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Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 12 entries for its June Digital Selected Sale, which may now be viewed at digital.fasigtipton.com. Bidding is officially open and will close this Thursday, June 9, at 2 p.m. EDT.

“We have several attractive offerings for this Belmont week sale, including a 2-year-old half-sister to undefeated Grade 1 winner Jack Christopher who is expected to run in the Grade 1 Woody Stephens on Belmont Stakes day,” said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales. “In addition, we have mares in foal on attractive covers, and some exciting race horses.”

Entries cataloged include:

'20 F. Mo Town – Rushin No Blushin (Hip 1): Two-year-old half-sister to undefeated Grade 1 winner and multiple graded stakes winner Jack Christopher, from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Mo Town. Jack Christopher will make his next anticipated start in the Grade 1 Woody Stephens Stakes on Saturday. Offered as a racing/broodmare prospect, this filly is broke and galloping.

Bali Dreamin (Hip 3): Three-year-old filly by Bal a Bali who broke her maiden by 3 1/2 lengths in a $90,000 maiden special weight at Oaklawn Park on April 15. Out of a half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner and sire English Channel, she is offered as racing/broodmare prospect.

Easy Silence (Hip 5): Young stakes placed daughter of Constitution from the family of Grade 1 winners Alpha, Seaside Attraction, Golden Attraction, and Cape Town. She is carrying her first foal by Maclean's Music on a last cover date of April 21, 2022.

Got it Made (Hip 6): Young Uncle Mo mare out of a full sister to multiple Grade 1 winner and Grade 1 producer Cavorting. She is in foal to current leading third-crop Sire Not This Time on a last cover date of April 20, 2022.

Malibu Mischief (Hip 12): Young stakes placed daughter of Goldencents from the family of Grade 1 winner Stormy Lucy. She is carrying her first foal by G1 Forego Stakes winner Yaupon on a last cover date of Feb. 14, 2022. This is the first mare to be offered at public auction in foal to Yaupon.

Each entry's page features a catalogue-style pedigree, five-cross pedigree, photos, and walking videos.  Horses of racing age and racing/broodmare prospect pages offer Daily Racing Form Past Performances, Thoroughmanager past performances, Ragozin speed figures, and race replays.  Access to veterinary information and a repository are available on applicable entries.

Location information for entries is also provided, and registered bidders may contact sellers from the entry's page to arrange an inspection or ask for additional information.

To create an account or register to bid, as well as read a list of Frequently Asked Questions, prospective buyers should visit digital.fasigtipton.com.

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Jonathan Thomas, trainer of the versatile Grade 1 winner Catholic Boy, will judge the 88th annual Maryland Horse Breeders Association Yearling Show. Open to all yearlings eligible for Maryland-bred registration, the show will be held Sunday, July 24 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds' Horse Show Ring in Timonium. Entries are due by June 24.

Thomas was born in Virginia and raised at Paul Mellon's famed Rokeby Farm, where his grandfather, father and mother all worked. Growing up around quality horses, Thomas was 13 when Mellon's homebred Sea Hero won the Kentucky Derby. Twenty-five years later as a trainer, he was sending out Catholic Boy to win Grade 1s on the turf and dirt, the latter in Saratoga's Travers Stakes. It was only the third time in history that an American 3-year-old accomplished the Grade 1 dirt/turf double, following in the footsteps of Secretariat and California Chrome.

Before going out on his own, Thomas was an assistant for leading trainers Christophe Clement, Dale Romans and Todd Pletcher, and spent a year training in Saudi Arabia. He also worked in sales and breaking with J.J. Pletcher in Ocala, Fla., and over the years built up a business buying, breaking and training Thoroughbreds at Bridlewood Farm in Ocala.

Since saddling his first runners in 2005, he has a win percentage of 24 percent, and more than half his starters finish in the top three.

The list of judges in the MHBA Yearling Show's long history is a “who's who” of renowned horsemen. The celebrated group includes 26 Hall of Famers, and Triple Crown-winning trainers James “Sunny Jim” Fitzsimmons, Max Hirsch, Lucien Laurin and Billy Turner. Among Maryland-bred yearlings to have competed in the show are Eclipse Award-winning Hall of Famer Safely Kept, Eclipse Award-winning juveniles Smart Angle and Declan's Moon, 2019 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Sharing, and millionaires Cathryn Sophia, Urbane, Eighttofasttocatch and Cherokee's Boy.

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California stallion Coach Bob passed away on Thursday at Daehling Ranch from complications of kidney disease. He was 13.

The son of Bertrando, out of the Yankee Gentlemen mare Gentlemen's Hope, was bred in California by Pam and Martin Wygod and sold at the 2010 Northern California Yearling Sale for $5,000.

Owned by Tom Gerstel, Reina Gonzalez, Keith Hembree, Jean Hembree and Jeff Kitchen and trained by Gonzalez, Coach Bob earned $211,367 on the track, with stakes placings at ages three, four and five. That included a second-place finish behind Big Macher in the Donald Valpredo California Cup Sprint.

“It's a very sad day for all of us here at the farm,” said Julia Daehling Oldfield. “He was a super easy stallion to work with and he enjoyed human interaction and loved peppermints. He would run up the gate if he heard the wrappers.  We will miss him.”

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