Vinery Sales to Offer Trio of Grade I Mares to Benefit Charity at Fasig-Tipton November

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Vinery Sales will offer Grade I mares Dorth Vader (Girvin), Free Like a Girl (El Deal), and Sacred Wish (Not This Time) at the Fasig-Tipton November sale with a portion of the proceeds from each sale benefitting a specific charity, it was announced via press release Monday.

Vinery Sales's Matt Bowling said the connections of the three racemares will be donating a portion of the proceeds from the respective sales each to a different charity. The selected organizations set to receive the donations have names or missions that resonate with the owners or the names of the fillies. All three horses are being offered as racing/broodmare prospects and are consigned by Vinery Sales, agent.

Dorth Vader, winner of the GI Ogden Phipps Stakes at Saratoga this past June, has amassed over $1-million in her career. Including that elite-level win, she has four black-type victories to her name between the Juvenile Fillies Sprint Stakes, Sandpiper Stakes, and the GII Davona Dale Stakes. She's also placed in the GI Acorn Stakes in 2023 and was most recently seen running second to Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) in the GI Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga by a nose.

A portion of Dorth Vader's sale proceeds will be going to the Starlight Children's Foundation, which collaborates with LucasFilm and Disney to offer Star Wars-themed programs to sick children during their hospital stays.

Free Like a Girl, a 19-time stakes winner and the 2022 & 2024 Louisiana Horse of the Year, has tallied nine graded black-type contests through her four-year career. She's hit the board in the GIII Iowa Oaks; GIII Charles Town Oaks; GIII Remington Park Oaks; the GI Apple Blossom Handicap in 2024 and 2025; the GI Fasig-Tipton La Troienne Stakes in 2024; and the 2025 GIII Bayakoa and GII Azeri Stakes. With her career earnings sitting north of $2.5-million, she was most recently seen running second in the Magnolia Stakes Oct. 11 at Delta Downs.

A portion of the proceeds generated by the sale of Free Like a Girl will be donated to St. Jude's Children Hospital in gratitude for the care they provided to trainer Deville Pomier's niece during an illness.

Sacred Wish is the 2024 GI Matriarch Stakes victress at Del Mar, and some of her career highlights include a runner-up effort in the 2023 GII Gulfstream Park Oaks in her third start; running second in that year's GI CCA Oaks and GIII Pebbles Stakes; and hitting the board last season in the GIII WinStar Matchmaker, GIII Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf, and GIII Goldikova Stakes before her aforementioned Grade I win. This year, she started her 2025 with a runner-up effort in the GII TAA Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational and has since run second again in the GIII WinStar Matchmaker Stakes July 19. Her career earnings sit at over $1.1-million.

Jake Ballis of Black Type Thoroughbreds will be supporting the Make-A-Wish Foundation with a contribution coming directly from the sale of Sacred Wish. The Make-A-Wish Foundation helps fulfill the wishes of seriously ill children.

“Evan Ferraro from Fasig-Tipton and I worked together on the idea,” said Bowling. “All three mares have incredible connections and unique names and stories, so we thought it would be good to do something along these lines. When I pitched the ideas to the teams of each horse, they were all excited to be a part of it and give back to some awesome charities.”

The catalogue for the 2025 Fasig-Tipton November Sale may be found here.

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