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Foal Patrol Presented By National Museum Of Racing And Hall Of Fame: Will Floripa Have A Gray Foal?

Foal Patrol, an initiative of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, has partnered with the Paulick Report in Season 5 to bring you closer to featured mares and foals and to ask farm staff your questions about their care and management over the course of the season.

In this episode with Floripa at Old Tavern Farm in Saratoga Springs, New York, we ask Old Tavern's Trina Pasckvale and Greg Daley, “What are the odds of Floripa having a gray foal?”

For a chance to have one of your questions asked in an upcoming Foal Patrol episode on the Paulick Report, email your question to foalpatrol@racingmuseum.net. Be sure to let us know if your question is for a specific Season 5 mare.

The new Season 5 Education Site provides a platform to respond to viewers' questions, share information about horse care and management from breeding through retirement, and spotlight efforts across the industry to provide the best possible care for Thoroughbreds before, during, and after their racing careers. In partnership with industry collaborators, we will add new content to the Foal Patrol Education Site for viewers of all ages from now through June at foalpatrol.com/education.

Your Stories gives viewers the chance to share photos of their own mares and foals, selfies with Foal Patrol's new mascot, Smokey, and stories about what Foal Patrol means to them. Send your photos and stories to foalpatrol@racingmuseum.net for a chance to be featured on foalpatrol.com/education/your-stories.

Since its first season in 2018, people all over the world have engaged with Foal Patrol's live webcam series for a behind-the-scenes look at what daily life is like for in-foal mares and foals. Learn more about this season's lineup at foalpatrol.com and watch “Recent Updates” for Foal Patrol announcements, posts about featured Season 5 mares and foals, and updates on mares and foals from prior seasons.

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Bloodlines Presented By Mill Ridge Farm: A More Than Golden Anniversary For Secretariat

Fifty-two years ago this week, a good-sized bay mare was heavy in foal. The mare was 18, and there are people who'll tell you an older mare cannot produce a good foal.

Somethingroyal, however, was not your average mare. Already the dam of three stakes winners and a trio of stakes-placed racers, Somethingroyal put a lot into her foals, and the chestnut colt to be born on March 30 was her crowning glory.

The colt yet unborn was a full sibling to one of the mare's previous stakes winners, three-time stakes winner Syrian Sea (Astarita, Selima, and Colleen), and expectations were high for a youngster from an 18-year-old mare and by a 16-year-old stallion by the name of Bold Ruler.

In addition to Syrian Sea, Somethingroyal already had produced Sir Gaylord (by Turn-to) and First Family, by Turn-to's champion son First Landing.

Unlike First Landing, who won 10 of 11 races at two, Sir Gaylord won a half-dozen races, then was third in a quartet that sealed his fate as “one of the best” juveniles after third-place finishes in the Hopeful, Futurity (a neck and a head behind Cyane and Jaipur), Cowdin, and Champagne.

The juvenile season in 1961 had been topsy-turvy, with first one colt, then another, appearing the best. Crimson Satan had taken the championship with a victory in the Garden State Stakes, an extremely valuable end-of-season race that often determined the divisional champion in a manner similar to the contemporary Breeders' Cup Juvenile.

Sir Gaylord, however, matured like a classic colt over the winter. He won each of his four races at three in 1962, defeating Crimson Satan, Ridan, Decidedly, and Jaipur, who won most of the major divisional events in 1962. By Kentucky Derby time, the dark bay was the morning line favorite for the classic at Churchill Downs.

In a half-mile work on the morning before the Derby, the son of Turn-to came up with a hairline fracture of the right front sesamoid and was scratched from the big event. Sir Gaylord never raced again but went to stud at Claiborne Farm. From his second crop, he sired Sir Ivor, winner of the 1968 2,000 Guineas and English Derby, and from his third crop came Habitat, who was the top miler in Europe of 1969. Both became top international sires.

Although closely related, being by Turn-to's son First Landing, First Family was not as good a racer as Sir Gaylord. First Family won four stakes at three and four, including the Gulfstream Park Handicap, which was a Grade 1 race for many years. The colt also had four placings in stakes, including the 1965 Belmont Stakes.

Eight years later, Somethingroyal's most famous offspring won the 1973 Belmont Stakes in record time by 31 lengths to take the first Triple Crown in 25 years, and Secretariat went down in history as one of the greatest Thoroughbreds in the history of the breed.

The Great One was foaled on March 30, 1970, and 50 years ago, in the spring of 1972, the striking chestnut that Penny Chenery labelled her “Wow” horse was a 2-year-old in training who had plenty left to prove. As Timothy T. Capps wrote in his volume on Secretariat, “the steady improvement in his morning workout times came more as a relief … than a revelation.”

