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Tapit controlled the Saratoga Selected Yearlings sale Though they attract different groups of buyers, Saratoga’s Selected Yearlings and New York-bred Preferred Yearlings sales had similarities besides just using the same sales grounds when they took place over the past week. Read on to see some interesting tidbits about both sales. Big money horses – While the numbers were slightly down at the Selected Yearlings sale, the sale didn’t see that big of a hit on horses who brought $500,000 or more with 23 selling in that price range vs. 24 in 2015. At the New York-bred Preferred sale, the sale topper was actually $100,000 more expensive this year and the same amount of horses (seven) sold for $250,000 or more as last year. Orb, standing at Claiborne, had a $450,000 yearling at the Select sale Kentucky Sires – Even though there were a variety of sires at both sales with sires from abroad represented in both sales (in some cases, moving out of the country after this crop was...

If one wants to find a successful Mr. Prospector son, they need to look no farther than multiple Group 1 Machiavellian. Bred in Kentucky, Machiavellian was the first foal out of the impressive and blueblooded group stakes winning Halo mare Coup de Folie. Raced in Europe for Stavros Niarchos after selling as a yearling for $825,000, Coup de Folie returned to the United States at the end of 1985 for her first breeding season. Bred in the spring of 1986 she delivered a dark bay colt, later named Machiavellian, in January 1987. Machiavellian was sent to France as a yearling and joined Francois Boutin’s string for his racing career.  Debuting in early August 1989, he won his first start by two lengths over another Mr. Prospect son in Jade Robbery. Machiavellian then reeled off two straight Group 1 wins in three weeks when winning the Prix Morny Agence Francaise on Aug. 20 followed by the Sept. 10 Prix de la Salamandre. His season ended after the second victory but it was still ...