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Honor Roll Presented By Breeze Up Consignors Association: Mr. Monomoy’s Global Trek

Mr. Monomoy's pedigree and race record are about as American as they come, but his time with Willie Browne's Mocklershill Stud in Ireland set the gears in motion to realize his potential stateside.

The son of Palace Malice is a half-sibling to champion Monomoy Girl, but the probable future Hall of Famer hadn't begun to tap into her true star power by the time her younger brother went through the ring as a weanling at the 2017 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

He was purchased by Fir Grove Farm for $60,000 as a weanling-to-yearling pinhook prospect, but Willie Browne of Mocklershill Stud said the colt wasn't ready for primetime. Mr. Monomoy was entered in the 2018 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, but he was withdrawn before going through the ring.

“He was a nice foal, a little dipped in the back,” Browne said. “We brought him back to Keeneland as a yearling, having had the big update with Monomoy Girl. I thought I didn't have a home run. He looked backward and there was no interest in him.”

Browne had no other option but to bring the colt back to Ireland and train him toward a breeze up sale in Europe. He was pointed toward the Arqana May Breeze Up Sale, but the road to the French sale continued to have twists and turns.

“He was quite difficult to train in the first couple of months, having nagging problems such as sore shins,” Browne said. “Consequently, he had a short preparation for the Arqana Sale. He worked exceptionally well in the two weeks leading up to the sale.”

Mr. Monomoy sold to Mandore International Agency for 180,000 Euros (US$202,230), and he was returned stateside. He debuted later that year for owners Madaket Stables, Built To Win Stable, and Doheny Racing Stable. Michael Dubb would eventually buy in on the horse, as well.

The colt broke his maiden by 5 1⁄2 furlongs in his second start as a juvenile, and he continued to improve at three with a third in the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes. His final start was his most important, going wire-to-wire and drawing off to win the G2 Risen Star Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths.

Mr. Monomoy is currently standing his first season as a stallion at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, N.Y.

Though he was offered in a European sale, Browne said he was not surprised that Mr. Monomoy became successful as a U.S. dirt runner. The horseman said about 15 of the 85 to 90 horses he acquired in Mr. Monomoy's class were born or purchased in the U.S., making the transition back to the home turf a logical one.

There are numerous recent examples of prominent U.S. runners who were sold as juveniles at the European breeze up sales; a list that includes Preakness Stakes winner War of Will, G2 Fountain of Youth Stakes winner Ete Indien, and Grade 3 winners Outburst and Vitalogy.

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Keeneland Catalogs 23 Horses For March Digital Sale

Keeneland has cataloged 23 horses for its March Digital Sale, to be held Tuesday, March 23 as part of Keeneland's Digital Sales Ring platform. The March Sale catalog is available at Keenelanddigital.com.

Online bidding opens at 10 a.m. ET on March 23 and will begin to close that day at 2 p.m.

How to Register and Bid

Buyers are encouraged to register for an account in the Keeneland Digital Sales Ring in advance of sale day. In order to log in to the Keeneland Digital Sales Ring, you should register for an account or log in through the Keeneland Sales Portal. Your universal login applies to both the Sales Portal and the Digital Sales Ring.

Step 1: Visit portal.keeneland.com and create an account or log in to your existing Keeneland Sales Portal Account;

Step 2: Upon sign in, click “My Account” and review your current credit limit. Request credit as needed. We recommend you do this prior to the sale day;

Step 3: Click the “Digital Sales Ring” button in the top right corner to automatically access and participate in the Digital Sale.

Buyers have two options for bidding on the day of the sale:

Direct Bid allows you to bid manually as you go.
Max Bid establishes a top price that you are willing to pay for a hip. As the bidding progresses, the software will automatically bid on your behalf as you are outbid up to your maximum.

For more information about the March Sale, contact Dean Roethemeier at droethemeier@keeneland.com, Kyle Wilson at kwilson@keeneland.com or Chip McGaughey at cmcgaughey@keeneland.com.

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The Keeneland Digital Sales Ring has scheduled a total of seven mixed sales for 2021. They will continue in May, June, July, August, October and December.

