Graded Stakes Winner R Harper Rose Tops March Digital Sale

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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R Harper Rose (VidHorse)

The March Digital Sale closed Tuesday afternoon with 85 horses sold for $3,095,000. The sale averaged $36,411 with a clearance rate of 85%. The median was $15,000. The catalogue offered horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, two-year-olds in training, broodmares (including mares with foals at foot), and short yearlings.

Graded stakes winner R Harper Rose (hip 7) topped the sale when sold for $400,000 to Chatsworth Stud, Australia. Winner of last year’s Forward Gal S. (G3), R Harper Rose was also a stakes winner at 2 and earned more than $380,000 on the track. The four-year-old Florida-bred daughter of Khozan was offered as a broodmare prospect by Gainesway, agent.

Top hips sold also included:

  • Laulne (FR) (hip 18), a four-year-old racing/broodmare prospect by Starspangledbanner (AUS), sold for $320,000 to Franklin Finance, Haras d’Etreham and Madaket Stables. A group stakes winner at 2 in France, Laulne is also a graded stakes placed stakes winner in the United States. Laulne was offered by ELiTE, agent.
  • Luvwhatyoudo (hip 2), a full sister to two-time Breeders’ Cup champion Golden Pal, sold for $250,000 to Retem Stable. The three-year-old daughter of Uncle Mo is out of the Breeders’ Cup placed graded stakes winner Lady Shipman. The filly was consigned as a broodmare prospect by VanMeter Sales, agent.
  • A yearling colt by Good Magic (hip 34), sold for $170,000 to Goodwill Bloodstock from the consignment of Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa, agent. The bay colt is out of the Street Sense mare Meta Mu, from the immediate family of champion Henbit and Grade 1 winners Queens Court Queen and Mr Purple. Hip 34 was bred in Kentucky by Bloom Racing Stable.
  • A yearling filly by Justify (hip 41), sold for $170,000 to DJ Stables from the consignment of Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa, agent. The bay filly is out of Deliteful Diva, who is a full sister to multiple stakes winner Stage Left and a half-sister to champion Midnight Bisou and graded stakes winner Verifying (also by Justify). Hip 41 was bred in Kentucky by Bloom Racing.

“We’re very pleased with the results of the March Digital Sale,” said Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales Leif Aaron. “Gross was up 42% from last year’s March sale and the median nearly doubled. All segments of the market were well-represented with buyers from around the world. It was a solid sale.”

Full results are available online.

The next digital sale will be the April Digital Sale, to be held April 3-8. Entries close March 24.