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Texas 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale’s 2022 Catalog Now Online

A total of 132 juveniles are cataloged with sire power, both nationally and regionally, in the 2022 Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, presented by the Texas Thoroughbred Association and Lone Star Park.

The sale is set for April 6 at the sale pavilion at Lone Star Park. The breeze show is April 4 at the track in Grand Prairie.

Two-year-olds by Arrogate, Connect, Constitution, Distorted Humor, Ghostzapper, Hard Spun, Kantharos, Malibu Moon, Runhappy, and Sky Mesa represent national and international stallion power.

The catalog features prospects from first-year stallions Accelerate, Always Dreaming, Army Mule, Cloud Computing, Good Samaritan, McCracken, Mendelssohn, Mo Town, and Tapwrit. Offspring from some of Texas' leading stallions, including Bradester, Competitive Edge, Eagle, and Too Much Bling will also go through the auction ring.

“We tried to put together a diverse catalog with something for just about everyone,” TTA sales director Foster Bridewell said. “Our consignors really had a lot to offer, in terms of stallion strength and pedigree, and we are grateful they saw fit to sell with us. We're excited about book we've put together and think our buyers will be too.”

The catalog is full of notable pedigrees both regionally and nationally.

Hip 117 is half to Texas champion Mr Money Bags, by Too Much Bling, from Clary Bloodstock.

Hip 19 is a half to Texas Thoroughbred Futurity winner Streak of Silver consigned by Pike Racing.

Hip 87 is a half-sister to stakes winner Pinky Ring Bling and Texas champion Gold Pilot from the Benchmark Training Center draft.

Hip 98 is a Ghostzapper filly out of a half-sister to graded stakes-winning stallion Adios Charlie, consigned by Twin Oaks Training Center.

Hip 102 is a half-sister to Texas champion Ima Discreet Lady, and Hip 114 is a Hard Spun colt out of a mare that's already produced graded-placed Crowded Trade.

“The catalog is strong, family wise,” Bridewell added. “We have horses that are out of stakes winners, by stakes winners, by proven and new stallions, half siblings to stakes winners or stakes placed horses, and half to Texas champions. We couldn't ask for a better group and can't thank our consignors enough for bringing them to Texas.”

The interactive catalog is available now at www.ttasales.com. Supplements to the catalog are expected and will be posted at www.ttasales.com.

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Bloodlines Presented By Mill Ridge Farm: Secret Oath Heads Up Arrogate’s Late Charge From Debut Crop

The loss of champion Arrogate (by Unbridled's Song) on June 2, 2020, rocked breeding and racing to its core. The sport had lost a star and potential leading sire far too early; the gallant gray was a source of excitement to those associated with him. He was a rock of hope for the future to the sport and its fans.

After the young stallion's death at age seven, we were left to wonder what might have been and what might yet be, because at the time of his death, Arrogate's oldest foals were yearlings.

When Arrogate's first crop came to the races last year, the result was mostly silence, as his former competitor Gun Runner (Candy Ride) took the victory lap and the laurels with a blowout performance as the 2021 leading freshman sire. The final results from last year had Gun Runner on top of all his contemporaries by more than $2 million with $4,278,641, nearly doubling the excellent results for second-place freshman sire Practical Joke (Into Mischief), whose earnings total of $2,184,295 would have won quite a few freshman sire titles in the last decade.

Where was Arrogate in all this?

He finished the freshman season in 12th place among the country's leading first-crop sires. From 100 foals in his first crop, the gray had 35 starters and 13 winners, with notably fewer starters than most of the higher-placed young sires. Most of Arrogate's winners of 2021 had come in the last 60 days of the season, and at the end of the year, none had advanced to earn black type.

“Would they,” was the question on the mind of every breeder with an Arrogate in the stable or in the paddock growing up.

On Jan. 1, Alittleloveandluck became Arrogate's first stakes winner with victory in the Ginger Brew Stakes at Gulfstream Park, and in the 60 days since, two more racers have earned black type.

On Jan. 29, Secret Oath won the Martha Washington at Oaklawn Park; on Feb. 21, Caragate was third in the Maddie May Stakes at Aqueduct; and on Feb. 26, Secret Oath came back and won the Grade 3 Honeybee Stakes at Oaklawn, becoming the sire's first graded stakes winner.

A winner in her last three starts by large margins: 8 1/4, 7 1/4, and 7 1/2 lengths in an allowance, and pair of stakes, Secret Oath is following a pattern similar to the development of her famous sire by taking some time to grow into her frame properly, then showing a high degree of athleticism.

The chestnut filly was bred in Kentucky by the Briland Farm of Stacy and Robert Mitchell, who also bred and raced her dam, the Quiet American mare Absinthe Minded. A three-time listed stakes winner Absinthe Minded was also second and third in the G1 Apple Blossom at Oaklawn, as well as second in the G2 Shuvee at Belmont Park, earning $607,747.

Secret Oath is the fourth runner and third winner from her dam, who also produced the good winner Sara Sea (Tiznow), an earner of $262,378 who also is still owned by Briland Farm.

As a yearling, Secret Oath was pulled out of the 2020 September sale because “there wasn't any action on her,” Stacy Mitchell said. “That was the sale during the quarantine, and if you weren't getting looks and didn't have vet action, we didn't think she would sell for what we thought she was worth. So we pulled her out.

