As the calendar flips to a scorching July and with several meets ready to start their summer engines, potential Thoroughbred owners are on the hunt for racing prospects. The Fasig-Tipton Digital Sale for June wrapped on Tuesday and there was no shortage of runners ready for their next draw.The $190,000 topper from the sale was Long Pour (Tom's d'Etat) (hip 2), a 4-year-old colt who was consigned by Taylor Made Sales on behalf of Calumet Farm. A New York-bred, the dark bay was taken home by Sullivan Lane Stable.Long Pour broke his maiden at second-asking at Saratoga last August and continued to be competitive at the allowance level until he cleared the condition in gate-to-wire fashion upstate June 7.Mark Taylor, the President and CEO of Taylor Made Sales, said that the online market is the perfect opportunity to land a horse with potential because someone might want to move stock between sales.“Taylor Made was in on the digital movement early,” said Taylor. “I have to give my brother Duncan [Taylor] the credit, who really saw what was coming and knew we needed to be in on it. He saw what was going on in Australia. COVID changed everyone's mindset about doing business remotely and it got people comfortable with the process.”Since the advent of digital sales, Taylor Made has hired a full-time person in Maxine Pina and it is her job to handle all the logistics and paperwork which Taylor said makes for a seamless process.“People might want to turn horses into cash and when you don't have a sale coming up, the online auctions meet that demand perfectly,” he said. “Your horse can stay put, never has to miss any training and their day-to-day pattern continues uninterrupted.”Taylor said that his team has refined its market segmentation and works closely with potential buyers, which makes the digital sales more like private selling.Mark Taylor | Fasig-Tipton“You have a captive audience at a brick-and-mortar sale,” Taylor said. “There are people wandering the sales barns, so you don't have that online. We constantly message folks that we know might be looking for say a filly, and remind them that the sale is ending at a specific time.”Long Pour comes out of a big racing stable at Calumet and Taylor said that keeping their costs under control by pruning their roster can lead to great opportunities for other outfits to snag a really good horse.“Farms that are really good caretakers have to make some difficult decisions about which ones to sell and which ones to keep,” he added. “Consumers are the ones benefitting and really getting some meat on the bone, so to speak. Not every colt will become a stallion and not every filly will be added to a broodmare band.”With the Saratoga and Del Mar meets upon us, Taylor also said that racing stables are looking to add experienced runners to their lineups. Long Pour is just such a competitor.“Running that 89 Beyer last time out makes Long Pour a horse headed in the right direction,” Taylor said. “The New York program is so strong and with the new Belmont getting ready to open he's the kind of horse that has the potential to be versatile.”Clearly, hot deals during the Fasig-Tipton Digital June Sale matched the current weather as summer is officially here.The post Hot Deal: Fasig-Tipton Digital June Sale ‘Taylored’ For Racing Outfits appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.