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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2020 CUPID COLT TOPS INTO MISCHIEF BUMPED TO $225K FOR 2021 MIDLANTIC OPENER Officials at Spendthrift Farm have announced that Into Mischief (Harlan=s Holiday--Leslie=s Lady, by Tricky Creek), the reigning leading general sire whose son Authentic became his first Classic winner in the GI Kentucky Derby last month, will command a fee of $225,000 for the 2021 breeding season. The sire of 26 stakes winners and 11 graded winners in 2020, the 15-year-old stood for $175,000 this past year. Only War Front ($250,000) stands for a larger fee. Also the sire of the brilliant dual Grade I-winning >TDN Rising Star= Gamine, Into Mischief was also represented just this past weekend by the impressive GII Bourbon S. winner and >Rising Star= Mutasaabeq and GII Gallant Bloom H. and fellow >Rising Star= Frank=s Rockette. Each could make their next appearances on Breeders= Cup weekend Nov. 6 and 7. Cont. p3 Session-topping hip 4 | Fasig-Tipton/Eclipse Sportswire IN TDN EUROPE TODAY by Jessica Martini CREAM OF YEARLING CROP ASSEMBLED FOR TATTERSALLS SHOWPIECE TIMONIUM, MD - The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale kicks off its got underway with an abbreviated session Monday afternoon three-day run on Tuesday. Emma Berry is on the scene. Click or which opened with an offering of 154 catalogued New York- tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. breds and featured the session=s two six-figure transactions. Just minutes into the action, Vicki and Mike McGowan=s Xtreme Racing Stables purchased the day=s top-priced offering when going to $160,000 to acquire a colt from the first crop of Grade I winner Cupid (hip 4). The yearling was consigned by Eaton Sales. AWe put him here because we thought he would be a bigger fish in a smaller pond,@ Eaton=s Reiley McDonald said. AI think he was so good physically that he brought as much here as he would have brought anywhere else in the country. When you are in the top 20% of the auction, whether it is this year or any other, you are probably going to do relatively close to the same, except at the very highest levels where you need the principals bidding. So if it=s an agent-driven year, which it has been, we are not going to hit the huge high numbers. At the same time, he was a beautiful colt and a lot of people liked him. He was clean and he sold really well in this market. We=ve never sold here before, so it was a nice experiment and it worked well for us.@ Cont. p4 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Tuesday, October 6, 2020 Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN Deputy Editor Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Associate Editors Christina Bossinakis @CBossTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN News and Features Editor In Memoriam: Ben Massam (1988-2019) ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistant/Dir. Of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey Advertising Assistants Amie Newcomb Kristen Lomasson Photographer/Photo Editor Coverage from Monday’s session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew continues on page 4. | Fasig-Tipton/Eclipse Sportswire [email protected] Social Media Strategist FOAL CROP DIPS AGAIN IN 2020 Justina Severni 6 According to statistics released Monday by The Jockey Club, the Director of Customer Service estimated North American foal crop will reach about 20,500, Vicki Forbes which would represent a number that is 3.4% less than 2019. [email protected] The number of live foals is believed to be approximately 85% to Marketing Manager 90% complete. Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen Director of IT/Accounting Ray Villa SHE’S A JULIE RETIRED, HEADED TO FTKNOV 7 [email protected] [email protected] Two-time Grade I winner She’s A Julie (Elusive Quality), winner of this year’s GI Ogden Phipps S at Belmont Park, has been retired from racing and will be offered through Denali Stud at this year’s WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Fasig-Tipton November Sale in Lexington Nov. 8. International Editor Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 11 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • OCTOBER 6, 2020 Into Mischief cont. from p1 Equine. In addition to Mutasaabeq, the stallion=s other juvenile graded AIn our minds, there was only one box left to tick for Into winner of 2020 is the filly Dayoutoftheoffice, who won the Mischief and that was siring a classic winner. Authentic was able GIII Schuylerville S. at Saratoga. With progeny earnings to do that pretty emphatically in the Kentucky Derby, and we approaching $14 million, Into continue to believe the best is Mischief retains a stranglehold still to come for Into Mischief,@ on the top spot among this said Ned Toffey, general manager year=s leading sires according to at Spendthrift. AAuthentic, TDN Sire Lists. Gamine and these 3-year-olds Into Mischief=s commercial were bred on a $45,000 fee, and appeal has also skyrocketed this Into Mischief has continued to season, as he ranks second cover better books every year. It among active sires by yearling has been gratifying to see him average. Some 74 foals from his thrive in the sales arena, 2019 crop (from 106 offered at including having the public auction) have sold for an second-highest yearling average average of $434,405, according along with more seven-figure to TDN Sales Statistics. He was yearlings than any other North represented by no fewer than American sire in 2020. Into five seven-figure horses at Into Mischief=s daughter of Taylor S. fetched $1.9 million Mischief is the best sire in the Keeneland September last at Keeneland September last month | Keeneland photo world and set to continue to month, including a $1.9-million prove it. We are also confident daughter of Taylor S (Medaglia d=Oro) that was hamered down he will become an important sire of sires and have shown that in to one of the stallion=s biggest supporters, Larry Best=s OXO our commitment to acquiring his best sons. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • OCTOBER 6, 2020 Into Mischief cont. During Monday=s session, 162 of 200 catalogued yearlings went through the ring with 122 selling for a gross of $2,983,600. Toffey continued, AWe think he is making a positive impact on The average was $24,456 and the median was $15,000. A the breed that will be felt for years to come, particularly with further 374 yearlings are catalogued for Tuesday=s second and the heart and durability that are signatures of his offspring. Into final session of the auction. Mischief is just a remarkable animal that has the chance to be AI think the market here is limited,@ McDonald said. AThere is among the very best the breed has seen, and we feel extremely not enough demand to handle the 500-some horses catalogued, fortunate to have him.@ but on the whole, in an awful year, it could have been a lot Spendthrift plans on releasing fees for the remainder of its worse. I think it=s been ok and we should all be happy that we=ve roster later this week. been able to trade horses at a time when our world is in a state of--let=s just say--a state of >bleep.=@ Pinhookers, who largely found themselves competing with Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Yearlings cont. from p1 typical end-users on the perceived top offerings at the Fasig-Tipton=s Selected Yearlings Showcase in Lexington last September yearling sales in Kentucky, were active Monday in month also opened with an offering of New York-breds to Timonium. Among them was David Scanlon, who purchased compensate for the company=s canceled Saratoga auction. three lots during the session. Eaton=s first Midlantic consignment featured 10 Empire-breds AIt=s been a little spotty all year. I still think when you follow and McDonald said the decision to sell in Maryland was based the good ones up, ones that you think are going to be pinhook on both geography and timing. prospects, you=ll find competition,@ Scanlon said. AI think there is AWe thought if we had New York-breds, it would be tougher to a strong market for the horses we judge to be fast or early types sell them in Kentucky, especially leading off the entire yearling that we can make good money on. But we don=t have the option season,@ McDonald said. AWe had two New York-breds who sold not to buy. This is what we do, so we have to have stock.@ at Fasig-Tipton [Showcase] very well, but they were top 10% Scanlon expects the competition to only increase Tuesday. physicals. Everything else we had came here because we figured AI found Keeneland was hard for the right horse,@ Scanlon said. it was 3 1/2 hours down the road and maybe they would get AWe got a few bought at Fasig in the New York-breds section more New York traffic, which turned out to be true.@ and I was really happy with them.