$650,000 PA-BRED AT FASIG-TIPTON FLORIDA 2-YEAR-OLD SALE
A dark bay Pennsylvania-bred colt by Eskendereya out of Dixie Union’s multiple stakes-winning daughter Im a Dixie Girl sold for $650,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-year-old sale on March 4. Trainer Bob Baffert made the purchase on behalf of Bernard Schiappa and Michael Lund Petersen. The colt, who worked an eighth mile in :10.20, was consigned by Wavertree Stables Inc. (Ciaran Dunne) Agent II. Dunne’s pinhook homerun was an $85,000 purchase at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale.
The colt’s breeder, Stuart Grant’s The Elkstone Group, purchased Im a Dixie Girl out of the 2010 Keeneland November Breeding Stock sale for $75,000. The mare did not produce a foal in 2011, but over the next three years delivered a colt by
Curlin and two by Eskendereya. The Elkstone Group, through agent Allied Bloodstock, sold the Curlin yearling at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July sale for $150,000 and the Eskendereya colt for $125,000 at the 2013 Keeneland September sale. The mare did not foal in 2014 and was bred to Curlin for this year.