Summer Sweet, a New York-bred daughter of More Than Ready and the dam of multiple Grade 1 winner She Feels Pretty, sold for $3 million Monday at the Night of the Stars. Fasig-Tipton Photo.
Summer Sweet, the dam of multiple Grade 1 winner She Feels Pretty, and multiple graded stakes winner My Mane Squeeze landed seven-figure bids to lead a small and select group of New York-breds that sold during Tuesday’s “Night of the Stars” at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November mixed sale.
Hugo Lescelles, agent, purchased Summer Sweet, an 11-year-old daughter of More Than Ready offered as Hip 161, for $3 million.
Consigned by Gainesway, agent, Summer Sweet was not offered in foal. She’s the dam of three winners led by $2,003,178-earner She Feels Pretty, runner-up in last weekend’s Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar. She Feels Pretty won last year’s Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes and Grade 1 American Oaks, along with this year’s Grade 1 New York Stakes.
Bred by Sarah J. Leigh, foaled at Berkshire Stud in Pine Plains and out of the Caerleon mare Summer Solstice, Summer Sweet originally sold to Payson Stud for $550,000 at the 2016 Keeneland January horses of all ages sale. Campaigned by Virginia Kraft Payson, she won three of 22 starts and earned $117,548. She Feels Pretty is Summer Sweet’s second foal and she was purchased by Lael Stable for $240,000 at the 2022 Keeneland September yearling sale.
Summer Sweet finished the night as the co-seventh most expensive horse sold at the sale, which recorded massive gains in total receipts ($102,027,000), average price ($739,326) and median ($300,000).
New York-bred Horse of the Year and multiple graded stakes winner My Mane Squeeze sold for $1.6 million Monday night. Fasig-Tipton Photo.
New York-breds contributed to those returns with five of the seven through the ring sold for $5,405,000, an average price of $1,081,000 and median of $650,000.
Fasig-Tipton reported 27 seven-figure purchases on the night, including 2024 New York-bred Horse of the Year and multiple divisional champion My Mane Squeeze for $1.6 million.
WinStar Farm and GMP Stables purchased the 4-year-old Audible filly, offered as Hip 122 by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. WinStar previously campaigned My Mane Squeeze in partnership with the filly’s breeder, William “Buck” Butler. Foaled at Keane Stud in Amenia, My Mane Squeeze went through the ring as a racing or broodmare prospect with a record of 7-2-6 in 19 starts and earnings of $1,231,785.
A half-sister to stakes winners Rotknee and Mama’s Gold and stakes-placed Lookin for Trouble out of the Speightstown mare In Spite of Mama, My Mane Squeeze won the Grade 2 Eight Belles and Grade 3 Dogwood Stakes last season at Churchill Downs. She’s won six stakes overall, including this year’s Johnstone at Saratoga Race Course.
Hip 2, a colt by Arcangelo bred by Blue Rose Farm, sold for $80,000 Monday at the Fasig-Tipton November sale. Photo courtesy of Taylor Made Sales Agency.
Hip 2, a colt by Arcangelo out of the Bellamy Road mare Electric Boots, sold for $80,000 as the lone New York-bred weanling through the ring. Tami Bobo purchased the colt, who is a half sibling to three winners out of the full sister to Grade 3 winner Georgie’s Angel.
Bred by John Ebbert’s Blue Rose Farm LLC and foaled at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson, the colt was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.
The fall mixed sales season rolls on this week with Book 1 and the first of nine sessions of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale at 2 p.m. Tuesday. The Book 2-4 sessions start at 10 a.m. daily and run through Tuesday, Nov. 11. The Keeneland November horses of racing age sale follows at noon Wednesday, Nov. 12.
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