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Hip 123, an Into Mischief filly, brings $800,000 at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton July Yearlings Sale
The summer yearling sales season kicked off Tuesday at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky., with a resurgent edition of Fasig-Tipton s July Sale of selected yearlings. The sale s average and median were well-placed historically, and the highest since the benchmarks set in 2007.
“It was a strong start to the 2021 yearling sales season,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning. “We were very encouraged when we went to the farms to inspect yearlings by the quality of horses we were seeing, and certainly the two-year-old sales were encouraging, so we had a lot of optimism. I don t think any of us [hoped] to surpass the 2019 numbers… so to be over 2019 is very, very, very encouraging.”
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Ricky Gonzalez rides Leggs Galore to a wire-to-wire victory in the Fran s Valentine Stakes for California-breds
In her first two turn assignment, William Sims homebred Leggs Galore went to the lead and never looked back, taking Sunday s $100,000 Fran s Valentine Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., by three quarters of a length over heavily favored Warren s Showtime. Trained by Phil D Amato and ridden by Ricky Gonzalez, Leggs Galore got one mile on turf in 1:34.85.
With a pair of scratches earlier in the day, the Fran s Valentine was reduced to a field of four older California-bred fillies and mares. To the surprise of no one, Leggs Galore bounced out of the gate from her rail post and turned the race into a virtual parade to the far turn, with Kristi s Tiger a length and a half off the lead three furlongs out and Warren s Showtime another half length back.
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