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Good point. It feels a bit like they are keeping stakeholders in the dark until a certain point in time when they can do something, perhaps Geo Blocking?
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Our business already includes one John whose namesake signed the Declaration of Independence. (Good day to you, Mr. Penn.) But now we have another, this time on four legs, bidding to confirm that Constitution–if not a founding father–is certainly a patriarch in the making. Yet if the Sam F. Davis Stakes winner were to carve his “John Hancock” on the GI Kentucky Derby roll of honor, he would only be further magnifying two names whose Churchill achievements are already outsized. One is that of his dam Scribbling Sarah (Freud), who ended her track career under a $5,000 tag at Finger Lakes but has already produced a Grade I winner. The other belongs to a woman who, albeit no longer directly involved with this mare, must be counted one of our sport's principal overachievers in recent times. On retirement, Scribbling Sarah was purchased for $7,500 by Gail Rice (docket signed by husband Bobby Jones) at Fasig-Tipton's February Sale in 2015. Scribbling Sarah's brother had missed a G1 Norfolk Stakes podium by a nose, and she had herself managed to win a state-bred maiden at Saratoga as a 3-year-old. But primarily, Gail was drawn to the big Quarter Horse hip and deep girth commended by her mentors in a world of which she had known nothing in her youth. Jimmy Gladwell Sr., for one, but the real immersion had come through first husband Wayne Rice and his family. Wayne's father Clyde grew up riding rodeo with another boy named D. Wayne Lukas, and subsequently became a pioneer pinhooker and serial leading trainer at Penn National. Clyde was followed into training by Wayne and his sister Linda–who had actually trained Scribbling Sarah, though Gail didn't know that when buying her–while his grandchildren include trainers Kevin and Adam, jockey Taylor and pinhooker Brandon. Gail absorbed the Rice lore well, and her choice of Mr Speaker for Scribbling Sarah's second cover resulted in a filly sold as an OBS short yearling for $65,000. When that filly developed into GI Ashland Stakes winner/GI Kentucky Oaks third Speech, Gail accepted a “life-changing” offer from WinStar for Scribbling Sarah, who was still only 10. It was a fantastic coup for a breeder who only had a couple of other mares. One of these was Mongolian Changa (Brilliant Speed), purchased as a $9,000 yearling and trained by Wayne to win a Presque Isle maiden in a light career. Her first foal, by Protonico, arrived ahead of her milk but Gail had prepared by freezing some of Scribbling Sarah's, who had delivered an Upstart colt (later won four of eight starts) a month previously. While the Protonico sold for just $1,000 as a short yearling, against all odds he turned out to be the anointed colt of his crop, destined to return to the Churchill winner's circle under a blanket of roses. And though the Medina Spirit fairytale obviously did not end happily, Mongolian Changa was sold at Fasig-Tipton that November for $1.05 million to Katsumi Yoshida. But if Gail had shown that you sometimes need only a sling to bring down a giant, she has now also passed on some of her luck to Goliath. Thoroughbreds being what they are, there had been zero guarantee that WinStar would be able to borrow Gail's Midas touch after enabling her to cash out Scribbling Sarah. In the event, their purchase has been immediately vindicated. The mare's first cover at WinStar was their young gun Constitution. The resulting colt was scratched from Book 1 of the September Sale and instead surfaced in the farm's racetrack program, in partnership with China Horse Club and Siena Farm. Whoever among these had the inspiration of calling him John Hancock, cleverly combining the names of sire and dam, certainly deserves to land on the Classic trail. But having broken 70 seconds on debut, and now controlled a race barely beyond a mile (and on a speed-favoring surface), John Hancock clearly needs to stretch out from here. He did gallop out with gusto last Saturday, but you couldn't say he has a blatant Derby pedigree. Scribbling Sarah, a turf sprinter herself, was out of a Talkin Man mare who did win in cheap claiming grade on dirt but ended up switching to grass. (That mare's siblings, incidentally, included an 18-for-50 Grade III winner in Wishful Tomcat {Tactical Cat} plus the dam of 13-for-70 stakes stalwart Rated R Superstar {Kodiak Kowboy}, so there's