Girvin Youngsters Top 2022 OBS October Open Yearling Sale

A pair of youngsters by Girvin were each sold for $110,000 to share honors atop the Open session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2022 October Yearling Sale.

Hip No. 418, a dark bay or brown colt consigned by Boutte Sales, Agent, went to Champion Equine LLC. He's out of stakes placed OBS graduate Absoulute Heaven, by Not For Love, a daughter of stakes winning OBS graduate Princess Caveat.

D J Stable purchased Hip No. 610, a bay filly consigned by Camelot Acres Racing and Sales. She's a half sister to stakes winning OBS graduate Little Chesney, out of Liberty Flag, by Kingmambo.

– Hip No. 639, a daughter of OBS graduate Sharp Azteca consigned by Moreau Bloodstock Int'l, Inc., Agent, went to New Day Training Center for $85,000. The dark bay or brown filly is out of Miss Subtle, by Misremembered, a daughter of graded stakes winning OBS graduate Subtle Aly.

– Hip No. 304, a daughter of Good Magic consigned by Beth Bayer, Agent, was sold for $75,000 to Sean S. Perl Bloodstock LLC. The chestnut filly is out of Rivercane, by Awesome Again, from the family of graded stakes winner Scott's Scoundrel.

– Hip No. 663, a son of Awesome Slew consigned by Boutte Sales, Agent, went to Antonio Sano for $70,000. The chestnut colt is out of Selective Memory, by Malibu Moon, a half sister to graded stakes placed Strong Barows.

– Hip No. 252, a daughter of Yoshida (JPN) consigned by Sweet River Thoroughbreds, Agent, was purchased by Antonio Sano for $65,000. The chestnut filly is out of On Cloud Nine, by Unbridled's Song, a daughter of graded stakes winner Statuette.

– RiceHorse, Agent, went to $62,000 for Hip No. 299, a daughter of OBS graduate World of Trouble consigned by Summerfield (Francis & Barbara Vanlangendonck), Agent. The dark bay or brown filly is out of Remington Rose, by Take Charge Indy, a half sister to stakes placed Twirl Girl.

– Hip No. 370, a daughter of Girvin consigned by Double Tap Sales LLC, Agent, was purchased for $57,000 by III Beauty's Thoroughbreds LLC. The gray or roan filly is out of OBS graduate Sweet Dreams Diva, by Rockport Harbor, a half sister to graded stakes placed stakes winner Good Morning Diva.

– Hip No. 297, a son of OBS graduate Coal Front consigned by Kaizen Sales (Richard Kent), Agent, went to Julie Davies LLC, Agent, for $55,000. The dark bay or brown colt is out of Ready Witted, by More Than Ready, from the family of grade one stakes winner Love and Pride.

– John C. Oxley went to $55,000 for Hip No. 578, a daughter of Mendelssohn consigned by Abbie Road Farm (Lisa McGreevy), Agent. The bay filly is out of J. A. Curlin, by Curlin, a daughter of stakes winner Victory With Class.

– Hip No. 344, a son of Khozan consigned by Summerfield (Francis & Barbara Vanlangendonck), Agent, was sold to Mathis Stable LLC for $52,000. The chestnut colt, a half-brother to graded stakes placed Pedaltothemedal, is out of Something Brewing, by Meadowlake, a half sister to grade one stakes winner El Brujo.

– Frank Bertolino paid $50,000 for Hip No. 420, a daughter of Not This Time consigned by Bobby Jones Equine LLC, Agent. The bay filly is out of OBS graduate Ahaya, by Indian Charlie, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Rail Trip and to the dam of Chop Chop, second by a nose in Keeneland's Grade 1 Alcibiades Stakes on Oct. 7.

– Hip No. 463, a son of Rogueish consigned by Las Palmas Farm, went to Saffie Joseph Jr. for $50,000. The bay colt is out of OBS graduate Born to Jazz, by Student Council, a half sister to graded stakes placed stakes winner Born to Dance.

For the Open session, 256 yearlings sold for a total of $ 4,367,900, compared with 281 bringing a total of $5,224,500 a year ago. The average price was $17,062, compared with $18,593 in 2021, while the median price was $13,000, compared with the $15,000 figure a year ago. The buyback percentage was 30.2 percent compared with 16.6 percent last year.

