Darley-sired offspring sparkle in the Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Sale

With gains across the board, the two-night Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Sale boasted active bidding and soaring prices for a well-bred group of yearlings.  Those by Darley sires were well received by buyers, with seven selling for six-figure prices. 

Desert Party, who started the sales season by topping the Fasig-Tipton July Sale with a $460,000 filly out of Lil Cozette, had another strong sale which saw four of his offspring bring $100,000 or more.  A $425,000 yearling himself, Desert Party went on to sell as a two-year-old for $2.1 million at Fasig-Tipton’s Calder Sale, making him his sire’s highest-priced sales horse.  His first-crop of yearlings are off to a stellar start, with buyers willing to bid high to secure one.  His first colt through the ring, out of Yankee Million and consigned by Sequel Stallions, was quickly snapped up by Murray Smith, agent, for a smooth $100,000. His top-priced horse was a good-looking colt out of Salt Water Reign, bought by agent Mike Mareina for $200,000 and consigned by Indian Creek. Pike Racing, agent, purchased both a filly out of Time of Peace for $110,000 and a colt out of Mary Cat for $130,000. The son of Street Cry led the first-crop yearling sires with an average price of  $111,167, which is over 14 times his current stud fee and over $38,000 higher than the complete sale average.  Desert Party stood the 2013 season at Becky Thomas’s Sequel Stallions in New York for a fee of $7,500.

Desert Party was not the only successful Darley stallion of the sale however; Elusive Quality also had two colts make headlines when both sold for six figures.  The second foal out of Rahy mare Grace’s Valentine brought $115,000 from agent Leah Gyarmati, and a colt out of Naughty Natisha, already the dam of G1-placed Naughty New Yorker, brought a bid of $200,000 from David Cannizzo for Two Tone Farm.

The other two Darley sons of Street Cry were well received as well with a filly by Street Sense out of French Madam bringing $180,000 from McMahon & Hill Bloodstock, and two fillies by Street Boss averaged $50,000.  The first, a filly out of Dynamism sold by Paramount, brought a bid of $55,000 from Eclipse/Dogwood Stable. The second filly, out of stakes winner Along Came Mary, sold to Alan Brodsky for $45,000.