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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2018 STREET SENSE COLT ON JAPANESE APPRENTICE KIMURA BREAKING NEW GROUND AT WOODBINE TOP AS OCTOBER SALE by Bill Finley They come from all over the world to ride in North America CONCLUDES and do so for obvious reasons--the racing and purses here are among the best on the planet. Jockeys from Latin American countries now dominate the sport and France has produced three of the top riders in the U.S. in Florent Geroux, Flavien Prat and Julien Leparoux. Now, a new country needs to be added to the list. There=s very little, if any, history of a young jockey from Japan coming here and being successful. But that=s exactly what 19-year-old apprentice Kazushi Kimura is doing at Woodbine. After getting off to a slow start at the meet, he is now among the hottest riders on the grounds and riding for many of Canada=s top outfits, including Mark Casse. Cont. p8 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Hip 1281 | Fasig-Tipton AVENUE BLOODSTOCK A GROWING FORCE by Jessica Martini Emma Berry catches up with Mark McStay of Avenue LEXINGTON, KY - The Fasig-Tipton October Fall Yearlings Sale Bloodstock, which has a growing stallion portfolio at the concluded its four-day run Thursday in Lexington with a strong National Stud. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. session which featured the auction=s top two highest-priced offerings. Through four sessions, Fasig-Tipton sold 963 yearlings for a total of $34,260,100--down slightly from last year=s record gross of $35,812,900 for 981 head sold. The average was $35,576-- down 2.5% from last year=s record-setting mark of $36,507-- while the median rose 25% to $15,000. The cumulative buy-back rate was 22.7%. AIt was a very solid four days of sales,@ said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. AThe numbers are remarkably similar to last year. It=s always encouraging to see the median improve--it improved 25%--and the average and buy-back rate were virtually the same. I thought it was a very fair marketplace from beginning to end. I think it=s pretty remarkable that, after as good a year as the yearling sales have had this year, you still sell 1,000 and basically generate $35 million back into the system is very positive. Thirty five yearlings sold for $200,000 or over in 2017, while 23 reached that mark in 2018. Cont. p3 HIP 178 COVER SONG IN FOAL TO DUBAWI The BEST COMBINATION of AGE, PEDIGREE, ABILITY, and COVERING SIRE EVER OFFERED AT PUBLIC AUCTION. SELLING AT FASIG-TIPTON NOVEMBER NIGHT OF THE STARS – CLICK TO – This is truly Hear what LEARN MORE RAREFIED BOBBY FLAY Heir has to say CONSIGNED BY PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Friday, October 26, 2018 Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Amie Morosco Advertising Assistant/Dir. of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey This year's Fasig-Tipton November Sale will offer a half-sister to the 2018 European Photo Editor standout three-year-old filly Alpha Centauri (Mastercraftsman {Ire}). 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Ray Villa [email protected] Bookkeeper Terry May [email protected] NOVEMBER SALES ADDITIONS 13 WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Both Keeneland November and the Fasig-Tipton November Sale International Editor received late additions Thursday with Keeneland adding a GISW Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN filly to Book 1 and Fasig adding a trio of interesting young fillies. [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 24 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • OCTOBER 26, 2018 FTKOCT cont. from p1 Bloodstock agent Donato Lanni purchased the top-priced yearling of the sale, going to $500,000 to secure a colt by Street Sense (hip 1281) from the Eaton Sales consignment. Lanni said the October sale has become a must-attend event. APeople kind of dismiss this sale, but I think it=s becoming an important sale,@ Lanni said. AThere were 1500 horses catalogued and there was a lot of sire power and a lot of good physicals. It=s becoming a better and better sale Reiley McDonald | Fasig-Tipton every year. And you just never know where a good horse will show up.