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Hagin's Press Releases & Stallion News Archives
January, 2002 - April, 2002
(4/17) 4 New York-Bred 2YOs Sell at Keeneland Auction for $585,000
Four registered New York-breds were catalogued for Keeneland's April sale of
two-year-olds in training, held Tuesday afternoon, April 16, in Lexington, Kentucky,
and all four sold, bringing final bids totaling $585,000 from buyers based in
Canada, Japan, Virginia, and Illinois for an average of $146,250. Three of the
New York-bred juveniles brought prices in six figures.
Although the overall Keeneland sale enjoyed increases in gross, average and
median, the buyback rate was up from 37.7 percent of all two-year-olds offered
in 2001 to 42.7 percent of all stock offered this year. Of 249 juveniles originally
catalogued for the sale, just under 41 percent actually sold. The catalogued
New York-breds all found new owners.
Topping the Empire State-breds was a bright chestnut Smart Strike filly out
of multiple graded-placed Dior's Angel ($276,296) bred and consigned by North
Wales Farm of Warrenton, Virginia, and foaled at Howard Nolan's Blue Sky Farm
in Nassau -- purchased for $250,000 by trainer Roger Attfield of Nobleton, Ontario.
Tall and rangy and consigned through Allen Jenkins' H. T. Stables, Inc., agent,
this filly had been a $55,000 buyback at Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga preferred sale
last August, but in the April 8 and April 15 under tack previews had registered
furlong works of 10 1/5 and 10 2/5. The filly's dam is a half-sister to stakes
winner Superabundance and to the dam of 2001 Canadian juvenile colt champion
Rare Friends. Attfield could not recall ever having purchased a New York-bred
previously.
"Guess I'm going to have to study up on the New York program," Attfield observed.
"Of course, New York's real close by (to Ontario), so it'll be easy to ship
her there from where I'm based." Attfield said that the filly, consigned as
Hip No. 156, would race for a syndicate that he was in the process of putting
together.
Bringing $200,000 was a New York-bred Dixieland Band colt bred by and foaled
at Barry Schwartz's Stonewall Farm in Granite Springs and consigned as Hip No.
100 by agent Robert Scanlon. Purchased by North Hills Management of Niikappu-Gun
on the Japanese equine-raising island of Hokkaido, this big, muscular, animated
bay with lots of white markings follows three named offspring, all winners,
produced by a winning Alydar mare, Wings Point, who is a half-sister to a Venezuelan
stakes winner. In the April 8 under tack preview, this colt worked a furlong
on the main track in 10 1/5 and appeared particularly well developed for being
a relatively late (May 14) foal.
Also bringing six figures was a New York-bred Quiet American filly bred by the
Klaravich Stables of Seth Klarman from Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and foaled
at James F. Edwards' Keane Stud in Amenia, which sold for $100,000 as Hip No.
64 from the consignment of agent Nick de Meric. The first offspring produced
by Stock Picker, a Pleasant Colony mare who is a half-sister to two stakes winners,
this tall, rangy, bay filly had under tack preview works of 22 flat and 22 1/5
for a quarter-mile on Keeneland's main track and turf courses, respectively.
Signing the sales slip in the name of Dinwiddie Farm, which is a limited partnership
in Middleburg, Virginia, was Dinwiddie Farm general manager Bud Paul, who said
that the Quiet American filly would be sent to trainer Rusty Arnold in New York.
(4/9) Phone Trick Represented by G1 Winner in Argentina
Syndicated New York stallion PHONE TRICK, whose Caller One ($3,184,500)
captured the $2-million Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen at Nad Al Sheba in Dubai
on March 23, was represented by another major winner on Saturday, April 6, when
his four-year-old Rocking Trick won a Group 1 sprint in Argentina. Under 130
pounds, Rocking Trick won the Group 1 Gran Premio Cuidad de Buenos Aires at
Palermo in front-running fashion in the blistering time of 54.33 for five furlongs,
getting his second Group 1 win at Palermo since taking the Gran Premio Carrera
de Las Estrellas Juvenile as a two-year-old. Owned and bred in Argentina by
Vacacion Stable and trained by Juan Carlos Maldotti, Rocking Trick was ridden
to his latest victory by Pablo Falero, getting his fifth win in 17 starts while
favored at 1.75-to-1.
Out of the winning Storm Cat mare, Razzi Cat, Rocking Trick is a half-brother
to multiple Argentine Group 1 winner Randy Cat. Razzi Cat was purchased as a
broodmare for $35,000 at the 1995 Keeneland November sale and was later bred
back to Phone Trick on a Southern Hemisphere breeding schedule.
Phone Trick (Clever Trick - Over the Phone, by Finnegan), who recently picked
up his 47th stakes winner when After the Beep won Sunland Park's El Paso Times
Handicap on March 16, stands at Dr. Jonathan Davis' Milfer
Farm in Unadilla, where his 2002 fee is $25,000, live foal.
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(4/8) New York Stallion Lycius Represented by Influx of Recent
Winners
The 4 3/4-length victory on Friday, April 5, by French stakes-winning filly
Coney Kitty in a Gulfstream allowance race against nine rivals at odds-on (.70-to-1)
was just the latest in a series of recent wins by offspring of New York stallion
LYCIUS. Sixteen days earlier, a four-year-old son of Lycius, By Instinct,
captured Hong Kong's Tai Hing Handicap (U.S. equivalent value almost $90,000)
on dirt at Sha Tin racetrack for his third victory, winning under 132 pounds
as the 2.80-to-1 favorite among 14 starters and increasing his earnings to about
$135,000. Then on Good Friday (March 29), two more offspring of Lycius won in
Italy: three-year-old colt Lyole in Rome's six-furlong Premio Raffaello in 1:10.10
for his fourth win in six starts with two placings, and seven-year-old Chattan
in Treviso's five-furlong Premio Loggia dei Cavalieri for his 12th career win.
Other 2002 winners by Lycius are stakes winner Kjius ($144,249) in Italy, allowance
winner Corinthian ($110,380) at Hoosier Park on March 14, maiden winner Rainbow
Reward at Golden Gate on March 15, plus Mr. Lycius, Runaway Eve, Sopran Enli,
Silly, and Fray in Italy; Burgundy, I Got Rhythm, Lord Melbourne, and Lycheel
in the United Kingdom; and Lyonnais in North America.
Lycius, standing his first New York season at Tim Little's and Anne Morgan's
Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, had sired 21 black-type stakes winners through
2001, including Italian champion and North American graded winner Hello ($491,631)
and other North American graded winners Media Nox (Grade 2) and Miss Universal
($273,425). His other European stakes winners include Group 2 winner Ivan Luis
in Italy, Group 3 winners Aylesbury and Athlumney Lady in Ireland, and Group
3 winners Ya Hajar and Lycitus in France. Lycitus, who won three of five starts
in France as a three-year-old, worked six furlongs at Santa Anita in 1:13 4/5
on March 31. Lycius' first North American-conceived offspring are yearlings
of 2002.
