Fasig-Tipton’s April Digital Sale ended April 9 with 87 horses selling for $4,274,300. Selling toppers Eileen’s dream (Hip 21) set a record for a single product on a Digital platform when it sold for $660,000.
Eileen’s dream, presented with her 2024 foal curled up sold to DJ Stable to establish high water market for Fasig-Tipton Digital platform, launched March 2022. Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa, dealer, consigned a daughter of Bernardini, who is bred create again Quack . Eileen’s Dream is the dam of four winners from four starts to date. Among her winners is Katherine, the Humorously Distorted mare who produced last year’s Saratoga Special Stakes (G2) winner Rhyme scheme . Eileen’s dream is also to have a 2-year-old child. War front is yet to start and a foal is due by Curlin, which sold for $600,000 at weaning in November.
The female family sells black toppers. Eileen’s Dream is a half-sister to three stakes horses and two stakes producers, most notably the multiple Grade 1 winner Dream Rush (Wild Rush). Dream Rush has produced grade 1 winner Dreaming of Julia, graded stakes winner Dream Pauline, stakes winner and sire Atreides . In contrast, dreaming of Julia produced Malathaat, the millionaire two-time Eclipse champion who won the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1), and Grade 2 winner Julia Shining—both Made by Curlin.
“Anytime you have the opportunity to win a beautiful mare from this family, you have to seriously consider it,” Jon Green said of Eileen’s Dream. “She has the looks, conformation, pedigree, breeding mares and foal stock to be a ‘foundation mare’ for our program. This is the mare that my father (Leonard Green) ) especially wanted. He loves his family and is excited to have a mare and a foal like this.”
The previous record on this platform belonged to the Amazonian stallion, foal for Nyquistist who sold for $420,000 to KatieRich Farms from the consignment of Ballysax Bloodstock, agent for the Estate of Glen Todd, in the Final Phase of the Glen Todd Dispersal in September 2022.
Rounding out the top three bestsellers are:
- Gray clay (Hip 6), a racehorse/stallion prospect sold for $370,000 to NRCLUB from the lot of Full Servis Equine, dealer. A 3-year-old light-bred Pennsylvania filly bred by Integrate in society Gray Lightning has a record of two wins and a second in three starts at 2nd and 3rd and has earned $76,720.
- Secret love (Hip 22), a prospect mare sold for $310,000 to dealer Steven W. Young from the Taylor Made Sales Consignment. Secret Love is a bet winner from the first season of Not this time .
“We had extremely active bidding throughout the sale, especially as it closed this afternoon,” said Leif Aaron, director of digital sales at Fasig-Tipton. “The clearance rate is over 90%. We are very pleased with the results for our buyers and sellers.”
Overall, 87 of the 94 horses offered sold for $4,274,300, averaging $49,129, with 20 selling for $50,000 or more. The average is $20,000. Six hundred and seventy potential buyers registered to bid. The clearance rate is 92.5%.
Full results for the April Digital Sale are in online.
This press release has been edited for content and style by BloodHorse Staff.
