By Bloodhorse.com
ARCADIA, Calif. (June 22, 2021) — Coming late in the 2-year-old sales calendar, the Fasig-Tipton Santa Anita 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale—scheduled for June 23 at Santa Anita Park—offers more variety than its earlier counterparts. In addition to the usual yearling and weanling pinhooks, the sale includes a horse already stakes-placed, as well as others that have gone through other 2-year-old sales or were not ready in time for those earlier sales in the East.
The sale, scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. PT, follows the end of Santa Anita’s winter-spring meeting. On the final card of the meet, June 20, Santa Anita offered the Fasig-Tipton Futurity for 2-year-olds and Fasig-Tipton Debutante for 2-year-old fillies, each with a $100,000 purse. Bochombo , consigned as Hip 20, finished second in the Futurity to Big City Lights , a $22,000 graduate of the 2020 Fasig-Tipton California Fall Yearlings Sale.
Bloodstock agent Andy Havens, who is headquartered in California, is offering Kentucky-bred Bochombo, renamed since the catalog, where he was originally listed under the name Dang Dang. Coffee Pot Stable bred the colt, a son of Street Boss —Parading Lady, by Storm Cat. Parading Lady is an unraced daughter of Sacahuista, the 1987 champion 3-year-old filly who spent much of her racing career in Southern California with trainer D. Wayne Lukas.
Sunset Stables purchased Bochombo for $15,000 from the Beau Lane Bloodstock consignment at the 2020 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. He was listed as not sold for $100,000 at the 2021 Ocala Breeders’ Sales March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training. Bochombo has started three times, all at Santa Anita, breaking his maiden in his second start for trainer Luis Mendez and owner Dan Northrup. He has earned $68,800.
Fasig-Tipton initially cataloged 105 to the sale and took 10 supplemental entries. With the usual withdrawals involved with a 2-year-old sale, 76 are slated to go through the ring as of Tuesday afternoon.
“We’ve got a good group of quality horses from out of state,” said Mike Machowsky, Fasig-Tipton’s California representative.
Machowsky also noted the racing opportunities for sale horses at the end of the Santa Anita meeting and at the upcoming Del Mar meeting.
The two biggest prices among the pinhooks were weanling buy-backs from The November Sale, Fasig-Tipton’s select breeding stock sale in Lexington, in 2019. Al Pike’s Pike Racing, based in Louisiana, is bringing Hip 47, a $490,000 RNA and a Kentucky-bred daughter of Into Mischief —Transplendid, by Elusive Quality. Pike also has Hip 36, a $290,000 RNA and a Kentucky-bred daughter of Tiznow —Soot Z, by Empire Maker. The Into Mischief filly is a half sister to graded stakes winner Dennis’ Moment , and the Tiznow filly is a half sister to graded winner Amalfi Sunrise .
In addition, Pike’s consignment includes Hip 22, a Kentucky-bred son of Malibu Moon—Peggy Ring, by Ghostzapper . A half brother to graded winner Cosmic Burst , the colt sold as a weanling in the Legacy Bloodstock consignment at The November Sale in 2019 for $150,000 to buyers Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt. Pike bought him for $125,000 at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase from consignor Taylor Made Sales Agency.
Raul Reyes from Florida topped the inaugural edition of this sale in 2019 with a $420,000 Bernardini filly (now the stakes winner named Eclair ) and had three of the four top-priced horses in that sale. His Kings Equine consignment this year includes Hip 12, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Medaglia d’Oro out of the grade 1-placed Uncle Mo mare Motown Lady . The filly was a $170,000 RNA for the Taylor Made consignment in the 2020 Keeneland September sale.
Kings Equine has two offerings as agent for Spendthrift Farm, including Hip 96, the only 2-year-old by Constitution in the catalog. A $100,000 purchase at the 2020 Keeneland September sale from consignor Sheltowee Sales, the Kentucky-bred filly is a half sister to 2018 Secretariat Stakes (G1T) winner Carrick , being out of the Distorted Humor mare How Far to Heaven.
The catalog has two by young successful sire Nyquist , a champion racehorse who was based in California during his racing career. Hartley/de Renzo Thoroughbreds has Hip 9, a filly by Nyquist out of the Malibu Moon mare Moon Music and a half sister to stakes winner Uncle Brennie . Kim McCarthy’s McCarthy Bloodstock has Hip 81, named Press On, a son of Nyquist out of the stakes-placed Elusive Quality mare Elusive Temper .
The Nyquist filly (Hip 9), bred in Ontario by William Graham, sold as a weanling for $47,000 to September Farm at the 2019 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale out of the Eaton Sales consignment. She would be later offered at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale, where she was bought back on a final bid of $37,000.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Valpredo bred the Nyquist colt (Hip 81) in California, and the youngster has not gone through a sale.
California-bred offerings include several consigned by Bruno DeBerdt’s Excel Bloodstock for partnerships involved with California sire Smiling Tiger . The two offerings by Smiling Tiger in this sale are both fillies.
Hip 69, named Mysterious Tiger, is out of the stakes-placed War Front mare Carmen’s Mystery and is a half sister to stakes winner Carmen’s Sense. Hip 95, named Hong Kong Tiger, is out of the Friends Lake mare Hong Kong Lake, a half sister to champion Summer Bird.
The supplemental catalog includes Hip 109, the Speightster colt who breezed the fastest eighth-mile time at the June 21 under tack preview, going in :10 2/5. Luis Garcia’s L G of Ocala, Fla., offers the colt, who is out of the stakes-placed Artie Schiller mare Pankhurst . Bred by WinStar Farm in Kentucky, the colt sold for $30,000 to TNT Equine Holdings at the 2020 Keeneland September sale under the Denali Stud banner.
Sale horses are being stabled in the quarantine barns on Santa Anita’s backstretch and can be inspected there. For easiest access, enter gate 7 on Baldwin Avenue. The auction will be conducted from Santa Anita’s winner’s circle.