$1 Million Colt for Justify at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga

A trio of Justify yearlings sold at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale this week were led by a $1 million colt purchased by Godolphin sold during the second session of the sale on Tuesday.

The third most expensive colt of that session, the Hunter Valley Farm consigned yearling was bred by Don Alberto out of Lemon Drop Kid mare Dolce Lemone. A winning racemare Dolce Lemone produced a stakes winning three-quarter sister to this colt named Dolce Lili among her three winners from five to race.

Dolce Lemone is out of the multiple stakes winning Green Noble, who also produced the stakes winner Noble Strike and two other stakes performers. Noble Strike is the dam of Canadian champion and Canadian classic winner Inglorious and Grade III winner and Canadian classic winner Dixie Strike with both mare producing stakes performers themselves.

Resolute Bloodstock purchased a Justify filly out of Nina Fever for $775,000 during the first day of the sale with the filly also offered by Hunter Valley Farm.

Produced by Newstead Corp, the filly is a three-quarter sister to Scat Daddy’s Grade I winner Nickname and a half-sister to multiple stakes placed Hey Mike. Nina Fever herself was a multiple stakes placed runner out of Impact Now, who is also the granddam of the stakes placed Leather and Lace.

Three of the dams on the filly’s page have earned blacktype, led by Grade III winner and Grade I-placed Good Potential with all four also producing stakes performers.

Justify saw his three sold average $675,000 with a $775,000 median. The results come less than a week after his champion daughter Opera Singer won another Group I in the Nassau in England.