$100 Million Gross: Records Shattered at 104th Saratoga Sale

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The two-night Saratoga Sale at Fasig-Tipton shattered previously established records for gross, average, and median, including topping gross sales of $100,000,000 for the first time in the sale’s history.

The $4,100,000 sale topper, Hip 218 (a colt by Into Mischief), was the most expensive Saratoga yearling sold in 25 years. Sixteen yearlings sold for seven figures during the Tuesday session – a record for single-session million-dollar sales – while a total of 25 million-dollar yearlings sold over the course of the two nights, annihilating the previous record set in 2021 of 14 million-dollar yearlings sold over two nights.

The second-highest priced yearling of the evening was also a colt by multiple champion sire Into Mischief (Hip 178), sold for $3,000,000.  The bay colt is out of the Grade 1 placed winning Bernardini mare Lady Kate and was bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings.

“It was a remarkable two days,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning in a news release. “We’ve been selling at Saratoga for 104 years, so it’s not an overnight sensation. It’s the culmination of many years of hard work and sweat. We try to work hard and do the right thing and on nights like these it all comes together like magic.”

Other notable sales included:

• A Gun Runner (Hip 179) half-brother to last year’s Demoiselle S. (G2) winner Muhimma sold for $2,900,000;

• Another colt by Into Mischief (Hip 163), this out of the multiple Grade 1 winning multimillionaire I’m a Chatterbox, sold for $2,600,000;

• A filly by Gun Runner (Hip 175) sold for $2,600,000;

• A colt by Flightline (Hip 176) was sold for $1,800,000;

• A colt by the late Uncle Mo (Hip 219) was also sold for $1,800,000;

• A filly by Gun Runner (Hip 200), the first foal out of speedy Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Shedaresthedevil, sold for $1,475,000;

• A colt by successful young sire Not This Time (Hip 150) sold for $1,400,000;

• A colt by Bolt d’Oro (Hip 214) also went for $1,400,000;

• In addition to the sale topper, a second colt by Into Mischief (Hip 123) sold for $1,250,000.

Over the span of two nights, 160 yearlings sold for $100,715,000, a sale record gross and an increase of 22.6% over the then-record gross established last year when 154 yearlings sold for $82,160,000. The average was $629,469, up 18% over the highwater mark set last year of $533,506. The median rose 5.9% to $450,000 to establish a new record over last year’s median $425,000. The RNA rate was just 12.3%, the lowest in this sale’s history since 1981.