Spirit Wind. (VIDHORSE/Megan Divine photo)
Fasig-Tipton Release
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Spirit Wind, a multiple graded stakes winner of more than $730,000, was sold post-RNA today for $500,000 to Willingham Stud. Spirit Wind was initially not sold for $450,000 in yesterday’s Fasig-Tipton March Digital Sale.
Taylor Made Sales Agency consigned the six-year-old mare, whose marquee win came in the Honorable Miss S. (G2) at Saratoga last summer.
Her $500,000 sale makes Spirit Wind the highest price horse offered in the March Digital Sale, which concluded yesterday with gross receipts now in excess of $3,600,000. She led a trio of graded or group stakes winning fillies or mares offered in the auction, which accounted for the three highest price horses sold. R Harper Rose, winner of the Hurricane Bertie S. (G3) last year, sold for $400,000 to Chatsworth Stud, Australia; and French group stakes winning two-year-old Laulne (FR) sold for $320,000 to Franklin Finance, Haras D’Etreham and Madaket Stable.
“Fasig-Tipton Digital is the proven online sales platform to offer high profile breeding and racing stock to a global audience, with graded and group stakes winners now sold to entities operating on three different continents,” said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales. “Our success with these graded stakes winners in our March sale comes on the heels of selling champion Soul of an Angel for $2,600,000 earlier this month, a record price for a North American online auction and the second highest price ever achieved digitally worldwide.”
Fasig-Tipton Digital’s next scheduled auction is the April Digital Sale, to take place April 3-8. Entries close this Monday, March 24.
