Grade 2 winner makes $500,000 to Willingham Stud after close of Fasig-Tipton Sale

Having failed to sell for $550,000 at Fasig-Tipton's March Digital Sale, the auction house confirmed Grade 2 Honorable Miss Stakes winner Spirit Wind has been purchased by Willingham Stud for $500,000. 

Offered by Taylor Made Sales Agency as a racing and breeding prospect, the six-year-old daughter of Grade 2 winner Bahamian Squall won eight of her 17 career starts including the Grade 3 Sugar Swirl Stakes for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. 

She is out of the Hallowed Dreams Stakes second Sacred Psalm, a winning daughter of the Awesome Again stallion Awesome Of Course, making her a half-sister to stakes winner Sing Praises. Sacred Psalm has a perfect record as a broodmare with ten winners from as many runners and she has a two-year-old colt by the Breeders' Cup Classic and Santa Anita Gold Cup winner Vino Rosso, a son of the brilliant Curlin.

Spirit Wind's post-sale purchase by Willingham was the highest transaction of the auction, bettering the $400,000 that Australian farm Chatsworth Stud paid for Grade 3 Hurricane Bertie Stakes winner R Harper Rose. 

Group 2 Prix Six Perfections winner Laulne made $320,000 when selling to Franklin Finance, Haras d'Etreham and Madaket Stables. The four-year-old daughter of Starspangledbanner was bred in France by Franklin Finance and sold as a two-year-old at the 2023 Arqana Arc Sale for €750,000 to Mandore International Agency.

Transferred to Philip D'Amato, she was third in the Grade 3 Senorita Stakes at Santa Anita for an ownership group which included Madaket Stables and Robert V LaPenta.

The trio of black-type winners headed the online auction which recorded a turnover in excess of $3,600,000.

Welcoming the $500,000 late sale, Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton's director of digital sales said: "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.

"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.”

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