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After Some Hurdles, Seven-Figure Filly Rougir Begins Full-Time U.S. Residency

Few things can dump cold water on the seven-figure purchase of a racing prospect like finding out the horse's previous trainer has been arrested for doping.

Thoroughbred Daily News reports that the partnership of Peter Brant and Coolmore discovered this first-hand, following the 3-million Euro (about $3.3 million) purchase of French Group 1 winner Rougir at last year's Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale. On his own, Brant also bought the French Group 1-placed Speak of the Devil for 1.95 million Euros (about $2.2 million) at the Arqana sale.

Three days after the fall of the hammer, Rougir and Speak of the Devil's former trainer, Cedric Rossi, was among several in his family arrested in connection to a horse doping probe.

Going into the sale, Rougir was a high-level runner in Europe, having won the Group 1 Prix de l'Opera Longines and G3 Prix des Reservoirs in her native France. She had most recently traveled overseas to compete in last year's Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf, where she finished seventh for owner Le Haras de La Gousserie. Having her trainer under suspicion for cheating would understandably cast doubt over the legitimacy of those performances, and in turn, the expensive purchase.

However, Brant said both of his purchases have jumped through every testing hoop. Had they not, or if the horses' records were damaged by anything pertaining to Rossi's arrest, Brant said he and the Coolmore partners had discussed contingency plans with the auction company.

“We were assured these horses were not involved in this thing,” Brant told TDN. “We had all sorts of tests taken on these horses. Samples were sent to Germany. They checked out very well. We were led to believe that these horses were not part of the investigation, that they checked out very well.”

Rougir and Speak of the Devil have been moved to the Florida-based barn of trainer Chad Brown, with short-term and long-term targets in New York turf graded stakes races.

Fasig-Tipton Adds 23 Supplemental Entries To Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged an additional 23 supplemental entries to its 2022 Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale.

These entries are cataloged as hips 549-571 and may now be viewed online and in the equineline sales catalogue app. Print versions of supplemental entries will be available on the sales grounds at sale time.

Latest entries include:

Auntie Mabel (Hip 554): Five-year-old mare is a half-sister to Grade 1 winning 2-year-old Tell A Kelly. Consigned as a racing/broodmare prospect by James B. Keogh (Grovendale), agent.
Special Thanks (Hip 560): Young graded stakes producing daughter of Broken Vow, offered in foal to War Front. Consigned by Hidden Brook, agent.
Little Dancer (Hip 566): Daughter of Successful Appeal is a stakes winner of $141,338 and carrying her first foal by multiple Grade 1 winner McKinzie. Consigned by Gainesway, agent.
Party Line Vote (Hip 567): Four-year-old daughter of Tiznow is a half-sister to Daddy is a Legend, a multiple graded stakes winner and Grade 1-placed earner of $666,353. Consigned as a broodmare prospect by Hunter Valley Farm, agent.
Minetta (Hip 569): Four-year-old half-sister to Warrior's Charge, a current multiple graded stakes winner of $1,055,690. Consigned as a broodmare prospect by James B. Keogh (Grovendale), agent.

The Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale will be held on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 7-8, in Lexington, Ky. Sessions will begin each day at 10 a.m.

Online bidding and phone bidding services will be available.

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Canadian Champion Here’s Hannah Retired, To Be Bred To Blame

Here's Hannah, Canada's champion older female of 2019, has been retired from racing, and she will visit champion Blame for the 2022 breeding season.

In a release from owner B C Stables, it was revealed that the 7-year-old Numaany mare would be pointed toward a breeding stock sale after being bred.

Here's Hannah retired with 15 wins in 21 starts, and earnings of $446,198, racing as a British Columbia homebred for B C Stables. All but her final two starts came at Hastings Racecourse.

She won 11 of her first 12 career starts, including 10 stakes scores. Her Sovereign Award-winning season was highlighted by a triumph in Grade 3 Ballerina Stakes at Hastings, along with victories in the Vancouver Sun Stakes, Strawberry Morn Handicap, Monashee Handicap, and the British Columbia Distaff Handicap.

In addition to her national honors, Here's Hannah was named British Columbia's Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old filly in 2018, and the province's champion older female in 2019 and 2020.

Here's Hannah is out of the unraced A Fleets Dancer mare Dreams Start Here.

Blame, a 16-year-old son of Arch, stands at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., for an advertised fee of $20,000.

His nine crops of racing age include 325 winners and combined progeny earnings of more than $37.1 million. His 19 graded stakes winners include Grade 1 winners Marley's Freedom, Nadal, Fault, and Abscond, as well as French Group 1 winner Senga.

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Foal Patrol Presented By National Museum Of Racing And Hall Of Fame: Why Was Speightstown Chosen For Elate?

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 questions about their care and management over the course of the season.

In this episode with Elate at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., Paulick Report staff ask Claiborne's Mary Ormsby, “Why was Speightstown chosen for Elate's mating?”

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.

Since Season 1 in 2018, millions 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 www.foalpatrol.com and watch our “Recent Updates” for Foal Patrol announcements and posts about featured mares and foals throughout the season.

Foal Patrol Season 5 education content begins with breeding and reproduction and covers various aspects of the life of a Thoroughbred horse, from foaling through retirement. In partnership with industry collaborators, we will add content to the new Foal Patrol Education Site for viewers of all ages from January through June 2022 at www.foalpatrol.com/education. Check in often to connect and learn.

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