Fipke Goes to $530,000 for Pleasant Home

Breeder Charles Fipke went deep to $530,000 early in the Nov. 10 session of Book 2 at the Keeneland November sale to purchase Pleasant Home, in foal to Orb  . Consigned by Claiborne Farm, agent for Phipps Stable Reduction, Pleasant Home won the 2005 Emirates Airline Breeders’ Cup Distaff (gr. I). The ticket was signed by agent R. J. Bennett.

Pleasant Home, 15, won the Distaff in her final career start and also prevailed in the 2005 Bed o’ Roses Breeders’ Cup Handicap (gr. III). The daughter of Seeking the Gold also posted runner-up efforts in the Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (gr. I)  and the grade I Ballerina Stakes.

Pleasant Home’s first foal, S’Avall, is the dam of Fipke’s Tale of S'avall, by Fikpe’s stallion Tale of Ekati  . Tale of S’avall has placed in two stakes this year, including the Dwyer Stakes (gr. III).

“I own Tale of Ekati and he’s the only one that goes with this mare,” Fipke said. “I feel Tale of S’avall will be a grade I winner and that will make the page and of course I’m interested that the foals out of her by Tale of Ekati will be 3x3 to Maplejinksy. That will be great breeding stock.

“I’m delighted. She won the Breeders’ Cup Distaff and even though she’s 15, I’ll do alright with her. I bought a mare who was 16 or 17, Lady Shirl and I did alright with her.”

Fipke purchased Lady Shirl for $485,000 when she was 18 in 2005 and her daughter Perfect Shirl won the 2011 Emirates Airline Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT).

“They say she’s a sweetie,” Fipke said of Pleasant Home following speaking with Claiborne. “If you look at her she’s just absolutely gorgeous.”

Not long after Pleasant Home left the ring, Queenie's Song, a 5-year-old daughter of Unbridled’s Song in foal to Lemon Drop Kid  , sold for $470,000. Consigned by Lane’s End, agent, she sold to P.L.W., agent for Timber Town and Jane Winegardner. Stakes-placed Queenie’s Song is a half sister to grade III-placed Quiet Cash.

A weanling filly by Speightstown   selling for $390,000 to Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Stables led the way through the first hour of Book 2 at the Keeneland November sale.

Bred in Kentucky by SF Racing Group, the bay was consigned by Bedouin Bloodstock and is the second foal out of Canadian grade III winner Nikkis Smartypants, by Smarty Jones  . Her first foal, a filly by Bodemeister  , sold as a yearling earlier this year at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale for $30,000.