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The revelations were yet to come, and the flashy colt who raised pulses with his looks alone lost his first start in a very eventful introduction to his sporting career. For the rest of his juvenile season, however, Secretariat conceded lengths to the opposition in the early running, then swept by them later, moving like a god on hooves.

Before long, Secretariat became his dam's fourth stakes winner. Then he developed into her most distinguished racer, and before his career was over, Secretariat had become a legend.

Racing in 1972 and 1973 during the grim days of Watergate and Viet Nam, the glorious golden colt offered a lift to the spirits of racing fans, and then that sense of amazement and exhilaration spread to millions of people who never before had watched a race or made a bet.

Secretariat was a gift to the sport, one that was not wholly squandered. Both the sponsorship of major races began seriously to increase, and the availability of national television coverage for the sport improved and set the stage for the wide visibility of Forego, Ruffian, Seattle Slew, Affirmed, and Alydar, as well as Spectacular Bid.

All this began with the simple foaling of a chestnut colt from a bay mare on a pretty farm in Virginia.

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$250,000 Stallion Share In Almanzor Tops Fasig-Tipton’s Initial Digital Selected Sale

The March Digital Selected Sale – the first Fasig-Tipton Digital offering – closed Tuesday afternoon with 10 offerings sold for $856,000. Among those sold were a stallion share, racing prospects, broodmare prospects, and in-foal mares. Bidding initially opened on Thursday, March 17.

Top Stallion Share: Almanzor (FR) (Hip 8) for $250,000
Riviera Equine Saarl/Haras d'Etreham went to $250,000 on a share of popular young sire Almanzor (FR) (Wootton Bassett-GB).

Almanzor won five group stakes in 2016 on his way to European Champion 3-Year-Old Colt and Horse of the Year honors, including: in France, the Prix du Jockey Club (G1); in Ireland, the Irish Champion Stakes (G1); and in England, the Champion Stakes (G1). He earned more than $3 million on the track.

Almanzor's first crop of foals are 3-year-olds of 2022 and include juvenile stakes winner Dynastic (also G1-placed) and additional group stakes-placed runners Andalus, Queen Trezy, and Saving Grace.

Top Racing/Broodmare Prospect: Bramble Berry (Hip 18) for $150,000 KiCourt LLC purchased recent Hurricane Bertie S. (G3) runner-up Bramble Berry for $150,000 from the consignment of J. Kent Sweezey, agent.

A 5-year-old Florida-bred daughter of Brethren, Bramble Berry ran a career-best Beyer Speed Figure in the Hurricane Bertie on March 12. To date, she has won nine times in her career, with four stakes placings, on her way to earnings of $286,713.

Bramble Berry is a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Bramble Queen (Silent Name-JPN). She hails from the immediate family of Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Red Bullet and Grade 1 winner Silent Poet.

Top Broodmare: Suchada i/f Knicks Go (Hip 4) for $95,000
Matt Montgomery purchased young broodmare Suchada for $95,000 from the consignment of Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.

A 4-year-old daughter of Frosted, Suchada was offered carrying her first foal, and is the first mare to be offered at public auction in foal to Horse of the Year Knicks Go.

Suchada is a half-sister to Grade 1-winning millionaire Finnegans Wake (Powerscourt-GB) and Grade 2 placed stakes winner Puca (Big Brown).

Top Broodmare Prospect: Wild Empress (Hip 7) for $85,000
Stoneriggs purchased the four-year-old Empire Maker filly Wild Empress as a broodmare prospect for $85,000 from the consignment of Bluewater Sales, agent.

Wild Empress is a half-sister to Champion 2-Year-Old Filly She Be Wild (Offlee Wild). Her sire Empire Maker is responsible for the dams of Grade 1 winners Separationofpowers, Arklow, Mandaloun, Silver State, Valiance, Rock Your World, and Outwork, and of Kentucky Debry hopeful Newgrange.

Top Racing Prospect: Baladi (Hip 9) for $50,000
Intrepid Thoroughbreds/Cary Bloodstock, agent, purchased 3-year-old racing prospect Baladi for $50,000 from the consignment of Godolphin.

A 3-year-old gelded son of Pioneerof the Nile, Baladi was a stakes placed winner last year at two, and ran a career-best Beyer Speed Figure in his last start March 12 in open company at Fair Grounds.

Baladi is out of the Grade 2 winning Tapit mare Dancing House, herself a daughter of multiple Grade 1 winner Tout Charmant.

