Painted Fancy, a two-year-old filly out of two-time stakes-winner Splashing Fancy, and a half-sister to two-time stakes-winner Shuffling Maddnes, brought $25,000 at Tuesday’s OBS June sale of two-year-olds in training and horses of racing age, finishing the day as the top-selling New York-bred in the sale. The bay filly, consigned by Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Bloodstock (agent), was purchased by Bruce Brown (agent).
Painted Fancy, by Pleasant Tap, worked a crisp furlong in the under tack show in 10.3 and, if the racing success of her immediate family is anything to judge by, she has the potential to prove versatile. Her dam, Splashing Fancy, an Illinois-bred by Bucksplasher, won two state-bred stakes sprinting on dirt, but also captured a third-level allowance at a mile on the grass. New York-bred Shuffling Maddnes (Real Quiet), the most successful of the filly’s six winning half-siblings, earned all five career victories at distances of a mile and more, including two New York-bred stakes (Champagneforashley and Evan Shipman); he finished second in five more state-bred stakes and retired with nearly $400,000 in earnings. In all, the progeny of Splashing Fancy have earned just shy of $500,000. Painted Fancy has plenty of additional black type on her pedigree page. Her second dam Square Key Hour (Notable Squire) was a stakes winner, produced two stakes winners, and is a half-sister to the dam of Crafty Alfel, multiple stakes-winner and earner of $870,226. Painted Fancy, who gets a B TrueNicks rating, is inbred 5S X 5D to Princequillo. Bred by Joseph Gioia (who also bred Shuffling Maddnes), the filly was foaled at Sue and Gary Lundy’s Cedar Ridge Farm in Dutchess County. This was the second time she has changed hands, selling in 2009 to Journeyman Bloodstock (agent) for $5,000 from the consignment of Summerfield (agent) as a Saratoga Preferred Yearling.
The other two stand-outs at the sale were Random Reward, a colt by Grand Reward out of Devon Ridge (Cox’s Ridge), and a chestnut fully by Thunder Gulch out of the winning Spinning World mare Dizzy.
Random Reward, bred by Thomas-Narlinger LLC and A R Properties, and foaled at Sequel Stallions New York, was consigned by Tradewinds Farm (Agent II) and sold to Seung H. Nam for $20,000. The colt also had a nice furlong work clocked at 10.3. Random Reward had sold earlier in the year at the OBS Spring two year old sale (again consigned by Tradewinds Farm), where he was purchased by Dennis Amaty for $21,000. His dam has produced five winners from five foals to start, including stakes-placed New York-breds Interpretation (Freud) and Son of Sabato (Precise End). His second dam, Devon Lass (Secretariat), produced the grade 3-placed filly Royal Summit, and third Dam (by Herbager) is an unraced half-sister to two stakes winners, and producer of stakes-producers. The colt, which is inbred 4S X 5S to Secretariat, gets an A TrueNicks Rating (based on the Storm Cat/Cox’s Ridge cross).
The Thunder Gulch filly, who worked a quarter mile in 22.1, was purchased by Marette Farrell for $19,000 from Peacock Ridge (agent). One star on her pedigree page is second dam Rose Diamond (Diamond Shoal), who was grade 1-placed and produced two stakes winners and two stakes horses, including Deputy Diamond (Deputy Minister), who placed multiple times in graded stakes and earned $333,210. The filly’s third dam Summer Guest (Native Charge) was a multiple grade 1 winner in her own right. The filly was bred by Richard Simon’s New Dawn Thoroughbreds and Aron Yagoda, foaled at Sez Who Thoroughbreds New York, and gets an A TrueNicks rating (on the Thunder Gulch/Nureyev cross). She is inbred 4S X 4D to Northern Dancer, 5S X 5D to Native Dancer and 5D X 5D to Never Bend.
Overall, the sale showed dramatic increases over last year’s numbers: up 30.9% for the sale average ($20,817) with a stunning increase in the median of 58.8% ($13,500). Seventeen New York-breds in all sold on Monday for an average price of $8,041 and median of $4,500.
