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Girvin's daughter, a Group One winner under trainer Bob Baffert, caught everyone's attention on the 7th Nov, Fasig-Tipton November Sale. Following its two Breeders' Cup triumphs, Godolphin made a high bid of US$4 million to acquire Faiza, another Group One winner.
Wanamaker's, "We're fortunate that we have a lot of A.P. Indy (line mares) through Bernardini, but we need a bit of diversity (to the broodmare band), which I think this mare brings," said Michael Banahan, Godolphin's director of bloodstock. "And she was obviously a very good race mare with a lot of quality to her."
Faiza, a 3YO Girvin filly, won her first five career starts for trainer Bob Baffert, including victories in the 2022 Gr.1 Starlet Stakes and this year's Gr.2 Santa Anita Oaks, after being purchased for US$725,000 as a 2YO. Her career earnings total US$672,000, and she had been out of competition since finishing third in the Gr.2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes in May.
"She was an easy buy. All the team loved her," Banahan said. "We really wanted her and she'll work out well in her broodmare band. We haven't added a mare to our broodmare band in a while and she fit the profile of the one we were looking for."
A mare named Faiza, who was consigned as Hip 228 from Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa, was sold as a broodmare prospect. She is the daughter of the Smart Strike mare Sweet Pistol and comes from the same family as Pomeroys Pistol, a sprinter who won multiple graded stakes, and Thousand Words, who won the Group Two race and participated in the Gr.1 2020 Kentucky Derby.
Later in the evening, Godolphin acquired Higher Truth (Hip 241), a Galileo mare who had won graded stakes races, from Indian Creek, agent, for US$1.5 million.