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Washington Summer Sale Takes Place Aug. 22

The Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association Summer Sale, which will be held Tuesday, Aug. 22, began at Longacres in 1968. The WTBOA Sales Pavilion, located at Emerald Downs in Auburn, Wash., has been its home since 1998. As of today's date, 77 yearlings, one 2-year-old and 17 broodmares will be up for bid.

The August auction will commence at 1 p.m. and is led by a trip to the 2023 Breeders' Cup World Championships in Santa Anita (Hip 1A). Proceeds will benefit the benevolence of Washington Thoroughbred Foundation.

Past sale graduates have also been impressing race fans up and down the West Coast and at Monmouth, Laurel and Canterbury parks.

Ship Cadet – an impressive Belmont maiden special weight winner in his first start, was next runner-up in both the Tremont and Tyro stakes.

On Aug. 10, the 2022 sale topper Impeachalot made his first start. From the first North American crop of top international sire Sir Prancealot (Ire), he is his sire's second Del Mar maiden special weight winner in the last two weeks. Both of the colts – their sire's first two starters – took their initial outings by over three lengths. Impeachalot is half-brother to 3-time stakes winner Slack Tide. Their half-brother by Outwork is in this year's catalog.

Multiple Maryland allowance winner Zabracadabra (Harbor the Gold) has increased his lifetime totals to over $360,000 with the addition of his $154,000 2023 earnings; and former Washington horse of the year Bodenheimer (Atta Boy Roy) is unbeaten in three quick turf sprints this season, pushing his total to $262,075.

Just a week ago, 2-year-old Freightline (Coast Guard) scored an impressive 3 1/4-length victory in the $65,000 WTBOA Lads Stakes. His half-sister is being offered this year. She is one of five yearlings from the first crop of the sensational Grade 3 Longacres Mile winner Barkley, a son of the impressive Munnings. Another in Barkley's pivotal first crop is a half-brother to state juvenile champion Dutton.

Coast Guard, who has led the Washington juvenile sire rankings in four of the last five years – including 2023 – has eight yearlings in the sale, led by a full brother to state champion Coastal Kid.

Though not a WTBOA Sale graduate, 2-year-old Yo Yo Candy won the July 15 G3 Sanford Stakes at Saratoga by 2 1/4 lengths. A full brother to the $141,250 earner is being offered. Both are sons of G2 San Felipe Stakes winner Danzing Candy and out of the graded stakes mare Yolanda B Too.

Conveyance – the leading Washington sire of 2021, 2022, and the current leader of 2023 – is represented by a dozen yearlings in his first Washington crop, including a half-sister to Washington champion Cobra Jet, and a half-brother to Washington champions Elliott Bay and Pyscho Sister. The graded stakes-winning son of Indian Charlie has sired the earners of nearly $4-million from just 67 starters who average $59,469 in earnings.

WTBOA star graduate Smiling Tiger has five yearlings in the sale, led by a half-brother to 2022 Washington Horse of the Year Slew's Tiz Whiz.

The sale also features five yearlings from the last crop of perennial leading Pacific Northwest sire Harbor the Gold. The all-time leading sire at Emerald Downs, with 30 state champions among his 47 stakes winners, his offspring have topped four previous WTBOA summer sales.

Also cataloged is a half-sister to Longacres Mile winner Gold Rush Dancer sired by G1 Carter Handicap winner Warrior's Reward; and a Dynamic Impact half-brother to Washington Horse of the Year Mach One Rules.

Other top sires represented include Grazen (California's 2023 leading sire), Tapiture, Collected, Dialed In, Sky Mesa, Speightster, Stanford, Vronsky and Paynter.

Grade 1 winners Bodexpress, Higher Power and Tom's d'Etat are represented by yearlings in their initial crops.

Other exciting prospects include a filly from freshman sire Om who is a half-sister to Washington champion Miss Prospector; and a half-sister to juvenile filly champion Koron sired by Grade 1 winner Hit It a Bomb.

Washington champion racemare No Talking Back – a fourth generation Washington champion racemare – is represented by her first foal, a colt by G1 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes winner Brody's Cause.

