Hip No. 246, a chestnut colt by Johannesburg named ZOUNDS, brought the top
price of $625,000 at Monday’s opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic
Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale at Timonium, Maryland, a record high for the
Midlantic juvenile sale. Consigned by Classic
Bloodstock (Danzel Brendemuehl), agent, the Florida-bred was sold to Joe Brocklebank as agent for Jeff Singer. Produced by the winning Hasty Appeal
(World Appeal), the April 22 juvenile is a half-brother to Dr. Park, winner of
the 2001 Will Rogers S. (G3), and hails from the same family as multiple Grade 1
winners Borrego and I Ain’t Bluffing as well as the Canadian champion two-year-old male in 1992, Truth of It
All. The session-topping colt’s third dam is 1962 champion
two-year-old filly Smart Deb.
At the under tack show, Zounds worked a
quarter-mile in :21 4/5. Zounds was previously purchased for $175,000 at the
Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company August Yearling Sale.
Zayat Stables went to $425,000 to acquire the second most expensive juvenile
on the day, Hip 102, a Silver Deputy colt consigned by Murray Smith, agent. The
May 17 gray is out of the multiple stakes-placed Dynaformer mare Kopenhagen,
making him a half-brother to Strong Contender (Maria’s Mon), who finished third
in both the April 15 Blue Grass S. (G1) and Saturday’s Peter Pan S. (G2). His
second dam, Eterna Fe (Arg) (Good Bloke), a Group 1 winner in her native land,
has also produced stakes winner New Aspirations. This is the
immediate family of Eterna Girl, five times Group 1-placed in Argentina.
The Kentucky-bred sped two furlongs in :21 3/5 at the training preview. He
was acquired at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale last year for $60,000.
On Monday, 183 juveniles were sold for an aggregate of $9,827,000, which
represented an increase of 8.8 percent from the opening session in 2005, when
194 horses brought a total of $9,035,500. The average was $53,699, a rise of
15.3 percent from last year’s figure of $46,575, while the median was $32,000,
4.9 percent above the $30,500 from one year ago.
The second and final session begins Tuesday at 11 a.m. (EDT). For complete
results, visit fasigtipton.com.