$1.2 million Street Cry-Serenading colt tops Saratoga

Shortly afterward, Stonestreet and George Bolton ventured into seven-figure

territory for a $1.1 million full brother to Grade 1-winning millionaire Mushka.

Hip 91, a bay son of Empire Maker and Sluice (Seeking the Gold) foaled March 19,

was consigned by Denali Stud (Craig & Holly Bandoroff), agent.

Mushka, who captured the Grade 2 Demoiselle as a juvenile, enjoyed her

greatest success as a four-year-old. Aside from taking the Grade 1 Spinster and

Grade 3 Glens Falls Handicap, she placed in four graded stakes, chief among them

the 2009 Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic. Mushka amassed $1,096,125 in earnings

from her 19-6-3-3 line.

Their dam, the stakes-winning Sluice, is a half-sister to the Grade 1-placed

Flying Spur (Giant's Causeway). Sluice is herself a daughter of four-time Grade

1 diva Lakeway (Seattle Slew). The yearling's third dam is the winning

Milliardaire (Alydar), a full sister to unbeaten Grade 1 hero Saratoga Six, and

his fourth dam is Priceless Fame (Irish Castle), a full sister to 1976 Kentucky

Derby and Belmont-winning champion Bold Forbes. Top family members of more

recent vintage are Canadian champion turf male Grand Adventure (Grand Slam) and

ill-fated Grade 1 victor Giant Ryan (Freud).

Sheikh Mohammed, via Ferguson, had earlier purchased a Distorted Humor colt

for $500,000, a price that sat atop the leaderboard for most of the evening.

Offered by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, Hip 5 is bred on a potent cross,

being out of an A.P. Indy mare.

The February 22 chestnut is the second registered foal from the winning

Indy's Windy, who is a half-sister to 1998 champion three-year-old filly Banshee

Breeze (Unbridled). A career earner of more than $2.7 million, Banshee Breeze

captured such Grade 1 events as the Coaching Club American Oaks, Alabama,

Spinster, Apple Blossom and Go for Wand Handicaps. 

Indy's Windy is also a half-sister to stakes winner Unbridled Wind

(Unbridled), stakes-placed stakes producer Charm (Polish Numbers) and current

stakes-placed sophomore Hard Facts (Hard Spun). Further back, this is the family

of European champion Twice Over (Observatory), Group 1 queens Passage of Time (Dansili)

and Timepiece (Zamindar) as well as Hall of Famer Damascus (Sword Dancer).

A snowy gray daughter of Tapit later commanded $500,000 from Live Oak Plantation.

Consigned by Mill Ridge Sales, agent, Hip 72 is a half-sister to stakes winner

Heart of a King (Lion Heart) and stakes-placed Nocknonheavensgate (Grand

Reward).

The January 23 foal is out of the winning Saint Ballado mare Saintlike, who

is a half-sister to French stakes victor Pompeyano (Rainbow Quest). The

yearling's second dam, Grade 3 heroine Lady Lodger (Be My Guest), is in turn a

half-sister to German/Italian highweight Caitano (Niniski).

Niall Brennan, agent, snapped up a $490,000 colt by Medaglia d'Oro who is a

half-brother to Grade 3 vixens Heart Ashley (Lion Heart) and Ashley's Kitty

(Tale of the Cat). VanMeter Sales, agent, consigned the April 3 foal as Hip 51.

His half-sisters were accomplished sprinters. Heart Ashley captured the Grade

3 Cicada and Grade 3 Miss Preakness in 2009, while Ashley's Kitty landed the

Grade 3 Railbird in 2007.

The dark bay colt's dam is the Grade 2-placed Pretty 'n Smart (Beau Genius),

a half-sister to multiple Grade 3-winning turf mare Hostess (Chester House).

This female line is also responsible for 1989 Canadian champion turf horse

Charlie Barley (Affirmed), 1987 Breeders' Cup Juvenile hero Success Express

(Hold Your Peace), Grade 1 winners Greenwood Lake (Meadowlake) and Whitmore's

Conn (Kris S.) and German/Italian highweight miler Air Express (Salse).

A Tapit half-brother to U.S. and Canadian champion Kodiak Kowboy (Posse)

brought $450,000 from the Shadwell Estate Co. of Sheikh Mohammed's brother

Sheikh Hamdan. Cataloged as Hip 13, the April 26 foal was consigned by Woodford

Thoroughbreds, agent for Cloverleaf Farms II.

The chestnut colt is out of the unraced Kokadrie (Coronado's Quest), whose

best offspring, $1.6 million-earner Kodiak Kowboy, achieved a rare championship

double. After winning a Sovereign Award as Canada's top two-year-old male of

2007, he earned an Eclipse Award as the champion sprinter in the United States

in 2009. Kodiak Kowboy scored a Grade 1 hat trick that year in the Carter,

Vosburgh and Cigar Mile.

Kokadrie is herself a half-sister to Grade 1-winning millionaire West by West

(Gone West) from the family of another Grade 1 victor in Little Missouri (Cox's

Ridge).

Merriefield Farm went to $450,000 to buy a Galileo filly out of a full sister

to brilliant miler Rock of Gibraltar (Danehill). The Irish-bred sporting Hip 41

came from the consignment of Paramount Sales, agent.

The January 29-foaled bay was produced by the Group 3-placed Nell Gwyn, whose

first two foals are also by Galileo. Her three-year-old colt Buckingham Gate has

placed four times from five starts for Aidan O'Brien, while her juvenile colt

Waver has yet to race.

Rock of Gibraltar, a seven-time Group 1 winner over his career, reigned as

Europe's Horse of the Year in 2002. Although his immediate family hasn't yielded

any other stars, top-class miler and influential sire Riverman (Never Bend) can

be found deeper in the female line.

A total of 26 failed to sell. Notables on the RNA list included Hip 1, a

Bernardini-Heart of Grace (Exploit) colt who was led out unsold for $525,000,

and Hip 11, a Medaglia d'Oro three-quarter brother to Rachel Alexandra whose

bidding stopped at $475,000.

The sale concludes Tuesday evening, beginning at 7 p.m. (EDT). For the catalog,

updates, results and live video of the auction, log onto

fasigtipton.com.