An Irish-bred daughter of Lycius, Madame Jones, last year tied a British record
for the most handicap wins by a filly or mare in one season when she captured
11 handicaps -- with 12 wins overall for 2001 -- equaling a record held by two
mares from two centuries ago.
A Group 1 record-setter in England and earner of $508,888 in the colors of Sheikh
Mohammed al Maktoum, who had purchased him for $500,000 as a Keeneland sales
yearling, Lycius is the property of the B.E. Stables of Boston entrepreneur
and philanthropist Steve Belkin. The son of Mr. Prospector - Lypatia, by Lyphard,
stands at Mill Creek Farm for a fee of $7,500, live foal.
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(4/7) NY Stallion Take Me Out Gets New Stakes Winner at Gulfstream
Syndicated New York stallion TAKE ME OUT was represented by his seventh
stakes winner on Saturday, April 6, when his three-year-old May-foaled son (chronologically
still a two-year-old), Marasca, captured Gulfstream's $250,000 Aventura Stakes
by a length and a quarter over odds-on (.60-to-1) Equality. Ridden by Christopher
DeCarlo, Martin Cherry's dark bay colt was rated close to the pace on the outside,
then took command nearing the stretch and maintained a clear margin (at equal
weights) over Equality, who three weeks earlier had won the Grade 3 Tampa Bay
Derby by 2 1/4 lengths. The 7.70-to-1 third choice among nine starters in the
mile and a sixteenth Aventura, Marasca was making his first stakes attempt,
and the victory was worth $150,000, bringing his career earnings to $196,460
and giving him a record of 2 - 3 - 1 in seven starts.
Bred by John Gunther and trained by John Kimmel, Marasca was purchased by Cherry
for $165,000 a year ago at Keeneland's April sale of two-year-olds in training,
prior to which he had been a $55,000 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July sales yearling
and a $39,000 Keeneland November weanling. He is a full brother to Grade 2 Louisiana
Derby winner Kimberlite Pipe ($880,018), being out of Rajas Secret, a Storm
Bird mare who is a half-sister to stakes winner and multiple stakes producer
Secret Advice.
Earlier that same day, Take Me Out picked up another new stakes horse and a
new six-figure-earner when his five-year-old son, Rollin Me Out ($105,864),
got his first stakes-placing with a second in Beulah Park's Edward Babst Memorial
Handicap, beating odds-on (.70-to-1) multiple stakes winner Down Thepike Mike
($383,901). Take Me Out's other stakes winners are It'sallinthechase (third
in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby on March 10), Wise Blues (three-time stakes winner),
Leave Me Out (multiple stakes winner), Susie Blues (unbeaten in two starts as
a juvenile in 2001), and Hello Josephine. A graded winner both sprinting at
Saratoga and going two turns in Florida, Take Me Out (Cure the Blues - White
Feather, by Tom Rolfe) stands at Dr. Jonathan Davis' Milfer
Farm in Unadilla, where his 2002 fee is $5,000, live foal.
(4/6) NY-Bred Raise an Emblem's Photo Featured Twice in Kentucky
Paper
Since his 3 3/4-length first-time-out score resulted in the biggest $2 pari-mutuel
payoff ($37.40) of Keeneland's 2002 spring opening day on Friday, April 5, New
York-bred RAISE AN EMBLEM made quite an impression on the local media.
Photos featuring the two-year-old, who races for Maria DeVille's Pre K Stable
along with Neal Galvin and Julie Levine, appeared above the fold on the front
page of Saturday's Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader city/region section and in
the sports section, where he was identified as "a 17-to-1 outsider".
It was Keeneland's largest opening day crowd since 1985, with 14,879 racing
fans in attendance under bright sunny skies but nippy temperatures in the 40s.
Although Raise an Emblem was drawing off through the final furlong of the 4
1/2-furlong maiden special race, there naturally are questions about how far
an early-winning two-year-old can go and how long he can last. Arguing the colt's
case for stamina is the presence in his pedigree of two route-running grandparents:
undefeated Personal Ensign (full sister to Grade 1-winning millionaire and New
York stallion Personal Flag) and deceased Grade 2-winning New York stallion
Slew the Knight, who won Belmont's two-turn Hill Prince Stakes.
(3/30) AT THE THRESHOLD (1981 - 2002)
Two-time New York-bred champion AT THE THRESHOLD ($695,930), a multiple
Grade 1 winner and sire of 1992 Kentucky Derby winner Lil E. Tee, died on March
23 at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine in West Lafayette, Indiana,
apparently of a stroke. The 21-year-old stallion had been standing at Stoney
Creek Horse Farm in Mooreland, Indiana.
Bred by retired New York businessmen and South Florida residents Raymond Karlinsky
and Arthur Levien, At the Threshold was foaled at John Lawrence's Nissequogue
Stallion Station in St. James, Long Island, on February 19, 1981. The chestnut
son of Norcliffe - Winver, by Vertex, was consigned to the Kenington Sales Company's
1982 July yearling sale, where H. P. Bishop bought him for $40,000 -- which
was almost double the average price for Norcliffe yearlings at auction that
year.
As a two-year-old, At the Threshold broke his maiden in his second start at
Churchill Downs after a third-place debut in an allowance race, then placed
third in Churchill Downs' Iroquois Stakes and in the Kentucky Special Stakes
at Latonia (now Turfway Park) in late September. Later that fall, W. Cal Partee
of Magnolia, Arkansas, purchased the colt privately for $150,000 and turned
him over to trainer Lynn Whiting, who sent him to New York to win Aqueduct's
Ashley T. Cole Stakes for New York-breds (then run for two-year-olds). With
four wins in nine starts, including a stakes victory plus two stakes placings,
At the Threshold was voted Champion New York-Bred Juvenile Male for 1983.
Stretching out in distance as a three-year-old, At the Threshold found his niche,
winning Latonia's Grade 3 Jim Beam Stakes, placing second in the Grade 2 Pennsylvania
Derby and third in the Kentucky Derby, then winning the Grade 2 Ohio Derby at
Thistledown by three lengths. Subsequent victories followed that summer in Arlington's
Grade 1 Arlington Classic and Grade 1 American Derby, where he dead-heated on
an off track with a colt he was spotting six pounds to while carrying top weight
of 126 and conceding nine-to-12 pounds to the rest of the field. He was discovered
to have bled after that race, and trainer Whiting conceded that At the Threshold
was a tired colt. A scheduled appearance in Louisiana Downs' Grade 1 Super Derby
was cancelled, and At the Threshold's syndication and retirement to stud at
Southland Farm in Ocala, Florida, was announced shortly thereafter.
With victories in two Grade 1 events, a Grade 2 and a Grade 3 plus a third-place
in the Kentucky Derby, At the Threshold was the overwhelming choice for Champion
New York-Bred Three-Year-Old Male for 1984. The New York-Bred Horse of the Year
selection, however, went to future first New York-bred millionaire Win, who
that year on the NYRA circuit had won the Grade 1 Manhattan and Grade 2 Bernard
Baruch Handicaps on turf and the Grade 2 Tidal Handicap on dirt.