@ Reiley McDonald of Eaton Sales agreed the auction continues to exceed expectations as it solidifies its position as the last yearling sale on the calendar. AWith all of the October sales, it feels like there can=t be enough people there to pick up 1400 horses, but every year it seems to fill in,@ he said. AThere were people in every price range. It=s the end-of-the-year sale, so it=s time to fish or cut bait with your horses. So it=s a very real market because of that.@ FASIG-TIPTON OCTOBER SALE - DAY 4 SESSION TOTALS 2018 2017 $ Catalogued 378 377 $ No. Offered 308 306 $ No. Sold 240 253 $ RNAs 68 53 $ % RNAs 22.1% 17.3% $ High Price $500,000 $400,000 $ Gross $9,684,200 $10,114,300 $ Average (% change) $40,351 (+0.94%) $39,977 $ Median (% change) $17,000 (+13.3%) $15,000 CUMULATIVE TOTALS 2018 2017 $ Catalogued 1,500 1,461 $ No. Offered 1,246 1,267 $ No. Sold 963 981 $ RNAs 283 286 $ % RNAs 22.7% 22.6% $ High Price $500,000 $700,000 $ Gross $34,260,100 $35,812,900 $ Average (% change) $35,576 (-2.55%) $36,507 $ Median (% change) $15,000 (+25%) $12,000 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 24 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • OCTOBER 26, 2018 Street Sense Colt Jumps to Top at October FASIG-TIPTON OCTOBER FALL YEARLINGS THURSDAY 1281 c Street Sense--Shimmer 500,000 Breeder: Forging Oaks (KY) Consignor: Eaton Sales, Agent Purchaser: Donato Lanni, Agent 1171 c Tapit--Receivership 430,000 Breeder: Gainesway Thoroughbreds (KY) Donato Lanni | Fasig-Tipton Consignor: Gainesway, Agent V Purchaser: Kenneth McPeek, Agent Bloodstock agent Donato Lanni, acting on behalf of an 1488 f Carpe Diem--True Kiss 290,000 undisclosed client, made the highest bid of the four-day Fasig- Breeder: Charles Muth & Patrick Murphy (KY) Tipton October sale when going to $500,000 for a son of Street Consignor: Paramount Sales, Agent VIII Sense Thursday in Lexington. Purchaser: Ruckur Racing Stable AI thought he was a beautiful horse--a big, two-turn looking 1399 c Tapit--Sunny 280,000 horse,@ Lanni said of hip 1281. AObviously other people felt the Breeder: Pat Pavlish (KY) same, he wasn=t a secret. But we try to buy those kind and hope Consignor: Indian Creek, Agent we get lucky. Bobby [Baffert] will get him and we=ll hope it Purchaser: Voyager Stable LLC works out.@ 1449 f Liam=s Map--That Voodoo Youdo 210,000 Bred by Forging Oaks and consigned by Eaton Sales, the dark Breeder: Crosshaven Bloodstock (KY) bay colt is out of Shimmer (Pulpit) and is a half-brother to Consignor: Paramount Sales, Agent XXXVI graded stakes placed Sister Moon (Dixie Union). Purchaser: Dennis Farkas Jim Peyton=s Forging Oaks purchased Shimmer, in foal to Union Cont. p5 Rags, for $140,000 at the 2013 Keeneland November sale. The colt she was carrying at that auction sold for $310,000 at the 2015 Keeneland September sale and for $400,000 at the following year=s Fasig-Tipton Florida sale. Another Union Rags colt out of the mare sold for $285,000 at last year=s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale. The 16-year-old mare produced a colt by Into Mischief this year and was bred back to Overanalyze. Of the decision to send the March foal through the ring in October, Eaton=s Reiley McDonald said, AHe was so big and we were trying to get him to look as good as he could possibly look. He had a little bit of enthesitis in a knee and we thought he is so good that, if we got him perfect, instead of 90% there, it would pay off. And it did.@ McDonald said he had no problem pointing a yearling specifically at the season=s last yearling sale. AFor a good horse who is clean, which he was, it=s a very good alternative market,@ he said. AIt=s actually not an alternative market anymore. It=s a very good year-end sale if you have a late developer.@ TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 24 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • OCTOBER 26, 2018 FTKOCT Toppers cont.