Because the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Blended Sale drew to a detailed Feb. 9, Shingo Hashimoto secured the day’s high vendor after making the ultimate bid of $1.5 million for grade 1 winner Iscreamuscream (Hip 385), who he purchased on behalf of Katsumi Yoshida’s Northern Farm.
The 5-year-old daughter of Twirling Sweet gained back-to-back graded stakes at 3 within the 2024 San Clemente Hanicap (G2T) after which the Del Mar Oaks (G1T). She was consigned as a broodmare prospect by Taylor Made Gross sales Company.FTKFEB, Hip 385: Iscreamuscream, racing or broodmare prospect, m, 2021, Twirling Sweet – Silver Screamer, by Cozzene; Breeder: Hunter Rankin & Walker Hancock (KY)
Sale Value: $1,500,000
Purchaser: Katsumi Yoshida
Consignor: Taylor Made Gross sales Company
Sale Historical past: 2024FTOSUM $330,000; 2023OBSMAR $145,000; 2022KEESEP $55,000; 2021KEENOV ($9,000).
“I actually appreciated the best way she walked, it made me suppose she is a grade 1 winner, and I am very excited we purchased her,” Hashimoto stated.
Iscreamuscream bought with a nomination to Taylor Made Stallions’ marquee sire Not This Time , who was the main turf sire and main sire of 2-year-olds in 2025 and likewise runner-up on the final main sires listing to seven-time main sire Into Mischief .
Hashimoto stated the long-term plan is to ship the mare to Japan, however they could maintain her in america to be lined by a U.S.-based stallion. Join BloodHorse Day by day
“We have not determined but (on a stallion), I will discuss to my boss and ask what he needs to do,” Hashimoto stated. “Not This Time is absolutely enticing, so after all, he can be one of many choices.”
Picture: Fasig-Tipton PhotoShingo Hashimoto
Yoshida additionally acquired graded stakes winner Maysam (Hip 294) for $400,000 from Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa’s consignment. The 4-year-old Recreation Winner filly gained the 2025 Santa Ysabel Stakes (G3) for proprietor Michael Lund Petersen and coach Bob Baffert. Bloodstock agent Donato Lanni bought Maysam for $500,000 on Petersen’s behalf on the 2024 Ocala Breeders’ Gross sales March 2-Yr-Olds in Coaching Sale out of the Wavertree Stables consignment. The filly can be more likely to keep within the U.S.
“Similar as Iscreamuscream, I believe we’ll maintain her within the U.S., after which cowl her with a stallion within the U.S. and ship her again house (to Japan) within the fall.”
Yoshida secured the highest purchaser spot along with his two purchases totaling $1.9 million.
Following a day of regular commerce, the sale noticed 267 horses change fingers for gross receipts of $16,696,500, together with non-public gross sales, a 44% enhance from final 12 months’s gross of $11,626,500, from 263 head. The common and median additionally rose. The common was up 41% to $62,534, and the median up 47% to $25,000. Fifty-seven horses failed to satisfy their reserve, leading to a buy-back fee of 17.6%, barely decrease than final 12 months.
“I might like to start by thanking our services crew and our consignors for coping with some very adversarial situations during the last week,” stated Fasig-Tipton’s president and CEO Boyd Browning Jr. “An incredible job by way of cooperating and doing the easiest they might with snow and ice removing. It is plenty of exhausting work; there isn’t any glamor in it. It is like plenty of issues in our business. It is the behind the scenes; it is the issues folks do not see.
“It is simple for me to rise up right here and say, we have had a fantastic sale, all the things’s up 40%, which it was, however that does not occur with out numerous hours within the chilly and wind and snow, chiseling ice and so forth. It is a tribute to the dedication and exhausting work that we see occur all through our business.”
Browning was very happy with the sturdy purchaser base that confirmed up for the single-session public sale.
“Great sale. There was plenty of exercise,” Browning stated. “The sale felt good. There have been bidders from $1.5 million to $150,000 to $15,000. All through each degree of {the marketplace}, there was exercise.
“One of the vital encouraging indicators is to see the horses promoting for considerably greater than the reserves that the consignors placed on them.”
Demand for brief yearlings continued to indicate its power, with 20 horses promoting for $100,000 or extra, topped by the sale of Hip 127, an Into Mischief filly who introduced $625,000, by the best way of Marc Gunderson. He additionally bought the filly’s dam, the a number of graded stakes-placed mare Ava’s Grace (Hip 126), for $950,000 in foal to Curlin .
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The highest-priced yearling colt of the sale was a $230,000 colt (Hip 272) by first-crop sire Gunite that agent Elizabeth Morey purchased for Gulliver Racing out of Mulholland Springs’ consignment. The colt is out of the Tapit mare Gentle the Sky, who’s a half sister to 2005 champion 2-year-old male Stevie Wonderboy. Hip 272 was bred in New York by Saratoga Glen Farm and Kenneth Ackerman. Saratoga Glen Farm, agent, purchased the mare on the 2025 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale for $27,000 in foal to Gunite.
The 2 top-priced broodmares of the sale had been Ava’s Grace and Elle Sueno (Hip 193), who each bought in foal to two-time Horse of the Yr Curlin from the Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa consignment. Elle Sueno, a 14-year-old daughter of Avenue Cry and dam of grade 2 winner Dream Lith, bought for $800,000 to Tropical Racing.
Hill ‘n’ Dale’s sturdy gross sales propelled them to the highest of the consignors chief board, promoting 37 from its draft for a complete of $5,094,000.
Browning stated Fasig-Tipton’s first stay public sale of 2026 acquired the 12 months off to a fantastic begin, the results of a high quality catalog.
“I believe folks proceed to have increasingly more confidence within the February Sale,” he stated. “Patrons have extra confidence coming to this market, and understanding they’ll purchase a very nice short-yearling, a very nice mare in foal, and a very nice broodmare prospect.”
Subsequent on the calendar for Fasig-Tipton is the February Digital Sale, which runs Feb. 19-24.
“The wonderful thing about our market at present, and one thing I believe is considered one of our strengths, is that we have the power to serve quite a lot of prospects, in quite a lot of platforms, in quite a lot of methods,” Browning stated. “We have been rewarded with some actually high quality horses.”