Fasig-Tipton February Digital Sale Closes with $5.8815M; Neom Beach Tops at $300,000

Neom Beach led the board at Fasig‑Tipton’s February Digital Sale, fetching $300,000 as the auction concluded on Tuesday, Feb. 24 with $5,881,500 in gross receipts from 189 horses sold and what Fasig‑Tipton described as "an 80%-plus clearance rate." The sale’s catalogue mixed racing-age stock, broodmare prospects, a small slate of yearlings and a 2-year-old in training, a program composition the company highlighted in its close summary.

Simple math shows the 189 head produced an average of roughly $31,119 per lot, a notch below the $31,626 average recorded at Fasig‑Tipton’s February 2025 digital session that sold 157 horses for $4,965,400. Year over year, gross receipts rose by $916,100 from February 2025 to February 2026, an increase of about 18.5%, while the number of horses offered and sold expanded by 32 head.

The February result sits in the middle of Fasig‑Tipton’s recent online cycle. December’s 2025 Digital Sale closed with $10,607,900 in gross receipts for 421 horses sold in two sessions, a total Fasig‑Tipton said "is believed to establish a new top gross for an online thoroughbred auction held worldwide." By contrast, Fasig‑Tipton’s March 2025 digital session sold 85 horses for $3,095,000 with an average of $36,411 and an 85% clearance rate; January 2025 sold 107 horses for $3,003,900 at an average of $28,073 and a 79% clearance rate.

Neom Beach’s $300,000 top bid is the clearest single-price signal from the Feb. 24 sale; Fasig‑Tipton’s public notice for the session did not publish an official average, median, or lot-by-lot breakdown in the summary released at close. The release did reiterate the catalogue mix, noting "offerings that ranged from racing-age stock to broodmare prospects and a small slate of yearlings and a 2-year-old in training," but did not list consignors, buyers, lot numbers, pedigrees, or whether gross receipts include buyer’s premium.

That absence matters for interpreting the market. Without a published median or a lot-by-lot ledger, it is difficult to see whether the $5.8815 million gross was driven by a handful of higher-priced head like Neom Beach or by broad depth across racing-age and broodmare inventory. Fasig‑Tipton's February clearance rate language and the expanded catalogue size point to solid demand; the sale’s per-head average calculated from the headline figures suggests price stability rather than a dramatic uptick.

Fasig‑Tipton’s lot-by-lot results and any buyer or consignor identifications will determine whether Neom Beach was an outlier or part of a wider pattern. Until those details are posted, the February Digital Sale’s $5,881,500 gross and Neom Beach’s $300,000 remain the principal, verified markers of market activity from the Feb. 24 session.