VA AGENT EASTER SIGNS FOR $3.3 MILLION MARE

Virginia bloodstock agent and former VTA president Debbie Easter signed the ticket for the third highest priced broodmare or broodmare prospect when she purchased multiple graded stakes winner Dream Rush on behalf of Halsey Manor for $3.3 million at the Fasig-Tipton November Mixed Sale.

Dream Rush was only out sold by 2007 Mother Goose Gr.1 and Coaching Club American Oaks Gr.1 winner Octave who fetched a final bid of $4 million and 2006 Breeders Cup Distaff Gr. 1 and earner of $1.9 million Round Pound who sold for $5.75 million. Round Pound brought the highest price for a horse sold by Fasig-Tipton Kentucky since Virginia-bred Miss Oceana topped the Newstead Dispersal in 1985. She was in foal to Northern Dancer at the time.

Dream Rush, by Wild Rush out of Turbo Dream by Unbridled, is a model of consistency. She has posted six wins and two seconds in eight career starts at two and three. Her $599,739 in earning include wins in the Prioress Stakes Gr.1 and the Darley Test Stakes Gr.1 at Saratoga.

“She was just a gorgeous filly,” Easter told the Blood-Horse. “We hope she can keep running like she did this year.”

Dream Rush will race in 2008 for Halsey Manor’s Manor Racing Stable.

(Auction photo by Marc Manning/The Blood-Horse)