First-Crop Yaupon filly soars to $525,000

April 15, 2025

Yaupon's $525,000 filly, hip No. 181 at the 2025 OBS April 2YO sale - Judit Seipert — Yaupon’s $525,000 filly, hip No. 181 at the 2025 OBS April 2YO sale – Judit Seipert

Among the first 2-year-old offerings during Tuesday’s opening session of the OBS April sale from the first crop of Yaupon was a filly that sold for $525,000 to Spendthrift Farm.

Consigned by Tom McCrocklin, agent and catalogued as hip No. 243, the filly was bred in Kentucky by Mark Allen Toothaker, William & Corrine Heiligbrodt. The bay filly is the second foal out of the Malibu Moon mare Moon Over Mag Bay

Yaupon’s first 2-year-olds are averaging $233,095 at auction thus far in 2025, third-best among all Freshman sires. Yaupon has some 34 lots remaining in the catalogue for the current OBS sale, which continues daily through Friday.