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Mizzen Mast Filly, Distorted Humor, Lord Nelson Colts Fastest At OBS Spring Under Tack Session Four

A filly by Mizzen Mast and colts by Distorted Humor and Lord Nelson breezed quarters in :20 3/5, posting the fastest works at the distance at the fourth session of the Under Tack Show for Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2022 Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.

Hip No. 543, consigned by Wavertree Stables, Inc. (Ciaran Dunne), Agent, is a chestnut filly by Mizzen Mast out of stakes winner Hurricane Bernie, by Sea of Secrets, and is a three-quarters sister to Grade 1 winner Mizdirection.

Hip No. 548, a dark bay or brown colt by Lord Nelson consigned by Coastal Equine LLC (Jesse Hoppel), Agent, is a half brother to stakes placed OBS Spring Sale graduate Macho Miah out of I Know You Know, by Officer.

Hip No. 671, consigned by Pick View LLC, Agent, is a bay colt by Distorted Humor out of Life Force, by Sky Mesa, from the family of graded stakes winner Supah Blitz.

Five youngsters shared honors for the session's fastest eighth, stopping the timer in :9 4/5.

Hip No. 537, a bay filly by Uncle Mo consigned by Clary Bloodstock, is out of graded stakes winner House Rules, by Distorted Humor.

Hip No. 546, consigned by Eddie Woods, Agent, is a bay colt by Goldencents, a half-brother to last Saturday's Grade 1 Madison Stakes winner Just One Time out of Ida Clark, by Speightstown.

Hip No. 611, a bay filly by Street Sense consigned by Lucan Bloodstock (Karl Keegan), Agent, is out of Katie's Keepsake, by Medaglia d'Oro, a daughter of graded stakes winner Salty Strike.

Hip No. 674, a gray or roan colt by Macho Uno consigned by Grassroots Training & Sales LLC, Agent, is out of Lil Miss Richie, by Half Ours, and is a three-quarters sister to graded stakes winner Macho Macho from the family of Grade 1 winner Fantastic Look.

Hip No. 687, consigned by Top Line Sales LLC, Agent, is a bay filly by Mo Town out of Longride to Wisdom, by Harlan's Holiday, a daughter of stakes winner Clever Idea.

The Under Tack Show continues Thursday morning at 8 a.m. with Hip No.'s 705 – 880 scheduled to breeze, streamed live via the OBS website at obssales.com, and also via the Blood-Horse, DRF, TDN and Past The Wire websites.

To view the full results from Wednesday's under-tack session, click here.

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Kodiac Filly Tops Second Day Of Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale

Tally-Ho Stud provided the top lot on the second consecutive day as the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale came to a close with significant increases in the average and median and the third highest turnover in the sale's history.

The daughter of Kodiac cataloged as Lot 96 was one of the session's expected highlights and the Tally-Ho consigned filly lived up to her star billing when knocked down to trainer Michael O'Callaghan for 460,000 guineas. Bids came in from agents Jake Warren, Richard Brown and David Redvers, but it was O'Callaghan, stood alongside Amo Racing's Kia Joorabchian who emerged successful.

“I have bought a lot of good horses off Tally-Ho – Blue de Vega, Twilight Jet, Now Or Never to name just a few,” said O'Callaghan. “She is a lovely filly, she did a very fast breeze and is a lovely physical with a great pedigree. She ticks all the boxes and hopefully she will make up into a Royal Ascot filly. She looks fast and Royal Ascot will be the hope. She has been bought for Amo Racing, who are new to the yard this year.”

Bred by Tally-Ho Stud, the filly is out of the Listed-placed Falsiyev mare Yajala, dam of the listed winning, Group 3 placed Evil Spell and the Group 3 Jersey Stakes runner up Society Power. It is the extended family of the sprinter Mind Games.

Tally-Ho Stud ended the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale as the leading consignor with their eight sold lots realizing a total of 1,787,000 guineas.

Leading agent Anthony Stroud struck to secure the Sioux Nation half-brother to the Grade 2 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner Twilight Gleaming for 380,000 guineas after seeing off underbidder Richard Brown and Peter Doyle, sat with Najd Stud's Saad Al Saud.

Stroud, who purchased last season's champion 2-year-old Native Trail at this sale last year on behalf of Godolphin, had earlier watched as that colt retained his unbeaten record with victory in the Craven Stakes at Newmarket.

