SPURRED by the sales of Songbird and Tepin for $9,500,000 and $8,000, 000 respectively, the one-day Fasig-Tipton November Sale reached a record high aggregate, bringing in more than $74 million for the 115 lots sold. The average of $645,217 was the third-best ever recorded, while the median has only ever been eclipsed once before.

A total of 19 lots, including a pair of weanlings, sold for $1 million or more and this was an increase of four on last year. The foals set new records for the sale.

Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm acquired the sale topper, the dual champion Songbird. Winner of six Grade 1s, including the Breeders’’ Cup Juvenile Fillies in 2015, the daughter of Medaglia D’Oro has only ever tasted defeat twice in 15 starts, on both occasions finishing second. She will now join Havre De Grace, the only broodmare prospect sold at this sale to make more, at Whisper Hill. That former Horse Of The Year realised $10 million.

The Coolmore team, with MV Magnier at the centre, took home the most expensive in foal mare sold. Tepin was the champion grass mare twice in the USA and travelled to Royal Ascot last year to land a famous victory in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes. Safely in foal to dual Horse of the Year and leading sire Curlin, she cost the Tipperary farm $8,000,000. She is due to visit Galileo.

Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm went to $3.6 million to secure the Grade 2 winning Dubawi filly Quidera and she is likely to attempt to secure a Grade 1 win before she heads to the paddock.

Two fillies sold for $3 million each and the first to do so was Nickname, a Grade 1 winning juvenile when she landed the Frizette Stakes. She has failed to win in her two subsequent racing seasons but the daughter of Scat Daddy still appealed and fell to the winning bid of Kerri Radcliffe.

Victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf in 2015 secured Catch A Glimpse no fewer than three racing accolades in Canada – Horse of the Year, champion juvenile filly and champion grass mare. Now the daughter of City Zip is heading to Japan and a mating with Lord Kanaloa following her sale for $3 million to K I Farm.

Once bought back for just $10,000, Miss Temple City went on to have a stellar career, winning seven times and amassing more than $1.7 million, including a trio of Grade 1 races last year. She cost agent Steven Young $2.5 million.

The 10-year-old Ghostzapper mare American Story did not go in foal this year but her first two progeny are stakes winners, including this year’s Grade 1 winner American Gal, and she caught the eye of Don Alberto Stables at $2.2 million. The same purchasers gave $1.85 million for the Chilean-bred Dacita, a dual champion in her native country and a dual Grade 1 winner in the USA.

Chris Richardson, for Cheveley Park Stud, gave $2 million for Mesa Fresca, another 10-year-old mare but this one carrying a January foal by War Front. She is the dam of Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks winner Harmonize and will be among the first mares to be covered by Ulysses.

Breeders’ Cup heroine Finest City, the champion sprinter in 2016, will be heading to Japan after she sold to Katsumi Yoshida for $1.5 million, the same price paid by Bridlewood Farm for the Grade 1 winning juvenile Gomo. She is in foal to Songbird’s sire Medaglia D’Oro.

Two weanlings sold for $1 million at the sale, a Street Sense own-sister to Grade 1 winner Callback, and a first crop offering by Horse of the Year American Pharoah, the half-sister to Bodemeister.