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The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Manitoba Division) Yearling Sale posted significant across-the-board gains on Aug. 22, led by a $52,000 filly by perennial leading provincial sire Going Commando.

A total of 22 yearlings changed hands for revenues of $209,800 (Canadian), up 238 percent from last year's auction, when 14 yearlings changed hands for $62,000. The average sale price rose 115 percent to $9,536 from $4,428, while the buyback rate improved to 35 percent after finishing at 52 percent in 2020.

Barry Arnason bought out his fellow breeders to purchase the sale-topper, a Going Commando filly, for $52,000.

Offered as Hip 10, the filly is out of the stakes-winning Pionnering mare High Pioneer, whose five foals to race are all winners. Four of those winners are by Going Commando, including stakes winner and Sovereign Award finalist Hidden Grace. Grade 3 winner Carborundum is in her extended family.

The Manitoba-bred filly was consigned by Cam Ziprick, Charles Fouillard, and Arnason.

Going Commando, who stands at Ziprick Thoroughbreds in Russel, Manitoba, was also responsible for the sale's second-highest price, Arthur Roy bought Hip 30, a filly out of the Mineshaft mare Runaway Delite, for $21,500.

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

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Hidden Grace (Going Commando), a 9-for-9 Manitoba-bred, will seek a perfect 10th straight stakes victory in her 4-year-old debut Wednesday night in the $25,000 Canada Day S. at Assiniboia Downs.

Hidden Grace has raced exclusively in Manitoba (eight starts) and Alberta (one start), with five of her nine stakes victories coming against provincial-bred or sales-restricted company. Essentially, she has wrapped up every single one of her wins by the eighth pole, having never been headed in the stretch.

Her breeder and owner partnerships are comprised of some of the same people who bred and raced the hard-trying overachiever Escape Clause (Going Commando). That mare retired last autumn with 20 wins and $866,100 in earnings after emerging from small-circuit racing in Canada to win 2018 stakes at Del Mar and Santa Anita before losing only by a nose to the powerful Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute) in the 2019 GI Apple Blossom H. at Oaklawn.

Hidden Grace is owned and was bred by Cam Ziprick, Charles Fouillard and Barry Arnason. As a yearling, Ziprick consigned her to the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Manitoba Division) sale, then bought her right back for $11,919. This transaction made her eligible to compete in the stakes program for horses sold through that auction.

In addition to her provincial- and sales-restricted stakes dominance, Hidden Grace has also won four $30,000 open stakes at Assiniboia. She’s been off since October and will make her first start for a new trainer, Murray Duncan, after being previously trained by Michael Nault in 2019 and Don Schnell in 2018.

He main competition in Wednesday’s second race, which is a 7 1/2-furlong open stakes, will come in the form of Miss Imperial (Maclean’s Music), who is also conditioned by Duncan.

Miss Imperial sports an 8-for-18 record after stints in the barns of trainers Jason Servis, Joe Sharp, and Brad Cox on the New York, New Orleans, and Oaklawn circuits. She was claimed three times for decreasing prices between last August and this April ($50,000, $40,000, $25,000), and it was Duncan who most recently dropped a slip for her at Oaklawn Apr. 11. Since shipping to Winnipeg, Miss Imperial has wired two open sprint stakes.

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