Angela Renee sells for $3 million at Fasig-Tipton

Angela Renee went to Don Alberto Corp. (Courtesy of Fasig-Tipton via Twitter) Grade 1 winner ANGELA RENEE (Bernardini) had obvious appeal as a full sister to multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire and promising young stallion To Honor and Serve, and that attractive profile made her the top seller at a loaded Fasig-Tipton November Sale at Newtown Paddocks near Lexington, Kentucky, Sunday evening. Furious bidding spiraled to $3 million, at which point Don Alberto Corp. saw off all challenges. Offered by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, as a racing or broodmare prospect, the three-year-old Angela Renee was cataloged as Hip No. 152. The Siena Farm homebred scored her signature victory in the 2014 Chandelier (G1), and she notably placed in the Ashland (G1), Spinaway (G1), Adirondack (G2) and Demoiselle (G2). In her latest venture, she was seventh in the Test (G1) on August 8 at Saratoga. Angela Renee was produced by the stakes-winning Deputy Minister mare Pilfer, who is also responsible for Grade 1-placed stakes scorer Elnaawi (Street Sense). For the second straight year, Ramsey homebred Stephanie’s Kitten (Kitten’s Joy) was a high-profile RNA. Unsold for $3.95 million at this venue last November, the turf star entered the ring this time fresh off her victory in Saturday’s Filly & Mare Turf (G1), and nattily attired in her 2015 Breeders’ Cup champion’s blanket. But the six-year-old mare brought exactly $1 million less than a year ago, with bidding reaching a plateau at $2.95 million. That was not enough to reach her reserve, and the two-time Breeders’ Cup heroine will now retire to the broodmare life at her Ramsey Farm birthplace.

Three Grade 1 stars by Street Sense proved popular — sophomore CALLBACK,
snared as Hip 163 by Elevage Bloodstock for $2.8 million; the four-year-old
filly SWEET REASON, who sold for $2.7 million to Katsumi Yoshida; and the
six-year-old broodmare AUBBY K, who commanded $2.4 million from Summer Wind
Farm.

Callback, successful in the January 31 Las Virgenes (G1) and March 22 Sunland
Park Oaks, was second in the May 1 Eight Belles (G3) in her only subsequent
start. She was consigned by owner Spendthrift Farm, which labeled her as a
racing or broodmare prospect. Callback is out of the unraced Quickest (Forest
Wildcat), a half-sister to 2010 Kentucky Derby (G1) hero and emerging young sire
Super Saver (Maria’s Mon) from a superb Phipps family. 

Sweet Reason, touring the ring as Hip 127, was consigned as a broodmare
prospect by Bluewater Sales, agent. Victorious in the 2013 Spinaway (G1) along
with last season’s Acorn (G1) and Test (G1), she is a half-sister to Grade 3
winner Don’t Forget Gil (Kafwain).

Aubby K, queen of the 2013 Humana Distaff (G1), produced her first foal (a
Tapit colt) this season and is believed to be back in foal to that leading sire
on an April 9 cover. Listed as Hip 155, she came from the consignment of Three
Chimneys Farm, agent. Her foal also sold Sunday, under the Three Chimneys banner
as Hip 47, and ranked as the top-selling weanling at $600,000. Mill Valley
Racing acquired the February 20 bay.

Surpassing the $2 million threshold earlier in the session was LET FAITH
ARISE (Kafwain), Hip 89, who was snapped up by Marie Jones for $2.1 million.
Taylor Made offered the five-year-old mare carrying her first foal by Tapit on a
February 15 cover. Let Faith Arise earned her career high in the 2014 Santa
Margarita (G1).

Upon the conclusion of the night’s trade, Fasig-Tipton reported that 92
horses sold for $43,666,000, a decline of 31.4 percent from the $63,678,000
grossed by 108 in 2014. The average dropped 19.5 percent, from $589,611 to
$474,630. But more positively, the $235,000 median represented a 17.5 percent
increase from last year’s $200,000.

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