Fasig-Tipton November Sale 2026 Results: $5M Ways and Means Tops

Fasig-Tipton November Sale 2026 results

Update (2026-11-04): At the Fasig-Tipton November Sale on Monday, Nov. 2 in Lexington, 140 horses sold for $101,617,000, led by Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint winner Ways and Means at $5 million. New since our last update: champion sprinter Shisospicy, who did not sell, has been retired and will be bred to Not This Time.

It was the fifth time in six years the one-night sale passed $100 million, according to Fasig-Tipton. It came two days after the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland (see our Breeders' Cup 2026 guide).

The top sellers

• Ways and Means, a 5-year-old Practical Joke mare, was fresh off her Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint win. ELiTE consigned her as agent for Klaravich Stable, bidding opened at $500,000, and Brittany Linton signed as agent for Boyd Racing.
• Cy Fair, last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner, sold through Taylor Made Sales Agency.
• Kathynmarissa, who won the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf on Oct. 31 and was consigned by Gainesway, is expected to go to Japan to be bred, according to sale reports.
• Top weanlings: Hip 80, a Not This Time filly, brought $1.15 million and Hip 36, an Into Mischief filly, $1 million, both to Asagi Stables.
• Breeding rights: besides Sovereignty, a lifetime right to Knightsbridge sold for $450,000.

What happened to Shisospicy?

Champion sprinter Shisospicy, one of the catalog's headliners, did not sell. Bidding stopped at $2.4 million, under the high reserve her owner had set, and Morplay Racing kept her.

On Nov. 3 Morplay announced her retirement, BloodHorse reports. She will be bred to Not This Time and will spend the near future at Taylor Made Farm.

The 2025 Eclipse champion female sprinter and Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint winner retires with six wins from 11 starts and $2,095,270 in earnings. Illness limited her to two starts at 4. For her full story, read our Shisospicy profile.

The numbers, and which figures we use

We use the sale-night figures that Fasig-Tipton posted and that Paulick Report and Turf Diario also report. The counts differ a little by source. Fasig-Tipton's full results release gives a later count of 142 horses sold, with a $370,000 median (+14.7%) and a 16.9% RNA rate. The same release states the gross two ways, $102,187,000 and $103,147,000, so we don't treat either as final. BloodHorse gives $100,167,000 for 138 horses, including private sales, with a median of $350,000 (+8.5%).

The average was about $725,000 on the sale-night count. Turf Diario says that was slightly below 2025, so the median rose while the average dipped a little.

What is the Fasig-Tipton November Sale?

The Fasig-Tipton November Sale is a selected mixed sale of Thoroughbreds, held in a single evening session in Lexington, Kentucky. "Mixed" means the catalog combines racing-age fillies and mares, pregnant broodmares, weanlings and other offerings, such as breeding rights, in one session.

The 2026 catalog, released Sept. 30, listed 208 main entries, and supplements were added through the Breeders' Cup. It had nearly 60 graded stakes winners or producers, 23 of them Grade 1 (new to the term? See what a Grade 1 race is).

Mixed sale vs yearling sale: what's different?

A yearling sale sells young horses that have never raced, valued on looks, pedigree and X-rays. A mixed sale sells horses with a résumé: race records, foals on the ground and pregnancies. That changes what buyers are really paying for.

For the yearling side of the market, read our Keeneland September Yearling Sale explainer. The table shows the contrast.

"Selected" signals a curated catalog: Fasig-Tipton chooses the entries rather than taking everything offered.

Why sell mares right after the Breeders' Cup?

Timing is the point. A filly who has just run in or won a Breeders' Cup race is at her peak value and visibility, and owners often plan to retire her to the breeding shed anyway. Selling two days later puts her in front of the same worldwide buyers who are already in Kentucky.

This year showed it plainly: Ways and Means won her Breeders' Cup race and became the sale topper 48 hours later. A reserve also protects the seller, as Shisospicy's result shows: if bidding falls short, the owner can keep the horse. Her owner did exactly that and retired her to breed the next day.

In-foal broodmares fit the season too. Mares bred early in the year are pregnant by autumn, so owners can sell them with a foal confirmed by a vet. Weanlings, foals just separated from their mothers in autumn, round out the mix.

Four terms to read a catalog page

Hip number

Every horse gets a number, the hip number, taken from the paper tag placed on the horse's hindquarters. It sets the order in the ring and is how you refer to a horse. Example: Hip 161 was Ways and Means.

In foal to / covering sire

A mare listed as "in foal to" a stallion is pregnant by him. That stallion is the covering sire, the horse who bred the mare this season. The unborn foal's value is tied to the sire's fee and reputation, so a mare in foal to a leading sire such as Flightline carries a different story than a mare in foal to an unproven stallion.

The catalog also states the cover date, meaning the last breeding date. That tells you roughly when she is due to foal.

Breeding right

A breeding right (similar to a stallion season) is not a horse. It is the right to breed a mare to a stallion, and a lifetime right lets you do it every season for the stallion's whole stud career. At this sale, lifetime rights to Sovereignty and Knightsbridge, new stallions who start at stud in 2027, sold for $1 million and $450,000. Buyers get the right, not an animal, and its value depends on the stallion's career.

How to read a page and the enhanced catalog

A standard page is a family tree in miniature. Read it in this order:

1. Hip number and name, age, sex, and sire/dam at the top.
2. Black-type. Bold type in a pedigree marks a stakes winner, and bold capitals mark a graded stakes winner.
3. Race record for a mare in training, or her produce record (foals already born) for a broodmare.
4. Covering sire and cover date if she is in foal.
5. Consignor and sale conditions at the bottom.

The enhanced catalog is the digital upgrade. For this sale, Fasig-Tipton listed Daily Racing Form past performances, race replays, pedigree analysis by Alan Porter, five-cross pedigrees, stallion register pages and feature videos for Grade 1-winning females.

How to follow the results as a newcomer

1. Open the official results on Fasig-Tipton's site, sorted by hip.
2. Pick three hips and read each catalog page with the steps above.
3. Compare price with what the page shows: race record, pedigree, covering sire.
4. Note the lots marked not sold (RNA): they show where sellers' reserves sat above the bidding.

Sales like this are also where many future sires, dams and eventual retired racehorses start their next chapter (see what an OTTB is). New to horses in general? Start at Get Started.