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Spendthrift Acquires Breeding Rights To Multiple Grade 1 Winner, Track Record Setter Cyberknife

Spendthrift Farm has acquired the breeding rights to recent track record-setting TVG.com Haskell Invitational (G1) winner Cyberknife.

The multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire by Gun Runner will stand stud at the Lexington-based farm at the conclusion of his racing career.

“We are grateful to (owner) Al Gold and his team for allowing us to acquire the stallion rights to such an exciting horse as Cyberknife,” said Ned Toffey, Spendthrift general manager. “Gun Runner has certainly asserted himself as a serious sire with his first crop, and Cyberknife is his only multiple Grade 1-winning son, having impressively won two of America's biggest million-dollar Grade 1s for 3-year-olds – the Arkansas Derby and Haskell.

“Cyberknife is a very good-looking, very athletic colt, and I know their team believes that he is only getting better. He will be a wonderful addition to our roster when his racing career is over. In the meantime, we very much look forward to seeing what Cyberknife can accomplish on the track,” Toffey added.

Campaigned by Al Gold's Gold Square LLC, Cyberknife bested Grade 1 winners Taiba and Jack Christopher in the $1 million Haskell Invitational (G1) at Monmouth on July 23, setting a track record of 1:46.24 for 1 1/8 miles over a fast track and earning a berth into the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) in November at Keeneland. Prior to Haskell day, the track record was 1:46.80 established by Spend a Buck in 1985.

Earlier this year, Cyberknife emerged onto the 3-year-old scene with a runaway 2 ¾-length victory in the $1,250,000 Arkansas Derby (G1) at Oaklawn Park. Trained by Brad Cox, the chestnut colt also captured the Matt Winn Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs in June, compiling five wins from nine starts while earning $1,596,520 to date.

“I'm excited about teaming with Spendthrift on Cyberknife, and I look forward to watching him have a productive stallion career,” said Gold. “Cyberknife is a very athletic, tractable colt. You saw Florent (Geroux) use him at multiple points to be able to make the winning move in the Haskell, which produced one of the fastest Ragozin numbers by any three-year-old. We are very excited about him in the Travers and further down the road in the Breeders' Cup Classic.”

Cyberknife worked a half mile in :49.96 Saturday at Saratoga in his first breeze since the Haskell. He is being pointed to the $1,250,000 Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga on August 27.

“Cyberknife has always been a tremendous talent from day one, and he's continued to get better as a 3-year-old,” said Cox.

Bred in Kentucky by Ken and Sarah Ramsey, Cyberknife was a $400,000 purchase by agent Jack Hardoon at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Selected Yearlings Showcase and is out of the multiple stakes-winning Flower Alley mare Awesome Flower. He hails from the family of multiple Grade 1 winner Well Armed.

For more information about Cyberknife, please contact Des, Mark, or Brian at Spendthrift at 859-294-0030.

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Grade 3 Winner Scalding Retired From Racing

Scalding, who won a pair of Grade 3 races earlier this year, has been retired from racing due to injury, BloodHorse reports.

According to owner Robert Clay of Grandview Equine, the 4-year-old son of Nyquist suffered a leg injury while training toward a start in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes on Sept. 3 at Saratoga Race Course.

Owned by Grandview Equine in partnership with Cheyenne Stable and LNJ Foxwoods, Scalding won four of seven starts, and he earned $325,800. Shug McGaughey trained the colt.

Scalding was experiencing a career season in 2022, starting off with a maiden victory at Gulfstream Park in January. He shipped to Tampa Bay Downs a month later to take an allowance optional claiming race, then he tested graded stakes company for the first time and emerged victorious in the Grade 3 Challenger Stakes at Tampa Bay. The colt then shipped to Keeneland, where he won the G3 Ben Ali Stakes.

His final start came in the listed Blame Stakes on July 4 at Churchill Downs, where he finished third.

Stud plans were not announced for the colt.

Bloodlines Presented By CTBA Sales: Coast-To-Coast Scores Boost Late Arrogate On Second-Crop Leaderboard

With stakes winners on the West Coast and the East Coast on successive days, at Del Mar on July 28 and at Saratoga on July 29, Arrogate (by Unbridled's Song) doubled his total number of stakes winners.

From the sire's first crop, now three, Arrogate's first stakes winner, Alittleloveandluck, came on New Year's Day, then subsequent Grade 1 winner Secret Oath won the G3 Honeybee on her way to victory in the G1 Kentucky Oaks and becoming one of the best fillies of the year, and a third filly, Fun to Dream, won the Fleet Treat Stakes at Del Mar on Thursday.

Bred in California by Bob Baffert and Connie Pageler, Fun to Dream is unbeaten in two starts. The filly made her debut on May 28 at Santa Anita and won the maiden special by 6 ¼ lengths as the odds-on favorite while trained by Sean McCarthy.

