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Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners Comes Full-Circle With Purchase Of Tapwrit Filly At Fasig-Tipton July Sponsored by:
Tapwrit at Gainesway 1.10.19.
When a horse sells for $1.2 million as a yearling, the daydreams that follow often center around hoisting trophies in high-profile races and standing at a high-profile stallion operation for years to come. They don t usually include unheralded $100,000 yearling purchases somewhere down the road, but one in particular marked the next chapter for an ownership group and its star horse.
On Tuesday, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners secured a filly from the first crop of its Belmont Stakes-winning stallion Tapwrit at the Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Sale for $100,000, nearly six years after landing Tapwrit himself for $1.2 million at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. The July purchase marked the first Tapwrit foal bought by Eclipse at public auction.
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Hip 123, an Into Mischief filly, brings $800,000 at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton July Yearlings Sale
The summer yearling sales season kicked off Tuesday at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky., with a resurgent edition of Fasig-Tipton s July Sale of selected yearlings. The sale s average and median were well-placed historically, and the highest since the benchmarks set in 2007.
“It was a strong start to the 2021 yearling sales season,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning. “We were very encouraged when we went to the farms to inspect yearlings by the quality of horses we were seeing, and certainly the two-year-old sales were encouraging, so we had a lot of optimism. I don t think any of us [hoped] to surpass the 2019 numbers… so to be over 2019 is very, very, very encouraging.”
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