The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale attracts the best of the best, turning out the highest percentage of Grade 1 winners and graded stakes winners among North American Yearling Sales. We’ve been part of that success, with graduates including Eclipse Award champion Rubiano, Belmont Stakes winner Colonial Affair, Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile victor Corinthian, and multiple graded stakes winner Unified. Paula Parsons and Dr. Carr combed through 200 yearlings to find the colts who best meet our pedigree and conformation standards. It didn’t take long to land a truly phenomenal prospect.
UNNAMED BAY COLT
LIFE IS GOOD – VELVET SLIPPERS by QUALITY ROAD
Purchased for $410,000
History has shown that a stallion’s first crop is very often his best, and if we’re looking at first crop sires, they don’t come more exciting than Life Is Good.
The most electrifying son of six-time Leading Sire Into Mischief, who has also established himself as a terrific sire of sires, Life Is Good produced a string of spectacular performances. A winner of eight graded stakes events, at seven, eight, eight-and-a-half, and nine furlongs, he ran triple digit Beyers on nine occasions with a top of 112. His triumphs include the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), which he took by 5¾ lengths as a three-year-old against older horses; the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1), by 3¼ lengths over Horse of the Year Knicks Go; the Whitney Stakes (G1) over Happy Saver, Hot Rod Charlie and Olympiad, grade one winners with combined earnings of over $10,000,000; the Woodward Stakes (G1) over millionaire Law Professor; the San Felipe Stakes (G2), by eight lengths over Medina Spirit, first across the wire in the Kentucky Derby; the John A. Nerud Stakes (G2), by five lengths over grade one winner Speaker’s Corner, the Kelso Handicap (G2); and the Sham Stakes (G3).
This Life Is Good colt is the first foal out of Velvet Slippers. She broke her maiden by four lengths in maiden special weight company in wire-to-wire fashion at Del Mar, defeating subsequent stakes winner Park Avenue. Velvet Slippers also captured a Del Mar allowance while running a 103 Equibase E-Speed Figure, came within a head of capturing the Dark Mirage Stakes, and finished third in the Tranquility Lake Stakes.
Velvet Slippers is by Quality Road, a spectacular multiple track-record breaking performer and an exceptional sire, whose offspring include Eclipse Award Champions National Treasure, Corniche, Abel Tasman, and Caledonia Road. Quality Road is emerging as a highly-promising broodmare sire, his daughters having already produced grade one winner Hard To Justify, and graded winners Five G, Valiant Force, Kinza, At Attention, Hades, Waves of Mischief, and Light Quantum.
Velvet Slippers is out of The Tea Cups, a durable and accomplished runner who took the Yaddo Stakes at Saratoga with an exceptional 111 Equibase E-Speed Figure over a field that included grade one winner Discreet Marq, and the Mount Vernon Stakes at Belmont Park. The Tea Cups is a half-sister to Lunar Victory, victorious in the Empire Classic Stakes and Evan Shipman Stakes.
This colt’s third dam, Lunar Colony, a winning daughter of A.P. Indy, is a sister to the multiple grade one placed Soul Search, herself the dam of graded stakes winner Journey Home, and granddam of graded stakes winner Ticker Tape Home, stakes winner Scipio, and 2025 Road to the Kentucky Derby contender Grande. Lunar Colony is also a three-quarters sister to Ascending Angel, the dam of Nadal, undefeated winner of the Arkansas Derby (G1) and 2024’s leading freshman sire in Japan, and a half-sister to both multiple stakes winner Reform Cat and Winter Solstice, the dam of stakes winner Zayda.
Lunar Colony is out of Solar Colony, a sister to Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Pleasant Stage; to graded stakes winner Colonial Play, the dam of multiple grade one winner Marsh Side; to graded winner Stage Colony; and to Meteor Colony, the dam of grade one winner Changintheweather. Solar Colony’s second dam, the California Oaks heroine Northern Meteor, is a daughter of Schuylerville, Alcibiades, and Selima Stakes victress Patelin, a famed tap-root mare who is ancestress of 19 grade one winners, including Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) captor I’ll Have Another, Hall of Famer Beholder, and this colt’s own grandsire, Into Mischief.
This colt is a product of the Into Mischief/Quality Road cross that has produced graded stakes winner Waves of Mischief and stakes winner Caldwell Luvs Gold, and a version of the Into Mischief/Gone West cross that has yielded Horse of the Year Authentic and grade one winners Mia Mischief and Mischevious Alex.
This exciting colt has already settled in at the farm in Middleburg, Virginia and has begun the breaking process. He will be made eligible for the lucrative Virginia Residency Program. The partnership’s total capitalization is $700,000 with all expenses paid through 2026 and includes contributions to our Equine Retirement Fund. Minimum investments start at $35,000 for five percent (5.0%) investment. Please contact the office for more information or if you would like a hard copy of the brochure.