At stud, At the Threshold has sired winners of almost $10-million, of which
Derby winner Lil E. Tee ($1,437,506), who also won the Grade 2 Jim Beam and
Grade 2 Razorback Handicap, is the most prominent, but his stakes winners also
included California and Midwest standout Seahawk Gold ($513,512). At the Threshold
stood in Oklahoma prior to taking up residence in Indiana.
The vote for 1984 New York-Bred Horse of the Year had to have been one of the
closest ever. At the Threshold was one of the best horses bred in the Empire
State in the 1980s.
(3/27) New York-Bred 2YO Rodeo Colt Brings $70,000 at Texas Sale
The popularity of profitably pinhooked New York-bred sales juveniles by New
York stallion RODEO continued at Fasig-Tipton's Texas sale of two-year-olds
in training at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, held on Tuesday, March
26, where a New York-bred Rodeo colt brought the sale's co-fourth-highest price
among colts, $70,000. Consigned by Leprechaun Racing, agent, the colt was purchased
by James E. Helzer of Arlington, Texas, who races extensively on the Texas circuit
and owns JEH Stallion Station in Pilot Point, Texas. Breeder of the colt is
former state Senator Howard C. Nolan, at whose Blue Sky Farm in Nassau the chestnut
youngster was foaled on April 27, 2000.
Out of stakes winner Maison Close, by New York stallion Spectacular Bid, the
Rodeo colt is a half-brother to four winners, including an earner of $109,014.
As a yearling, he was sold for $12,500 at Keeneland's September sale in Lexington,
Kentucky. At the under tack show held the Sunday before the sale, he worked
a furlong in an impressive 10 2/5 seconds.
Four registered New York-breds were sold at the Texas auction, and one did not
meet its reserve price, with the four averaging 16 percent higher than the average
for the overall sale, at which 175 two-year-olds sold for $3,722,100, and another
159 (48 percent) of those offered did not sell.
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PHONE TRICK
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(3/25) NY Stallion Phone Trick's Caller One Wins $2-Million Dubai
Sprint
The $1,200,000 earned by New York stallion PHONE TRICK's son, Caller
One, in the $2-million Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen at Nad Al Sheba on Saturday,
March 23, was the largest purse ever earned by an offspring of a stallion standing
in New York when the race was run. It eclipsed the $628,800 earned by Cormorant's
New York-conceived son, Go for Gin, when he won the 1994 Kentucky Derby, which
had exceeded the $600,000 earned by Thunder Puddles' New York-bred son, Thunder
Rumble, when he won the 1992 Travers Stakes. The five-year-old Caller One's
hard-fought head margin victory under jockey Gary Stevens made Phone Trick the
first New York stallion ever to have annual progeny earnings over $1-million
before the end of March.
It was Caller One's second annual score in the Dubai Golden Shaheen, boosting
his earnings to $3,184,500 and giving him a record of 10 - 3 - 2 in 19 starts.
When he won the $2-million event in 2001, the track was more speed favoring,
enabling him to cover the six-furlong distance in 1:08.38. This year, a much
slower Nad Al Sheba strip brought Caller One's time up to 1:09.91. In his next
start two months following the 2001 Dubai Golden Shaheen, the James Chapman
trainee had captured Hollywood Park's Grade 3 Los Angeles Handicap by 2 1/2
lengths in 1:08.35, which was his last win prior to his victory on Saturday.
The bay gelding's last previous start had been a close third-place effort under
equal top weight in Hollywood's Grade 3 Vernon O. Underwood Stakes on December
2. Bred by John R. Gaines Thoroughbreds in partnership with Orpendale, a division
of Coolmore, Caller One races for his trainer's mother, Carolyn Chapman, and
her longtime friend, Theresa McArthur.
Phone Trick, among four U.S. sires represented by winners on the Dubai World
Cup program (two stand in Kentucky; one in California), got his 47th stakes
winner on March 16 when his three-year-old daughter, After the Beep, won Sunland's
El Paso Times Handicap for her fourth victory in six starts. A Grade 2-winning
sprinter in both New York and California, syndicated Phone Trick (Clever Trick
- Over the Phone, by Finnegan), stands at Dr. Jonathan Davis' Milfer
Farm in Unadilla, where his 2002 fee is $25,000, live foal.
(3/22) 13 New York-Breds Bring $845,000 at OBS Selected Sale of 2Yos
Highlighted by a son and daughter of New York stallion Rodeo selling for $150,000
each that were both foaled at Gus Schoenborn Jr.'s Contemporary in Coxsackie,
13 registered New York-breds grossed $845,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's
selected sale of two-year-olds in training, held March 19-20 in Ocala, Florida.
Average price for the 13 New York-bred two-year-olds was $65,000. New York-bred
fillies seemed particularly in demand, with three of the four offered selling
for more than the sale's overall median price of $53,500, and all four averaging
$81,750 -- or 19 percent higher than the sale's $68,792 average for fillies.
Four New York-bred colts brought prices exceeding the sale's median level. Eight
unsold New York-bred two-year-olds -- all colts -- did not bring their reserve
prices.
Twelve of the 13 New York-breds sold were pinhooks, and 10 of those were profitable
pinhooks, with the aggregate price of $785,000 for all 12 New York-bred pinhooked
two-year-olds more than doubling the $388,000 that they had collectively cost
as sales yearlings six to seven months earlier.
The overall sale saw 200 juveniles bring prices totaling $14,722,000 for an
average of $73,610, which was up by five percent over its 2001 average, even
though the gross was down by three percent from the previous year. Sixteen fewer
two-year-olds sold at this sale than in the 2001 auction.
The sale's sixth highest-priced filly, at $150,000, was New York-bred Hip No.
38, by Rodeo out of $208,959-earning New York-bred Miss Halo Country, consigned
by Mark Casse as agent for the Sez Who Thoroughbreds of Richard Simon, who had
bought her as a Keeneland September sales yearling for $37,000. Purchased by
Cecil Seaman as agent for Susan Moore of M and M Stable in Far Hills, New Jersey,
this filly was bred by Gus Schoenborn Jr. and foaled at Contemporary. She had
workouts of 10 3/5 for a furlong and 21 4/5 for a quarter-mile at the under
tack shows in the days preceding the sale. Her dam, Miss Halo Country, by Carr
de Naskra, is a half-sister to four six-figure earners, including New York-bred
stakes winners Image Maker ($339,667) and Financial Lady.
Also selling for $150,000 to trainer Ben Perkins was a New York-bred colt by
Rodeo, Hip No. 249, out of Besmirched, by Relaunch, consigned by Eisaman Equine,
agent, which had purchased him for $62,000 at Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga preferred
yearling sale last August. Bred by Suzi Shoemaker's Lantern Hill Farm in Midway,
Kentucky, and foaled at Contemporary, where Rodeo stands, this colt had workouts
of 10 2/5 for a furlong and 22 for a quarter-mile at the under tack shows. He
is the first offspring produced by a full sister to multiple stakes winner Song
of Ambition ($219,901) and a half-sister to the dam of 2001 juvenile stakes
winner Nicholle's Devil.
