'Package Deal' Mares and Foals Set for Fasig-Tipton

A handful of mares selling at the Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale Feb. 10-11 will offer an added bonus when they go through the ring.

Eleven mares that foaled early will have their foals with them at the Lexington auction, giving buyers an opportunity to land a package deal.

"Any time you can show your product and people see a great foal, it definitely makes it worth more," said Jay Goodwin, a partner in Select Sales Agency. "Then you don't have to worry about buying a mare and a week later it aborting or having a dystocia or anything like that. It's on the grounds, it's healthy, it's striving, it's pretty."

Select Sales has four mares on offer as of Feb. 8 with foals by their side. 

"You can see she's already got a good baby. In three days she can go to the breeding shed if she's ready, so everybody sort of knows what they're buying," Goodwin added. "Any time you can take any worry or Mother Nature out of the equation, it helps."

Two of the mares produced foals by first-crop sires. Maggie Simon (Hip 113), a Simon Pure half sister to grade 1 winner Comma to the Top and stakes winner Vending Machine, has a foal by Preakness (G1) winner Cloud Computing . Messageinabottle (Hip 131), a Grand Slam half sister to grade 3 winner Scotus and the dam of Canadian champion Grand Adventure, gave birth to a foal by Metropolitan Handicap (G1) winner Mor Spirit .

Goodwin expects buyers to be attracted to Maggie Simon and Messageinabottle, with the mares' foals giving an early glimpse of the first crop from young stallions and a chance to reap rewards with those youngsters down the line.

"Everybody wants first-crop sires, that's the thing," Goodwin said. "The Mor Spirit and the Cloud Computing being first-crop sires, everybody will be on those two."

Speightster , whose first foals are 2-year-olds of 2020, will be represented by a colt out of Mykindasaint (Hip 164), a multiple stakes-winning daughter of Saint Ballado who has already produced a stakes winner in Malibu Saint.

"I'm hearing a lot of good things from Ocala about the Speightsters," Goodwin said. "This thing looks like he could go :09 and four (fifths) right now as a two-week old baby. The mare's a stakes producer. She was a very good racehorse herself, and she's already produced a stakes horse."

Goodwin also said buying a mare with a foal sired by a stallion whose first crop will hit the racetrack this year gives buyers the opportunity to get in early should Speightster's 2-year-olds take off.

"As good as that foal is, I think people would want to take a chance and just have a Speightster in the barn in case he does hit," he said, "especially when they look like that and are a half to a stakes horse."

Select Sales is also consigning K's Bar Bee (Hip 80) and her Temple City  foal.

"The foal is a three-quarters (sibling) to Twilight Eclipse, who was a grade 1 winner from a Dynaformer line. That will be unique, especially as good as it is," Goodwin said.

K's Bar Bee is a Pride of Burkaan half sister to the dam of multimillionaire Twilight Eclipse and multiple grade 3 winner Grand Contender.

Having already gotten a look at the foals before the mares sell, Goodwin said they seem like early developers.

"They all got great hips, they're all beautifully-bodied foals, so I'm excited about all four of them," he said. "All the mares are young and have big pedigrees, so we should do good on all four of them."