An athletic bay son from the first crop of 2007 Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense has set the early barometer during the opening session of the Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale, selling for $250,000 to Florida-based Whisper Hill Farm.
The colt, consigned by Taylor Made Sales, is out of the Saint Ballado mare Hishikatsu Ballado who herself is out of multiple Grade I winner Twice the Vice.
“He has all the angles, good bone,” said Mandy Pope of Whisper Hill Farm. “The plan initially is we’re going to aim for the 2-year-old sales and bring him along and if he can handle it, we’ll go for that. If not, we’ll keep him and race him.”
Whisper Hill doesn’t often pinhook, but Pope said they expect to maybe have five horses to offer during next year’s juvenile season.
“We’re going to try it,” Pope said. “I mainly buy fillies so it’s a little different looking at the colts. But we’re going to try it and if the market is a little soft, we can buy some nice quality horses and see what we get for them.”
Alicia Wincze Hughes is the turf writer for the Lexington Herald-Leader. She started riding at age 8 and was a four-year member of the Pace University equestrian team.
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