Rodeo, a Belmont-winning Gone West stallion, entered stud at Contemporary in
1999, and the two $150,000 two-year-olds are from his first crop. Other New
York stallions represented by OBS New York-bred juveniles whose prices exceeded
the sale's median were A. P Jet and Distinctive Pro, who stand at Howard Kaskel's
Sugar Maple Farm
in Poughquag, and Storm of Angels, who stands at Anne Morgan's and Tim Little's
Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater.
(3/20) New York Stallion Phone Trick Gets 47th SW -- After the Beep
Syndicated New York stallion PHONE TRICK was represented by his 47th
stakes winner on Saturday, March 16, when his three-year-old daughter, After
the Beep, captured Sunland Park's El Paso Times Handicap by a length and a half
over eight rivals for her fourth consecutive victory.
A homebred who races for R. D. Hubbard and Constance Sczesny, After the Beep
was in seventh place in the early running of the six-furlong event for three-year-old
fillies, then passed four competitors on the turn before having to be steadied
by jockey Jorge Martin Bourdieu nearing the quarter-mile pole. Looking for room,
Bourdieu angled the Phone Trick filly three-wide into the stretch, where she
dueled between rivals until reaching the sixteenth of a mile pole, taking command
thereafter and drawing clear. Setting the early pace was 1.70-to-1 favorite
Friona, odds-on winner of Philadelphia Park's Critical Miss Stakes last year
as a two-year-old, who tired and finished eighth. After the Beep was the 2-to-1
second choice among the nine starters.
Trained by Bart Hone, After the Beep has not lost since breaking her maiden
by three lengths in her third start at Sunland in December, capturing allowance
races by daylight margins at Sunland in January and February while showing she
could win on the lead or from off the pace. She is the first offspring produced
by Reluctant Diva, a British-bred Sadler's Wells mare who is a half-sister to
Hollywood Park stakes winner Royal Shyness ($191,543).
After the Beep is the first stakes winner from the 1999 crop of Phone Trick,
whose 47 stakes winners include 1997 Horse of the Year Favorite Trick ($1,726,793),
1993 Eclipse Champion Juvenile Filly Phone Chatter, and multiple graded-winning
sprinter Caller One ($1,984,500). The graded-winning son of Clever Trick - Over
the Phone, by Finnegan, whose progeny earned $4,609,202 in 2001, stands at Dr.
Jonathan Davis' Milfer Farm in Unadilla,
where his 2002 fee is $25,000, live foal.
(2/27) 4 New York-Bred 2YOs Gross $1,015,000 at Fasig-Tipton Calder
Sale
Four registered New York-bred juveniles brought prices ranging from $155,000
to $310,000 at FasigTipton Florida's sale of selected two-year-olds in training
held at Calder Race Course on Tuesday, February 26, grossing $1,015,000 and
bringing a $253,750 average that 19.6 percent higher than the overall sales
average. Three of the four New York-breds sold for prices higher than the sale's
median level of $175,000, which was up 16.7 percent over the sale's 2001 median.
Two of the New York-breds sold were profitable pinhook purchases from 2001 yearling
auctions.
Five New York-breds that went through the sales ring did not meet their reserve
prices, although three of those fetched live bids in six figures. Overall average
for the sale, where 139 juveniles grossed $29,479,000, was $212,079, which represented
a 2.3 percent increase in average from 2001.
Two-year-olds not meeting their reserve prices comprised 45.3 percent of all
juveniles offered at the sale -- up slightly from 42.6 percent in 2001. This
obviously was a competitively select sale, and a significant number of two-year-olds
which did not reach sufficient price levels were taken back.
Highest-priced among the New York-breds were two colts -- both foaled in May
of 2000 -- which brought $310,000 each. The first, from the first crop of Grade
1 Travers and Super Derby winner Deputy Commander and a half-brother to New
York-bred multiple stakes winner Long Distance, was sold as Hip No. 197 by Bailey-Ellenberg
Select, Jerry Bailey Sales Agency, agent, to Great Diehl LLC of Salt Lake City,
Utah. Bred by Harry L. Landry, Dr. David G. Doane and General Michael J. Scotti,
this colt was foaled at Jacques Boisvert's Sun Valley Farm in Ballston, Spa,
and had been sold at last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select sale of yearlings
to Kenneth Ellenberg for $190,000. Named Lofty Call, he had furlong works of
10 4/5 and 10 3/5, respectively, at the Calder under tack shows of February
17 and 24.
Also bringing $310,000, from equine law specialist Robert L. Beck of Colleyville,
Texas, was Hip No. 319, a New York-bred French Deputy colt and the first offspring
produced by winner Belle Boyd, a daughter of Jolie's Halo and a half-sister
to a Panamanian champion. Consigned by agent Niall Brennan and named J. B. Hood,
this colt was bred by Ernie Frohboese and was foaled at Bonnie vonWiesenthal's
Snowberry Farm in Hudson. His furlong workout at the February 17 under tack
show, clocked in 10 1/5, equaled the fastest furlong works for both of the under
tack show exhibitions.
Bringing $240,000 from Wesley Ward of Glendora, California, was another New
York-bred May foal, a Two Punch colt out of winner and producer Dahoni, by Slewpy,
consigned as Hip No. 31 by Eisman Equine, agent, and named Da Punch. Fully nominated
to the Maryland Million as well as to the Aspirant Stakes and New York Breeders'
Futurity for state-breds, this colt is a half-brother to four winners, including
a stakes-placed colt and an earner of $105,230. He worked a furlong in 10 2/5
on February 17. His breeder is K.J.E. Ventures, and he was foaled at Chester
and Mary Broman's Chestertown Farm in West Babylon.
Selling for $155,000 to Meehan/Newmarket, agent, was a New York-bred Devil's
Bag filly, Hip No. 57, whose racing age half-sisters are New York-bred stakes
winners Try n Sue ($236,590) and Winter Dreams, being out of winner Final Accord,
by D'Accord. Consigned by agent Eddie Woods, who had purchased her for $82,000
at last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga preferred sale of yearlings, this filly
was bred by Patricia Calandro, who had co-consigned her to the preferred sale
and owns the Barely Able Farm in Holmes where the filly was foaled. This filly
had furlong workouts of 11 seconds on February 17 and 10 4/5 seconds on February
24.
(2/27) Grade 2 Winner Performing Magic Enters Stud at Sugar Maple
Farm
Grade 2 winner Performing Magic, a winner in England and North America and a
son of popular sire-of-sires Gone West, is scheduled to arrive at Howard Kaskel's
Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag on
Wednesday evening, February 27, to stand the 2002 season for a fee of $5,000,
live foal. Winner in 2000 of Sportsman's Park's Grade 2 Illinois Derby as well
as Churchill Downs' Grade 3 Derby Trial and the Grade 2 Remington Park Derby,
Performing Magic as a two-year-old was a two-time victor on turf in England.
