ON Monday in Kentucky the Fasig-Tipton November Sale will present buyers with many opportunities to acquire some of the best bred stock in the world. There have been a number of late entries for the sale, and one of these is among the last accepted for the sale, the three-year-old Fastnet Rock filly Cover Song.

Her inclusion in the sale, for which she will undoubtedly be a star, is due to the fact that on October 29th she won the Grade 3 Autumn Miss Stakes at Santa Anita, chased home by a trio of Irish-foaled fillies in Danilovna, Barleysugar and Lady Valeur. Cover Song carries a USA suffix, but in every other way she is an Irish filly.

Her sire Fastnet Rock is one of the superstars at Coolmore and along with Galileo his stud fee is a matter of speculation. His offspring this year include Rivet and Intricately, both Group 1 winning juveniles, while Diamondsandrubies, Qualify and Fascinating Rock are other Group 1 winners last year and in 2016 in Europe.

Cover Me was sold as a yearling for $450,000 at Keeneland and she is the first foal of the Group 1 winner Misty For Me. It was somewhat surprising maybe that Cover Me was sold, and for what now looks to be a bargain price. She was foaled in America and her dam was sent there to visit War Front.

The result of that second mating is Roly Poly, winner this year of the Group 2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes in England and the Group 3 Balanchine Stakes at the Curragh, and she was runner-up in the Group 1 Connolly’s Red Mills Cheveley Park Stakes.

THIRD FOAL

Misty For Me’s third foal is a yearling colt by War Front and there will be no prizes for guessing who will train him next year. Her fourth is a filly foal, again by War Front.

A daughter of Galileo, Misty For Me won three Group 1 races with Seamie Heffernan in the saddle, the Moyglare Stud Stakes, the Irish 1000 Guineas and the Pretty Polly Stakes, while Johnny Murtagh had the leg up when she won the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac.

Misty For Me is a full-sister to Ballydoyle and she too won the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac and was runner-up this year in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket, while another own-sister is the stakes winner and group-placed Twirl. Their dam was the unraced Storm Cat mare Butterfly Cove, a full-sister to Group 3 winner Kamarinskaya and a half-sister to Group 1 winner and sire Fasliyev.