When a horse by the continent's leading commercial sire retires to stud in the wake of a Horse of the Year campaign, it's safe to assume the expectations to succeed at his new vocation will be sky high.
Following is a list of stallions whose first crops of yearlings are represented in the upcoming Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Sale, including the number of horses cataloged and the farm where the stallion is currently advertised.
Draper Farm is far from a new name on the consignor line of North American sale catalog pages, but their offering at this year's Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale might be the largest of its two decades in operation.
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners Comes Full-Circle With Purchase Of Tapwrit Filly At Fasig-Tipton July Sponsored by:
Tapwrit at Gainesway 1.10.19.
When a horse sells for $1.2 million as a yearling, the daydreams that follow often center around hoisting trophies in high-profile races and standing at a high-profile stallion operation for years to come. They don t usually include unheralded $100,000 yearling purchases somewhere down the road, but one in particular marked the next chapter for an ownership group and its star horse.
On Tuesday, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners secured a filly from the first crop of its Belmont Stakes-winning stallion Tapwrit at the Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Sale for $100,000, nearly six years after landing Tapwrit himself for $1.2 million at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. The July purchase marked the first Tapwrit foal bought by Eclipse at public auction.