He stands as the property of his racing owner, Prince Ahmed Salman's The Thoroughbred
Corp., which purchased him for $541,800 at the 1998 Tattersalls September yearling
sale in England.
Bred by Robert Sangster's Swettenham Stud, Performing Magic was foaled in Kentucky
and made his first start in England in May of his juvenile season, placing in
his first four starts and breaking his maiden in August, after which he won
again a month later. Shipped to North America, he made his first start as a
three-year-old in Santa Anita's Grade 3 Baldwin Stakes on turf at 6 1/2 furlongs
"down the hill", placing second after swinging four-wide into the
straightaway. His first start on dirt came a month later on the other side of
the continent, where he placed third in Aqueduct's Grade 3 Gotham Stakes at
a mile after making another four-wide move. Then came back-to-back victories
in the Derby Trial and Illinois Derby, followed by his Remington Park Derby
score. Performing Magic also placed second in Hoosier Park's $307,500 Indiana
Derby under equal top weight and third -- beaten a head and a neck -- in the
Grade 3 Del Mar Breeders' Cup Handicap. He earned $723,422 in 18 starts.
By Gone West, whose sons at stud include multiple Group/Grade 1 sire Mr. Greeley
in Kentucky and multiple champion-siring Zafonic in England, Performing Magic
is a half-brother to stakes winners Woodborough (Group 3) and Dance Trick, being
out of Group 1-placed winner Performing Arts, by The Minstrel. Performing Arts
is a full sister to stakes winner The Noble Player ($355,526) and a half-sister
to the dam or granddam of three more stakes winners, and her dam was a Group
2 winner in Ireland.
(2/25) New York-Bred Let's Contend Wins Debut at Charles Town by
3 1/2
When Patricia Brown's New York-bred three-year-old filly of 2000, Honey's Contender,
won her debut two years ago on Aqueduct's inner track, she was 34-to-1; she
would win again two months later on Aqueduct's outer track and eventually went
on to place third in the New York Oaks. That filly's current three-year-old
full sister, Brown's New York-bred LET'S CONTEND, showed up at Charles
Town on Friday, February 22, for her first start and went off the sixth choice
at 7-to-1 among 10 starters in the fifth race, a maiden special for three-year-old
fillies at 6 1/2 furlongs. Breaking from the seventh post position under jockey
Rafael Arroyave, she pressed the early pace in second place through a half-mile,
then gained a clear lead on the turn and drew off through the stretch to win
by 3 1/2 lengths.
Bred by her owner's late husband, S. Christian Brown of Harpers Ferry, West
Virginia, and trained by Victor Espinosa, Honey's Contender is by syndicated
New York stallion Key Contender ($839,261), a Grade 1 winner who stands at Carl
Lizza Jr.'s and Joseph Bartone's Highcliff Farm Delanson. She is the second
named offspring and second winner -- following Honey's Contender -- produced
by Christian Brown's New York homebred multiple stakes winner, Noble Honey ($362,625),
who is a daughter of the late New York stallion, Noble Nashua ($678,427).
(2/19) Strawberry Road Stallion End of the Road Enters Stud at Highcliff
James Olson's END OF THE ROAD, who caught Eclipse Champion Lemon Drop
Kid at the wire after making up two lengths on that five-time NYRA Grade 1 winner
in the final furlong at Aqueduct, is entering stud at Carl Lizza Jr.'s and Joseph
Bartone's Highcliff Farm in Delanson.
Fee for the seven-year-old son of Strawberry Road - Bonjove, by Caracolero,
will be announced at a later date.
Winner of nine races -- nine at NYRA tracks -- and earner of $248,805, End of
the Road was a multiple winner on both dirt and turf and picked up NYRA Grade
2 stakes money on grass. On dirt, he won at distances ranging from seven furlongs
in his second career start to a mile and a half by four lengths at Aqueduct,
scoring on both fast and off tracks. On turf, he won from a mile and a sixteenth
to a mile and three-eighths. In addition to Lemon Drop Kid, other stakes winners
he competed with included graded NYRA winner Boston Party, whom he beat by a
daylight margin at Aqueduct after a three-wide move on the second turn.
By the late international champion Strawberry Road ($1,713,958), who sired 39
stakes winners -- including six North American Grade 1 winners -- from nine
crops, End of the Road is a half-brother to Grade 2 juvenile stakes winner Scratch
Pad ($440,538). A May foal (Scratch Pad was a March foal), he is among four
multiple winners from four starters produced by his dam, who is a winning sister
or half-sister to two stakes fillies.
(2/13) Number of Open Stakes Won in 2001 by NY-Breds Increased to
29
Because a weekly trade journal erroneously reported New York-bred French Group
2 winner MASTERFUL as a Kentucky-bred, that current four-year-old was
not counted among the New York-bred winners of open (to horses bred anywhere)
stakes in 2001. The black-type event which Masterful won by a length for owner
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum on August 15, the Group 2 Prix Guillaume
d'Ornano at Deauville, was actually the 19th open stakes captured by a New York-bred
in 2001. This brings the total number of open stakes victories by state-breds
in 2001 to 29 -- in 14 different U.S. states coast-to-coast plus France -- and
the total number of individual New York-bred open stakes winners to 19.
The Prix Guillaume d'Ornano was for three-year-olds at about a mile and a quarter
on turf. There were nine starters -- bred in France, England, Ireland and Germany
in addition to Masterful, the lone New York-bred. Although Masterful's winning
margin was a length, only a head separated the second and third-place finishers,
with English Group 3 winner Chancellor edging out French Group 1 winner Sagacity.
All nine starters carried 123 pounds. It was Masterful's third victory during
a one-month span last summer, during which the bay son of Danzig - Moonlight
Serenade, by Dictus, also scored twice by daylight margins (once by five lengths)
at Royal Ascot in England. His trainer is John Gosden.
Bred by the late Jerry Brody's Gallagher's
Stud in Ghent, Masterful was a $250,000 purchase at Keeneland's 1999 July
yearling sale, with John Ferguson Bloodstock signing the sales slip. The Danzig
colt is a half-brother to three stakes winners, including French Group 2 winner
Corviglia and French/North American winner River Rhythm ($545,706). According
to the New York State Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund office, Masterful's
dam, Moonlight Serenade, fully met the New York residency requirements for his
eligibility to be a registered New York-bred. Masterful, whose Group 2 victory
came three months after Brody's death on May 15, was the 17th New York-bred
stakes winner bred by Gallagher's Stud.
