Resolute Bloodstock offers first homebred yearlings at Fasig-Tipton July sale

Resolute Bloodstock sent its first homebred yearlings to the Fasig-Tipton July Selected Yearling Sale on Tuesday, bringing Hip 21 and Hip 159 to Newtown Paddocks in Lexington as the auction opened the North American yearling-sales season at 10 a.m. The pair gave Chelsey Stone Stewart’s operation a first public look at the kind of horses it wants to build around, with one filly tied to a fast, commercial young sire and one colt bred from a mare the stable sees as a foundation piece.

Hip 21, a filly by first-crop sire Arabian Lion out of Charged Temp, is the more immediately legible black-type pitch. Arabian Lion stands at Spendthrift Farm for $15,000 in 2026, entered stud in 2024 and had his first crop in the ring this year; his own résumé mixed brilliance at seven furlongs with stamina to 1 1/16 miles, which gives this filly a dirt profile that can point buyers toward the juvenile and early classic trail rather than a pure dash. Resolute’s own page described her as a powerful filly, and her dam deepens the page further as a four-time winner who earned $73,800 and is a full sister to Ova Charged and Manama Gold, the 2024 UAE Oaks winner.

Hip 159, a colt by Jackie’s Warrior out of Russiarussiarussia, brings a different kind of commercial heat. The colt was the first foal born on the farm in 2025, and Resolute described him as eye-catching; Stewart also said he developed into a strong, attractive physical. Jackie’s Warrior, a champion sprinter and five-time Grade 1 winner, stood at Spendthrift for $25,000, so the mating naturally reads as speed on speed, but the dam’s Bernardini line keeps the door open for a one-turn miler if the colt keeps progressing. Resolute bought Russiarussiarussia at the 2024 Keeneland January Sale for $15,000 with Hip 159 in utero, then followed with a 2026 Nyquist colt and a 2027 cover to Dornoch.

The two yearlings fit a broader pattern around John Stewart’s expansion in racing and bloodstock. TDN reported in 2024 that he spent more than $25 million at public auction in less than 10 weeks in late 2023, and BloodHorse reported in March 2026 that Chelsey Stone Stewart was named CEO of Resolute Racing. Against that backdrop, the July sale was less a small debut than a first clear statement that Resolute intends to compete with horses bred for the track and sale ring at the same time.