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Grade 3-Placed Tour De Force Enters Stud At Workwize Stables In Alberta

The graded stakes placed runner Tour de Force will stand the 2021 season at Workwize Stables in Acme, Alberta.

The 7-year-old Tiznow stallion completed his racing career this August with total earnings of $213,360. His record includes two third-place finishes last season in the $100,000 Flat Out Stakes at Belmont Park and the $150,000 Grade 3 Excelsior Stakes at Aqueduct. Tour de Force also finished third in the $75,000 black type Challedon Stakes at Laurel Park in 2018.

Bred in Kentucky by Kinsman Farn, the freshman sire sold for $1.35 million at the 2014 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, consigned by Lane's End Farm.

The dam of Tour de Force, Dream Supreme, is a multiple grades stakes-winning Seeking the Gold mare who earned over $1 million in three seasons on the track. The impressive record for Dream Supreme included victories in the Grade 1 Ballerina Handicap and Test Stakes at Saratoga in addition to multiple wins in Grade 2 and Grade 3 stakes races.

Tour de Force is a half-brother to Grade 1 winner and sire Majestic Warrior, as well as Grade 3-placed stakes winner Evolutionist and stakes-winning stakes producer Crystal Current.

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Exhi Filly Tops CTHS Alberta Thoroughbred Sale

The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Alberta Division) Thoroughbred Sale brought in smaller bulk numbers during its 2020 renewal on Friday, Sept. 18, but it made up with increased average and median sale prices, led by a filly by Exhi who sold for $44,000 (Canadian).

In total, 40 horses changed hands during Friday's sale for revenues of $327,400, down 27 percent from the previous year when 67 horses brought $451,300. The average sale price rose 25 percent to $8,395 from $6,736, while the median increased 67 percent to $4,500 from $2,700. The sale's buyback rate finished at 38 percent, compared with 40 percent in 2019.

Greg Tracy, agent, purchased the sale-topper, an Exhi filly out of the multiple stakes-winning Forestry mare Eustacia, for $44,000.

The second foal out of the dam, the Alberta-bred sale-topper hails from a deep family of stakes producers throughout North America, including stakes-winning second dam Sparkling Pink. Highfield Investment Group consigned the filly, as agent.

True North Stable landed the auction's second-highest-priced offering, a Kentucky-bred Laoban filly, for $26,500.

The bay filly is out of the stakes-placed Bernardini mare Kimono, and her extended family includes Grade 1 winners Declassify, A Phenomenon, and Seattle Meteor. Stone Ranches Ltd. consigned the filly.

This year's sale, like all of the country's sales operated under the CTHS banner, offered online bidding for the first time in 2020 to accommodate those unable to attend due to COVID-19.

Online bids accounted for six of the auction's successful purchases, totaling $45,900 – roughly 14 percent of the sale's total gross. The two most expensive online purchases each brought $15,000: an O'Prado Again filly who sold to Shot In the Dark Racing and a Cross Traffic filly who sold to Meadowlake.

To view the auction's full results, click here.

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Buyers Eligible To Use Alberta-Bred Bonus Funds Toward Upcoming CTHS Sale

In cooperation with the HBPA of Alberta, the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Alberta Division) is able to offer owners of Alberta-bred Thoroughbreds who have bonuses from races run from June through August the ability to access their 2020 Owners' Bonus and put it towards any yearling at the upcoming Alberta CTHS Thoroughbred sale.

The CTHS will let interested owners' know what their available funds are based on the bonus being paid at 20 percent. The owner will indicate the amount they wish to access and at the time of the sale those funds would be deducted from the sale price and the balance paid by the purchaser. Owners do not have to access the full bonus amount if they do not choose to do so.

The CTHS will submit the request for the owners' bonus funds to the HBPA with an accounting of each owner and the amount of the 2020 Owners' Bonus they have requested to access.

To find out how much your Owner's Bonus entails, call or email the CTHS Alberta office.

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Catalog Online For CTHS Alberta Thoroughbred Sale

The catalog is now online for the 2020 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Alberta Division) Thoroughbred Sale, featuring 66 horses on offer.

The auction will take place Friday, Sept. 18 at Westerner Park – Agri Centre East in Red Deer, Alberta, beginning at 3 p.m.

All but one of this year's offerings are yearlings, with the lone exception being a 2-year-old by Girolamo. The catalog consists almost entirely of Alberta-breds, save for six yearlings born in Kentucky and two Ontario-breds.

Graduates of the CTHS Alberta sale are eligible for a variety of stakes races, including the CTHS Alberta Yearling Sales Stakes, which offers a series of $50,000 (Canadian) races at Century Mile for horses from two to four years old. The Canadian Sales Stakes Series is open to all Canadian-bred yearling graduates of CTHS provincial sales, offering races in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Ontario, ranging from $30,000 to $250,000. Horses seeking to enter Canadian Sales Stakes Series races outside of the province where they sold are eligible after paying additional nomination and starting fees.

Stallions whose first crops of yearlings are represented in this year's catalog include Ready Intaglio and War Correspondent.

To view the online catalog, click here.

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