First Day of Fasig-Tipton’s December Digital Sale ‘Strong from Start to Finish’

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The first session of Fasig-Tipton's December Digital Sale–with more than 670 horses catalogued–closed Tuesday, topped by 2023 Sovereign Award winner Millie Girl (Hard Spun). Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency as hip 11, Canada's reigning champion older main track female sold for $450,000 to John Stewart's Resolute Bloodstock. The multiple graded stakes winner was sold from her base at Woodbine, where she has been trained by Catherine Day Phillips.

“We are really excited about purchasing Canadian champion Millie Girl,” said Stewart. “She fits right into our breeding program. We will evaluate her future racing career, but we purchased her to eventually breed. It's exciting to have a sale like this on the digital platform this time of year with so many horses over two days.”

Overall, Tuesday's first session yielded 187 horses sold for $4,423,500, or an average of $23,655 with a clearance rate of 76%. The session featured horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, broodmare prospects, yearlings, and weanlings.

“We could not be more pleased with the first session of our December Digital Sale,” said Fasig-Tipton's Director of Digital Sales Leif Aaron. “With more than $4.4 million in sales and a 76% clearance rate, bidding was strong from start to finish.”

The December Digital Sale will continue Wednesday with hips 306-670 and will include a late supplement to the catalogue in Cruz Ramirez (Good Magic) (hip 346). The  2-year-old racing/broodmare prospect won her debut at Laurel on Sunday. Bidding will close Wednesday beginning at 12 p.m. ET.

“Tomorrow's session offers a high concentration of quality broodmares that fit a wide variety of breeding programs,” said Aaron. “There's still plenty of time for buyers to work through the catalogue and get involved in the action.”

Full results of Tuesday's session, as well as Wednesday's offerings, are available here.

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