A colt from the first crop of former 'TDN Rising Star' Unified (Candy Ride {Arg}) breezed a quarter-mile in a slick :20 2/5 to post the fastest work at the distance at Thursday's first of three under-tack sessions ahead of next week's OBS March Sale in Ocala.
The February foal is being consigned to the March sale by Ciaran Dunne's Wavertree Stable Inc., agent, and is out of the stakes-winning Promise Me a Cat (D'wildcat). Hip 163 is bred by Gatewood Bell, who paid $35,000 for the colt's dam carrying this foal in utero at Keeneland November in 2018. The dark bay fetched $77,000 when offered as a weanling at Keeneland the following November and was subsequently purchased by Redwings for $190,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale, the joint-second priciest of 62 Unified yearlings reported as sold in 2020. The cross of Candy Ride over Storm Cat-line dams has been a productive one, yielding the likes of Horse of the Year Gun Runner and champion Shared Belief, to name a few.
No fewer than 16 juveniles shared the furlong bullet with a clocking of :9 4/5. Hip 10 (video), a filly by Into Mischief, consigned by de Meric Sales, agent; hip 18 (video), a Frosted filly from the draft of Top Line Sales LLC, agent; hip 27 (video), a colt by Pioneerof the Nile from Sequel Bloodstock; agent; hip 36 (video), a colt by Carpe Diem consigned by 30-30 Ranch; hip 41 (video), an American Freedom filly from the RiceHorse Stable consignment; hip 48\fs21f1 (video), a colt by Violence being offered by Kirkwood Stables, agent; hip 50 (video), a Mohaymen filly from Paul Sharp, agent; hip 72 (video), an Ocean Knight colt from de Meric Sales; hip 85 (video), an Into Mischief colt consigned by Top Line; hip 86 (video), a colt by Practical Joke prepped by Kings Equine, agent; hip 89 (video), a filly by the late Fast Anna from Havens Bloodstock Agency, agent; hip 92 (video), a McKathan Bros.-consigned daughter of Cupid; hip 110 (video), a Unified colt from Dark Star Thoroughbreds; hip 127 (video), a Daredevil filly consigned by Gayle Woods, agent; hip 161 (video), a son of Kantharos from the consignment of Julie Davies LLC, agent; and hip 188 (video), a colt by Cairo Prince from Harris Training Center LLC, agent.
The under-tack show continues Friday morning at 8 a.m. ET, with hips 189-376 scheduled to breeze. The show may be viewed in real time at the TDN homepage.
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American champion juvenile colt Boston Harbor (Capote-Harbor Springs, by Vice Regent) passed away from the infirmities of old age on Mar. 9, Japan Bloodhorse Breeders Association's Shigeki Yusa announced via Twitter on Thursday. The pensioned stallion was 27.
“Boston Harbor passed away from old age on March 9,” Yusa said in a tweet. “We are truly saddened to lose him and are grateful for all the support from his fans over the years.”
Bred by Overbrook Farm in Kentucky, the homebred was trained by Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas. A Churchill Downs maiden winner at first asking in May of 1996, he added the GIII Bashford Manor S. a month later and ran second in muddy going in the GIII Sanford S. at Saratoga on July 26. Back on top in the Ellis Park Juvenile S. in September, the son of Harbor Springs won the GIII Kentucky Cup Juvenile S. at Turfway Park later that month. Wheeled back in Keeneland's GII Breeders' Futurity, Boston Harbor scored again, and ended his season with another victory-this time in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Woodbine en route to champion juvenile colt honours. Tried only once as a sophomore, he was fourth in the Santa Catalina S. in February and retired after injuring himself in work with a mark of 8-6-1-0 and $1,934,605 in earnings.
Originally a resident of Overbrook Farm, Boston Harbor moved to Japan to stand under the JBBA banner beginning in 2002. Overall, he sired 21 black-type winners, four at the group level including GI Santa Margarita Invitational S. heroine Healthy Addiction. His daughters have already bettered his sire record, with 35 stakes-winning progeny, 11 group winners and three at the highest level. Boston Harbor's Group 1 winners as a broodmare sire include GI Mother Goose S. heroine Off The Tracks (Curlin), GI Madison S. victress Shotgun Gulch (Thunder Gulch) and GI Vanity S. winner My Sweet Addiction (Tiznow).
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