(2/11) New York Stallion Williamstown Gets 10th Stakes Winner
In an emphatic demonstration of superiority under equal top weight of 122 pounds,
Claudie Steen's three-year-old Little Joe Tubb, from the latest crop to race
by New York stallion WILLIAMSTOWN, won Fair Grounds' South Mississippi
Owners & Breeders Stakes by six lengths on Friday, February 8. Racing four-wide
in fourth position approaching the stretch, the bay colt took command before
the final furlong of the six-furlong event and was ridden out to an ever-lengthening
lead by jockey Kirk Paul LeBlanc, who also rode the winners of three other races
on the day's card.
The 2.70-to-1 second choice among nine starters in the South Mississippi Owners
& Breeders, Little Joe Tubb in six starts has three wins and a third-place effort
in his last previous outing 10 weeks earlier, which also had been his first
stakes effort, the Mississippi Futurity at Fair Grounds. For that race, LeBlanc
rode the colt for the first time, prior to which Little Joe Tubb had scored
consecutive maiden special and open allowance victories by daylight margins
at Fairmount Park (in Illinois) in September. Steen purchased the colt, whose
trainer is Ronnie Ward, as a theoretically just-turned-yearling for $2,700 at
Keeneland's January 2000 sale of horses of all ages -- even though the youngster
at that time still was chronologically three months shy of being a yearling.
Bred by Jerry Kirksey, Little Joe Tubb is the first offspring out of Alegier,
an unraced Alleged mare, and has no black-type under his second dam and only
one instance of Australian stakes-placed black-type under his third dam. He
is the 10th stakes winner sired by Williamstown, who ran the fastest main track
mile in Belmont Park history (1:32 3/5) when he won the Grade 2 Withers Stakes
in 1993 and whose other stakes winners include Belmont graded winner Eze. Owned
by a syndicate, Williamstown (Seattle Slew - Winter Sparkle, by Northjet) stands
at James and Lorna Mack's Silvernails
Farm (Mike Tobin, manager) in Pine Plains, where his 2002 fee is $7,500,
live foal.
(2/7) Nunzio to Stand 2002 at Dutchess Views Farm
NUNZIO, a speedy six-furlong winning son of Holy Bull, has been retired
from racing to enter stud at Michael and Debra Lischin's Dutchess
Views Farm in Pine Plains, where he will stand for a fee of $1,500, live
foal, as the property of his racing owner, Jane K. Griffin. The gray five-year-old
was on the board in 10 of his first 13 starts, including Keeneland's Grade 3
Phoenix Breeders' Cup, before incurring injury problems that surfaced in Aqueduct's
Grade 2 Fall Highweight Handicap in November, after which he attempted only
one additional start.
Out of Hollywood Park open allowance winner Paradisa, a Seeking the Gold mare
who set a half-mile fraction of 43 4/5 at Santa Anita, Nunzio was a $175,000
sales two-year-old who broke his maiden in his first start by four lengths at
Belmont as a juvenile. After four consecutive second-place efforts at Belmont
and Saratoga, he returned to the Belmont winner's circle following a 2 1/4-length
victory in his sixth start, in which his six-furlong time of 1:09.39 qualified
for a Beyer figure of 102 -- his second triple-digit Beyer as a three-year-old.
He earned $117,188.
(2/7) New York-Bred 2Yos at OBS Sale Prove to Be Profitable
Pinhooks
A pair of New York-breds sold at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's selected
sale of two-year-olds in training at Calder Race Course in Miami, Florida, on
Tuesday, February 5, proved once again that New York-bred sales yearlings make
excellent pinhooking prospects -- even without first dam black-type. The two
juveniles -- a colt that sold for $220,000 and a filly that sold for $105,000
-- both had been purchased as sales yearlings in late summer of 2001, and both
exceeded the sale's median price of $90,000, which was up by 20 percent from
its $75,000 level in 2001. Prices for both two-year-olds also exceeded the sale's
averages for their respective genders (colts and fillies), despite the record
overall sales average being up by 10 percent from a year ago.
The $220,000 New York-bred colt, a son of Pine Bluff - Street Tappin, by Housebuster,
was purchased by Cottonwood Creek Racing of Northern California from the consignment
of Paul Sharp, agent, who had bought the colt for only $35,000 at the Keeneland
September yearling sale less than five months earlier. Sold at Keeneland a week
after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the colt was bred by Kent and Katy
Wiechert of Corrales, New Mexico, and foaled at Louis Salerno's
Questroyal Stud in New Hampton. He had the fastest furlong work (10 1/5)
at the two-day under tack show that preceded the sale, and his dam is a half-sister
to Irish Group 3 winner Street Rebel and track record-setting multiple stakes
winner Ponche ($437,086) and to the dam of Canadian sprint champion Apelia ($621,708).
This colt's OBS price exceeded the overall sales average -- which was an OBS-Calder
record -- by more than $105,000 and also topped the overall sales average for
colts by almost $100,000.
The $105,000 filly, a daughter of Gold Fever - Timely Holiday, by Caveat, was
purchased by New York trainer Frank Alexander as agent for Joseph P. Platt Jr.
from the Sequel Bloodstock consignment of agent Becky Thomas, who had bought
her for $44,000 at Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga preferred yearling sale in August.
Bred by Bettina Gates and My Jo Lee Stable II and foaled at Joe and Anne McMahon's
McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds,
LLC, this filly worked a furlong in 11 1/5 on January 28 and then held that
same speed over a quarter-mile (in 22 2/5) on February 3. She is named Notre
Legacy and is a half-sister to a colt that broke his maiden by six lengths in
November. Her dam is a full sister to Grade 1 winner Timely Warning ($851,091),
who set an Aqueduct track record of 2:14 for a mile and three-eighths in the
1991 Brooklyn Handicap, and a half-sister to New York-bred multiple stakes-placed
winner Bellingham ($333,649).
(2/5) Autopsy Studies on New York Stallion Dixie Brass Continuing
Autopsy studies on Michael Watral's Grade 1-winning New York stallion DIXIE
BRASS, who died in his stall at James Edwards' The Stallion Park in Millbrook
about 7:30 a.m. on Monday, January 28, have been inconclusive to date and are
continuing, with complete results anticipated within the next few weeks. The
13-year-old son of Dixieland Band - Petite Diable, by Sham, was found to be
in respiratory distress that morning and died shortly thereafter. He had been
treated for respiratory problems at Cornell University's Equine Research Park
in Ithaca during the first half of February, 2001, but a representative for
Watral elected to have an autopsy performed at the University of Pennsylvania's
New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
Dixie Brass was the only horse ever to win two of New York's most venerable
mile events -- the Metropolitan Handicap and the Withers Stakes -- in the same
year. Four other horses, beginning with champion The Finn in 1915 and including
Hall of Fame member Native Dancer, also won both events, but never in the same
year. Based in New York since the 1998 breeding season, Dixie Brass has sired
26 stakes winners from six crops to race, including Grade 2 winner Dixie Dot
Com ($1,322,775) and other graded/group winners I'm Brassy (G2), Soldier Field
($418,160), Polished Brass, Xtreme Bid and Putra plus two Caribbean champions.
