Girvin Filly Brings $1.1 Million at F-T Midlantic Sale

If there were marketing campaigns for purchases at horse sales, bloodstock agent Kerri Radcliffe might have a second career waiting in the wings. "So get the Memo with AMO," she said moments after signing the sale ticket for $1,100,000 for Hip 368, a Girvin filly, that was bought for Memo Racing and AMO Racing—the first purchase for that team up. It is the sale topper late into Tuesday afternoon at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale in Timonium, Md. "I know (AMO Racing's Kia Joorabchian) from home, and I would do a bit of work for Kia," the British Radcliffe said of how the partnership developed. "We chatted and we said, 'This is the best filly in the sale.' Memo have only been buying colts, so we needed to get a filly." Radcliffe, who worked with Alex Elliott, representing Memo Racing, signed the ticket. Radcliffe and Memo have been active recently, including a pair of $1 million buys at the 2025 Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. The filly will be heading to the stable of trainer Chad Brown. Wavertree Stables consigned the filly, something that appealed to Radcliffe. 'I'm delighted again, buying off Wavertree," she said. "I've bought two grade 1 winners and hopefully this is the third time lucky." While there is depth to Hip 368's female family, the striking dark bay or brown filly did not earn that price via pedigree. There is not yet any black type under her first two dams. But on the merits of a stellar :10 1/5 work in the slop May 15 and impressive showings at the barn, she became the new highest price in the sale Tuesday afternoon. Bred in Kentucky by Twin Oaks Bloodstock, the filly changed hands twice previously at public auction at prices that speak to her appeal. She first sold for $180,000 at the 2023 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, then resold for $240,000 at the 2024 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, where Havertz Stables plucked her from the Paramount Sales consignment. She is out of the winning Broken Vow mare Scarlet Dixie, who has two winners from three other foals of racing age. Hip 368's second dam is the winning Dixieland Band mare Chiming Dixie, a sister to multiple graded winner and sire Chimes Band and stakes winner Lady Dixie. A fourth-crop sire, Girvin stands at Airdrie Stud, near Midway, Ky., for a fee of $25,000. His three graded winners include grade 1 winner Faiza, who sold for $725,000 at the 2022 Midlantic sale, at the time the highest price ever for a Girvin 2-year-old. Hip 368 now holds that honor. Grade 1 winner Girvin, by Tale of Ekati, has worked his way up from an initial stud fee of $7,500 at Ocala Stud in Florida in 2019. He moved to Kentucky for the 2023 breeding season, and there is a feeling that the best is yet to come with his first Kentucky crop being 2-year-olds of 2026.