Ten For Jack Christopher at Fasig-Tipton July

Ten yearlings are slated to represent first crop sire Jack Christopher to kick off the yearling sales season at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale. The stallion comes into this sale season with his first weanlings selling for up to $350,000 last winter to kick off his stallion career.

A colt out of a granddaughter of multiple Grade I winner Strategic Maneuver sells as Hip 35 rough Buckland Sales.

That half-brother to Munnings’ three-time winner Norwich is out of two-time winner Above The Crowd and was bred by Susan King. Above The Crowd is a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Good Luck Gus and to the dam of stakes winner Texas Long Bow.

Strategic Maneuver wasn’t only a successful racemare, but was also a successful broodmare as the dam of Grade II winner Cat Fighter and Group III winner Ishiguru. Many of her daughters and granddaughters also produced successful horses, including Tiz The Law’s stakes winning Tiztastic.

A half-sister to Grade II winner Friar’s Road sells as Hip 92 with Wynnstay Sales.

The filly’s dam My Sugar Bear has produced five winners from six starters overall with her others including the stakes placed Vevina. My Sugar Bear was a two-time winning half-sister to Grade III winner Cupid’s Claws and stakes winner All For Thee with the trio three of six winners out stakes winner and Grade III placed Primetimevalentine.

Every dam on this filly’s page has produced at least one stakes winner with 21 stakes winners and six other stakes performers named, including Grade I winners Bell’s The One, Chancer McPatrick, and Dream Empress.

Hip 171 is a half-sister to Grade II-placed Jerry The Nipper and two other winners out of the Grade III-placed Aqua Regia. Their dam was a winner herself as one of eight winners from 10 to race out of Phu Cat.

Consigned by Four Star Sales, the Knockgriften Farm and Dr. Bill Baxter-bred filly sees stakes performers produced by each of her four dams on the page. There is a decent amount of Grade I form with Grade I winners Singing Susan and Is It True and Grade I Preakness Stakes fourth I Am The Game all named. Those horses lead 13 stakes performers with the group including nine stakes winners.

Grade II winner Gold Medal Dancer is the granddam of Hip 194, a Stowaway Farms-bred filly consigned by Paramount Sales.

This is the second foal out of the winning War Front mare Dance Recital, who sold carrying this filly in 2023. Her dam Gold Medal Dancer wasn’t just a Grade II winner, she was also placed in multiple Grade I races with seven wins and nine stakes placings overall as one of seven winners out of the stakes winning Bachata.

Bachata was the only stakes performer for her own dam, but that dam produced three other stakes producers in addition to that mare. Among those produced by Bachata’s dam were five-time stakes winner Bron and Brow, stakes winner and Grade I-placed Meadow Dance, and stakes winner Emily’s Lollipop.

The final Jack Christopher offering through the ring is Hip 206, offered by Hunter Valley Farm.

Bred by his consignor, this is the first foal out of the stakes placed Tiznow daughter Flying Aletha. That mare is a half-sister to the stakes placed A.P.’s Secret with the duo out of a daughter of the multiple stakes winner and Grade II-placed Afleet Deceit. Each of Flying Aletha’s first nine dams produced at least one stakes performer with many of those also producing multiple stakes performers.

The July Sale kicks off at 10:00a.m on July 8 with Jack Christopher’s first going through the ring as Hip 28 and his last being Hip 206.