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FREE HOUSE DEAD HEADLINE ...p. 4 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2004 QUALITY COLT TOPS STRONG F-T JULY TOP SEVEN COLTS -- FASIG-TIPTON TUESDAY While Monday’s opening session narrowly missed a Hip# Sex Sire Dam Price symbolic six-figure average price, continued volleys of 370 colt Elusive Quality Cercida $950,000 spirited bidding at yesterday’s Fasig-Tipton Selected B-Santa Rosa Partners (Ky) July Yearling Sale resulted in soaring average, gross Consigned by Dromoland Farm, Inc., Agent VI and median. John Ferguson, bidding Purchased by John Ferguson from the back of walking ring on 339 colt Cozzene Avie’s Fancy $825,000 behalf of Sheikh Mohammed bin B-Gunsmith Stables (NJ) Rashid Al Maktoum, secured the Consigned by Gunsmith Stables, Seven Fold Farm, agent sales topper when he went to Purchased by Lane’s End Bloodstock, agent $950,000 for an Elusive Quality colt 296 colt Fusaichi Pegasus Regent’s Walk $800,000 out of the stakes-winning Copelan B-Gaines-Gentry Thoroughbreds & Pacelco SA (Ky) mare Cercida. “I saw him this spring Consigned by Paramount Sales, agent and loved him and he’s done nothing Purchased by Dr Dermot O’Byrne but thrive since then,” said Ferguson 433 colt Hennessy Halter Top $650,000 of Hip 370, who was the sale’s B-Roy Gottlieb (Ky) highest-price horse since 1982 and Consigned by Paramount Sales, Agent XIII Hip 370 the fifth highest of all time. “He’s by Purchased by Dr Dermot O’Byrne Horsephotos the best young stallion in America 250 colt Forestry Reach the Top $450,000 and the world, really. It’s a horse B-Mr & Mrs Samuel Rogers Jr (Fl) that we were very keen to have and we’re delighted to Consigned by White Oaks, The Acorn LLC, agent have gotten him. Not only was he a strong yearling, but Purchased by B Chace, agent for A & M Jones he was also very athletic and had a lot of presence 391 colt Grand Slam Dama $450,000 about him.” Rainbow Quest was the last horse to make B-Larry Byer (Ky) $950,000 at the sale, fetching that amount in 1982. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, Agent XXX Purchased by Maurice W Miller III, agent Up and Away... 465 colt Distorted Humor Lucky Sheikh $410,000 Many had hoped the first major yearling sale of the B-Highclere (NY) year would set the tone for the upcoming season, and Consigned by Highclere Sales, Agent I with the average jumping nearly 23 percent--from Purchased by John Ferguson $93,076 to $114,260--and gross up by over $10 mil- lion, few could have asked for more. “The market was really, really strong,” said Fasig-Tipton President Walt FASIG-TIPTON KENTUCKY Robertson. “Everywhere I read, they're having record SUMMER YEARLING SALE sales. This country, Europe, Japan. I think we had some better horses this year. We made a harder effort to TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2004 attract buyers. People told us that we missed a few end SESSION TOTALS 2004 2003 users and we worked harder to get them this year and No. Offered 227 207 they showed up. I don't remember ever seeing this No. Sold 169 151 many people here. The pinhookers showed up and they RNAs 58 56 should. They've had a great year this year. The mar- % RNA 25.6% 27% ket's been good at every turn and it bodes well for Gross $21,876,000 $14,124,000 everything that's going to happen this fall. There's Average (% change) $129,444 (+38.4%) $93,536 absolutely nothing out there that says the market won't Median (% change) $85,000 (+13.3%) $75,000 continue to be good.” Cumulative Stats p2 www.fasigtipton.com www.winstarfarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/21/04 • PAGE 2 of 7 Confirmed Quality... License to Fly... If Elusive Quality isn’t the favorite stallion of With horses like Roman Ruler on the track and several Dromoland Farm’s Gerry Dilger, perhaps he should be. others making a splash in the sales ring, first-year sire The Gainborough Farm stud, sire of Kentucky Derby Fusaichi Pegasus (Mr. Prospector) looks to have gotten winner Smarty Jones, has been good to Dromoland in off to a promising career at stud. The Kentucky Derby recent years. The operation con- winner’s presence was once signed eventual French cham- again felt yesterday, this time in pion Elusive City ($250,000) to the form of Hip 296, who was this sale in 2001, and last year’s purchased by bloodstock agent GI King’s Bishop S. runner-up Demi O’Byrne on behalf of