Fasig-Tipton June Digital Sale posts $4.17 million on strong demand

Long Pour’s Saratoga allowance win turned into the June Digital Sale’s top ticket, as Fasig-Tipton closed the online auction June 30 with $4,167,000 in gross sales and 198 horses sold. The result was more than a one-horse headline; the market cleared 80 percent of the catalogue, with an average price of $21,042 and a median of $12,000.

That spread matters. A sale can hide behind a single six-figure standout, but these numbers showed buyers were active well beyond the top lot. Fasig-Tipton cataloged 283 entries, said the book was three times the size of last year’s June Digital Sale, and drew more than 1,000 registered bidders, a sign that digital buying has grown into a real marketplace for racing, breeding and pinhooking stock rather than a clearinghouse for leftovers.

Long Pour was the horse that gave the sale its clearest racing hook. Sullivan Lane Stable went to $190,000 for the New York-bred colt by Tom’s d’Etat out of Pursuing Justice, with Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, handling the consignment. He had already won Saratoga race 10 on June 7, a 7-furlong dirt allowance in 1:23.57 under Jose Lezcano for trainer George R. Arnold II, and that recent form made him the sort of horse buyers can project quickly: current, fit and already proven against live company.

He is also the horse most likely to matter on the track next. A fresh Saratoga allowance winner with a New York-bred profile should have options on the New York circuit, and his sale price says buyers are willing to pay for a horse that looks ready to re-spot and win again soon. That is the value digital sales are increasingly chasing: not the promise of a horse six months from now, but one that can get back to the races and pay off immediately.

The catalog was not built around Long Pour alone. Fasig-Tipton also pushed breeding stock, including Grade 1 producer Lovely Em, dam of recent Just a Game S. winner Classic Q, but the auction’s core message came from the volume and the balance. In 2025, the June Digital Sale grossed $1,524,000 from 59 sold horses, with 14 RNA and a top price of $150,000. This year’s much larger gross, higher turnout and stronger clearance rate showed a deeper bench of buyers looking for ready-to-run horses and fresh racing stock, with Long Pour standing out as the one most likely to show up and matter next.