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Grade 2 Winner Giant Expectations Retired; Stud Plans Pending

Multiple graded stakes winner and millionaire Giant Expectations has been retired from racing with career earnings of $1,343,600. He will begin his next career at stud this upcoming breeding season, with the location still to be determined pending sale of the horse, either privately or at auction.

In a career that spanned five seasons and 25 starts, Giant Expectations consistently raced at the highest level from coast to coast. His ability to show tactical speed, both sprinting and routing, set him apart with wins in both the Grade 2 Pat O'Brien Stakes at seven furlongs and against a historically tough field for the G2 San Antonio Stakes at 1 1/16 miles, winning gate-to-wire and defeating 2018 Eclipse Award winner Accelerate, as well as Grade 1 winners Collected and Hoppertunity.

“Giant Expectations was one of the best horses I had the pleasure to ride over my career,” said Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, who was in the irons for some of Giant Expectations' biggest races, including the Pat O'Brien and San Antonio wins. “He was a great-looking horse with the stride and the movement to go with it, long and fluid…a beautiful stride and a powerful stretch run.”

“He's always had tremendous speed, stamina, and resilience,” said Peter Eurton, who has trained Giant Expectations since he was purchased as a 2-year-old. “He's a perfectly-built horse. Very sound and a gorgeous individual.”

Giant Expectations' racing career concludes with 14 top-five finishes in 16 consecutive stakes races, with 13 of those at the Grade 1 or Grade 2 level.

Giant Expectations was trained by Eurton for Exline-Border Racing, David Bernsen, Gatto Racing, and partners, who stated, “The current ownership group and management unanimously elected to retire Giant Expectations in the best interests of the horse, and are excited to follow his next career as a stallion.”

From the same family as this year's probable Breeders' Cup Sprint favorite C Z Rocket, Giant Expectations is from the famed Storm Cat male line, and he has been relocated to Kentucky as a stallion prospect. Viewing is available conveniently just four miles away from Keeneland beginning next week. To arrange a viewing, please call 805-712-1395.

“This is the type of horse you miss the most when they leave,” Eurton said. “Anybody who breeds to him is going to be very happy.”

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Oklahoma-Breds Featured In ThoroughbredAuctions.Com November Mixed Sale

Oklahoma-breds are featured in the November Mixed Internet Auction of Thoroughbreds by ThoroughbredAuctions.com.

The sale offers 2019 and 2020-accredited Oklahoma-breds by sires including Liaison, Mshawish, Diabolical, and I Spent It. Six accredited Oklahoma-bred broodmares are also being offered.

Bidding is open now and closes Monday, Nov. 2 for the November Mixed Internet Auction of Thoroughbreds.

Oklahoma-bred yearlings are led by Merrick Ranch's Hip 15, Who Spent It, a half-brother to stakes-winners That's Who and Jonsey Who.

Two-year-olds and 3-year-olds being offered are let by Hip 68, Oklahoma Gold. The filly was third in the Texas Stallion Stakes (Pan Zareta Division) in 2019.

A stakes-placed daughter of Yes It's True, currently at Remington Park has been added to the sale. Drip Brew is black type-placed and a 16-time winner of $274,466.

The auction has 70 entries and include large consignments from Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana and Arizona as well as Kentucky. The auction is offering broodmares by sires such as Medaglia d'Oro, War Front, City Zip, Street Cry, Wildcat Heir, Awesome Again, Indian Charlie, Kantharos and Union Rags, among others.

Prospective buyers will need to go to the auction website, and create an account if they have never participated in the auctions. They will then need to request a bidder's number in order to bid. Please visit ThoroughbredAuctions.com for more information or email info@thoroughbredauctions.com.

The ThoroughbredAuctions.com team of Tim and Cathy Jennings have pioneered internet horse auctions, beginning in 2012 with Sport Horse and Quarter Horse auctions. Venturing into Thoroughbred Internet Auctions in 2019, they have been the most successful internet thoroughbred auction company in North America, cataloging 428 horses, and selling 337 of those cataloged. That represents 79 percent of horses sold from those offered, producing gross sales of $3,041,300.