For the Selected Yearling Sale, 133 horses sold for a total of $ 6,204,000 compared with 104 yearlings bringing $4,539,000 a year ago. The average price was $46,647, up 7 percent from $43,644 last year, while the median price was $35,000, rising 9.4 percent from $32,000 in 2021. The buyback percentage was 28.9 percent; it was 22.4 percent a year ago.

A colt by Mitole and a filly by The Factor were both purchased by D. J. Stable LLC for $210,000 to share honors at the top of Tuesday's Selected session.

Hip No. 122, a son of champion OBS graduate Mitole consigned by Bobby Jones Equine LLC, Agent, is a bay colt out of Eenie Meenie Miney, by Uncle Mo, a half sister to graded stakes winner Tableaux.

Hip No. 150, a bay filly by The Factor out of Honey Trap, by Medaglia d'Oro, consigned by Stuart Morris, Agent, is a half sister to OBS October/March graduate Delight, winner of Keeneland's G2 Jessamine Stakes last week.

To view the open session's full results, click here.

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Bloodlines Presented By No-No Cribbing Collar: A Toast To Bourbon County After A Successful Weekend For Its Sires

Maybe it's something in the water.

Whatever it is, the stallion operations in neighboring Bourbon County (northeast of Fayette County, which includes Lexington) have been ringing the bell repeatedly. Today, there are only two commercial stallion operations in Bourbon County: Claiborne Farm and Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa.

On Keeneland's second day of racing this fall, in the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity, which is sponsored by Claiborne, the first two finishers were out of mares by 2010 champion older horse Blame (by Arch), who stands at Claiborne. Annapolis, winner of the Grade 1 Turf Mile at Keeneland, is by Claiborne stallion War Front (Danzig); Nagirroc (Lea) won the G3 Futurity Stakes in New York; and a few days earlier on the West Coast, Midnight Memories won the G2 Zenyatta Stakes to become the first graded winner for Claiborne stallion Mastery (Candy Ride).

In the Breeders' Futurity, the winner was G1 Hopeful winner Forte (Violence) by a neck over Loggins (Ghostzapper). The sires of both stand at Bourbon County's Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa, which also stands Curlin (Smart Strike), the sire of Saturday's G2 Vosburgh Stakes winner Elite Power. On Sunday, Curlin's daughters Nest and First to Act finished one-two in the G2 Beldame Stakes, and later that day, the stallion's Malathaat won the G1 Spinster at Keeneland.

Malathaat was last year's champion 3-year-old filly, and Nest is a virtual certainty to win the Eclipse Award for that division this year after impressive victories in the Coaching Club American Oaks and Alabama, then a blowout victory in the Beldame against older fillies and mares.

Curlin stood the 2022 season at Hill 'n' Dale for $175,000 live foal, and with 89 stakes winners to date, including five G1 winners this year, Curlin is an eminently “proven” stallion. He, like Ghostzapper, won a Breeders' Cup Classic and was named Horse of the Year, then followed up those racing performances by siring repeated successful performers at the top level of sport.

Violence, however, had a more limited racing career of four starts. The strikingly handsome dark brown won the first three of his races, then was second in the G2 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream to subsequent Kentucky Derby winner Orb (Malibu Moon).

The handsome son of Medaglia d'Oro raced no more and was retired to stud at Hill 'n' Dale for the 2014 breeding season. He proved very popular with breeders, getting 119 and 116 named foals in his first two crops, which included G1 winner Volatile in the second crop. Overall, the stallion's first two crops produced 84 percent starters to foals, compared to 61 percent for the breed overall; 71 percent winners (42 percent); and 7 percent stakes winners with 16, compared to 3 percent for the breed.

That counted as a positive start to a stallion career, and Violence is still standing in Kentucky to sizable books of good mares and stands for a fee of $25,000. The young Three Chimneys Farm stallion Volatile, along with third- and fourth-crop G1 winners No Parole (Woody Stephens) and Dr. Schivel (Del Mar Futurity; Bing Crosby Handicap), have been excellent indicators of what Violence is capable of siring, but the stallion needed a national champion, a home run colt, to break into the ranks of elite sires like Curlin, Tapit, or War Front.

Could Forte be that colt?

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He is certainly talented, fast, and brave. When he ranged up outside of Loggins in the Breeders' Futurity, it appeared the Violence colt would blow past his rival. Loggins had other ideas and never gave up, but at the wire, Forte was a neck in front of his rival and claimed the victory.

The third-place colt, Red Route One (Gun Runner), was seven lengths behind the winner.

The suggestion of the form is that both Forte and Loggins are quite good and that the future holds high promise for them both.

