founder. The 15-day session, which has a warm local Cecil B. DeMille. vibe on track but a lucrative hot spin nationally, will run through The track’s two racing surfaces – the one-mile dirt oval and the Sunday, December 1. seven-furlong grass course with its unique diagonal chute that After a three-day opening weekend, the seaside oval will settle allows for races up to nine furlongs – are overseen by two veteran into a four day, Thursday-through-Sunday routine for the follow- professionals considered among the very best in the business. Leif ing three weeks featuring eight races during the week and nine on Dickinson as turf and landscape superintendent tends to the deep, Saturdays and Sundays. First post daily will be 12:30 p.m. PT with green grass layout and Dennis Moore handles the main track as the lone exception of Thursday, Nov. 28 when the track’s special director of track maintenance. Thanksgiving Day program gets underway at 11 a.m. There will be 14 stakes races offered during the stand, nine of them graded and highlighted by a pair of Grade 1 tests on the lawn – the $300,000 Hollywood Derby on Nov. 30 and the $300,000 Matriarch Stakes on Dec. 1. Following up on its injury free summer racing cards – and its past two-year ranking as the safest racetrack in the country – Del Mar will continue to place its first emphasis on safety for its horses and riders throughout the fall meet.