Epicenter Set For Big Yearling Sale Finale at Fasig-Tipton October

The last major yearling sale of the season sees Epicenter represented by 28 yearlings at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale on October 20-23.

Epicenter’s first through the ring is offered by Paramount Sales when a filly out of Little Jude sells as Hip 115.

Bred by Springhouse Farm, Golden Acorn Eq, Randy Faulkner and Vision Thoroughbreds, the filly is a half-sister to the multiple stakes placed Big Vince. That runner joins two other winners from three to race out of their two-time winning dam. Little Jude is a half-sister to four-time Grade I winner Little Mike and to the stakes winning duo of Little Nick and Little Jewel with their dam Hay Jude producing four stakes performers and nine winners overall. Hay Jude is also the granddam of the stakes placed Elliptic.

Hip 289 is offered by Lane’s End on behalf of Coteau Grove Farms out of two-time winner Naïve Enough.

Naïve Enough has produced three winners from that many to race with her runners including Grade III winner and Grade II-placed Tumbarumba. Naïve Enough is a full sister to stakes winner and Grade I-placed Light The City, who produced another Grade I performer in Illumination while a second sister produced the 14-time winner and stakes placed Grand Wiser.

Under this filly’s third dam is Grade III winner and Grade II-placed Strategic Partner and the stakes winning dam of American Pharoah’s Grade III winner Maven. There are eight other stakes performers named under her fourth dam.

A half-sister to Munnings' Grade II winner ad Grade I-placed Finite sells as Hip 471 with Gainesway.

The Winchell Thoroughbreds-bred filly is also a half-sister to Grade III winner and Grade II-placed Recharge and stakes winner and Grade II-placed Reride from seven winners out of dual stakes winner Remit.

That mare is one of four stakes winners out of her own dam alongside her full brothers Tapiture, Rotation, and Retap. Tapiture was a Grade II winner and Grade I-placed runner while Rotation won a Grade III and Retap won a stakes and was Grade III-placed. An unraced half-sister to the quartet is also the dam of Grade III-placed Princess of Time.

Denali Stud-offered Hip 553 comes into the page with an active family as a half-sister to the dam of 2025 Grade III winner Hall of Fame.

Bred by Earl Mack, the filly is also a half-sister to the Grade II-placed Street Ready and stakes placed Robin Hood out of the stakes winning Sense to Compete. That two-time winning Street Sense mare is a half-sister to Grade III winner Lady Digby and to the dams of dual Grade I winner Diversify and stakes winners Conclusive and Cataleya Strike.

Each of the dams on this page has produced stakes performers with champion Marablue Beauty also named.

A three-quarter brother to Grade II winner Gigante sells as Hip 704 with Taylor Made as agent for Anne Mudge Backer and Smitten Farm.

This Virginia-bred filly is out of Empire Maker mare Summertime Green, who also produced stakes winner Tryon Summer and the stakes placed Contrabandist as the dam of three stakes performers and four winners from five to race. Summertime Green is the best dam on the page, but her own dam is a stakes winner and produced three stakes producers while her dam produced three stakes performers.

Hip 1053 consigned by Lane’s End is the first foal out of Kitten’s Joy’s stakes winning Bella Conchita.

That three-time winner is a half-sister to the Grade I winner Lady of Fifty and to the stakes winning duo of Lady Fifty Two and Forestry Steel. The filly’s family is so strong that only three dams are listed with the other stakes performers on the page including Grade I winner Nakatomi and Grade III winner Visually. All three dams on this page were also stakes performers themselves with Bella Conchita joined by her granddam Annie’s Apple as stakes winners with her dam K.D’s Shady Lady Grade III-placed.

Epicenter’s first crop has been well received at this year’s sales with his yearlings bringing $700,000, $675,000, $600,000, etc.