“He is a very nice horse and will stay in England, he was bought for Bahrain's KHK Racing,” said Stroud. “He moved very well, did a good breeze, is from a good consignor; he ticked the boxes. He is the horse we wanted to get to tonight. Richard Brown is a very good judge and he was the underbidder. He looks a real two-year-old and Sioux Nation has had a winner.”

Consigned by Willie Browne's Mocklershill, the sale represented a major return on his yearling purchase price of €50,000.

At the conclusion of the 2022 Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented;

“The fact that the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up has produced the winners of both of this week's premier Classic trials, Cachet and the unbeaten Champion Native Trail, is a powerful endorsement of our premier Breeze Up Sale and the competition for the 2-year-olds over the past two evenings has reflected the sale's reputation for consistently delivering 2-year-olds of the very highest calibre.

“The array of lucrative Tattersalls bonuses on offer for all Craven Breeze Up purchases continues to attract owners and trainers in all sectors of the market and the domestic buyers have faced stiff opposition from a diverse crowd of overseas buyers, all of whom have contributed to a Craven Breeze Up Sale which has posted gains in the key metrics of average, median and turnover, albeit with a clearance rate which has not matched last year's record level. In addition to the strong overseas contingent from America, Bahrain, Dubai, France, Italy, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, we have had live internet bidders registered from Hong Kong and Japan and the global profile of the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up continues to rise.

“As ever there have been some outstanding pinhooking triumphs, all of which reflect the professionalism of the consignors whose support of the Craven Breeze Up is key to its success. As an unbeaten European champion, Native Trail may be a hard act to follow, but we look forward to rewarding even more owners with lucrative £15,000 Craven Breeze Up Bonuses and hopefully to another winner of either of the substantial Royal Ascot and Group 1 bonuses. In the meantime there are plenty more quality 2-year-olds on offer at the forthcoming Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up and Horses in Training Sale and we look forward to sustaining the momentum from a successful Craven Breeze Up.”

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Bloodlines Presented By Mill Ridge Farm: Embarrassment Of Riches Continues To Build For Gun Runner On Triple Crown Trail

Over the weekend of April 9 and 10, leading second-crop sire Gun Runner (by Candy Ride) picked up his fourth Grade 1 winner and 11th stakes winner when Taiba remained unbeaten in two starts with a victory in the Santa Anita Derby.

“Come on, Frank, don't we have anything else to write about?”

“Not really, Ray. Gun Runner is setting the pace among young sires and is going to lead all sires if one of his 3-year-olds picks off a classic or two. What more do you want, maybe have the horse run for the Senate?”

“That's a long-term consideration, but how about something newer, fresher than your weekly homage to the great god 'Gun'?”

Picky, picky.

Well, the last two Grade 1 winners by Gun Runner are out of mares that have extensive racing careers. The dam of Arkansas Derby winner Cyberknife won a half-dozen stakes; the dam of Taiba won 14 stakes, mostly in Ohio-bred company, but earned $732,103 from 17 victories in 39 starts over four seasons of campaigning from ages two through five.

The mare's name is Needmore Flattery (Flatter), and she was bred in Ohio by Bruce Ryan and Blazing Meadows Farm, which is the racing and breeding entity of trainer Tim Hamm.

Hamm said that Needmore Flattery “was a really talented filly. Bruce and I had worked together for 15 years, maybe more, and right at the end of the mare's racing career, he wanted to buy me out. So I sold her in a private transaction.”

Ryan raced the mare for two more starts, then bred her first and second foals: an unraced Uncle Mo colt and Taiba. In 2019, Ryan sold Needmore Flattery at the 2019 Keeneland November sale to Leopoldo Fernández Pujals's Yeguada Centurion for $195,000. Exported to France, Needmore Flattery produced a filly by Uncle Mo there in 2020.

Needmore Flattery is one of three stakes winners from Kiosk (Left Banker), whom Ryan and Hamm acquired prior to her racing career that began in 2002. For the partners, Kiosk won four races, was stakes-placed five times, and earned $115,649 from 31 starts.