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Breeders’ Cup Classic Contender Higher Power To Stand At Darby Dan Farm Upon Retirement

Higher Power, a Grade 1-winning millionaire by Medaglia d'Oro, will retire to Darby Dan Farm at the conclusion of his racing career and stand in partnership with Matt Bowling Bloodstock, the farm announced today.

The Hronis Racing colorbearer, trained by John Sadler, is pointing to the Breeders' Cup Classic Nov. 7 at Keeneland. His 2021 fee will be $10,000 S&N for nominations done prior to the Breeders' Cup.

A dominant 5 1/4-length winner of the 2019 Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar, Higher Power recorded a career-best 107 Beyer in the scintillating victory, running away from a contentious field that included three Grade 1 winners. A five-time winner of more than $1.5 million heading into this year's Breeders' Cup, Higher Power has been a gem of consistency competing strictly in top company since his Pacific Classic triumph with graded stakes placings in the Breeders' Cup Classic, G1 Hollywood Gold Cup, G1 Awesome Again Stakes, and G2 San Diego Handicap.

“He is all class. He showed his talent and his impressive turn of foot in winning the Pacific Classic in the manner that he did,” said Ryan Norton, Darby Dan's stallion director. “He descends from an outstanding Pin Oak family, has a stallion's pedigree, and physically, he is a superb individual.”

While his greatest success has come at the Classic distance of 1 1/4 miles, Higher Power was precocious. He broke his maiden at two for trainer Donnie Von Hemel and owner-breeder Pin Oak Stable and won his 3-year-old debut at Oaklawn Park, defeating subsequent graded stakes winner New York Central.

Purchased by David Ingordo on behalf of Hronis Racing for $250,000 from the 2019 Keeneland April Sale Horses of Racing Age session, Higher Power on Sunday turned in his final major work before the Nov. 7 Breeders' Cup Classic, working seven furlongs in 1:25.40 at Keeneland.

By the elite sire Medaglia d'Oro, Higher Power was bred in Kentucky by Pin Oak Stud. He is out of the multiple stakes-winning Seattle Slew mare Alternate, who has also produced multiple graded stakes-winning Alternation, winner of the G2 Peter Pan Stakes and G2 Oaklawn Handicap, and sire of 2019 Kentucky Oaks winner Serengeti Empress. Alternate is also a half-sister to 1995 Canadian Horse of the Year and multiple Grade 1 winner Peaks and Valleys, from the female family of Grade 1 winner Mucho Gusto.

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Big Blue Kitten’s First Winner At Stud Comes At Churchill Downs

Grade 1 winner Big Blue Kitten was represented by his first winner at stud on Oct. 25, when Miss Adeline prevailed by a neck in a turf maiden special weight at Churchill Downs.

Miss Adeline was set up three-wide in the front pack early by jockey Edgar Morales, then moved up to challenge for the lead and held off the charge to prevail by a neck, stopping the clock in 1:48.42 in the 1 1/16-mile race over good turf. Adolfo Macias trains Miss Adeline for owner William Pribble.

Bred in Kentucky by Calumet Farm, Miss Adeline is out of the winning A.P. Indy mare Vuemont, who is herself a full-sister to two-time Canadian champion Marchfield and a half-sister to stakes winner Congor Bay.

Big Blue Kitten, a 12-year-old son of Kitten's Joy, stands at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky., for an advertised fee of $10,000.

He won 14 of 33 starts during his on-track career for earnings of $2,983,350, highlighted by victories in the Grade 1 Sword Dancer Invitational Stakes, G1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Stakes, and two runnings of the G1 United Nations Stakes, along with triumphs in the G2 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes, and G3 Fort Marcy Stakes. He earned the Eclipse Award as champion turf male of 2015.

Big Blue Kitten is out of the placed Unaccounted For mare Spent Gold, putting him in the family of champion Stevie Wonderboy, Grade 2 winner Fair Judgement, Grade 3 winner Mystical Mood, and Peruvian champion Juliana.

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