Hip No. 18, YOUR OUT (Allen’s Prospect), brought the top price of $140,000
on Sunday at Fasig-Tipton’s opening session of the Midlantic December Mixed Sale,
held at the Timonium Sales Pavilion in Timonium, Maryland. Sunday’s session
consisted entirely of broodmares, broodmare prospects, racing and broodmare
prospects, as well as one stallion prospect.
Sold by Country Life Farm, agent for Eugene Ford, the seven-year-old bay mare
is out of the stakes-winning mare Our Friend Hidayet (Fast Play), who is out of
Seraglio (Wavering Monarch), a half-sister to 1995 Round Table S. (G3) winner
Kingdom City. Your Out also hails from the same female family as multiple stakes
hero Carrolls Favorite.
Your Out won seven of 17 outings, including trips in the 2002 Obeah S., 2000
Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship S. and 2000 Maryland Million Lassie S., as
well as placing second in the 2002 Delaware H. (G3). Over three years of racing,
she earned $518,710 while compiling a record of 17-7-6-2. She is
currently in foal to Lion Hearted on a March 15 mating.
Green Willow Farms went to $100,000 just a few hips later to buy APPROVE
(Deputy Minister), the second-highest priced mare of the session. Sold as Hip 33
by Walnut Green, agent, the 11-year-old mare is out of the Grade 2-winning dam
Crowned (Chief’s Crown), making her a half-sibling to 1999 Peter Pan S. (G2) and
Stuyvesant H. (G3) victor Best of Luck.
Approve was unplaced in three starts, earning $2,550, and has produced five
foals, including the multiple stakes-placed Xtra Heart (Favorite Trick). She is
currently pregnant to Two Punch on a April 19 mating.
There were 201 head who sold Sunday for an aggregate $1,759,400. This was
up 18.6 percent from last year’s comparative session, when 149 horses sold for
$1,483,800. Average and median prices both declined with the average dipping
12.1 percent from $9,958 to $8,753 while the median dropped 28.8 percent from
$5,200 to $3,700. The number of horses not sold increased 82.1 percent from 56
in 2004 to 102 this year.
The second and final session, which features the selling of weanlings,
yearlings and horses of racing ages, continues Monday at 10 a.m. (EST).