Also Sold:

White Pine (Hip 6), a 3-year-old broodmare prospect by three-time leading sire Tapit, purchased for $60,000 by Glassman Racing from the consignment of Bluewater Sales, agent. White Pine is a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Itsmyluckycharm (Itsmyluckyday), out of a Hard Spun half-sister to Grade 1 winning millionaire Albert the Great.
Rogue Too (Hip 3), a 6-year-old broodmare prospect by First Dude, purchased for $50,000 by Happy Horse Stables from the consignment of Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. Rogue Too won 11 times and won or placed in more than half of her 43 career starts.
Blue Diva (Hip 11), a 5-year-old stakes winning daughter of Bluegrass Cat sold as a broodmare prospect to FS, LCC for $50,000 from the consignment of Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. Blue Diva captured the Miss America Stakes at three and earned more than $250,000 in her career.
Risky Analysis (Hip 2), a half-sister to this year's Rebel Stakes (G2) winner Un Ojo, who sold for $40,000 to Ingordo Bloodstock, agent for West Point Thoroughbreds, from the consignment of Sequel New York, agent. A broodmare prospect by Freud, Risky Analysis was a five-time winner on the track and hit the board in 24 of 26 starts.
Heston (Hip 15), a 3-year-old ready-to-run racing prospect by Dialed In sold for $26,000 to Daniel Preiss from the consignment of Godolphin. Heston is out of the stakes winning, Grade 1-placed Unbridled's Song mare Stage Luck, a half-sister to Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) and Belmont S. (G1) winner Drosselmeyer.

Buyers may still make offers on horses that failed to meet their reserve by visiting the sale page, and then clicking “Make Offer” next to the horse they are interested in purchasing.

What They're Saying

“The platform is very interactive and I look forward to Fasig-Tipton continuing with this sales format.” – Robert Slack of Stoneriggs Farm, buyer of Wild Empress for $85,000

“I'm very happy with the process and result of the Fasig Digital sale. It fills a need for constant trade in an easy, comfortable, and transparent way. We had a good turnout of people coming to the farm to see [our offerings], and they brought a fair value – a win/win option for sellers and for buyers. It was fun and I'm looking forward to doing it again.” – Meg Levy of Bluewater Sales, consignor of Wild Empress ($85,000) and White Pine ($60,000)

“Overall, it was very encouraging to see that we could successfully sell offerings from across the country, and the world. We sold racehorses, broodmare prospects, in foal mares – some of which were on 2022 covers — and an international stallion share. We had an impressive number of registered bidders from both within the United States and internationally, and we got a good feel for what the market wants in the digital space. The sale's average price exceeded $65,000, which was great, and I think that we built positive momentum for the future. We're already thinking about how and what we can improve for our next sale.” – Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales

For more information on buying and selling at future Fasig-Tipton digital auctions, please contact Leif Aaron at laaron@fasigtipton.com

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Breeze Show Heightens Anticipation For Inaugural Dubai 2-Year-Old Sale

With the spectacular Burj Khalifa as their backdrop, 69 blue-blooded 2-year-olds galloped on Tuesday morning as the inaugural Dubai Breeze-up Sale got underway.

Meydan Racecourse's Tapeta training track was the venue for the breeze which began at 7:45 a.m. and was completed two hours later without a hitch. Henry Beeby, Group Chief Executive of organizers Goffs, took to the microphone to commentate on the action which took place in front of several hundred onlookers.

Those taking a keen interest in proceedings included HH Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Racing Club and a Group 1-winning owner, as well as top trainers Charlie Appleby, Roger Varian, Jamie Osborne, Roger Varian and Ado McGuinness, while jockeys Tadhg O'Shea, Pat Dobbs and Antonio Fresu also kept a close eye on the action.

Tom Taaffe, International Consultant for Goffs, was pleased with the breeze, commenting: “We are delighted with how smoothly it all went and that is down to the organization of Dubai Racing Club and the cooperation of all the consignors,” he said. “The ethos of the sale was for the horses not to be pushed out and timed, but just to be asked to gallop two furlongs so people can see their action and then inspect them up close later in the stable yard.

“The consignors are all delighted at how well their horses galloped and a number of buyers have mentioned to me that it was nice to see them move them like that, without being pushed.”

With the progeny of leading stallions such as Into Mischief, Dubawi, Frankel, Night Of Thunder, American Pharoah, Showcasing, Exceed And Excel, Justify and Arrogate among the lots on offer, bidding is expected to be strong when the sale takes place at 5pm on Wednesday in the Meydan Racecourse Parade Ring.

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