Mystic Love sells for $100,000 at F-T Midlantic

Last updated: 12/9/13 5:51 PM

Mystic Love beat the boys in last December’s Dania Beach
(Courtney Heeney/Adam Coglianese Photography)

Multiple stakes-winning three-year-old filly MYSTIC LOVE (Not for Love)
brought the top price of $100,000 at Monday’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December
Mixed Sale in Timonium, Maryland. Bill Reightler, who consigned the racing or
broodmare prospect as an agent, also purchased her on behalf of Greenmount Farm.

Cataloged as Hip No. 95, Mystic Love was touring this sales ring for the
second time. The Maryland-bred initially sold for $21,000 as an October yearling
in 2011. The winner of three of four starts during her 2012 juvenile campaign,
Mystic Love captured a pair of turf stakes, the Selima at Laurel and the Dania
Beach at Gulfstream Park. The dark bay was winless in six starts this year, but
was beaten all of a neck in third in the November 9 Geisha on the dirt at Laurel
in her latest. Mystic Love has compiled a record of 10-3-0-1, $196,310.

The sale topper was produced by the winning Dixie Union mare Memories of
Mystic, who is a half-sister to stakes winners Dance Fee (Menifee) and
Chancellor M. H. (Mt. Livermore). Those three were all out of stakes heroine
Mystic Dance (Nepal). Mystic Love’s fourth dam, Grade 2 queen Discorama
(Northern Dancer), is herself a full sister to multiple Grade 2-winning sire
Dance Spell and a half-sister to Hall of Famer Go for Wand (Deputy Minister).

The top weanling, and second best-seller overall, came near the end of the
session, when Highclere Inc. went to $92,000 for a Kitten’s Joy colt. The New
York-bred bay was offered as Hip 206 by McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds,
agent.

The January 9 foal is out of the winning Right On It (E Dubai), a relative of
Grade 2-placed stakes scorer Moontune Missy (Forest Wildcat). The colt’s second
dam, Shoot the Moon (Seattle Slew), is a full sister to multiple Grade 1-winning
millionaire and sire Slew City Slew. The weanling’s third dam is Grade 1 star
Weber City Miss (Berkley Prince), whose other descendants include French Group 3
victor Black Rock Desert (Danzig) and multiple Japanese stakes scorer Toyo
Seattle (Deputy Minister).

Upon the conclusion of trade, Fasig-Tipton reported that 133 horses grossed
$1,516,700, a 31.9 percent jump from the $1,150,200 realized by 140 sellers last
year. The average spiked 38.8 percent, from $8,216 to $11,404, while the 2012
median of $4,000 rose 25 percent to $5,000.

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