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Grade 3 winner Mo Mosa will begin his stallion career at Paradise Farms at Spring Village in Jamaica after selling for $50,000 late during Tuesday's session at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale.

The 6-year-old son of Uncle Mo was cataloged as a racing or stallion prospect, but he was later switched to being offered strictly as a potential stallion. This caught the attention of bloodstock agent Chad Schumer, who signed the ticket on behalf of Paradise Farms.

Schumer was one of the agents responsible for brokering the deal that sent Grade 2 winner Bern Identity to stand in Jamaica, and the horse has become one of the country's perennial top stallions.

“We've been looking for a long time for another stallion,” Schumer said. “We actually bought a replacement in November, but we were offered a massive profit and ended up selling. I was actually looking at him as a racehorse when I went back to the barn, but when they said they were offering him as a stallion prospect only, I said, 'Oh, perfect.'”

Taylor Made Sales Agency consigned Mo Mosa, as agent.

Racing as a homebred for Perry Martin and his late wife Denise, Mo Mosa won four of 22 starts for earnings of $482,235.

Mo Mosa broke his maiden in his third career start in February of his 3-year-old season at Turfway Park, then after an unsuccessful try at the Kentucky Derby trail, trainer Mike Maker got the horse his first graded black type with a runner-up effort in the Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby.

His strongest season came at age four, where after starting the year in the Oaklawn Park allowance ranks, he shipped to Fonner Park to win the track's signature Bosselman Pump and Pantry/Gus Fonner Stakes by a front-running 1 1/2 lengths. Mo Mosa then carried that momentum over a sloppy track at Lone Star Park, and won the G3 Steve Sexton Mile Stakes by 3 1/2 lengths at odds of 23-1.

Mo Mosa is out of the unraced Eskendereya mare Roughing, who is the dam of two winners from four foals to race. His second dam, the stakes winner Playcaller, is the pivot point for runners including Grade 1 winners Diplomat Lady and Hunter O'Riley, as well as Grade/Group 2 winners Dream Play and Zulu Land.

Schumer has worked with Paradise Farms for about seven years, and he said the Jamaican racing program is contested primarily over dirt. This made Mo Mosa's on-track credentials and the main track success of his sire Uncle Mo made for a logical fit when shopping for stallions.

“Uncle Mo is an absolute sensation as a sire of sires,” Schumer said. “He's a graded stakes winner from a nice family, and he's beautiful. I'm delighted to have him.

“It's a regional program, but there's enough of an industry there to make sense of it,” Schumer continued. “Bern Identity's been absolutely dominant of late, so it's good to have another one to join him.”

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Tuesday, who won the 2022 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Keeneland in track record time, will be bred to record-setting Spendthrift Farm sire Into Mischief for her debut mating in 2023, Thoroughbred Daily News reports.

Racing for the Coolmore partnership and Georg Von Opel's Westerburg, Tuesday retired with three wins in 10 starts for earnings of $1,828,827.

After breaking her maiden in Ireland during her 3-year-old seasonal bow, the daughter of Galileo highlighted her summer with a win in the Group 1 Cazoo Oaks, to go along with in-the-money efforts in the English and Irish 1000 Guineas.

Following a pair of off-the-board starts in France, Tuesday shipped to the U.S. for her career finale in the Breeders' Cup, where she charged five-wide to win by one length over In Italian. She stopped the clock in 1:51.88, setting a new Keeneland track record for 1 3/16 miles over the turf.

An Irish-born homebred for Coolmore, Tuesday is out of the multiple Group 1-winning Danehill Dancer mare Lillie Langtry, making her a full-sister to G1 winners Minding and Empress Josephine.

Into Mischief capped off his fourth consecutive season as North America's leading general sire by earnings in 2022. His combined progeny earnings of $28,106,800 eclipsed the single-season record he set a year earlier, when he hit $24,411,267.

Into Mischief stands for an advertised fee of $250,000.

Read more at Thoroughbred Daily News.

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Fasig-Tipton conducted the first session of its Kentucky Winter Mixed sale Monday at the Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky. Offerings included racing/broodmare prospects, broodmares, and short yearlings.

Munny Spunt (Hip 293), a graded stakes-winning daughter of Munnings, topped the session when sold for $340,000 to Family Friends from the consignment of Hunter Valley Farm, agent (video). Munny Spunt, winner of the Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes at three, was offered in foal to Triple Crown champion Justify.

“It was a solid session today,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “I thought there was fair trade. There was lots of activity, especially on the short yearlings. The mares in foal and broodmare prospects that you would kind of turn down the page as you went through the catalog sold well.”

Rounding out the first session's top hips were:

– Brooke and Emory (Hip 60), purchased for $250,000 by BlackRidge Stables from the consignment of Stuart Morris, agent. The young daughter of Speightstown out of multiple Grade 1 winner Hard Not to Like was offered with her second foal, a colt by Twirling Candy. Brooke and Emory is a half-sister to recent G2 San Vicente Stakes runner-up Faustin.

