The August Digital Sale closed Aug. 26 with 154 horses sold for $4,886,500. The sale averaged $31,730 with a clearance rate of 81%. The catalog offered horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, breeding stock (including broodmares with foals at foot), yearlings, and a stallion prospect.
Snow Face Princess (Hip 39), a determined winner of the Bolton Landing Stakes at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 17, sold for $775,000 to Winchell Thoroughbreds to top the sale. The 2-year-old Midshipman filly was offered as a racing/broodmare prospect by Claiborne Farm, agent. Snow Face Princess has a record of two wins from three starts to date with earnings of $142,600.
Ascot Walk (Hip 1), in foal to Horse of the Year Cody's Wish , sold for $550,000 to Erdenheim Farm Thoroughbreds from the consignment of Turning Point Bloodstock, agent. Ascot Walk is the dam of three foals of racing age, all of whom are winners and stakes performers. Most notably, she is the dam of 2025 Kentucky Oaks (G1) runner-up Drexel Hill (Bolt d'Oro), who won this year's Busher Stakes. Her first foal, Regaled, is four-times stakes placed, including in last year's Delaware Oaks (G3). Ascot Walk received a timely update Aug. 22 when her current 2-year-old, the Modernist filly Grazie, finished third in the Seeking the Ante Stakes at Saratoga after scoring in her debut.
Crevalle d'Oro (Hip 6), a 4-year-old racing/broodmare prospect, sold for $220,000 to Brandon Bowen from the consignment of Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. The daughter of Constitution is a multiple winner who is also graded stakes placed. She has earned $183,724 to date.
"We are very grateful to the buyers for supporting the sale, and the sellers for entrusting us with their horses," said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton director of digital sales. "The sale today was fantastic and a great way for us to end the summer digital sales season. The outlook for the fall digital sales is already very strong, and we are gearing up for a big October and December. Demand this week was strong from the top of the market all the way down. What a great day for Bill Johnson and his team, capitalizing on multiple big updates with their super mare Ascot Walk. Also thankful to Claiborne for consigning the very exciting Snow Face Princess to the sale."
Full results are available online.
The next digital sale will be the October Digital Sale, to be held Oct. 2-7. Entries close Sept. 22.
