Fasig-Tipton Company

the first runner, his first runner, uh, Yeah.

How about that? And then so he was a hundred and ten thousand dollar Fasig Tipton, Fasig Tipton Keeneland yearling purchase and then went to Mike Atkins.

It looks like this is I'm sorry, not Mike Atkins, Mike Sterling looks like he went to Mike Sterling as a horse as a racing age in twenty twenty one.

So, yeah, looks like kind of a home, maybe a home stallion where he had the mayor and then found a stallion to breed him to.

We saw a Forte go through for 800,000.

So the strength we saw of the progeny of these two stallions that we saw earlier in the year, uh, during the Fasig-Tipton sales, um, that's carrying through here.

So, um, and we're gonna see more from these guys.

I mean, they, they, the people are interested in them.

You mentioned the Flying Dutchman team in part of that, and they obviously were the connection to Owen Almighty and have quite a few of your other horses as well, like Shred the Gnar and horses like that.

But they made a splash last month still at the Saratoga sale, the Fasig-Tipton sale up there in New York.

I believe it was like $4 million horses that they bought on the second day there, saying immediately as they're purchasing them, these horses are going to Brian Lynch and his team.

How exciting was that for you guys, seeing that you're going to get – No pressure.

Mm-hmm.

But I, you know, after I got done with the whole COVID situation, I'd done a couple internships at Fasig-Tipton, working in the, in the office for them.

I loved it.

It was one of the best jobs I ever had.

You say you're, you know, you're a sale junkie.

You've absolutely loved them all your life.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the results, um, uh, from a few, from earlier in the summer at Fasig-Tipton.

Then we've obviously got Keeneland coming up.

And, you know, some of the sales that go on in October as well.

And then, you know, the big broodmare sales and everything that come up in November for both Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton.

So, you know, it's a very, very busy time of year, but it's an exciting time of year.

There's a lot of hope for the future.

In the sales room and on the racetrack, really.

And they all went over to Fasig-Tipton, the sales in America...

And it was the Breeze Up sales and this horse ended up being called Green Monkey.

Breezed really fast, did like a furlong less than 10 seconds, apparently like hard held or whatever.

They were just as good, but they were different.

And people like Nick and myself got influenced by auctioneers we saw, particularly I d- I worked for a year for Fasig-Tipton in New York, Florida, and Kentucky.

And actually, I c- I worked there when I was 21, and when I came back, I'd started auctioning when I was 19, and when I came back, I thought, "I'm gonna sort this.

I'm gonna revolutionize this industry.

Some positivity to kick off things.

I thought, uh, we need to touch on the Saratoga sale run by Fasig-Tipton.

This is the first big yearling sale of the year in America.

Of course, on the back of Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill, this, this 100% write-off, um, for, for bloodstock purchases, which is something hopefully that we can, uh, bring into Australia, if not, uh, in its entirety, in, in some part at least.