Spirit Wind Sells for $500,000 while R Harper Rose Brings $400,000

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Florida-breds proved popular at the Fasig-Tipton March Digital Sale as Spirit Wind and R Harper Rose led the way with price tags of $500,000 and $400,000 respectively.

Florida-bred Spirit Wind, a multiple graded stakes-winning daughter of Double Diamond Farm’s stallion Bahamian Squall, went to Willingham Stud in a post-sale transaction today out of the consignment of Taylor Made Sales Agency as agent. She was cataloged as Hip 22 and was originally listed as a $450,000 RNA at the conclusion of the sale yesterday afternoon.

Bred in Florida by the late Fred Brei in the name of his Jacks or Better Farm Inc., Spirit Wind is out of the stakes-winning Florida-bred mare Sacred Psalm, by Awesome of Course. While racing for Jacks or Better, Spirit Wind won the Any Limit and Musical Romance at Gulfstream Park in 2022 and the Grade 3 Sugar Swirl there in December of 2023.

She was then purchased privately by Myron Miller’s Miller Racing LLC and sent to trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. for whom she won the Grade 2 Honorable Miss at Saratoga Race Course, the Memorial Day Sprint at Lone Star Park and Poinsettia at Oaklawn Park in 2024. 

Spirit Wind finished her career with eight wins in 17 starts with three seconds and two thirds while banking $737,015.

 

R Harper Rose, who was bred in Florida by the late Sally J. Andersen, was purchased for $400,000 by Chatworth Stud of Australia.

Consigned by Gainesway as Hip 7, R Harper Rose is by Ocala Stud’s leading sire Khozan out of True Bliss, by Yes It’s True and earned $381,980 on the track while racing in the colors of Rich Averill’s Averill Racing LLC and Jayson Werth’s Two Eight Racing LLC. Trained by Saffie Joseph Jr., R Harper Rose won the $200,000 Susan’s Girl Division of the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes in 2023 and the Grade 3 Forward Gal the following year, both at Gulfstream Park. 

Richard Kent’s Kaizen Sales consigned R Harper Rose to the 2022 Ocala Breeders’ Sales October Yearling Sale where Pro Racing Stable purchased her for $16,000. She was then sold by Gerard Ochoa’s GOP Racing Stable at the OBS March Sale where Averill purchased her for $60,000.
(R Harper Rose’s Under Tack Vide0)

She finished her career with four wins and two seconds from 11 starts.

 

Five Florida-breds sold for a total of $1,033,000 and an average of $206,000 including Hip 11, Stormy’s Song, a broodmare by Unbridled’s Song.

Stormy’s Song was consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa as agent and was purchased by Shannon Potter as agent.  

Bred in Florida by Harry Bono and Louise Bono, Stormy’s Song is the dam of multiple graded stakes-placed Stanley House, by Army Mule, an earner of $350,865 and was purchased out of the 2020 Fasig-Tipton October Yealing Sale for $120,000. Stormy’s Song was sold with a weanling full-sister to Stanley House.

The Fasig-Tipton March Digital Sale lists 88 horses selling for $3,627,500. The sale averaged $41,221 with a clearance rate of 88%. The median was $15,000. The catalogue offered horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, 2-year-olds in training, broodmares (including mares with foals at foot) and short yearlings.

Others that sold well included Hip 18, Laulne (Fr), a 4-year-old racing/broodmare prospect by Starspangledbanner (Aus) that sold for $320,000 to Franklin Finance, Haras d’Etreham and Madaket Stables. A group stakes winner as a 2-year-old in France, Laulne is also a graded stakes placed stakes winner in the United States. Laulne was offered by ELiTE, agent.

Hip 2, Luvwhatyoudo, a full sister to Florida-bred Golden Pal, a two-time Breeders’ Cup champion, sold for $250,000 to Retem Stable. The 3-year-old daughter of Uncle Mo is out of the Breeders’ Cup-placed graded stakes-winner Lady Shipman. The filly was consigned as a broodmare prospect by VanMeter Sales as agent.

Hip 34, a yearling colt by Good Magic, sold for $170,000 to Goodwill Bloodstock from the consignment of Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa as agent. The bay colt is out of the Street Sense mare Meta Mu, from the immediate family of champion Henbit and Grade 1-winners Queens Court Queen and Mr Purple.

Hip 41, a yearling filly by Justify, sold for $170,000 to DJ Stables from the consignment of Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa as agent. The bay filly is out of Deliteful Diva, who is a full sister to multiple stakes-winner Stage Left and a half-sister to champion Midnight Bisou and graded stakes-winner Verifying (by Justify).

“We’re very pleased with the results of the March Digital Sale,” Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales Leif Aaron said. “Gross was up 42% from last year’s March sale and the median nearly doubled. All segments of the market were well-represented with buyers from around the world. It was a solid sale.”

Full results are available online.

The next digital sale will be the April Digital Sale, to be held April 3-8. Entries close March 24.

Portions of this story were taken directly from a Fasig-Tipton press release.

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