Medaglia d'Oro Colt Sells for $600,000

Mike Recio signed the ticket for a Medaglia d'Oro   colt bought for $600,000 during the early part of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale May 23 in Timonium, Md.

Recio signed the ticket on behalf of Rockbridge Bloodstock/Brett Santangelo.

The price was the highest during the early part of the two-day auction. Earlier, two colts sired by Tapit   went unsold, with Hip 12 not selling on a final bid of $700,000 and Hip 5 bought back for $375,000.

Consigned by Cary Frommer as Hip 21, the colt purchased by Recio of South Point Sales on behalf of an unidentified new client from California is out of the stakes-placed Lemon Drop Kid mare Kid Majic, dam of multiple stakes winner Miss Mischief.

“He is a big two-turn horse who makes you dream about the classics,” Recio said. “He should get better as he gets older. He is still maturing.”

“The owner did the right thing. He is a mid-May foal and had some issues that needed maturing and he waited for this sale rather than pressuring me to go to an earlier sale,” Frommer said. “He’s a lovely horse and we will be reading about him.”

Bred in Kentucky by Allen Poindexter, the colt was bought back for $190,000 at the 2015 Keeneland September yearling sale.