Swiss Skydiver Off To Japan Following $4.7M Sale

Peter Callahan’s Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil–Expo Gold, by Johannesburg) did not flip a single hair for the whole lot of the 5 minutes and alter that she stood within the ring at Fasig-Tipton November Tuesday night, and when the mud had settled, the chestnut filly had bought for $4.7 million to the bid of Northern Farm’s Shingo Hashimoto. It took only a bit greater than the 1:53 required for Swiss Skydiver to win final 12 months’s COVID-delayed GI Preakness S. for the bidding to wander into the $3-million territory, with events each contained in the pavilion and out. It slowly made its method increased for the following three minutes earlier than the successful salvo was fired. Swiss Skydiver splashed onto the scene within the 2020 GII Gulfstream Oaks and added the GIII Fantasy S. and GII Santa Anita Oaks earlier than ending second to Artwork Collector within the GII Toyota Blue Grass S., her first attempt towards the boys. Straightforward winner of the GI Alabama S., she accomplished a Daredevil exacta within the GI Longines Kentucky Oaks earlier than upsetting GI Kentucky Derby and GI Breeders’ Cup Traditional winner and Horse of the Yr Genuine (Into Mischief) at Previous Hilltop. In 4 begins this time period, Swiss Skydiver added the GI Beholder Mile at Santa Anita.

📽️ Watch Champion SWISS SKYDIVER promote for $4,700,000 at The November Sale! Congrats to all of the connections!#FasigNovember @McPeekRacing pic.twitter.com/4esB37zwGb

— Fasig-Tipton (@FasigTiptonCo) November 10, 2021

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