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6th-FG, 52K, Msw, 3yo, f, 1 1/16m, 4:15 p.m. Westwind Farms homebred EPISIST (Outwork), out of SW/GSP and $625k KEENOV broodmare buy Silent Candy, is a half-sister to champion 3-year-old colt Epicenter (Not This Time) who captured that GI Runhappy Travers Stakes and placed in both the GI Kentucky Derby and the GI Preakness during his Eclipse-winning season. In addition to Epicenter, Silent Candy has produced three other winners from seven to race. Episist lines up just inside of the well-bred second-time starter Bundle (Volatile), a daughter of MGISW and $4.9m FTKNOV grad Love and Pride who has already produced Zia Park Oaks winner Bella Runner (Gun Runner) and Trapeze Stakes winner Princesinha Julia (Pioneerof the Nile). TJCIS PPS 5th-TAM, 53K, Msw, 3yo, f, 1mT, 2:37 p.m. Rail-drawn Midway Memories (Cairo Prince), a $300,000 KEESEP yearling, is a half-sister to GISW Zandon (Upstart) and to Panama's Horse of the Year Sol Principe Gris (Summer Front). Cairo Prince has already shown promise in the family as first dam Memories Prevail is herself a half to MGSW/MGISP Cairo Memories and to SW Cairba, both daughters of the Airdrie Stud-based stallion. Drawn outside, Marketplaceofideas (GB) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) was a 310,000gns pickup for Klaravich Stables out of Book 1 at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in 2023. She is a full-sister to SW Diamond Vega (GB). TJCIS PPS 7th-GP, 94K, Msw, 3yo/up, 7f, 4:02 p.m. Sansone (Uncle Mo), a $1.35m KEESEP yearling, makes his second start off a seven-month layoff having last raced at Saratoga last August. Out of GIII Florida Oaks winner Diva Delite, Sansone is the 3-year-old half-brother to champion older dirt female Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute), GSW/MGISP Verifying (Justify) and MSW/MGSP Stage Left (Congrats). TJCIS PPS The post Wednesday Insights: Trio Of Noteworthy Half-Siblings To The Races 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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Her dam had once been claimed for $15,000 and when John Fort's vet went out to approve the transaction, he found the filly grazing with a bunch of cattle. He rang Fort to check whether he realized that she wasn't even on a horse farm. “It's a cattle ranch,” he told the owner of Peachtree Stable. “She's the only horse out here.” Fort had noticed that she was bred by a Greenwich Cattle Company, but had given it no further thought. He had loved the filly, from the first crop of Any Given Saturday, when pulled out at the 2010 September Sale-and felt a nudge from fate when turning to her page: she was out of a sister to Invisible Ink, who had carried his silks into second in the 2001 Kentucky Derby. But Fort duly assumed that she would cost plenty and, having already stretched for three fillies earlier in the auction, nearly missed her. It was only when he noticed her listed as a $47,000 RNA that he hastened to the barn and struck a deal for $50,000, contingent on that vetting. He named her Princess Arabella and by the time Plum Pretty (Medaglia d'Oro) won them the Sunland Park Oaks by 25 lengths, Fort could already promise Bob Baffert that this filly would light up the next cycle. Sure enough, even though Plum Pretty had gone on to win the GI Kentucky Oaks, Baffert suggested that Princess Arabella might prove better yet after she broke her maiden at Santa Anita on the last day of the year. That prophecy remained intact as Princess Arabella graduated from an allowance to emulate her barnmate's success in the Sunland Park Oaks, albeit “only” by eight lengths from none other than Glinda the Good (Hard Spun), meanwhile celebrated as the dam of Good Magic. Unfortunately, that turned out to be her final start. The following January, at Keeneland, Summer Wind Farm recruited Princess Arabella, in foal to Tapit, for $725,000. Unfortunately her first colt died in a paddock accident, but he was obviously a good type as Princess Arabella was promptly returned to Tapit. The resulting filly retrieved her dam's cost in one hit when sold to Cheyenne Stables as a Saratoga yearling for $750,000 and, named Tapella, showed enough as a sophomore-winning a maiden and allowance at Belmont-to be tried in the GII Comely Stakes, running a creditable fourth. Princess Arabella meanwhile continued to pay her