some pretty robust blood around.) The next dam, by the good distaff influence Lord At War (Arg), won a dirt sprint in a curtailed career; and she's out of a Halo half-sister to GI Hopeful Stakes winner Papal Power. That actually means John Hancock shares a fourth dam with Carson's Run, who's also by a son of Tapit in Cupid but has nonetheless excelled over turf–at least showing, in the process, auspicious stamina. On the other hand, Speech seemingly managed to draw on the Classic dirt genes behind her turf sire, Mr. Speaker, while ultimately reverting to sprinting. But then we must throw into the mix Constitution, whose son Catching Freedom emerged as a key player on the Classic trail this time last year. That helped Constitution break into the top five in the general sires' list for 2024, and remember he is only now cycling through his upgraded mares. In fact, John Hancock belongs to his first crop conceived at $85,000, up from $40,000 after Tiz the Law starred among his first sophomores. But whatever Constitution can contribute, for now he must yield center stage to a mare who has not only already had an Oaks third, but also donated milk to the first home in the Derby! A LONG ROAD BEHIND Colloquial | Coglianese Terminology (Bernardini) has a pretty similar background to Scribbling Sarah, in that she broke her maiden under a $25,000 tag at Presque Isle Downs in 2018. She was sold at the Keeneland November Sale the following year, with a maiden cover by Always Dreaming, for just a few dollars more. The man who put his name to a $28,000 docket that day hadn't actually previously signed the Declaration of Independence, albeit his family actually came to Virginia with John Smith. But he has certainly seen plenty in his time–including, much to his dismay, the decline of Thoroughbred breeding in his home state, where a painful void was left by the likes of Paul Mellon, Taylor Hardin and Elizabeth Dodge Sloan. Eventually he faced facts and brought six old mares and six $10 bills to Kentucky, hoping to find better blood and land. And, who knows, it might just be that Beau Lane is getting the hang of the place… The cherished octogenarian has raised a ton of good horses but still wants a real great. And while it remains the earliest of days for Terminology's third foal, there can't be many that have come off his farm to cause so much excitement from two starts. Bred by Lane's daughter “J.B.” and her husband Michael Orem, Colloquial (Vekoma) was sold for $240,000 at the 2023 September Sale. On his sole juvenile start, he beat a 61-year-old track record but not Mentee (City of Light), who held out by a nose. Returning to Aqueduct last weekend, however, he melted the stopwatch for an off-the-charts 106 Beyer. There seems to be a pretty immediate consensus–including from his trainer, who knows him best–that Colloquial shouldn't be shoehorned into a Derby preparation, and we've certainly seen a hastier approach backfire over the years. On the other hand, his pedigree wouldn't necessarily discourage you from trying a second turn at some point. True, there's a fairly fallow zone in the foreground. While Terminology was among no fewer than 11 winners out of an unplaced Storm Cat mare, they mustered a solitary Grade III podium between them. But their dam had fairly limited help, overall, and that's why Bernardini's intervention feels so pivotal. As such an exceptional distaff influence, Bernardini reinforces the bridge between Colloquial and what was, after all, a most aristocratic granddam–not just by Storm Cat, but out of GI Kentucky Oaks winner Gal in a Ruckus (Bold Ruckus), herself a half-sister to the dam of dual Grade I winner/Oaks third Habibti (Tabasco Cat). Moreover the next dam, albeit by the forgotten Californian sire Gummo, was half-sister to the dam of Sam-Son matriarch No Class (Nodouble). Gal in a Ruckus proved a pretty disappointing producer, given what was happening in that parallel branch of the dynasty and the elite partners John Oxley gave her. But perhaps a Bernardini mare and the prolific youngster Vekoma have together stoked up the embers–not to mention the seasoned Virginian hands that helped to raise this colt. Vekoma, of course, is from the same family as Street Sense and Mr. Greeley. Combining that with a line tracing to a mare as influential as Quillopoly (Princequillo) could yet give Colloquial deeper reserves than many are expecting. The post Breeding Digest: An Outsized Signature appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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