Tapit colt who sold for Us$1.7 million at the Ocala Sale.
NOTE: All monetary figures are listed in United States dollars
Lane's End Racing and West Point Thoroughbreds partnered to purchase a Tapit colt for $1.7 million during the third day of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training to top the third day of selling.
"We are looking for stallions and in this partnership, a good number of the owners have equity in (grade 1 winner) Flightline , so everybody is excited," West Point Thoroughbreds' Terry Finley said. "The economy is doing well, and the horse market at the top end is doing very well; we thought we would have to pay. About three years ago, we had a half-brother that could really run, he just got unlucky and took a bad step one day, but I think he was at the top of the talent list of all the horses. When we purchased this colt, he was in the back of our minds; everybody is excited to have him."
The colt, bred in Kentucky by Gainesway Thoroughbreds and consigned as Hip 885 as part of the Eddie Woods consignment, worked a quarter-mile in :20 4/5 during the OBS under tack show. Out of the winning Seeking the Gold mare Pension, he is related to four black-type runners and three stakes winners, two of them at the grade 2 level.
The richest of those is the $186,587 earner Annual Report , by Harlan's Holiday, winner of the 2015 Futurity Stakes (G2) at Belmont Park for Godolphin, who acquired the colt for $600,000 from the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale in 2015. Hip 885 is also a full sister to Thoughtfully , a $950,000 purchase at the 2019 Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton's Select Sale of Yearlings and winner of the 2020 Adirondack Stakes (G2) at Saratoga Race Course.
Pension's youngest offspring is a yearling filly by Tapit, who is yet to pass through the sales ring.
