THE Fasig-Tipton November Sale, billed as ‘the world’s premier breeding stock event’, was staged on Monday at the company’s Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Kentucky. Twenty-five lots sold for $1 million or more, led by a trio of Grade/Group 1 winners with international appeal.

Frankel’s Grade 1-winning daughter McKulick sold for $6 million to Narvick International on behalf of the Japanese Grand Stud from the consignment of Elite, to top the single-session selected sale. Offered as a racing and broodmare prospect, the five-year-old won the Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes and five other graded stakes during her career, earning nearly $2 million. Her price matched the top figure achieved 12 months ago.

Bought as a yearling by Irishman Mike Ryan for 180,000gns in Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, McKulick raced for Klaravich Stables and was trained by Chad Brown.

Elite also consigned the four-year-old Surge Capacity, a daughter of Flintshire and sold in foal to Into Mischief.

She realised $3.6 million, and was also purchased by Narvick and Grand Stud. Winner of the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes at three, she was another trained by Chad Brown for Klaravich, who also bred her.

The dam of Surge Capacity, Strong Incentive, was also in the catalogue and she sold to White Birch Farm and M.V. Magnier for $2,750,000, also carrying to Into Mischief. Strong Incentive is also the dam of Grade 1 Test Stakes winner Ways And Means.

Magnier signed for the second highest-priced lot at the sale in his own name. Ramatuelle, winner of this year’s Group 1 Prix de la Floret in October, sold for $5,100,000 from the consignment of Bedouin Bloodstock.

A late scratching from the Breeders’ Cup, she was still offered as a racing and broodmare prospect. The three-year-old daughter of Justify was a dual group winner last year at two, including the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin, and finished third this year in a blanket finish to the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket. She will visit Wootton Bassett in 2025.

Moira, who two days earlier won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf, sold for $4,300,000 to the owners group Bayles from the consignment of Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa.

Yet another offered as a racing and broodmare prospect, Moira was Canadian Horse of the Year and divisional champion at three after winning the Woodbine Oaks and then recording a new track record time in the Queen’s Plate. A Grade 2 winner at four and five, Moira’s Breeders’ Cup victory put her career earnings just shy of $3,000,000.

“It was a tremendous November Sale,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning. “There was great competition, competitive bidding, and obviously tremendous support from an international buying base. Our friends from Japan continue to be major supporters of this sale. We also had European participation, Australian participation, and of course, strong American participation. It was a very broad buying bench.”

Overall, 172 horses sold for $93,948,500. The average was $546,212 and the median was $250,000.