Farmer Acquires Twirling Candy Filly for $320,000
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The Twirling Candy filly consigned as Hip 617 brings $320,000 from Tracy Farmer at the New York-Bred Sale
Bloodstock agent Lincoln Collins bided his time during the Aug. 12 session of the Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Sale, striking late in the day for Hip 617, a $320,000 Twirling Candy filly purchased on behalf of Tracy Farmer.
"We all liked her," Collins said. "Mark Casse liked her, I liked her. We perhaps inadvisedly passed on a couple earlier to go for this one.Tracy really likes his New York-breds he's got so far this year, and he's had a great year on the racetrack."
Consigned by Fort Christopher's Thoroughbreds, agent for Kingsport Farm, the filly is out of the A.P. Indy mare Soul Search, who was runner-up in the Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (G1) and third in the Personal Ensign Stakes (G1). The mare is also the dam of three six-figure earners including Journey Home, who took the 2016 Jimmy Durante Stakes (G3T).
Empire Thoroughbreds, as agent for Kingsport Farms, bought Soul Search while carrying the Twirling Candy in utero for $115,000 from Lane's End, agent, at the 2017 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.
"She's a bit plain-headed, but she's a really likable, honest-looking filly," Collins said. "Right pedigree and right sire at the moment. She will go to Mark Casse.
"I wasn't surprised by the price," added Collins, who said the market has played strong throughout the sale. "I was hoping she might be a little bit less expensive but it was clear that a lot of people liked her, and the more I looked at her, the more I liked her, and I'm sure that's the same for other people.
"The market here is like all sales now: feast or famine. The nice ones make plenty of money and the horses that fall even a little bit, there's just no one to buy them. From a consignor's point of view, it's a challenge, and from a buyer's point of view it's a challenge because everyone's concentrating on the same horses.This game has become very professionally oriented in the last few years. Occasionally we'll get lucky and one will slip through the cracks, but on the whole, to buy the nice ones, you have to step up to the plate."