way, notably in banking $925,000 for an Uncle Mo colt, albeit her only foal ultimately to earn black type was her daughter by Candy Ride (Arg), Ulele. She, too, was bought by Cheyenne at Saratoga, for $300,000, before running second in the GII Black Eyed Susan Stakes. Having now entered production herself, Ulele can profit from her half-sister's exceptional start as a broodmare. Tapella's first foal, an Into Mischief filly sold for $510,000, is GII Golden Rod winner Hoosier Philly; and now her third, a Justify colt sold to BC Stables for $750,000 at the 2023 September Sale, has suddenly exploded on the GI Kentucky Derby trail. We are talking, of course, about American Promise. It is a measure of the astounding longevity of Wayne Lukas that a colt aiming to become his fifth Kentucky Derby winner should have a third dam-Princess Arabella's mother, Tortuga Lady (Thunder Gulch)-sired by his second. Tortuga Lady was claimed at Ellis Park when winning the last of her three starts. Times have changed, you feel. Would anyone today run a filly under a $15,000 tag barely a year after her brother ran second in the Derby? Not that she made a killing when sold on to Bobby McIntyre a few months later, at Fasig-Tipton February, for $67,000. Yet she came from a fair family, her third dam being half-sister to Belmont Stakes winner Quadrangle. (And actually, having produced multiple graded stakes-placed Dyna's Lassie (Dynaformer) even before she had Princess Arabella, Tortuga Lady eventually seems to have been privately transferred en route to producing no fewer than 17 registered foals-to Peter Blum's broodmare band.) Quadrangle was a big, raw horse who gradually matured into his frame. Both Thunder Gulch and Tortuga Lady's damsire Conquistador Cielo were also Belmont winners. And those flavors are reinforced in the Justify/Tapit cross behind American Promise: his sire famously completed the Triple Crown having never raced at two, while Tapit's four Belmont winners represent a modern record. Moreover American Promise carries a strong dose of another Belmont winner, A.P. Indy, whose son Pulpit gave us not only damsire Tapit but also Justify's granddam; while Any Given Saturday, sire of Princess Arabella, is out of an A.P. Indy mare. Combine those genes with the throwback methods of Lukas, pulling Saturday's spectacular Virginia Derby out of his hat with a “big, rangy horse that was in a growth spurt,” American Promise has every right to keep consolidating on the foundations laid in breaking his maiden only at the sixth attempt. Here is one horse, in fact, who might wish that the Belmont Stakes had not again suffered abbreviation at Saratoga this year. Fond Memories The filly who joined American Promise in exploiting a new staging post on the road to Churchill looks a rather faster learner. Fondly (Upstart) arrived for the Virginia Oaks as winner of a solitary start, but the way she overcame inexperience reiterated the immense promise of both her parents. Her dam Lifetime Memory (Istan) did not progress in only two further starts after winning a dirt sprint on debut. But her first foal, Antiquarian (Preservationist), won the GIII Peter Pan Stakes last year and is back on the worktab having disappeared after the Belmont. Fondly quickly proved well bought, then, Antiquarian having remained unraced when Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners found her for $50,000 at the Fasig-Tipton October Sale as a yearling. But that's the kind of thing that can happen, if you tap into the kind of beautifully curated families we know to expect from Airdrie Stud. Antiquarian | Adam Coglianese That auction took place barely a month after the funeral of farm founder Brereton C. Jones. Its consignment there also contained a son of Antiquarian's sire who was sold for just $2,500. As fast-closing GII Risen Star runner-up Chunk of Gold (Preservationist), he's fancied to earn additional starting points in the GII Louisiana Derby on Saturday. A glimpse of her page suffices to identify Fondly as an apt Governor Jones legacy, with her first three dams by Istan, Harlan's Holiday and Silver Hawk. Very few would have given a couple of those a chance in Kentucky, while the one in between sired a horse called Into Mischief during his debut season at Airdrie. Fondly's fourth dam was another impressive Jones project. He bought Now That's Funny (Saratoga Six) with partners