– Bubala (Hip 61), purchased for $250,000 by Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt from the consignment of Trackside Farm, agent. The daughter of Candy Ride (ARG) was offered in foal to last year's leading third-crop sire Not This Time.

– Hits Pricey Legacy (Hip 202), purchased for $230,000 by Bowling Bloodstock, agent for Clearsky Farm, from the consignment of Buckland Sales, agent. Winner of last year's G3 Remington Park Oaks, the four-time black type stakes winner was offered as a racing/broodmare prospect.

– A colt (Hip 62) from the second crop of G1 Florida Derby winner Audible, purchased for $200,000 by Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt from the consignment of Trackside Farm, agent. The chestnut colt is the second foal out of the Candy Ride (ARG) mare Bubala (above).

– Mamie Van D (Hip 260), purchased for $200,000 by Catherine Parke from the consignment of Gainesway, agent. The 5-year-old daughter of Curlin is out of a half-sister to three-time leading sire Tapit and was offered as a racing/broodmare prosect.

“We've seen a continuation of the marketplace we saw throughout 2022,” concluded Browning. “It's healthy. It's not exuberant. It's rational.”

During the opening session, 182 horses changed hands for $5,524,300. The average was $30,353 and the median $10,500. The RNA rate was 20.5 percent.

Session results are available online. The sale continues Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 10 a.m.

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Draper Farm is far from a new name on the consignor line of North American sale catalog pages, but their offering at this year's Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale might be the largest of its two decades in operation.

That was by design.

The seven mares on offer from the Draper Farm consignment marked an early step in Breandan Draper's plan to expand his family's small broodmare operation into a commercial seller of horses beyond their own band.

“It felt like the right time,” Draper said. “I worked for Schumer Bloodstock for a few years, which was a fantastic experience. I learned a wealth of knowledge from [Chad Schumer], and it just felt like the timing was right to do something on my own and try to make a go of it, and see where consigning takes me.”

Draper, 34, operates a 12-acre farm in southern Fayette County in Central Kentucky with his father, Labhrás Draper, where they tend to keep about five broodmares and various young horses bred for the commercial market. The younger Draper was quick to credit his foundation of knowledge in the Thoroughbred realm to his father, who first arrived in the U.S. aboard a horse plane from Ireland in the late 1970s.

A Lexington, Ky., native, the younger Draper attend Mount Ida College in Newton, Mass., pursuing a place to continue playing lacrosse, along with continuing his education. When he came back home for the summers, he'd work the Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Sale for consignor Paramount Sales.

Draper returned to Kentucky after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 2012, and while he was mulling over his career options, he and his dad bought a broodmare. They have remained business partners since then.

However, it was the second mare they bought together that solidified the younger Draper's resolve to make the family business into his own career. The mare was a multiple Grade 3-winning daughter of Kelly Kip named Bettarun Fast, purchased at the 2014 Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. Fall Mixed Sale,

“The second mare I ever got with my dad, we bought a mare in Ocala in foal to Maclean's Music in his second crop,” he said. “We bought her for $9,000, foaled her, and sold the foal the following November for $62,000. I think that was probably the moment that really got me hooked. The whole process was very exciting. That's not a huge home run, but it's still a decent hit, and having that early on when I was starting to get involved really propelled me and motivated me. Obviously, they don't all go like that, but that was nice.”

Draper had experience with the hands-on portion of the Thoroughbred business, foaling, raising, and prepping horses on the family farm, but the sales grounds pose an entirely different set of challenges, often requiring social abilities to match or exceed one's horsemanship. To help build experience in that realm, he spent time working as an assistant for Schumer, handling the logistics that can come with traversing a sale and a catalog looking for prospects.

“Breandan was a super conscientious, hard-working guy with lots of enthusiasm,” Schumer said. “He would work the barns with us at the sales, and keep us well-organized in terms of what we had to see – big lists.”

Draper's interest in the commerce end of the bloodstock business came at a time when the farm's broodmare operation was downsizing. The operation previously included 42 acres in Scott County, Kentucky, where they boarded 12 to 15 mares.

This eventually led Draper to reach out to John O'Meara of Milestone Farm about handling some of his mares as a consignor. The seven mares of the Draper Farm consignment all came from Milestone Farm.

“(O'Meara) and my dad have been good friends for years back,” Draper said. “I've known John my whole life, and it was great of him to give me this opportunity to sell these mares for him. I'm very appreciative of him.”

Being the front-facing part of a consignment involves a lot of public relations work: Shaking hands, answering questions, and knowing the right people to get their eyes on horses and set up deals.

With that in mind, Draper said his measurement of success for his early consignments was realistic, in that that it wouldn't necessarily be dictated solely by the bids on the board. Establishing brand recognition was one of Draper's key short-term goals to help him achieve his long-term goals.

“I would like to grow the consignment, and reach out and meet new clients,” he said. “The sales are a great place to meet new people, and you never know what's going to present itself. It's nice to have modest expectations. You don't want to start off the bat trying to shoot for a huge home run, but I definitely would like to build a consignment with consistency, and hopefully in years to come, we'll have a larger amount and still building.”

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