Sunday, July 3, 2022
This year’s Fasig-Tipton July Sale represents another major milestone for Highgate Sales when we send our first ever draft of yearlings through the ring at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale.
Hip 74 is the first yearling representative for our consignment while also representing first-crop Scat Daddy son Flameaway.
The colt is out of a proven producer in dual winner Canary Diamond, who has produced winners of eight races. The mare’s foals have also found success in the sales ring, with her highest priced foal bringing $200,000 at a juvenile sale. Canary Diamond’s half-sister is the multiple stakes winner Classy Charm, who is the dam of a 10-time winner and 9-time winner. This colt’s Grade 2-winning dam Classy Cara is also a successful producer with five of her six runners visiting the winner’s circle.
Multiple graded stakes winner Flameaway is one of the final stallions to enter stud by Scat Daddy. Scat Daddy sons have carried on where he left off with 132 stakes performers, 65 stakes winners, and 39 graded stakes winners, led by 7 Grade 1 winners. A strong sire-of-sires from a limited number of sons at stud, those 39 graded stakes winners are by nine different ScatDaddy stallions.
A half-brother to Grade 2 winner Conquest Two Step and stakes winners Sheikh of Sheikhs and Homemade Salsa, Accelerate’s Hip 102 is out of the multiple stakes placed Homesteader.
It’s no surprise Homesteader is a successful broodmare with stakes producers under each of her first three dams. Boding even better for this colt is that two of the three stakes winners under Homesteader’s first two dams are colts or geldings and Homesteader’s own best runners are males.
Homesteader has proven to be a useful broodmare of both stakes winners and racehorses overall with her nine winners from nine to race combining for 27 wins. She has also been a sales ring success with two of her juveniles bringing $420,000 and $330,000 and a yearling purchased for $230,000.
An Arrogate colt out of the Grade 3-placed Street Sense daughter Sensitively is set to grace the ring as Hip 170 on Tuesday.
Sensitively has plenty of promise as a broodmare with all but one of her first seven dams earning black type and all but one of her first nine dams producing stakes performers. While Sensitively’s own dam didn’t place in a stakes, the mare was fourth in one during her racing career.
Arrogate needs little introduction as a sire with his G1 Kentucky Oaks winner leading his five stakes performers from his first crop. He has not yet had any runners out of Street Sense mares but Unbridled’s Song sons bred to Street Sense mares have 8 winners from 12 starters with three stakes performers. That group is led by Grade 3 winner Pretty Birdie and stakes winner Shades of Victory.
As a broodmare sire, Street Sense has seen his daughters produce 49 stakes performers, 22 stakes performers, and 11 graded stakes winners – led by European Horse of the Year Roaring Lion.
The final Fasig-Tipton July offering from Highgate is Hip 188, a colt by Street Sense out of the 8-time stakes winner Stopshoppingdebbie. That Curlin mare proved to be an exceptional racehorse with nine wins from 10 starts and is one of three stakes winners out of the multiple stakes winning Taste The Passion.
In addition to having runners on the track herself, Stopshoppingdebbie’s page continues to improve with her three-quarter sister producing stakes winner and 2022 stakes-placer Starship Nterprise. Multiple members of the family are running internationally, including a 2022 winner in Australia. In all, each of Stopshoppingdebbie’s first five dams have produced a stakes winner and at least one daughter who produced a stakes winner.
As for this colt’s sire Street Sense, his Northern Hemisphere-bred colts and geldings have an impressive 13.85% stakes performer to runners rate. Of those 43 stakes winning males, 20 are graded stakes winners and three are Grade 1 winners.
Highgate’s draft will start showing at Fasig-Tipton on Saturday, July 9 with the Horses of Racing Age session taking place July 11 and the yearling session on July 12.