Bred in Kentucky by South Gate Farm, Forte has now won three of his four starts and is one of two juvenile colts with a pair of G1 victories. The other is Cave Rock (Arrogate).

Forte is out of the Blame mare Queen Caroline, a four-time stakes winner, and the colt's second dam, Queens Plaza (Forestry), won the Sorority Stakes at 2. The third dam, Kew Garden (Seattle Slew), was only a winner, but her dam was the multiple graded stakes winner Jeano (Fappiano). Another daughter of Jeano, Contrive, produced the champion 2-year-old filly Folklore (Tiznow).

South Gate sold Forte for $80,000 as a weanling at the 2020 Keeneland November sale, and the colt was pinhooked into the following year's September sale, where he brought $110,000 from Repole Stable & St. Elias Stable, which entities own and race the colt.

Forte's dam Queen Caroline was purchased by Amy Moore of South Gate Farm for $170,000 at the 2014 Keeneland September sale. Queen Caroline won four stakes and $401,608, placing in four other stakes. Forte is the mare's first foal, and she has a yearling colt by Uncle Mo who sold to Mayberry Farm for $850,000 at the 2022 Keeneland September sale. Earlier this year, Queen Caroline was bred to Not This Time (Giant's Causeway), the sire of Epicenter and other good racers.

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The Jockey Club Releases 2021 Breeding Statistics

The Jockey Club today reported that 1,303 stallions covered 29,065 mares in North America during 2021, according to statistics compiled through Oct. 6, 2022. These breedings have resulted in 18,609 live foals of 2022 being reported to The Jockey Club on Live Foal Reports.

The Jockey Club estimates that the number of live foals reported so far is 85-90 percent complete. The reporting of live foals of 2022 is down 2.2 percent from last year at this time when The Jockey Club had received reports for 19,021 live foals of 2021.

In addition to the 18,609 live foals of 2022 reported through Oct. 6, The Jockey Club also received 2,191 No Foal Reports for the 2022 foaling season. Ultimately, the 2022 registered foal crop is projected to reach 18,700.

The number of stallions declined 10.0 percent from the 1,447 reported for 2020 at this time last year, while the number of mares bred declined 2.1 percent from the 29,699 reported for 2020.

The 2022 breeding statistics are available alphabetically by stallion name through the Resources – Fact Book link on The Jockey Club homepage at jockeyclub.com.

Kentucky annually leads all states and provinces in terms of Thoroughbred breeding activity. Kentucky-based stallions accounted for 57.8 percent of the mares reported bred in North America in 2021 and 61.6 percent of the live foals reported for 2022.

The 16,796 mares reported bred to 207 Kentucky stallions in 2021 have produced 11,460 live foals, a 0.7 percent decrease on the 11,535 Kentucky-sired live foals of 2021 reported at this time last year. The number of mares reported bred to Kentucky stallions in 2021 increased 1.9 percent compared to the 16,485 reported for 2020 at this time last year.

Among the 10 states and provinces with the most mares covered in 2021, four produced more live foals in 2022 than in 2021 as reported at this time last year: California, Ontario, Oklahoma, and Indiana.

The following table shows those 10 states and provinces sorted by number of state/province-sired live foals of 2022 reported through October 6, 2022.

  2021 Mares Bred 2021 Live Foals 2022 Live Foals Percent Change in Live Foals
Kentucky 16,796 11,535 11,460 -0.7%
California 1,939 1,253 1,303 4.0%
Florida 1,617 1,002 927 -7.5%
New York 953 649 576 -11.2%
Louisiana 931 631 570 -9.7%
Maryland 780 524 481 -8.2%
Ontario 653 359 402 12.0%
Pennsylvania 570 449 340 -24.3%
Oklahoma 528 271 293 8.1%
Indiana 503 192 231 20.3%

The statistics include 181 progeny of stallions standing in North America but foaled abroad, as reported by foreign stud book authorities at the time of publication.

Country Live Foals Country Live Foals
Argentina 7 Republic of Korea 3
Barbados 1 Libya 5
Dominican Republic 2 Mexico 11
Ecuador 1 Panama 2
France 6 Peru 1
Great Britain 13 Philippines 4
Ireland 44 Qatar 1
Japan 71 Turkey 9

The report also includes 50 mares bred to 19 stallions in North America on Southern Hemisphere time; the majority of these mares have not foaled.

As customary, a report listing the number of mares bred in 2022 will be released later this month.

