$250,000 Harris Foaled/Raised/ Consigned Vronsky Colt Tops Fasig-Tipton Fall Yearlings
Pomona, CA (September 26, 2023) – The half-brother to multiple stakes winner Kings River Knight consigned by Harris Farms, Inc., Agent, topped the 2023 Fasig-Tipton California Fall Yearlings and HORA Sale with a final bid of $250,000 from West Point Thoroughbreds.
Hip 211 is a bay colt by Vronsky out of the Poteen mare, Seasonedtoperfection, the dam of seven winners from seven to race. In addition to the aforementioned winner of , she is the dam of the stakes-placed Irrefutable. Multiple stakes winners Dee Dee’s Diner and Mimi’s Cafe are members of this prolific family full of winners with double diget tallies.
“I was very pleased with how the colt sold,” said Jonny Hilvers, general manager of the Harris horse division told the BloodHorse.com. Hilvers is also the great-grandson of the late E.B. Johnston, who founded Old English and for whom the Los Alamitos stakes is named. “He is a very nice individual, great physical, good walk, and I think it showed. We’re very happy that West Point Thoroughbreds got him and John Sadler will train him.”
The colt was foaled and raised at Harris Farms. Here is the topper as a new foal.