Mi- Great Notion ($82,000) to the chael Tabor and John Magnier 2001 KEESEP sale. Both are for $800,000. Hip 296 is out of sons of Elusive Quality. Dilger the Vice Regent mare Regent’s Walk, making him a half brother Elusive Quality bought the dam of Hip 370, Hip 296 Tony Leonard Cercida (Copelan), while in foal Horsephotos to MGISW Marquetry. “He’s got with the sales topper for a good pedigree anyways, does- $130,000 at the 2003 Keeneland January sale, when n’t he?” asked O’Byrne. “I didn’t really know what he Elusive Quality had been represented by several stakes was going to make in this market, being the first sale of winners. Dilger, who foaled this colt, owns the mare in the year, but I thought he made about what I expected partnership. “She was a very nice mare and I’ve been him to.” The Gaines family--who co-bred the colt-- very lucky with the sire. Being in foal to Elusive Quality bought Regent’s Walk for $550,000 carrying a foal by helped a lot.” While neither Elusive City nor Great No- Seeking the Gold at the 1998 Keeneland November tion brought close to what Hip 370 would, Dilger was sale. The mare’s foal of that year, also by Seeking the optimistic coming into the sale. “You never know,” he Gold, made $1 million at the same auction. The chest- said. “You go back and forth in your mind. But people nut likely is bound for Europe. on the grounds were saying he was the nicest horse in Super Sale for Silverman... the sale. He was very well received and when he went If consignor Marshall Silverman had his way, the up into the back ring, he was very professional. He’s a Fasig-Tipton sale would last two or three months. By all super mind. We wish John Ferguson and Sheikh Mo- accounts it has been a tremendous couple of days for hammed the best of luck with the horse. I just hope he Silverman, who on Monday sold a colt from the first goes on to be a very, very good racehorse.” crop of Trippi (End Sweep) for $280,000 to California trainer Bruce Headley. That offering had been previ- FASIG-TIPTON KENTUCKY ously purchased for $70,000 at this year’s OBS Winter SUMMER YEARLING SALE Sale in Ocala, but yesterday, Silverman had a pinhooking success for his own account. Hip 358 is a CUMULATIVE 2004 2003 filly by Artax, responsible for the recent winner of the No. Offered 452 425 GI Prioress S., Friendly Michelle. The dark bay, pur- No. Sold 338 303 chased by Silverman for just $55,000 at last year’s RNAs 114 122 KEENOV sale, was resold yesterday to the tune of % RNA 25.2% 28.7% $300,000. “No, not at all,” said Silverman’s wife Gin- Gross $38,620,000 $28,202,000 ger, when asked whether they expected that sort of Average (% change) $114,260 (+22.8%) $93,076 return. “The sire has been coming on lately. And she’s Median (% change) $80,000 (+19.4%) $67,000 just a very pretty filly. It’s been a great sale for us.” POINT GIVEN “Point Given yearlings are classy looking, strong, scopy yearlings that look like they’ll be racehorses and get better looking everyday.” His first yearling topped the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Summer Yearling Sale on Monday at $475,000. www.threechimneys.com Fasig-Tipton Hip 236 (859) 873-7053 A start befitting a Horse of the Year. Horsephotos TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/21/04 • PAGE 3 of 7 TOP THREE FILLYS -- FASIG-TIPTON TUESDAY Another Forestry for the Joneses... 303 filly Unbridled’s Song Troubling $385,000 Bloodstock agent Buzz Chace, on a cell phone in the B-WinStar Farms, LLC (Ky) rear of the sales pavilion, saw off all bidders to take Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, Agent CCLVII home a colt by Forestry on behalf of Aaron and Marie Purchased by Fleetwood/NW Management Jones, who raced the Taylor Made stallion. Consigned 358 filly Artax Cajun Cat $300,000 as the property of White Oaks by The Acorn LLC, agent, ($55,000 wnlg ‘03 KEENOV) Chace went to $450,000 for the Feb. 21 foal. While the B-Craig Beam (Ky) progeny of Forestry have generally excelled around one Consigned by Marshall Silverman, agent turn, Chace thinks the colt can handle more ground. Purchased by Greg Norman “This is a horse that looks like he might be able to get 399 filly Unbridled’s Song Defining Style $300,000 that extra eighth of a mile,” he commented. “This one B-ClassicStar LLC (Ky) here is out of a Cozzene mare and the family does run Consigned by ClassicStar LLC, long and he looks remarkably like his father.