Bred
in Kentucky by Atlanta businessman John Rooker, Dixie Brass was sold at Keeneland's
1990 September yearling sale for $20,000 and pinhooked as a juvenile at the
Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 1991 March sale of two-year-olds in training,
where Watral purchased him for $40,000. Watral, a 40-year fireman and operator
of an excavating business in Central Islip, Long Island, turned the Dixieland
Band colt over to trainer Dennis Brida, who had conditioned Watral's eight-time
stakes winner Packett's Landing ($799,769), Champion New York-Bred Three-Year-Old
Male of 1989.
At Belmont in late September of his two-year-old season, Dixie Brass won his
first start by 11 lengths leading wire-to-wire at odds of 28.90-to-1. He concluded
his juvenile campaign three months later with his third win in four starts,
capturing Aqueduct's Copelan Stakes by 3 1/4 lengths on the inner track in December.
In March of his three-year-old season, Dixie Brass returned to Aqueduct's inner
track -- this time in the mud -- to add the Swift Stakes to his collection of
victories. Two months later, he broke the legendary Dr. Fager's 25-year-old
stakes record in Belmont's Grade 2, $121,800 Withers Stakes at a mile, leading
all the way to win by 8 1/4 lengths in 1:33.71 under scale weight of 126 pounds.
That set the stage for a Memorial Day confrontation with older horses Pleasant
Tap, In Excess, Twilight Agenda and Rubiano as the only three-year-old among
11 starters in Belmont's $500,000 Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, which he won
wire-to-wire by 2 1/2 lengths in 1:33.67.
Stamped as the best dirt miler in his crop, Dixie Brass was sent to a New York
farm for freshening while Brida considered his options. Thinking the colt would
also be a standout on turf, consideration was given to nominating him to England's
Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at a mile at Royal Ascot. Instead, he was
pointed for Saratoga's Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes at a mile and an eighth and
Grade 1 Travers Stakes at a mile and a quarter and led for a mile in both before
tiring, finishing second in the Jim Dandy and fourth in the Travers. (Both of
those races, coincidentally, were won by New York-bred Thunder Rumble, who stands
at The Stallion Park.) Although Dixie Brass managed to place third in Belmont's
Grade 1 Jerome Handicap under top weight in September, he never was the same
after Saratoga, and in November he fractured both proximal sesamoids in his
right front ankle while changing leads in Aqueduct's Grade 3 Sport Page Handicap.
It was his last start. In two racing seasons, Dixie Brass won six of 15 starts,
with two seconds and two thirds, earning $631,563.
After undergoing surgery at Dr. William O. Reed's equine hospital near Belmont
in early December, Dixie Brass was moved to the Rood and Riddle Veterinary Hospital
in Lexington, Kentucky, for recovery and observation. After more than a month
at Rood and Riddle, he was sent to Vinery Farm in Midway, Kentucky, to prepare
for the 1993 breeding season, but did not start regularly covering mares until
March.
Dixie Brass's stakes winners from his first crop included English Group 3 winner
Putra, but his second crop eventually yielded 12 stakes winners, including Dixie
Dot Com, and those offspring were beginning to draw notice when he arrived in
New York for the 1998 breeding season. Dixie Brass was New York's leading sire
of stakes winners in 2001 (with nine) and ranks among the 35 leading North American
sires in lifetime percentage of stakes winners from progeny -- ahead of such
stallions as Deputy Minister, Storm Bird and Dynaformer.
Runners from Dixie Brass's first New York-conceived crop are current three-year-olds,
and winners from that crop include 2001 New York-bred juvenile filly stakes
winner Princess Dixie ($201,840).
(2/4) Showmeitall, Son of New York Stallion All Gone, Wins G2 Hutcheson
John Franks' New York stallion ALL GONE was represented by a third stakes
winner from his 1999 crop on Saturday, February 2, when Take Five Stables' Showmeitall
held on to capture Gulfstream's $150,000 Grade 2 Hutcheson Stakes for three-year-olds
at seven furlongs over a drying-out "good" track. The Hutcheson is considered
a significant stepping stone for the Triple Crown classics, and Showmeitall's
jockey, Jorge Chavez, indicated the Florida-bred might be able to go longer
if he learns to relax. "It could be a tough thing to do because he's so competitive,"
observed Chevez, who also rode three other winners on the card and first rode
Showmeitall in the gelding's last previous start, Gulfstream's Grade 3 Spectacular
Bid Stakes on January 3, in which he ran four-wide and placed second.
Sent off the 3.70-to-1 third choice among six starters in the Hutcheson, Showmeitall
vied for the lead along the rail and led by a head entering the stretch, after
which front-runner Royal Lad fell back to third while 3-to-1 second choice Monthir
continued closing to a nose margin. "He ran the way we thought he would," remarked
trainer Emanuel (Manny) Tortora. "That other horse (Monthir, carrying two pounds
less weight than Showmeitall) hooked him pretty good, but he came back again.
He waits on horses when he makes the lead too quickly, but today he responded."
Finishing fourth, behind Showmeitall, Monthir, and Royal Lad, was 1.10-to-1
favorite Maybry's Boy, who had beaten Showmeitall by a length and a quarter
in the six-furlong Spectacular Bid a month earlier. The Hutcheson victory added
$90,000 to Showmeitall's bankroll, giving him career earnings of $178,000 and
a record of 4 - 2 - 1 in eight starts. He also placed second in Tampa Bay's
Inaugural Stakes on December 15.
Bred by John Franks, Showmeitall was consigned to Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's October
2000 yearling sale in Timonium, Maryland, where Eduardo Ortiz purchased him
for $6,000. Take Five Stables, in whose name Showmeitall races, is managed by
Michael Kopp of Jupiter, Florida (just north of West Palm Beach), and has members
from across the U.S., including New York, New Jersey, California and Tennessee.
Showmeitall is the second offspring and second winner produced by Show Legs,
a 10-year-old daughter of New York-bred national juvenile colt champion (of
1969) Silent Screen. The mare is currently at Jim Scott's Liberty Stud, LLC,
in Ghent, to be bred back to All Gone, who was moved to Liberty Stud in the
summer of 2001 and will be standing his first season in New York this year.
A Liberty Stud spokesperson confirmed plans to have Show Legs produce her next
foal by All Gone, which will be a full sibling to Showmeitall, in New York.
All Gone, a stakes-winning son of Fappiano out of Grade 1 winner and multiple
graded stakes producer Squander, by Buckpasser, also has sired 2001 juvenile
stakes winners All Gone Queen (a Group 1 winner in Puerto Rico) and Nowyouseeit.
The latter is out of a Stage Presence mare, making Showmeitall the second stakes
winner sired by All Gone from a granddaughter or great-granddaughter of Prince
John. All Gone's 2002 fee is $4,000, live foal.
