MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2010 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. AWESOME WEEKEND KEENELAND NOVEMBER GETS UNDERWAY Just two days after wrapping up championship hon- Off the heels of last evening=s lively trade at Fasig- ors with her win in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies, Tipton=s November Sale at Newtown Paddocks, Awesome Feather (Awesome of Course--Precious Keeneland begins its 13-session November Breeding Feather, by Gone West) completed Stock Sale in Lexington. A total of a big weekend for owner/breeder 4,695 horses were initially cata- Fred Brei=s Jacks or Better Farm, logued for November, then another topping Fasig-Tipton November at 77 lots were added when it was an- $2.3 million to the bid of Frank nounced that Lance Robinson and Stronach=s Adena Springs. The un- Jerry Bailey would conduct a com- derbidder was Michel Zerolo, bid- plete dispersal of their Gulf Coast ding for Martin Schwartz. After Farm. Last year=s November Sale rang signing the ticket on the unbeaten up total receipts of $159,727,800, keeneland.com filly, Stronach admitted it was Awe- down 13.92 percent from the previ- Frank Stronach some Feather=s 2 1/4-length victory ous year=s 15-day event. The average of $57,477 was Horsephotos at Churchill Friday that convinced down 6.48 percent, which was generally taken as a him to make the purchase. AWe=re more-than-satisfactory result considering the lingering going to continue to race her,@ Stronach said. AI just instability of the financial markets, and the median of hope she goes on.@ Stronach called Awesome Feather=s $20,000 was unchanged. Last year=s November sale Breeders= Cup effort Apretty impressive.@ Jacks or Better was the boosted by the dispersal of the W.T. Young owner Fred Brei was in an understandably jovial mood family=s Overbrook Farm, which saw 148 horses bring after watching Awesome Feather stride out of the $31,760,000--an average of $214,595. The dispersal, Fasig-Tipton sales ring. AShe is a tremendous filly,@ Brei the second biggest in Keeneland history, yielded the said of his Breeders= Cup winner. AFrank will get her sale=s highest price: Honest Pursuit (Storm Cat), a where she needs to go.@ Of the decision to sell the four-year-old daughter of the brilliantly bred Honest juvenile, Brei added, AWe don=t race much out of Florida Lady (Seattle Slew), who sold as a broodmare prospect and, when it comes to going up north, where certainly for $3.1 million to Wertheimer et Frere. Still, action at she belongs, where the Grade Is are coming up for the top wasn=t what it was in 2008. Five horses topped three-year-olds, it was just best for the filly and best for the $1 million mark, compared to 19 the year prior. us that she is in somebody else=s hands.@ After her Breeders= Cup win, Brei said the reserve on Awesome Feather would be high. When the filly sold for $2.3 million, he admitted with a laugh that it was, ANever enough,@ but added the price Awas enough to make me smile. It was not much above the reserve. I probably wouldn=t have let her go for below $2 million.@ Cont. p2 FASIG-TIPTON NOVEMBER SUNDAY, NOV. 7, 2010 Session Totals 2010 2009 Catalogued 186 153 No. Offered 133 111 No. Sold 89 80 RNAs 44 31 % RNAs 33% 27.9% No. $1M+ 9 7 High Price $2,300,000 $2,150,000 Gross $27,996,500 $28,905,000 Average $314,567 (-12.9%) $361,313 Median $130,000 (-23.5%) $170,000 www.fasigtipton.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/8/10 • PAGE 2 of 20 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Awesome Weekend cont. AShe=s white, Christmas is coming, snowflakes,@ Fred Brei established Jacks or Better Farm in Ocala in Guillot joked of the roan=s ap- 1997. He had success last year, selling promising peal as Hill >n= Dale=s Donato young colt Jackson Bend Lanni stopped by and popped (Hear No Evil) after he the collar on his dark blue swept the Florida Stallion Champagne d=Oro jacket. series. Racing for Robert AMike and I are all about foun- LaPenta this term, Jackson dation mares, and this is one Bend was second in the that fits the bill. Her body, hip, GII Holy Bull S., GI Fountain pedigree on the bottom side of Youth S. and GI Wood and her race record before she Memorial and third in the got hurt--that=s what we=re GI Preakness S. Awesome looking for. She=s going to be Feather swept the fillies= a nice addition to Southern version of the Florida Stal- Equine. I was hoping to get lion series this year. AI sell her for $1.3 or $1.4 million, Eric Guillot Horsephotos them when they get to this but wouldn=t back out. I had Fred Brei (right) Horsephotos level, not before,@ Brei ex- to have her. They=re not selling a lot of these kinds right plained of his operation, now. Tapit=s going really well as a sire. Mike and I are which produces 14 to 16 foals a year. AI sold Jackson trying to land the big ones only.