Friesan Fire Colt Brings $825,000 at F-T
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Hip 461 by Friesan Fire out of Crafty Toast
The action picked up midway through the second session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale when a Friesan Fire colt became the new sale topper at $825,000 and a Speightstown colt was sold for $500,000.
Consigned by Scanlon Training and Sales, the new sale topper was purchased by an unidentified client of James J. Crupi, who signed the sales receipt while accompanied by Dennis O’Neill.
“I just thought he was a lovely horse,” Crupi said of the colt who was one of six horses to breeze a co-fastest eighth of a mile in :10 during the under tack show.
O’Neill said he thought the colt would bring less but “sometimes you have to stretch” to get the top horses.
Scanlon had purchased the colt, bred in Pennsylvania by Hope Hill Farm, for $35,000 at last year’s F-T Midlantic October yearling sale from the consignment of Bill Reightler.
The colt is out of the stakes-winning Crafty Prospector mare Crafty Toast.
The Speightstown colt out of the multiple stakes-winning Indian Charlie mare Czechers was purchased by agent David Ingordo, who declined to say who he was representing. Offered as Hip 463 from the McKathan Bros. consignment, the colt had been purchased for $175,000 from the Eaton Sales consignment to last year’s Keeneland September yearling sale. Bred in Kentucky by Branch Family Trust, as a weanling the colt was bought by Fairwinter Farm for $170,000 from the Brookdale Sales consignment at the 2014 Keeneland November sale.