The Fasig-Tipton October yearling sale wrapped up this week and a number of Canadian- and Ontario-breds went through the ring.
Anderson Farms
Ontario-bred son of Nyquist is two-for-two this year for D.J. Stable and trainer Mark Casse after a romp in the Display Stakes.
The high seller from Week 1 was a colt by Into Mischief who went for $3.7 million; a record 65 horses brought $1 million or more.
The 'nearly Canadian' couple from Buffalo hope to bring their winning Street Sense filly north to Woodbine this season.
Canadians bought mares and yearlings at the recently completed Keeneland January sale, while King's Plate winner Mansetti was bought back.
All of Europe's leading first crop sire last year was a $1.1 million yearling, fast Group stakes winner, and he was foaled in Ontario.
Early in the Keeneland November sale, a few Canadians have been selling and buying and there are more sessions to come.
More than a dozen Ontario-breds, plus a BC-Bred and Alberta-bred, were sold; sale-topper is first foal of Canadian champ Munnyfor Ro.
Dozens of Canadian-bred yearlings have been catalogued for the 4,600-plus sale that lasts throughout next week.
D. J. Stables fillies finished first and second in the Bison City Stakes, the second jewel of the Triple Tiara.
The Ontario-bred Nyquist colt out of War Classic sold for $550,000 USD at the the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale on August 4.
Ontario-bred Copperelle didn't do much on the track, but she's making up for it in the breeding shed; three offspring compete Feb. 7.
The two-year-old filly by Medaglia D'Oro won Woodbine's Catch a Glimpse Stakes and goes for the Miss Grillo Stakes.
Billionaire Bill Stone hit paydirt with his first horse purchase, Hoosier Philly, and hopes Ba Dee Yah can win the Woodbine Oaks.
The first major yearling sale of 2023 featured some Ontario-breds that sold for Sue Foreman, Saintsbury Farm and Anderson Farms.
