A Harlan’s Holiday colt out of the unraced Keep it Going (Yankee Victor)
brought a $300,000 bid from Nick DeMeric, agent, at Tuesday’s final session of
the Fasig-Tipton Eastern Fall Yearling Sale at Timonium, Maryland. Offered from
the consignment of Paramount Sales, agent, the Kentucky-bred toured the ring as
Hip No. 473.
Keep it Going, out of the multiple stakes-winning Harlan Honey (Silver Hawk),
is a half-sister to stakes winner and multiple Grade 2-placed Impending Bear (Farma
Way) and the Grade 3-placed Siphon Honey (Siphon [Brz]).
The sale-topper was previously a $150,000 Keeneland November weanling.
The highest-selling filly of the sale was STEAL THE DANCE (Tapit), who was
offered as Hip 639. Sally Thomas, agent, consigned the gray who went to Cary
Frommer, agent, for $182,000. Produced from Purloin (Forest Wildcat), a
half-sister to the Irish Group 3-placed stakes winner Pirate of Penzance
(Southern Halo), the February 1 Kentucky-bred is from the family of multiple
Grade 2 winner and sire Caller I. D. (Phone Trick).
Becky Davis, agent, consigned a Not for Love colt that attracted $120,000
from Jay Em Ess Stable. The Maryland-bred sported Hip 446.
Produced from the stakes-winning Indian Head Penny (Waquoit), the February 11
foal is a half-sister to the stakes-winning Headsandtales (Tale of the Cat).
This is the family of stakes winner and 1992 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1)
runner-up It’sali’lknownfact (Known Fact).
The sale concluded Tuesday with 385 yearlings selling for $5,611,950. There
was one fewer day of selling compared to last year’s sale, which resulted in a
decline in gross of 31.7 percent. In 2008, 483 yearlings brought $8,211,600 over
three days. The sale average was off 14.3 percent, from $17,001 to $14,576,
while the median dipped 38.9 percent, from $9,000 to $5,500.
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