Rushing Fall to be Offered at The November Sale

Multiple grade 1 winner Rushing Fall will be offered at The November Sale, Fasig-Tipton's marquee breeding sale in Lexington, the auction house announced Sept. 8.

The 5-year-old More Than Ready  mare will be consigned by Indian Creek, agent, on behalf of the Edwards family's e Five Racing Thoroughbreds.

Trained throughout her career by four-time Eclipse champion trainer Chad Brown, Rushing Fall is a six-time grade 1 winner of $2,553,000. She is one of just three females in the modern era to win grade 1 races at 2,3,4, and 5, alongside Beholder and Lady Eli. 

Since winning her career debut at Belmont Park in September of her 2-year-old year, Rushing Fall has competed exclusively in graded stakes company, amassing 10 career graded stakes wins at four different tracks from coast to coast. Her impeccable record counts 11 wins and two seconds from 14 career starts.

At 2, Rushing Fall won the 2017 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine Stakes (G3T) by more than three lengths in her second career start. In her next start, she captured the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) on her way to being named a finalist for champion 2-year-old filly.

At 3, she notched wins in the Appalachian Stakes Presented by Japan Racing Association (G2T) and Lake Placid Stakes (G2T), followed by a wire-to-wire win in the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes Presented by Lane's End (G1T).

She began her 4-year-old campaign with another scintillating front-running win in the Coolmore Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1T), and followed up with a victory in the Longines Just a Game Stakes (G1T) in near course record time.

This year, Rushing Fall is in arguably the best form of her career. She began her 2020 campaign with another brilliant wire-to-wire victory in the Beaugay Stakes (G3T), and then successfully defended her title in the Jenny Wiley, setting a new course record for 1 1/16 miles in 1:39.02. Most recently she captured the Diana Stakes (G1T) in near course record time Aug. 23 at Saratoga Race Course.

Rushing Fall is pointing toward a return to the Breeders' Cup before being offered at The November Sale on Nov. 8 in Lexington.

A $320,000 purchase in 2016 at The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton's selected yearling sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., by agent Mike Ryan on behalf of the Edwards family, Rushing Fall is out of the Forestry mare Autumnal, a 100% winner producer from five foals to start. Rushing Fall is a half sister to stakes winner and multiple graded stakes-placed Milam, as well as stakes-placed Autumn Song. She is also a half sister to Homecoming Dance, the dam of stakes winner Empire Line, as well as Hang a Star, a graded stakes-placed performer this year. Her immediate family includes grade 1 winners Albert the Great and Trumpet's Blare.

Leading international sire More Than Ready has sired the dams of more than 90 black-type winners worldwide. 

"Rushing Fall is one of the more brilliant turf females we have seen in some time, compiling a near perfect record in capturing her division's most prestigious and competitive races," said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning Jr. "She is a true collector's item, and we are honored that the Edwards family has entrusted her sale to Fasig-Tipton."