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Fast Times At OBS: Into Mischief’s Runners Dominate Breeze Shows

Into Mischief's standing as one of North America's elite sires is well established, both in the sales ring and on the racetrack. As the numbers show, the resident of Spendthrift Farm is just as exemplary in the space between.

From 2015 to 2020, a total of 1,335 juveniles breezed an eighth of a mile in :10 seconds flat or faster during the three primary 2-year-olds in training sales hosted by Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. Into Mischief led all sires in that time span with 51, which was more than double his next-closest contemporary.

Twirling Candy of Lane's End came in second with 23, while fellow Lane's End resident Quality Road tied with Claiborne Farm's Flatter with 20.

The six seasons counted in the sample feature Into Mischief's fourth through ninth crops, tracing his ascent as he blossomed into an upper-tier stallion and eventually got comfortable in the penthouse.

Explaining why Into Mischief has so drastically distanced himself from the rest of the field in this statistic can venture down a few different threads.

The first is a simple numbers game. Though he had just 35 total foals in the first sampled crop, the juveniles of 2015, his popularity exploded in the ensuing seasons, giving him one of the busiest books in North America.

From his 2014 foal crop (juveniles of 2016) to 2018 (juveniles of 2020), Into Mischief never saw less than 157 live foals in a given crop, and his final year in the snapshot topped him out at 201 foals. With that many opportunities to produce :10-and- under runners, the chances improve that the stallion will get them.

Of course, putting an army of foals under tack doesn't matter if they can't take advantage of those numbers and hit the mark on the stopwatch.

Spendthrift Farm general manager Ned Toffey said the stallion has proven himself uniquely capable of producing juveniles that are not only ready to perform physically at that stage in their development, but mentally.

“They tend to be good-minded,” he said. “They obviously tend to be fast, and I think they tend to stand up to training. There's just so much natural speed there that it's not hard for them to do that kind of thing. That natural ability, combined with soundness and a good mind, I think that really helps them perform that way.”

That mental fortitude and natural ability was also noted by Jimbo Gladwell of consignor Top Line Sales, who consigned two by Into Mischief at this year's OBS March Sale. The process of building up a young horse up to breeze the fastest furlong of its life can be too much for some prospects, but Gladwell said the Into Mischiefs have handled the pressure.

“They have a high cruising speed, which is one of the things that makes them so successful,” Gladwell said. “They have a quick turn of foot. The mind that goes with them is conducive with what they do.”

A big-time breeze often carries with it the stigma that the horse has left its best effort at the sale and may have peaked too early, but the Into Mischiefs that have hit the :10-and-under threshold have performed well, as a group, going against that notion.

Among Into Mischief's notable :10-and-under sale graduates are Grade 2 winner Engage, Grade 3 winners Mischevious Alex and Gas Station Sushi, and stakes winners Claire's Song, Into Mystic, and Offspring. All of the horses on that list won stakes races at three or older, which is a trend Toffey said he expects will roll on as Into Mischief's stock continues to rise.

“I think you're seeing it more and more with all the good horses he's got on the Derby trail this year,” Toffey said. “It's been talked about in the breed for a long time; that precocity, brilliance – in other words speed – and that ability to carry it. He is one that I think for a long time, people thought was just the speed there, but I think you're seeing it as he's being bred to classier mares, he's more than capable of getting a classic horse.”

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Oscar Nominated To Enter Stud At BG Thoroughbred Farm In California

Multiple graded stakes winner Oscar Nominated has been retired to California and will stand the 2021 breeding season at BG Thoroughbred Farm in Hemet, Calif., for a fee of $2,500.

Oscar Nominated is a son of Kitten's Joy, out of the Theatrical mare Devine Actress. He was bred by Mrs. Jerry Amerman and is a full brother to Oscar Performance, whose Grade 1 wins include the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.

Oscar Nominated will be the only son of Kitten's Joy standing in California.

On the track, Oscar Nominated had six wins in 30 starts and earnings of $1,502,639. His biggest wins include the Grade 3 Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park, the G3 Kentucky Downs Turf Cup at Kentucky Downs and the G3 W.L. McKnight Stakes at Gulfstream Park. He also placed in the G1 Pattison Canadian International Stakes at Woodbine.

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