“As a yearling herself, Absinthe Minded looked like Real Quiet when he had been a yearling: big, tall, athletic. Kind of narrow. Secret Oath may have been taller, and Gabby Gaudet said over the weekend that she is nearly 17 hands. Absinthe is near that height, but the older half-sister Sara Sea is even taller.”

Robert Mitchell said, “The family is that type of horse, and Secret Oath didn't fit the bill for what a lot of buyers are looking for, being tall and narrow, which isn't the commercial type. She did look like her mom and like her half-sister Sara Sea, who could both run. So I thought she would be able to run too.”

Absinthe Minded has a 2-year-old filly by Medaglia d'Oro who is unnamed but doesn't have a foal of 2021 or 2022. The mare had been bred to Arrogate in 2020 before his death and scanned in foal, but when rescanned, the mare had resorbed the pregnancy. She will be bred to Liam's Map (Unbridled's Song) later this month.

Secret Oath is the first stakes winner for her dam, and to date, Secret Oath is the leading earner for her sire with four victories from six starts and a cash accumulation of $465,167.

And where does Arrogate rank now? Among the second-crop sires of 2022, he stands second, behind only Gun Runner.

With so much development yet to come and so many rich purses yet to be won, the competition between these two champions on the racetrack should be a lot of fun to watch in the coming months.

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Trainer ‘Buff’ Bradley Joins Keeneland Sales Team In New Position

Keeneland has named lifelong horseman and former trainer William “Buff” Bradley to the new position of Associate of Sales Development. Bradley, who began his role Feb. 28, will concentrate on sales of breeding stock and horses of racing age.

“We are excited to have Buff join the Keeneland sales team to further strengthen our outreach to horsemen and their participation in our sales,” Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy said. “Buff has tremendous experience as a breeder, owner and trainer and has gained the respect of a broad range of people in the industry, both professionally and personally.”

Bradley, who is from Frankfort, Ky., conditioned the earners of more than $19.2 million from 1993-2021. His most accomplished runners were two fan favorites: two-time champion and Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner Groupie Doll, who earned $2.6 million, and Grade 1 winner Brass Hat, who earned $2.1 million. Bradley also trained Grade 1 winner and millionaire Divisidero and Grade 2 winner The Player. Brass Hat was a homebred racing for Bradley's late father, Fred. He and his father bred Groupie Doll and co-owned her with Carl Hurst; the Bradleys and Hurst bred The Player, who raced for Buff Bradley and Hurst.

At Keeneland, Brass Hat won the 2010 Grade 3 Sycamore, Groupie Doll captured the 2012 G1 Vinery Madison and G2 Thoroughbred Club of America and The Player took the 2017 G2 Hagyard Fayette. Following her win in the 2013 Breeders' Cup, Groupie Doll sold to Whisper Hill Farm for $3.1 million at Keeneland's November Breeding Stock Sale.

“I am grateful for the opportunity to join Keeneland and be part of a place that always has been special to my family and me,” Bradley said. “I was nine in 1972 when I came to the races for the first time with my parents and saw my dad's filly You're Worth win. In the mid-1990s at Keeneland's September Yearling Sale, my dad bought two fillies who became the dams of Brass Hat and Groupie Doll. As a trainer, I was so proud each time I won a stakes here with our family's horses.”

Bradley, who lives in Louisville, has three children, daughters Kory (26) and Jett (19) and son Drew (23). The 21-year-old Brass Hat resides at his Indian Ridge Farm in Frankfort.

Bradley looks forward to working alongside the entire Keeneland Sales team, which includes Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy, Director of Sales Operations Cormac Breathnach, Director of Racing and Sales Administration Ashley Whalen, Director of Sales Development Mark Maronde, Assistant Director of Sales Analytics Chip McGaughey, Assistant Director of Sales Operations Dean Roethemeier and Assistant Director of Sales Development Kyle Wilson.

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The Jockey Club’s 2022 Fact Book Now Available Online

The Jockey Club announced today that the 2022 edition of the Fact Book is available in the Resources section of its website at jockeyclub.com.

The online Fact Book is a statistical and informational guide to Thoroughbred breeding, racing, and auction sales in North America and is updated quarterly. It also features a directory of Canadian, international, national, and state organizations. Links to the Breeding Statistics report that is released by The Jockey Club each September and the Report of Mares Bred information that is published by The Jockey Club each October can be found in the Breeding section of the Fact Book.

The 2022 editions of State Fact Books, which feature detailed breeding, racing, and auction sales information specific to numerous states, Canadian provinces, and Puerto Rico, are also available on The Jockey Club website. The State Fact Books are updated monthly.

In 2021, The Jockey Club took over the production of The American Racing Manual from the Daily Racing Form, and the latest edition will be available as part of the Fact Book later this month.

The Jockey Club, founded in 1894 and dedicated to the improvement of Thoroughbred breeding and racing, is the breed registry for North American Thoroughbreds. In fulfillment of its mission, The Jockey Club, directly or through subsidiaries, provides support and leadership on a wide range of important industry initiatives, and it serves the information and technology needs of owners, breeders, media, fans and farms. It is the sole funding source for America's Best Racing, the broad-based fan development initiative for Thoroughbred racing. You can follow America's Best Racing at americasbestracing.net. Additional information is available at jockeyclub.com.

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