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Summer Breezes: July 23, 2022

Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer racing season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at both Saratoga and Del Mar and even at Ellis Park, which attracts its fair share of high-priced offspring from a variety of top national outfits. Summer Breezes highlights debuting 2-year-olds at those meetings that have been sourced at the breeze-up sales earlier in the year, with links to their under-tack previews. Already this year at Saratoga, City Man (Mucho Macho Man), Mo Strike (Uncle Mo) and Empress Tigress (Classic Empire)–each a graduate of the 2-year-old sales–have already struck at stakes level, while the likes of juvenile purchases and 'TDN Rising Stars' Taiba (Gun Runner), We The People (Constitution) and Onesto (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) have also left their mark on graded/group competition this season. To follow are the horses entered for Friday at the aforementioned venues:

Saturday, July 23, 2022
Saratoga 1, 1:05 p.m. ET
Horse (Sire), Sale, Price, Breeze
Really Good (Hard Spun), OBSAPR, $125,000, click
C-Randy Bradshaw, agent; B-Mike Maker

Ellis 6, 1:50 p.m. ET
Bolted (Bolt d'Oro), OBSAPR, $110,000, click
C-Julie Davies LLC, agent; B-James DiVito, agent
Boss Lady Bailey (Connect), OBSAPR, $550,000, click
C-Eddie Woods, agent; B-Hooties Racing LLC

Saratoga 6, 3:51 p.m. ET
Baie Lounge (American Pharoah), OBSAPR, $250,000, click
C-Tom McCrocklin, agent; B-Taproot Bloodstock, agent
Faithful and True (Good Magic), OBSMAR, $450,000, click
C-Wavertree Stables Inc (C Dunne), agent; B-Maverick Racing

Del Mar 4, 6:34 p.m. ET
And Tell Me Nolies (Arrogate), OBSAPR, $230,000, click
C-Off the Hook LLC, agent; B-Bryan Anderson, agent

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Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale Catalog Online

The catalog for Fasig-Tipton's Gulfstream Sale of Selected 2-Year-Olds in Training is now available online. The auction, which will be held at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida, will take place Wed., Mar. 30, beginning at 2 pm.

The under-tack show is scheduled for Monday, Mar. 28, beginning at 9 am.

“The Gulfstream sale annually offers a concentration of quality that is unmatched by any 2-year-old sale,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “Buyers that arrive in South Florida for this year's sale will once again be presented with quality individuals by the sport's most prominent and promising sires.”

Included among recent graduates of the Gulfstream are Yaupon, winner of last year's GI Forego S. at Saratoga in addition to graded stakes winners Independence Hall, Art of Almost, Center Aisle, Cezanne.

“We have hosted this sale at Gulfstream for just seven years, and in that short time, the quality of graduates produced is remarkable,” noted Browning. “Gulfstream grads have won 14 different Grade I races, including the Kentucky Derby, multiple Breeders' Cup races, Met Mile, Arkansas Derby, and Florida Derby–in addition to numerous stakes victories around the globe.”

Print catalogs will be available from Fasig-Tipton offices by Feb. 28. The catalogue will also be available in the equineline sales catalog app. Fasig-Tipton will also offer a supplemental catalog again this year. Supplemental entries will be accepted on an approval basis.

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Tiznow Filly Tops Record-Setting TTA 2-Year-Old Sale

An Asmussen Horse Center-consigned daughter of Tiznow–Delta Weekend (A.P. Indy) realized a final bid of $240,000 to top Wednesday's Texas 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale at Lone Star Park.

The Virginia-bred filly was one of five six-figure transactions on an afternoon during which 89 horses changed hands for gross receipts of $2,910,000. The average was $32,697 and the median was $20,000, while the buyback rate was a low 14.4%. When compared to the last TTA sale–the 2020 renewal was canceled due to the coronavirus–the average price gained 40%, with the median ahead by 33%. The average and median were the highest since the Texas Thoroughbred Association and Lone Star Park took over operation of the auction in 2016.

Sales director Tim Boyce was duly pleased with the results and gave credit to the current state of the Thoroughbred industry in Texas for contributing to the positive results.

“I had high expectations coming in and I think it exceeded my high expectations,” Boyce said. “Racing has really been revived around here, with what the governor and the legislature did. You can see where purses are and how that is affecting things. It's a good example of how it's turned into a plus for racing and the Thoroughbred scene here in Texas. Guys have more money in their pockets because they're running for bigger purses.”

He continued, “We had some really nice horses. All week these horses were looking great out there and it was getting harder and harder to pick the good ones, to figure out which horse was going to top the sale. I thought any of the six-figure horses could have topped it. I told my consignors that it was going to be a good 2-year-old sale and they stepped up and brought nice horses. [Auctioneer] Danny [Green] said it was as strong as he could remember.”

Hip 85, a half-sister to Virginia-bred stakes winner Altamura (Artie Schiller) and hailing from the family of GIII Virginia Oaks winner Volcat (After Market), was acquired by Austin Gustafson, agent, for $37,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale. She was one of two horses of the 13-strong draft presented by Asmussen Horse Center to merely gallop during Monday's under-tack show. The consignment was also responsible for hip 68, a More Than Ready colt from the stakes-placed Bonita Cat (Tale of the Cat), the hammered for $100,000. The aforementioned Gustafson signed for both horses Wednesday.

Pike Racing consigned the Louisiana-bred $150,000 joint-second toppers. The first of those through the ring was hip 36, a colt by Overanalyze out of Smittystown (Speightstown), who was successfully pinhooked after Susan Moulton paid $33,000 for the half-brother to SW Mirabeau (Bind) at last year's Texas Summer Yearling Sale. Highlander Training Center was the successful bidder for the colt, who breezed an eighth of a mile in :10 2/5. Hip 57, a $13,000 ESLAUG yearling purchase, was a bit of a talking horse after the daughter of Bind–Anne Margaret (Songandaprayer) worked the bullet furlong in :10 flat Monday at Lone Star. A half-sister to a pair of stakes-placed runners, she was hammered down to the bid of prominent owners Wayne Sanders and Larry Hirsch.

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Unified Colt Clocks Quickest Quarter at OBS Under-Tack Opener

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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