Eight Yearlings for Golden Pal at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga
Next week’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale gives buyers a chance to purchase well-bred yearlings from Golden Pal’s first crop with eight set to go through the ring during the two sessions.
The very first Golden Pal through the ring is a colt offered by Paramount Sales as Hip 49.
Bred by Julie Rice and sold last year as a weanling for $175,000 at the Fasig-Tipton November sale, the colt is a half-brother to Grade III winner Island Commish and six other winners from seven to race out of the winning Bide a Wee Island. That mare is a half-sister to multiple Grade II winner Something Extra, stakes winner Ciuri, and stakes placed Entwistle as one of eight winners out of the stakes placed Our Mariah.
One of two stakes performers out of her own dam, Our Mariah is also a half-sister to the dam of Grade II winner Nicole H. That mare went on to produce Grade II winner and Grade I-placed Gun Song.
Another Golden Pal offering is Hip 126, a filly out of Jotown offered by Gainesway.
Jotown’s first foal is the stakes placed Spiralizer, making her the latest stakes producer from the successful family. Her own Grade II winning dam produced Jotown’s stakes winning full sister Impulse Buy among the five winners from six to race out of Jojo Warrior. Bred in Florida by Bridlewood Farm, this filly’s page is strong throughout with her multiple stakes placed third dam Carson Jen a prolific broodmare.
Carson Jen is the dam of Grade I winner A Z Warrior, Grade III winner and Grade I-placed E Z Warrior, and multiple stakes winner J Z Warrior among her five stakes performers from nine winners. A Z Warrior has also produced three stakes performers herself.
Jotown returned to Ashford last year and foaled a Practical Joke filly in 2025.
Coming into the sale with an update is the Ballysax Bloodstock-offered Hip 158.
The filly was already a half-sister to champion Lucky Score and stakes winner Miss Matzoball, but her juvenile half-brother Thundermaker missed the win by just a head in his debut on July 27. That gives dam Miss Matzo eight winners from nine to race. Thundermaker is by another Uncle Mo son in Modernist, making him closely related to this yearling.
Bred by Shannondoe Farm and Arika Meeuse in Ontario, the filly’s page also includes multiple stakes winner Madame Giry and two stakes performers.
A filly out of Blame mare Prisoner’s Dilemma sells with Taylor Made Sales as Hip 181.
The filly saw her brother Debt Paid score a third win after the catalog came out as one of two foals of racing age out of their dam. Prisoner’s Dilemma isn’t the only mare out of Silence Please to have runners with a post-catalog update after her half-sister Blue Beryl saw stakes winning son Founder place after the catalog to take his earnings to $261,990. A successful broodmare herself, Silence Please produced the stakes winning duo of Brigand and Sky Music. Another daughter also produced the stakes winning Hush of a Storm.
Hailing from the Fred Hertrich and Robert Tribbett breeding program and bred in New York, there are 10 more stakes performers under this filly’s dam, led by four stakes winners.
Hip 198’s young dam has already proven to have promise as a broodmare after her first foal won after the catalog was released.
Each of the three dams on this Hidden Springs Farm-bred filly’s page with runners older than two have produced at least one stakes performer. Degenerate Gal herself is the dam of Grade III winner Positive Gal and stakes winner Blacktie Bid while one of her daughters produced Grade II winner and Grade I-placed Mystical Star.
Seeking Spirits visited another young Coolmore sire last year, producing a colt by Gunite in May.
The two-day Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale takes place on August 4 and 5 with the sessions starting at 6:30p.m. each night.