Back to being trained by Baffert after his return from the wilderness, Fun to Dream made her second start in the Fleet Treat, an event restricted to California-bred or -sired fillies, and again was favored. This time, the gray filly won by 9 ¾ lengths in 1:22.67 for seven furlongs.

The dam of Fun to Dream, Lutess (Maria's Mon), was claimed by Bob Baffert on behalf of Live Your Dream Stable for $8,000 on Feb. 17, 2012, and Lutess thus became a broodmare. Fun to Dream races for Pageler and Natalie Baffert.

The day after Fun to Dream became her sire's third stakes winner, Artorius won the Curlin Stakes at Saratoga and became the first son of Arrogate to win a stakes.

Bred in Kentucky by Juddmonte Farms, “Artorius isn't an overly big horse,” according to Juddmonte farm manager Garrett O'Rourke, “and he isn't especially heavy either. He's more of a greyhound type, very athletic. He had shins, and things like that delayed his progress.”

Now a winner in two of his three starts, Artorius is clearly progressive and drew off to win the listed Curlin Stakes at Saratoga by 4 ¾ lengths in 1:50.34. The dark bay colt was the second choice in the field of eight.

Artorius had been second in his debut on April 16 at Keeneland, then came back on June 10 to win a maiden special at Belmont, racing a mile in 1:35.07. The colt seemed notably professional in racing inside, then between horses, before going on to win his race. Furthermore, the form seems solid, with Preakness third Creative Minister (Creative Cause) finishing 6 ¼ lengths back of the winner.

The Curlin was the third start for Artorius, and the race was both a step up in class and forward in distance. And it is tempting to say that the Arrogate stock want distance, but Fun to Dream showed plenty of speed in California, racing the six furlongs in 1:09.53 before finishing the seven furlongs in quick time.

Juddmonte supplied a substantial portion of Arrogate's book each year the gray champion was at stud, and O'Rourke has seen as many of the horse's offspring as anyone. He said that, in addition to the farm's 3-year-olds, “we have plenty of 2-year-olds and plenty of yearlings. I always felt our 2-year-old crop was deeper than the 3-year-olds. Some of the 2-year-olds have already gone into training.

“The pattern that I think is emerging is giving them time, and when you get a good one, it's worth the wait. That was what we found with Arrogate himself. Shins were the problem with Arrogate at two that prompted Bob to send him back to the farm. Then when he went back to training in California, he was ready.”

After winning a maiden and a pair of allowances as a 3-year-old, Arrogate went to Saratoga for the 2016 Travers, where he scorched the earth in a memorable performance. From then through the Breeders' Cup Classic and Pegasus to his victory in the Dubai World Cup, Arrogate was the best horse in the world.

And Juddmonte was planning for the day when he went to stud.

The farm acquired Paulassilverlining (Ghostzapper) privately from breeder Vincent Scuderi after the G2 winner had finished a good third in the 2016 Breeders' Cup Filly Sprint, then won the Garland of Roses in December 2016. The filly promptly continued to compile a four-race winning streak, earning victories for Juddmonte in the G1 Madison at Keeneland, the G1 Distaff at Churchill Downs, and the G2 Honorable Miss at Saratoga.

Paulassilverlining ran below her best form in her final two starts, the G1 Ballerina and G1 BC Filly Sprint. Then both she and Arrogate were retired to stud in Kentucky, and Artorius was the result of the mare's first mating. The multiple G1 winner has a 2-year-old filly named Parameter (Into Mischief) with Chad Brown, like the half-brother.

The second-crop sires all toil far in arrears of record-setting Gun Runner ($7.5 million), but Arrogate is a highly respectable third behind Keen Ice (Curlin) ($3.9 million) with $3.5 million in his sire account so far this year. Those are the only second-crop sires with more than $3 million in progeny earnings for 2022.

Arrogate has the smallest number of starters among the top 10 sires on the list; so to be ranked that highly, and with only four stakes winners, the colts and fillies winning maidens are clearly doing so in good company and for good purses. The likelihood is that we will be able to assess the stallion's overall contribution to greater advantage in 18 to 24 months.

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Washington Summer Yearling, Mixed Sale Offers Pedigree Strength And Variety

The 55th Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association Summer Sale will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 23, starting at 1 p.m., one hour earlier than in recent years.

This year's offering, which will again be held at the WTBOA Sales Pavilion located at Emerald Downs, Auburn, Wash., has 85 yearlings, 18 broodmares – including a three-in-one package – and one weanling cataloged.

Auction activity begins with a chance to bid on a trip for two to the 2022 Breeders' Cup World Championships, scheduled to be run Nov. 4-5 at beautiful Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky. Trip includes prime seating, hotel accommodations and an air transportation voucher. Proceeds benefit the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation and its many programs.

