THE 2016 renewal of the Fasig-Tipton November Sale recorded a number of highlights and the sale recovered well from the dramatic falls it suffered last year.

John Malone’s Bridlewood Farm teamed up with Don Alberto Corporation to purchase the sale-topping Baffled, in foal to Tapit, for $3,500,000. The stakes-placed daughter of Distorted Humor is the dam of three group or graded stakes winners with her first three runners, including the Group 2 Superlative Stakes winning juvenile of this year Boynton. She is also the dam of Grade 1 Florida Derby winner Constitution and the Grade 3 winner Jacaranda.

The latter filly, a four-year-old daughter of Congrats later sold, carrying her first foal, for $2,000,000 to Reynolds Bell acting as agent for Alpha Delta. Jacaranda is in foal to champion Candy Ride.

The multiple Grade 1 winner Curalina won more than $1.5 million in her racing career which encompassed wins in the Acorn Stakes, CCA Oaks and La Troienne Stakes at the highest level and she will now head to Shadai Farm in Japan after her sale for $3,000,000. Less than an hour earlier her dam Whatdreamsrmadeof also sold, realising $1,650,000 to Summer Wind Equine. She is carrying a full-sibling to Curalina.

Stopchargingmaria sold for $2,800,000 to Three Chimneys Farm and this was just less than the $3 million she won on the racetrack. She was successful in half of her 18 starts and her victories included the Alabama Stakes, CCA Oaks and the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Distaff, all Grade 1 races. Later in the session Three Chimneys sold Lady Zulu, a stakes-placed daughter of Dynaformer and in foal to War Front, for $2,350,000 to the Wertheimer brothers.

Elevage Bloodstock was listed as the purchaser of the Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks winner Cassatt, a daughter of Tapit and carrying her first foal by Curlin. Cassatt is out of a half-sister to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Dreaming Of Anna. She cost $2,500,000.

China Horse Club International made a number of notable purchases. The most expensive was Embellish The Lace, winner of the 2015 Grade 1 Alabama Stakes and now safely in foal to Uncle Mo. Their new purchase is also a half-sister to the Travers Stakes winner Afleet Express and cost $2,400,000. Earlier in the evening they paid $1,300,000 for Tapas, an unraced Tapit half-sister to two winners including Justwhistledixie, the dam of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner New Year’s Day. Tapas is in foal to Medaglia D’Oro.

Irish agent John McCormack bought one of the most high-profile offerings at the sale Love The Chase, the dam of California Chrome, for $1,950,000. California Chrome was just edged out at the weekend in the Breeders’ Cup but he now has earnings of nearly $14.5 million. Love the Chase is in foal to Tapit.

Cover Song featured in the Breeding Insights column last week in The Irish Field and she lived up to expectations when selling for $1,600,000 to agent James Delahooke for Bobby Flay. The Grade 3 winner is a half-sister to next year’s classic hope Roly Poly.

This year’s Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia sold for $1,400,000 to SF Bloodstock, the recent Grade 1 Spinster Stakes winner Paid Up Subscriber realised $1,100,000 when selling to White Birch Farm, the blacktype winner Haveyougoneaway sold for the same amount to Lake Villa Farm, while last year’s Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks runner-up brought $1 million when selling to Don Alberto Corporation.