Month: September 2023

Saturday Insights: $625k OBS Grad Makes First Start At Delaware

5th-DEL, $38K, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 2:30 p.m.
AMERICAN WAR HERO (Constitution) will make his first start for owner Boardshorts Racing. The dark bay colt brought $165,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Yearling Sale in July before running a furlong at 10.1 during the breeze show and then pinhooked for $625,000 at the OBS March Sale. The Graham Motion trainee is out of GISP Libby's Tail (Tiz Wonderful) who also produced a yearling colt by Improbable that went for $135,000 at the Keeneland September Sale to Michael Rullo. TJCIS PPS

5th-CD, $120K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1m, 2:48 p.m.
At Churchill on Saturday, Ken McPeek debuts Thorny (Violence), a $325,000 Keeneland September buy out of SP Boule (Exchange Rate). She was in-foal with the dark bay filly when she sold to Rhianon Farms at the Keeneland Novemeber Sale in 2020 for $160,000. Out of an extended female family which includes MGISW Tates Creek (Rahy) and her son, Australian multiple group stakes winner Spirit Ridge (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), Boule counts GIII W.L. McKnight hero Tide of the Sea (English Channel) as a half-brother.

Also entered is Coffeepot Stables' Starina (Candy Ride {Arg}), who will take her first crack at racing for trainer Wayne Catalano. The chestnut filly out of SW Rebridled Dreams (Unbridled's Song) is a half-sister to GI Toyota Blue Grass S. victor Carpe Diem (Giant's Causeway), GII Twinspires.com Fair Grounds Oaks heroine Farrell (Malibu Moon) and to the dams of current in-training runners SW Salute the Stars (Candy Ride {Arg}) and SW Wonderful Justice (Justify). TJCIS PPS

4th-SA, $61K, Msw, 2yo, 6 1/2f, 5:30 p.m.
Santa Anita is underway and there we find homebred Bolt At Midnight (Bolt d'Oro) on debut for Ruis Racing. The dark bay colt's third dam, who is a full-sister to MGISW Seeking the Gold (Mr. Propsector), is responsible for GII Gotham S. winner Survivalist (Danzig).

Just to his outside, is Bartholdy (Mendelssohn) owned by Kaleem Shah. The $300,000 OBS April grad includes among her extended female family MGSW Chocolate Ride (Candy Ride {Arg}), GI Hollywood Starlet S. victoress Killer Graces (Conagree), and GI Hollywood Gold Cup S. hero There Goes Harvard (Will Take Charge). TJCIS PPS

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Champion Modern Games To Stand At Dalham Hall Stud In England

Dubawi's brilliant son Modern Games, who won top-flight races at two, three and four, will stand alongside his exceptional sire at Dalham Hall Stud next year.

Modern Games broke his maiden on Newmarket's July course, before successfully stepping up in class on the Rowley Mile to take the Group 3 Somerville Tattersall Stakes, beating the Prix Morny runner up.

He went on to add the first of his five G1 victories at Del Mar, running out the emphatic winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.

At three, he won G1 races in three separate countries. First came the Poule d'Essai des Poulains at ParisLongchamp, which he won on his seasonal debut in the third fastest time ever. Having finished third in the French Derby and chased home Baaeed in the Sussex, Modern Games put up another outstanding performance to win the G1 Woodbine Mile in Canada, notching the highest Beyer Speed Figure for a turf mile for almost 20 years.

Modern Games rounded off his 3-year-old campaign with another brilliant Breeders' Cup win, this time in the Mile to become the first back-to-back winner at the Breeders' Cup to retire to stud in Europe since High Chapparal. He was also crowned champion miler in Europe and the Eclipse champion male turf horse.

His first G1 on home soil came at the start of his 4-year-old campaign when beating a top-class field in the Lockinge Stakes by one-and-a-half lengths, emulating previous Godolphin winner, his paternal half-brother and fellow Darley stallion, Night Of Thunder.

A homebred for Godophin, Modern Games is out of the exceptional broodmare Modern Ideals, making him a half-brother to 2023 Classic heroine Mawj.

Upon his retirement from racing, trainer Charlie Appleby commented, “Modern Games was a brilliant horse to train and such a great advert for Godolphin. To win at two Breeders' Cups, to be part of our trio of Guineas winners in 2022, and to land the Lockinge Stakes this season, shows his class, toughness and durability.

“He answered every call we asked of him, and we will miss him at Moulton Paddocks. I'm sure he will be a huge success in his next career as a stallion.”

Sam Bullard said, “The success of Dubawi as a sire of sires is now well known. How lucky we are to have such a sensational addition by the stallion, and one whose mother is also extraordinarily talented. He is a French Guineas winner, and his half-sister won the English Guineas. He won a Group one at two, remaining sound throughout, he finished with a Lockinge at four, and he has a magnificent mindset.”

“He is now available to view, breeders should come and see him while in Newmarket and get involved.”

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