The 5 year old daughter of Spinning candy won back-to-back graded stakes at 3 in the 2024 San Clemente Hanicap (G2T) and then the Del Mar Oaks (G1T). She was offered as a broodmare prospect by Taylor Made Sales Agency.
“I really liked the way she ran, it made me think she was a Grade 1 winner, and I’m really excited that we bought her,” Hashimoto said.
Iscreamuscream sold with a nomination for the big daddy of Taylor Made Stallions Not this time who was the leading sire of sons and leading sire of 2-year-olds in 2025 and also second on the overall list of leading sires after seven-time leading sire In mischief .
Hashimoto said the long-term plan is to send the mare to Japan, but they may keep her in the United States to be mated to a U.S.-based stallion.
“We haven’t decided yet (on a stallion), I’m going to talk to my boss and ask what he wants to do,” Hashimoto said. “Not This Time is really attractive, so of course he would be one of the options.”
Shingo Hashimoto
Yoshida also acquired the ranking winner May Sam (hip 294) for $400,000 from Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa’s shipment. The 4 year old Winner of the game filly won the 2025 Santa Ysabel Stakes (G3) for owner Michael Lund Petersen and trainer Bob Baffert. Bloodstock agent Donato Lanni purchased Maysam for $500,000 on behalf of Petersen at the 2024 Ocala Breeders’ Sales March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale from the Wavertree Stables consignment. The filly will also likely remain in the US
“Same as Iscreamuscream, I think we’ll keep her in the US, then mate her with a stallion in the US and send her back home (to Japan) in the fall.”
Yoshida secured the top buyer’s spot with his two purchases totaling $1.9 million.
After a day of steady trading, 267 horses changed hands for gross proceeds of $16,696,500, including private sales, a 44% increase over last year’s gross of $11,626,500 from 263 head. The mean and median also increased. The average rose 41% to $62,534, and the median rose 47% to $25,000. Fifty-seven horses did not meet their reserves, resulting in a buyback rate of 17.6%, slightly lower than last year.
“I want to start by thanking our facilities team and our dispatchers for dealing with some very adverse conditions over the past week,” said Fasig-Tipton President and CEO Boyd Browning Jr. don’t see it.
“It’s easy for me to come here and say, we had a great sale, everything is up 40%, whatever it was, but that doesn’t happen without countless hours in the cold, wind and snow, chiseling ice and so on. It’s a tribute to the dedication and hard work that we see happening in our industry.”
Browning was very pleased with the strong buyer base that showed up for the single-session auction.
“Great sales. There was a lot of activity,” Browning said. “The sale felt good. There were bidders from $1.5 million to $150,000 to $15,000. There was activity at every level of the market.
“One of the most encouraging signs is that the horses are selling for significantly more than the reserves placed on them by the consignors.”
Demand for short yearlings continued to prove strong, with 20 horses selling for $100,000 or more, highlighted by the sale of Hip 127, a In mischief filly that fetched $625,000, through Marc Gunderson. He also purchased the filly’s mother, the multiple-rated mare Ava’s Grace (Hip 126), for $950,000, in foal to Curl .
READ: Package purchase: Ava’s Grace and Yearling go to Gunderson
The highest priced yearling foal of the sale was a $230,000 colt (Hip 272) from a sire of the first crop Gunite which agent Elizabeth Morey purchased for Gulliver Racing from the Mulholland Springs consignment. The foal is out of the Carpet mare Light the Sky, a half-sister to 2005 champion 2-year-old male Stevie Wonderboy. Hip 272 was bred in New York by Saratoga Glen Farm and Kenneth Ackerman. Saratoga Glen Farm, agent, purchased the mare at the 2025 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale for $27,000, in foal to Gunite.
The auction’s two highest priced broodmares were Ava’s Grace and Elle Sueno (Hip 193), both of which were sold in foal to two-time Horse of the Year Curlin of the Hill ‘n’ Dale in Xalapa. Elle Sueno, a 14-year-old daughter of Street Cry and mother of Grade 2 winner Dream Lith, was sold to Tropical Racing for $800,000.
Hill ‘n’ Dale’s strong sales took them to the top of the consignors’ leaderboard, selling 37 of their concept for a total of $5,094,000.
Browning said Fasig-Tipton’s first live auction of 2026 started the year well, the result of a quality catalogue.
“I think people are becoming more confident about the February sale,” he said. “Buyers have more confidence when they come to this market because they know they can buy a very nice short-year-old mare, a very nice pregnant mare and a very nice broodmare in prospect.”
Next on the calendar for Fasig-Tipton is the February Digital Sale, which runs from February 19 to 24.
“The great thing about our market today, and something that I think is one of our strengths, is that we have the ability to serve a variety of customers, on different platforms and in different ways,” Browning said. “We have been rewarded with some really quality horses.”
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