(1/27) New York Stallion Rizzi Gets New Stakes Winner at Oaklawn
Park
Syndicated New York stallion RIZZI, who has moved to Richard Simon's
Sez Who Thoroughbreds North, LLC, in Stillwater, to stand in 2002, was represented
by his 10th stakes winner from three crops on Saturday, January 26, when his
three-year-old son, Richest Half, captured Oaklawn Park's Mountain Valley Stakes.
It was Richest Half's fourth win in five starts, increasing his earnings by
$30,000 to $54,600 and coming on the heels of a 5 1/4-length allowance victory
at Sam Houston Race Park in Texas on January 4. The Steven Asmussen-trained
colt has had four different jockeys and had Justin Vitek aboard for the first
time in the six-furlong Mountain Valley.
Sent off the 13.60-to-1 fifth choice among 12 starters (11 wagering interests),
Richest Half lagged back in ninth place in the early going, then advanced toward
the inside through the turn and altered course to the outside just beyond the
final furlong marker, when he was in fifth place. In the last eighth of a mile,
the dark bay blew past four colts, including two stakes winners, to win by three-quarters
of a length in 1:11.81. Placing second was 1.70-to-1 favorite Cojet, with seven
of the colts finishing behind those two already having won stakes.
Richest Half races for Nelson Bunker Hunt, who purchased the Rizzi colt for
$11,000 from a dispersal offered by his breeder, Harry Mangurian's Mockingbird
Farm in Florida, at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's yearling sale in August
of 2000. Richest Half is the first winner produced by Bigger Half, a winning
Megaturn mare who is a half-sister to three stakes winners, including multiple
Grade 2 winner Top Secret ($997,647), by Afleet. Rizzi, a multiple NYRA graded-winning
son of Afleet - Top Wish, by Topsider, ranked among North America's 10 leading
second-crop sires in 2001 and will stand the 2002 season for a fee of $10,000,
live foal.
(1/22) G2-Winning Record-Setter Rock and Roll to Stand at Dutchess
Views
ROCK AND ROLL, versatile Grade 2 winner who ran the fastest main track
mile and a sixteenth (1:39.51) in the history of New York racing, arrived at
Tom Borgeson's and Michael Lischin's
Dutchess Views Farm in Pine Plains on Sunday, January 20, to enter stud
for the 2002 breeding season. The son of Cure the Blues - Secret's Halo, by
Halo, is owned by a partnership that includes Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds
and Walmac South of Ocala, Florida, w ho have committed 30 mares to the stallion's
first book. Most of those mares, according to Michael Lischin, are currently
pregnant and will deliver their foals at Dutchess Views Farm so that the foals
can become registered New York-breds. Rock and Roll is being syndicated in order
that a limited number of shares can be sold. His stud fee for 2002 is $3,500,
live foal, payable November 1.
Bred by Josephine Abercrombie's Pin Oak Stud in Kentucky, Rock and Roll won
his first start as a two-year-old by 7 1/4 lengths going 5 1/2 furlongs wire-to-wire
at Detroit. Through two stakes outings as a juvenile and his first four starts
(three stakes) at three, he had an allowance win and five stakes-placings (three
seconds and two thirds), including a close third in the $150,000 Tampa Bay Derby,
after which he was acquired by Jenny Craig and Madeleine Paulson. Although not
seasoned enough for a mile and a quarter on the first Saturday in May, the Cure
the Blues colt showed something special a month later, shattering Belmont's
track record for a mile and a sixteenth by about two-fifths of a second, running
1:39.51 on a sloppy track. Rock and Roll won that race by 14 lengths with a
mile fraction of 1:33 2/5, earning a Beyer speed figure of 121 -- highest for
a three-year-old at any distance and on any surface since Daily Racing Form
first began incorporating Beyer figures into its past performances in 1992.
To date, Rock and Roll's 121 Beyer remains a figure unsurpassed by any three-year-old.
Three months later, Rock and Roll was again in record territory, scoring a wire-to-wire
length and a quarter victory in the $250,000 graded Pennsylvania Derby, covering
a mile and an eighth in 1:47.69 and becoming only the second horse to equal
Western Playboy's 1989 stakes record.
As a four-year-old, Rock and Roll showed versatility by dropping back to a sprint
distance and winning the Grade 2 Churchill Downs Handicap at seven furlongs
despite a bumpy last-place start, and later that year he captured Gulfstream's
mile-and-a-sixteenth A. P. Indy Stakes under equal top weight. In 2001, he returned
to Gulfstream to win the mile-and-a-sixteenth Cryptoclearance Stakes wire-to-wire
by 3 1/2 lengths under top weight -- recording his 13th triple-digit Beyer figure
and his ninth in a stakes race. He retired from racing with wins or placings
in 15 stakes races, including the graded Salvator Mile, Stuyvesant, CrËme
Fraiche and Broward Handicaps and the graded Fifth Season Breeders' Cup in addition
to his Churchill Downs Handicap and Pennsylvania Derby victories, earning $708,557.
Among 80 stakes winners sired by the late Cure the Blues, whose sons at stud
include graded stakes sires American Chance and Take Me Out plus prominent 2001
second-crop sire Tethra, Rock and Roll is out of a winning and multiple stakes-producing
half-sister to NYRA Grade 1 winner Irgun.
(1/18) G2 SW Comeonmom to Stand 2002 at Reading Farm in Springville
COMEONMOM, a former route-running juvenile sensation who won Aqueduct's
1998 Grade 2 Remsen Stakes for Long Island-residing co-owners Joseph and Winifred
Greeley and Bob and Nancy Kelly, is scheduled to arrive at Linda Reading's Reading
Farm in West Falls on Sunday, February 20, to stand the 2002 season. Stud fee
for the six-year-old son of Jolie's Halo - Single Blade, by Hatchet Man, who
was selected Florida-bred champion juvenile male for 1998 and entered stud in
Florida in 2001, will be $2,000, live foal.
Bred by Arthur Appleton, Comeonmom was purchased by the Greeleys' Sabine Stable
for $60,000 at the 1997 Keeneland September yearling sale. He broke his maiden
going seven furlongs at Calder in his second start, then placed second in three
consecutive races, including Calder's In Reality division of the Florida Stallion
Stakes, before shipping to Aqueduct and capturing the mile-and-an-eighth Remsen
in that event's fastest time (1:49.84) in the past 15 years. Colts Comonmom
beat in the Remsen included previous NYRA graded winners Successful Appeal,
Doneraile Court and Prime Directive plus Laurel Futurity winner Millions.
Later acquired by Darley Stud Management (a division of Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum's
Dalham Hall Stud), Comeonmom placed third in a pair of stakes in Dubai at 2,000
and 1,800 meters (about a mile and a quarter and a mile and an eighth) before
retiring to stud for 2001. He earned $253,005.
By the sire of 2000 Florida Derby winner Hal's Hope, Comeonmom is among nine
winners produced by NYRA Grade 1 winner Single Blade ($294,218), from the female
family of champion filly Grecian Queen and the late popular Florida stallion,
Distinctive.
(1/7) NY-Bred 3Yos Private Emblem & Land Yachting Invade Bayou Land
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