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Well-bred yearling makes US$1.5 million at Fasig-Tipton’s opening session on Wednesday
A filly by Lane's End Farm-based sire Quality Road (Elusive Quality) from a well-bred European family lead the way on the first day of the Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase on Wednesday as Robbie Medina, agent for Joseph Allen went to US$1.5 million for the youngster.
Catalogued as Lot 232 and offered as part of the Hill 'N' Dale Sales consignment, the filly is the third foal out of 2014 Irish 1,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1m) winner Marvellous (Galileo), who has already produced a stakes performer in Fort Myers (War Front).
The filly was bred in Kentucky by Coolmore affiliate Orpendale, Chelston and Wynatt.
Marvellous herself is out of You'resothrilling (Storm Cat), who won the 2007 running of the Duchess Of Cambridge (Gr 2, 6f) - when it was known as the Cherry Hinton Stakes, while she is also a sister to multiple elite level winner and breed-shaping sire Giant's Causeway.
You'resothrilling has gone on to prove herself a blue-hen producer for owners Coolmore, which is largely due to her success with their peerless sire Galileo (Sadler's Wells).
Her produce record makes for impressive reading, with Marvellous being the sister to fellow Group 1 scorers Gleneagles and Happily, Group 3 winners Coolmore and The Taj Mahal, who landed the Zipping Classic (Gr 2, 2400m) at Sandown in 2017 and 2018.
Later on in the day a filly by Hill 'N' Dale-based Curlin (Smart Strike) was snapped up by Donato Lanni, agent for Michael Lund Petersen for US$700,000 from the Blue Heaven Farm draft.
Catalogued as Lot 285, the filly is out of Grade 3-winning Newfoundland (Storm Cat) mare Our Khrysty, who is herself a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Bullsbay (Tiznow) and Listed scorer Vegas No Show (Hard Spun).
Further back this is the same family as multiple Grade 1 winner Grecian Flight (Cormorant).
The session's top colt was Lot 274, a son of Spendthirft Farm's Into Mischief (Harlan's Holiday) - the sire of last weekend's Kentucky Derby (Gr 1, 10f) winner Authentic and the yearling was also purchased for US$700,000 from the consignment of Denali Stud.
The colt is a half-brother to multiple Graded stakes winner Made You Look (More Than Ready).
The colt's second dam is multiple Grade 1 winner Serena's Song (Rahy) - the dam of fellow elite scorer Sophisticat (Storm Cat), Grade 2 winners Grand Reward (Storm Cat) and Harlington (Unbridled) and Grade 3 winner Schramsberg (Storm Cat).
At the close of the first session, Fasig-Tipton reported the aggregate had finished at US$27,166,000. Meanwhile, the average was reported as US$157,942 and the median was US$100,000.