at the 1992 Keeneland November Sale for $19,500, in foal to Fast Play. The colt she was carrying turned out to be Royal Ascot winner/G1 July Cup runner-up Lucayan Prince. The mare's next foal Comic Strip (Red Ransom) won the Louisiana Derby, after which she was sold to John Gaines for $2.65 million at the Keeneland November Sale. But Jones had meanwhile retained her daughter by Silver Hawk, Silver Comic, who won the GII Mrs Revere Stakes. Silver Comic was subsequently included in the second book of Harlan's Holiday and produced Silver Reunion, a graded stakes winner on turf. In turn retired to the Airdrie paddocks, Silver Reunion delivered GII Lake Placid Stakes winner Speaktomeofsummer (Summer Front) as well as Lifetime Memory, now dam of two Classic candidates from two attempts. As for Fondly's sire, after riding out a typical “bubble” he looks poised for a major breakout. Fondly was one of just 49 live Upstart foals in 2022, but that year his second crop included leading contenders for both Derby and Oaks and he has since covered 429 mares across three books. His 2024 yearlings elevated their average by 60 percent, a telling indicator of an imminent uptick in both the quality and quantity of his stock. From Buster to Boom Upstart's granddam is by Housebuster and that dashing horse's unraced sister, Dreamscape (Mt, Livermore), obviously channeled some zip into Booth, who last weekend announced himself at graded stakes level in the GIII Whitmore Stakes. Booth becomes the third graded stakes winner from three starters out of Dreamscape's daughter Sophia's Song (Bellamy Road), herself a stakes winner who missed the GIII Charles Town Oaks by a neck and nose. Previously she has produced GI Jockey Gold Cup winner Bright Future (Curlin) and GII Locust Grove Stakes scorer Musical Mischief (Into Mischief), albeit the latter remained only a maiden winner when Sophia's Song was cashed out to Shadai for $1.35 million at Fasig-Tipton's 2023 November Sale. Nor, obviously, was it yet clear quite how big a favor Mitole had received when Sophia's Song entered his debut book, but he has made his opportunity count in joining only class leader Omaha Beach among their intake with a third graded stakes winner. They have proved a notably unproductive lot, overall, by this key measure-but let's not forget that Mitole only reached his peak at four. While Booth was a TDN 'Rising Star' debutant at two, there have been ups and downs since and only now that he has himself turned four does he really seem to have found his groove. Incidentally, the dam of Dreamscape and Housebuster, Big Dreams (Great Above), also features as fourth dam of reigning champion sprinter Straight No Chaser (Speightster). The post Breeding Digest: Reasons to Be Bullish About Promise appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The catalogue for the 2025 Ocala Breeders' Sales Company Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training is now available online at www.obssales.com. The four-day sale will take place Apr. 15-18 with each session beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET. Hips 1-302 will sell Apr. 15 with Hips 303-604 going Apr. 16.-17 will offer Hips 605-906 with the sale concluding Apr. 18 with Hips 907-1207. The under-tack show will run from Apr. 6-12 starting at 8 a.m. ET each day. Hips 1-173 are slated for Apr. 6 followed by Hips 174-346 Apr. 7, Hips 347-519 Apr. 8, and Hips 520-691 Apr. 9. The final three days of the under-tack show will have Hips 692-863 going on Apr. 10 followed by Hips 864-1035 Apr. 11 and Hips 1036-1207 Apr. 12. The 2025 OBS Spring Sale also offers the entry option of “Gallop Only” where sellers can enter their horses with this designation which will be on the catalog page. The under-tack show and sale will be streamed live via the OBS website as well as the TDN, DRF, BloodHorse, and Past The Wire websites. Notable graduates out of the 2024 OBS Spring Sale include MGISW Chancer McPatrick, GISW Tenma, Saudi Derby winner Golden Vekoma, and GSWs May Day Ready and Mo Plex, and recent Grade III winner Vixen. Cavalieri, winner of the GI Beholder Mile on Mar. 8, is another notable OBS Spring Sale graduate having sold at the 2023 edition of the auction. The post OBS Spring of Two-year-olds in Training Catalogue Online 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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