Sire Strength

Sires of the yearlings cataloged include 2022 national leading juvenile and freshman sire Sharp Azteca – whose 13 winners (to Aug. 1) include two wide-margin stakes winners – and other top national sires Connect, Exaggerator, First Samurai, Klimt, Midshipman, Race Day, Speightster, Take Charge Indy, Tale of Ekati and Tapizar.

Leading California sires represented include Clubhouse Ride, Curlin to Mischief, Danzing Candy, Grazen, Smiling Tiger, Stanford, and in his first North American crop, the impressive Sir Prancealot (Ire).

This marks the last full crop of outstanding Pacific Northwest (PNW) sire Harbor the Gold, whose offspring have won 71 Emerald Downs stakes. Other leading PNW sires include Atta Boy Roy, Coast Guard, Nationhood, Dynamic Impact – sire of 2-year-old filly sensation Miss Dynamic in his second crop – and 2022 freshman leader Gold Rush Dancer.

Mention must also be made of 2021/2022 Washington leading sire Conveyance, who is represented by two foals (one selling at side) from his first Washington crop and two mares who were covered by the Grade 3-winning son of Indian Charlie.

Classy Dams

Among the top broodmares represented by a yearling are 14 mares who were state champion runners and/or produced a champion. Six others also won stakes and another eight have placed in one or more stakes.

If you subtract the 19 mares who only have 2-year-olds and/or yearlings, the others have already produced 22 stakes winners, 30 stakes-placed runners and more than a dozen others who are members of the “$100,000 club.”

Pedigree Updates

There have been quite a few exciting and important updates since the catalog was printed. Not only has there been many added wins and winners, but also added stakes activity under several of the first dams, led by three first-time stakes winners.

At Monmouth Park, 3-year-old That's Right won the $102,000 My Frenchman Stakes on July 17, upping his earnings to $154,150. His half-brother by Take Charge Indy sells as Hip 52.

Slack Tide, herself a 2020 WTBOA Sale graduate, took the Kent Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths at Emerald Downs on July 17. It marked the third stakes victory (second in 2022) for the 3-year-old filly whose half-brother by Sir Prancealot (Ire) is being offered as Hip 80

2021 WTBOA sale graduate Runnin Out of Days, came out running when, in his first start, he took the July 10 King County Express Stakes by 10 1/4 lengths. His half-brother by Coast Guard, is consigned as Hip 40.

Finishing third in the 5 1/2-furlong stakes was It's Turbo, a son of Curlin to Mischief whose half-brother to by Grazen is selling as Hip 8.

K D Thoroughbreds 4-year-old Slew's Tiz Whiz now has five wins to his credit, including his tally in the July 24 Governor's Stakes. He is out of winning sister to three-time Washington champion Lady Rosberg, whose yearling filly by Danzing Candy is listed as Hip 25, and Lady Rosberg has a Grazen filly consigned as Hip 4.

Itsallinthenotes, Washington's 2021 champion older filly or mare, was second in the Molly Brown Stakes on July 31, pushing her earnings to $154,669. Her half-brother by Raised a Secret sells as Hip 76 in the Dunn Bar Ranch consignment.

Other yearlings with significant updates under their first dams include Hips 10, 22 and 79 (new juvenile winners), Hip 64 (additional stakes placement), and Hips 29, 79 a(allowance wins).

Broodmares

Among the broodmares offered are daughters of Broken Vow, Candy Ride (Arg), Fusaichi Pegasus, Malibu Moon, Roar, Smart Strike and Unusual Heat. They are carrying foals, in addition to the previously mentioned Conveyance, by Cat Burglar, Misremembered, Sixthirteen and the promising stallions Bodexpress, Jess Mo, One Bad Boy and Outlash.

To Order a Catalog

For more information or to request a sales catalog, please call (253) 288-7878 or e-mail maindesk@wtboa.com. The catalog pages, updated weekly (both female lines and sires) by The Jockey Club Information Systems, are available for viewing on the WTBOA website at washingtonthoroughbred.com/sales/. You can also sign-up for the sales catalog iPad app at equineline.com.

Photos and videos of many of the yearlings will also soon be also available on the WTBOA website.

All interested bidders are reminded that credit must be stablished prior to sale time. In addition, online bidders need to pre-register at wtboa.equibid.com. Phone bidding is also available if you are unable to attend the sale in person. All bidders are strongly encouraged to establish credit and/or pre-register for the sale no later than 48 hours prior to sale time.

New for 2022, the WTBOA is offering a “view only” feature on our internet login page while the live sale is running. The button will allow interested parties to click and view the livestream without registering.

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