@ Bend when he got to this level last year.@ Guillot doesn=t have a stallion in mind yet for the four- Brei still owns Awesome Feather=s dam, Precious year-old daughter of the unraced mare Sweet and Care- Feather. The 13-year-old mare is in foal to Consolidator, less. Her dam, a half-sister to MGISW Subordination but Brei has a pretty good idea who she will be bred to (Mt. Livermore), brought $900,000 while carrying a next spring. ANext year, she=ll probably be in foal to full-sister to Careless Jewel at last year=s KEENOV sale. Awesome of Course, I would think,@ he smiled.-JM Careless Jewel joins a loaded Southern Equine broodmare band, led by Broodmare of the Year Better Southern Equine Lands a Jewel at Fasig-Tipton... Than Honour (Deputy Minister). The dam of champion Careless Jewel (Tapit--Sweet and Careless, by Rags to Riches (A.P. Indy), GI Belmont S. hero Jazil Hennessy), a brilliant 11-length victress of the presti- (Seeking the Gold) and GII Peter Pan S. hero Casino gious GI Alabama S. last term, brought $1.95 million Drive (Mineshaft) was acquired for a record $14 million from Mike Moreno=s Southern Equine Stable at at this sale two years ago. The former Parrish Hill Farm Sunday=s Fasig-Tipton November Sale. Lincoln Collins, near Lexington, purchased by Southern Equine a couple owner and president of Kern Thoroughbreds, was un- of years ago, will be open for business Nov. 15, ac- derbidder. The always entertaining trainer/Southern cording to Guillot. Equine bloodstock advisor Eric Guillot signed the ticket ABetter Than Honour is doing great,@ he said. AShe=s after doing his bidding from the balcony adjacent to the back in foal to Street Cry (Ire); she has a weanling by press box. The millionaire, consigned by Hill >n= Dale him. I think we=ll breed her to Medaglia d=Oro next year, Sales Agency as a broodmare prospect as hip 97, failed or maybe even Mineshaft. He=s coming around; it would to make it back to the races after a disappointing run in be the same cross as Rags to Riches, and we=d have a the 2009 GI Breeders= Cup Ladies= Classic at Santa full to Casino Drive, who I loved and wanted to buy.@ Anita. -SS P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/8/10 • PAGE 3 of 20 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Jewel of a Sale Inspires Mixed Emotions... Cool-Mo: Team Coolmore Lands Uncle Mo Dam... Donna and Vern Dubinsky paid $40,000 for a daugh- Playa Maya (Arch--Dixie Slippers, by Dixieland Band), ter of Tapit out of the 2007 Keeneland September sale, the dam of the undefeated pro-tem named her Careless Jewel and campaigned her to wins two-year-old champion Uncle Mo in the GI Alabama S., (Indian Charlie), was hammered GII Delaware Oaks and down to Coolmore interests last GII Fitz Dixon Cotillion night for $1.65 million. M.V. S. They returned the Magnier, son of Coolmore principal gray filly to the sales John Magnier, signed the ticket for ring yesterday at the 10-year-old, selling in foal to Fasig-Tipton, where Broken Vow. A group of Japanese, she attracted a final stationed out back under the bid M V Magnier tattersalls.ie bid of $1.95 million. spotters= stand, were the immedi- But as the couple, ate underbidders. Craig and Holly Bandoroff=s Denali standing with the Stud consigned the dark bay as hip 122. Uncle Mo, a filly=s trainer Josie J “TDN Rising Star” J, took the GI Champagne S. Carroll, received con- at Belmont, then knocked one out of the park with a gratulations from a dominating win in Saturday=s GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile. large group, they ad- Uncle Mo is owned by Repole Stable and trained by mitted the moment Todd Pletcher. Careless Jewel Adam Coglianese was bittersweet. AI AShe=s a very nice mare, and the horse [Uncle Mo] really didn=t want to was very impressive over the weekend, and we really sell, but we did,@ Vern Dubinsky said. Donna Dubinsky liked her,@ said Magnier, who stood along the inside rail echoed her husband=s sentiments. AIt=s just a part of the of the rear walking along with Paul Shanahan and two game,@ she said.