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Youngsters By Mitole, The Factor Top 2022 OBS Selected Yearling Sale

A colt by Mitole and a filly by the Factor were both purchased by D. J. Stable LLC for $210,000 to share honors at the top of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2022 Selected Sale of Yearlings.

Hip No. 122, a son of champion OBS graduate Mitole consigned by Bobby Jones Equine LLC, Agent, is a bay colt out of Eenie Meenie Miney, by Uncle Mo, a half sister to graded stakes winner Tableaux.

Hip No. 150, a bay filly by The Factor out of Honey Trap, by Medaglia d'Oro, consigned by Stuart Morris, Agent, is a half sister to OBS October/March graduate Delight, winner of Keeneland's Grade 2 Jessamine Stakes last week.

– Hip No. 201, a son of Good Magic consigned by Bobby Jones Equine LLC, Agent, was sold to DILLIGAF, for $160,000. The chestnut colt, a half brother to graded stakes winning OBS graduate Sarah Sis, is out of Emerald Gal, by Gilded Time.

– CSV went to $155,000 for Hip No. 203, a son of Ghostzapper consigned by K P Sales, Agent for Westbury Stable. The chestnut colt is out of Hannahanna, by Malibu Moon, a half sister to graded stakes winner Silent Bird.

– Hip No. 100, a son of Awesome Slew consigned by Sue Vacek, Agent, was sold to Champion Equine LLC for $150,000. The bay colt, a half-brother to stakes-placed OBS graduate Reckling, is out of Cash Reserve, by Distorted Humor, a daughter of graded stakes winner Private Treasure.

– Hip No. 4, a son of OBS graduate Sharp Azteca consigned by Sweet River Thoroughbreds, went to Mathis Stable LLC for $130,000. The dark bay or brown colt is out of Peppermint Fire, by Sidney's Candy, from the family of graded stakes placed stakes winner Madam Fireplace.

– Hip No. 30, a daughter of champion OBS graduate Mitole consigned by Abbie Road Farm (Lisa McGreevy), Agent, was sold to Classic Bloodstock for Gary Anderson for $125,000. The dark bay or brown filly is out of Sinister Siren, by Empire Maker, a half sister to stakes placed Unanimously, from the family of champion OBS graduate Delightful Mary.

– FMQ Stables went to $125,000 for Hip No. 66, a son of Not This Time consigned by Whitman Sales LLC, Agent. A half brother to graded stakes placed OBS graduate Scotland, the dark bay or brown colt is out of Varus, by Vicar, a half sister to stakes placed Cape Good Hope.

– Hip No. 137, a daughter of Mendelssohn also consigned by Whitman Sales LLC, Agent, was sold to R & E Bloodstock for $115,000. The dark bay or brown filly, a half sister to graded stakes winner Market Town, is out of Geographic, by Empire Maker, from the family of champion Slew O' Gold.

– CSV went to $110,000 for Hip No. 144, a daughter of Mendelssohn consigned by Sennebec South Farm. The bay filly is out of Guise, by Exchange Rate, from the family of graded stakes winner Phoenix Tower.

– Hip No. 131, a son of OBS graduate Coal Front consigned by Kaizen Sales (Richard Kent), Agent for Spendthrift Farm, was purchased for $105,000 by Janice Geeding. The dark bay or brown colt is out of stakes placed Fairy Star (AUS), by More Than Ready, a half sister to Grade 1-placed Lizard Island.

– Hip No. 14, a daughter of OBS graduate Sharp Azteca consigned by Goldencents Thoroughbreds, Agent, was sold to de Meric Sales for $100,000. The dark bay or brown filly is out of Reign Suzanne, by Street Hero, a half-sister to graded stakes winning champion Academic.

– Hip No. 106, a daughter of Nyquist consigned by Beth Bayer, Agent, was sold for $100,000 to Dew Sweeper II. The chestnut filly is out of graded stakes placed stakes winner Citizen Advocate, by Proud Citizen, a half-sister to the dam of champion Caledonia Road.

For the Selected Yearling Sale, 125 horses sold for a total of $6,101,000 compared with 104 yearlings bringing $4,539,000 a year ago. The average price was $48,808, up 34 percent compared with $43,644 last year, while the median price was $40,000, rising 25 percent compared with $32,000 in 2021. The buyback percentage was 33.2 percent; it was 22.4 percent a year ago.

The sale continues Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. with Hip No.'s 251 – 684 selling in the Open session.

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

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