Two yearlings bring $40,000 at Saratoga open sale

A Lido Palace (Chi) colt and Out of Place filly each brought a winning bid of

$40,000 to top Tuesday's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Open Yearlings sale. Featuring

primarily New York-breds, the inaugural one day sale at the Humphrey S. Finney

Pavilion in Saratoga Springs, New York provided a market for 113 youngsters.

Seventy were sold, bringing an aggregate $680,500, and the average price was

$9,721.

Hip No. 547, a bay colt by Chile's Horse of the Year and three-time U.S.

Grade 1 winner Lido Palace, was purchased for $40,000 by Joseph Aquilino, agent.

Consigned by McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds, agent, the Kentucky-bred colt is

out of 1997 Ballston Spa Breeders' Cup H. (G3) heroine Valor Lady (Sir Ivor), an

earner of $479,785 from a 36-8-6-6 line.

Earlier in the session, an Out of Place filly went for the same price to

Patrick Everard. The chestnut is out of the winning Mane Minister mare Miss

Millennium, who is a half-sister to stakes winner and Grade 3 runner-up U So Bad

(Skywalker). Foaled in Kentucky, Hip 485 was consigned by Rhapsody Farm

"Bloodstock," agent.