Fasig-Tipton March Digital Sale Clears $2 Million

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Law Professor wins an allowance optional claimer at Aqueduct Racetrack

Fasig-Tipton's March Digital Sale closed March 12 with 66 horses sold for $2,011,200. The catalog featured horses of racing age, breeding stock, and yearlings.  

Graded-stakes winner Law Professor  sold for $230,000 to JTH Racing to top the sale. Offered as Hip 4 by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, the 6-year-old son of Constitution   has captured his last two outings, allowance optional claiming races, at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Law Professor is already a four-time stakes winner, including the 2021 Santa Anita Mathis Mile Stakes (G2T), and was runner-up to Life Is Good   in the 2022 Woodward Stakes (G1). He finished third in the 2023 Woodward. Law Professor has eight wins from 22 career starts and has earned $1,004,565.

Other top sellers included:

  • Queens Command  (Hip 11), a 5-year-old racing/broodmare prospect sold for $200,000 to Shannon Potter, agent for Town and Country Racing, and George Saufley, from the consignment of Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. A winner in Ireland and the United States, Queens Command was runner-up in the Santa Ana Stakes (G3T) in her most recent start Feb. 24.
  • Cairo Sugar  (Hip 27), a stakes winner by Cairo Prince  , sold for $200,000 to SF Bloodstock from the consignment of Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. Offered as a broodmare prospect, Cairo Sugar is a daughter of multiple grade 1 winner Spun Sugar  and is a half sister to the dams of graded-stakes winner Best Actor  and stakes winner Arham .
  • Bless America  (Hip 25), a 4-year-old horse of racing age, sold for $145,000 to MV from the consignment of Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. A son of four-time leading sire Into Mischief  , Bless America has won or placed in all three of his career starts, breaking his maiden in maiden special weight company in his most recent start Feb. 24.

"It was a very solid sale," said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton's director of digital sales. "It was a workmanlike sale. Six horses brought six figures or more and the market was very fair."

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The average price was $30,472, and the median was $7,750. From an original catalog of 105, 13 horses were withdrawn and 26 were listed as not sold (28.3%).

The expected highest-priced horse in the catalog—2023 La Brea Stakes (G1) winner Daddysruby—was listed as not sold, with an asking price of $950,000 for the 4-year-old daughter of Frac Daddy  when the auction closed Tuesday evening. The digital sale results, which can be viewed here, could still be updated.

The next Fasig-Tipton digital sale will be the April Digital Sale, which opens for bidding April 4 and closes April 9. Entries close March 27.