Mares Sell for Millions at Fasig; Keeneland November Begins

The November Sales, Fasig-Tipton Kentucky’s flagship breeding stock sale, took place Sunday, November 6, and Keeneland’s 10-session November Breeding Stock sale begins Monday at 1 p.m.

At 12:30 on Monday, a 2.5 percent share in Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner, FLIGHTLINE, will be offered on-line. Prospective bidders must register to bid on the great, unbeaten son of Tapit, who was retired to stud following his big win at Keeneland on November 5.

You can watch the bidding on the Metaverse here.

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For more on the Flightline share auction, visit here.

For the second consecutive year, the single-session November sale at Fasig-Tipton sale grossed more than $100,000,000. Thirty-one horses sold for $1,000,000 or more over the course of the single session, including 10 which sold for $2,000,000 or more.

Eclipse Champion Gamine (Hip 289), offered carrying her first foal by Quality Road, topped the sale when sold for $7,000,000 to Coolmore’s M.V. Magnier from the consignment of Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa, agent.

A five-year-old daughter of three-time Leading Sire Into Mischief, Gamine set records on and off the track. In May of 2019, Gamine set a then-record for most expensive two-year-old Thoroughbred sold at public auction in the state of Maryland when sold for $1,800,000 at the Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training sale. Eighteen months later, she blazed a new track record in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, covering 7 furlongs in 1:20.20 to defeat older fillies and mares by 6 ¼ lengths as she pleased.

A nine-time winner in 11 career starts, Gamine scored seven times in graded stakes company, including in addition to her Breeders’ Cup victory: an 18 ¾-length victory in the Acorn S. (G1) in her stakes debut at three; a 7-length win in the Test S. (G1); and victories in the Derby City Distaff S. (G1) and Ballerina H. (G1) last year at four. She earned $1,771,500 on the track for owner Michael Lund Petersen and was named Eclipse Champion Female Sprinter for her efforts at 3 in 2020.

The fastest Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Shedaresthedevil (Hip 233), sold for $5,000,000 to Whisper Hill Farm. Hunter Valley Farm, agent, offered the five-year-old daughter of Daredevil as a racing/broodmare prospect. To date, Shedaresthedevil has won 10 times, including victories in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), La Troienne S. (G1), Clement L. Hirsch S. (G1), and five other graded stakes, and earned $2,777,458.

Also drawing a top bid of $5,000,000 was international Group 1 winner Campanelle (IRE) (Hip 272), purchased by M.V. Magnier from the consignment of Eaton Sales, agent for Stonestreet Stables. A four-year-old daughter of Kodiac, Campanelle won the Prix Morny (G1) in France at two and scored in the Queen Mary S. (G2) that year at Royal Ascot. Last year, she returned victorious to that prestigious meet, winning the Commonwealth Cup (G1). This year in North America, she added the Ladies Sprint S. (G3) at Kentucky Downs to her resume, making her a graded/group winner in three countries. To date, Campanelle has won six times for earnings of $1,070,417.