That's a useful regional racehorse, but as a producer, Kiosk was even better. Although Needmore Flattery was the broodmare's best performer, she also produced a full sister, Flatter Her Again, winner of the Southern Park Stakes at Mahoning Valley, and a half-brother, Kiosk's Cause (Noble Causeway), who won the Hoover Stakes at Belterra.

Each generation of this family produced a stakes winner until Kiosk exceeded expectations with three and a fourth foal who was stakes-placed. Of these, Needmore Flattery showed the most versatility and consistency, and with her son Taiba, there has come a sparkling improvement in speed and class.

A $140,000 sale at the Fasig-Tipton fall sale in October 2020, Taiba came from the Buckland Sales consignment and sold to Hartley/de Renzo Thoroughbreds. Hartley/de Renzo put the colt in training and brought him to the Fasig-Tipton March sale in south Florida in March 2021. Breezing a furlong in :10 1/5, Taiba looked good throughout the work, then again when showing back at the barn, and the solidly constructed chestnut brought $1.7 million, the second-highest price of the auction.

Gary Young, agent for Zedan Racing Stables, selected the colt and signed the ticket, and the chestnut colt went into training with the Bob Baffert operation in California. Taiba debuted on Mar. 5 as an odds-on favorite at Santa Anita and won by 7 1/2 lengths in 1:09.97 for the six furlongs.

Shifted to the barn of trainer Tim Yakteen when Baffert began serving a suspension, the Santa Anita Derby was the colt's second start.

Taiba is the 21st stakes winner for Flatter (A.P. Indy) as a broodmare sire.

A.P. Indy is broodmare sire of Nest (G1 Ashland), and his son Bernardini is broodmare sire of Speaker's Corner (G1 Carter). A.P. Indy's son Flatter made the weekend a trifecta for the A.P. Indy line as broodmare sires of G1 winners. In addition over the weekend, A.P. Indy's son Pulpit is the broodmare sire of Mo Donegal (G2 Wood Memorial), and the latter's son Tapit is broodmare sire of Nostalgic (G3 Gazelle Stakes). Bernardini was broodmare sire of a second graded winner (Matareya, G3 Beaumont). Those are just the graded winners with A.P. Indy-line broodmare sires.

As sires, Tapit's son Cupid had G2 Santa Anita Oaks winner Desert Dawn, and Tapit's son Constitution sired G3 Distaff Handicap winner Glass Ceiling. There were multiple stakes placings for the members of this line as sires or broodmare sires.

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Colts by Tapwrit, Mor Spirit Fastest At Third OBS Spring Under Tack Session

Colts by Tapwrit and Mor Spirit breezed quarters in :20 3/5 to post the fastest works at the distance at the third session of the Under Tack Show for Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2022 Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.

Hip No. 384, a gray or roan colt by Tapwrit consigned by Blue River Bloodstock, Inc., Agent, is out of Dulce Arabe (CHI), by Speightstown, from the family of Grade 1 winner Fontanella Borghese (CHI).

Hip No. 410, a dark bay or brown colt by Mor Spirit consigned by Top Line Sales LLC, Agent, is out of Midnight Chocolate, by Midnight Lute, a daughter of stakes winner Unbridled Danz.

A pair of youngsters shared honors for the session's fastest eighth, stopping the timer in :9 4/5.

Hip No. 441, a chestnut filly by Army Mule consigned by Top Line Sales LLC, Agent, is out of First Fed Biz, by Fed Biz, a half sister to stakes winning OBS Spring graduate Haengbok Wangja.

Hip No. 461, consigned by Top Line Sales LLC, Agent, is a bay filly by Accelerate out of Full Moon Frolic, by Vindication, a daughter of graded stakes placed stakes winner Frolicing.

A pair of horses worked quarters in :20 4/5.

Hip No. 423, a chestnut filly by Will Take Charge consigned by Ocala Stud, is a half-sister to graded stakes placed Courteous out of Famous, by Vindication.

Hip No. 498, consigned by Tom McCrocklin, Agent, is a bay filly by Classic Empire out of stakes winner Greed and Fear, by Bob and John, from the family of Grade 1 winner For Certain Doc.

There were 24 eighths in :10 flat.

The Under Tack Show continues Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. with Hip No.'s 529 – 704 scheduled to breeze, streamed live via the OBS website at obssales.com, and also via the Blood-Horse, DRF, TDN and Past The Wire websites.

To view the full results from Tuesday's under tack show, click here.

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