Daughters of Awesome Again, English Channel, Fusaichi Pegasus, Ghostzapper, Grazen, Songandaprayer, Southern Image, Stormy Atlantic, Street Sense and Unusual Heat are among the broodmares offered this year. They are carrying foals by Bodexpress, Dads Caps, Jess Mo, One Bad Boy and Tap Back.

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The Jockey Club Registry Issues 100,000th Digital Certificate

On Aug. 8, 2023, The Jockey Club Registry issued its 100,000th digital certificate of foal registration to a gray or roan colt by Tacitus, out of Jibboom by Mizzen Mast. The foal, born on Feb. 10, 2023, was bred and is owned by Juddmonte, which is also the original certificate manager.

“We are pleased that digital certificates have been so well-received,” said Rick Bailey, registrar for The Jockey Club. “Digital certificates have streamlined the registration process and transfer of certificates, certificates can no longer be damaged or lost, and they will help with initiatives such as tracing Thoroughbreds when they leave the racetrack or breeding shed.”

The transition to digital foal certificates from hardcopies began with the 2018 foal crop. The first digital certificate was issued to a foal born at WinStar Farm on Feb. 19, 2018, by Pioneerof the Nile out of Mildly Offensive, later named Chiu Chow Warrior.

To manage digital certificates, those who act as agents for Thoroughbreds should sign up for an Interactive Registration account at registry.jockeyclub.com.

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Bloodlines: Brightwork’s Adirondack Victory, And The Uncle Mo Sire Tree

Brightwork's victory in the Grade 3 Adirondack Stakes at Saratoga made the daughter of Outwork (by Uncle Mo) a second graded stakes winner for her sire, who won the G1 Wood Memorial in a brief racing career, winning three of his five starts.

A fourth-crop sire in the same group as freshman leader Nyquist (Uncle Mo) and current group leader Not This Time (Giant's Causeway), Outwork went to stud at WinStar Farm in Kentucky, where he was supported with sizable books of mares with good credentials.

At the end of 2022, Not This Time (standing at Taylor Made) had turned the tables on Nyquist (Darley at Jonabell), ranking them first and second among this group of young stallions, and three other sons of Uncle Mo were in the top dozen: Laoban (deceased) in 8th, Outwork (WinStar) 9th, and Uncle Lino (Northview Stallion Station) in 11th.

These four were among the initial top sons of champion racer and leading freshman sire Uncle Mo to go to stud, and their performances have served notice to stallion managers to give due consideration to the sons of the big bay who stands at Ashford Stud.

All these sires have produced good juveniles, and Outwork's first graded winner came from his third crop last year in the premium event for 2-year-old fillies at Saratoga: the G1 Spinaway Stakes. After Leave No Trace won the Spinaway, she was third in the G1 Frizette Stakes and second in the G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies to mark her spot as one of the best fillies in the crop.

At three this season, Leave No Trace has made a single start, unplaced in the G2 Davona Dale in March, and has not raced since. She has, however, had five works in the last five weeks, including a bullet half-mile at Saratoga on July 19, first of 43 at the distance.

Bred in Kentucky by Wynnstay Inc. and Allen Poindexter, Brightwork is out of the Malibu Moon mare Clarendon Fancy, who did not race. Brightwork's dam is one of four foals by Malibu Moon from the second dam, stakes winner Catch My Fancy (Yes It's True), including a full brother named Fancy Malibu who was sent to Russia and is the winner of eight races, including the Great Summer Prize at Rostov, the top prep for the Russian Derby (Russian racing information courtesy of Edward Blackwood). Another full sibling is a winner with earnings of $223,755, and the fourth is Catch the Moon, who is the dam of four graded stakes winners: Girvin (Tale of Ekati), winner of the G1 Haskell and a well-regarded young sire; Midnight Bourbon (Tiznow), winner of the G3 Lecomte, as well as second in the G1 Preakness, Travers, and Pennsylvania Derby; Cocked and Loaded (Colonel John), G3 Iroquois Stakes; and Pirate's Punch (Shanghai Bobby), G3 Salvator Mile.

Catch My Fancy produced a pair of stakes winners herself, and nowadays the family is looking positively fancy, with Brightwork's dam having two black-type runners from three foals of racing age. The Adirondack winner is unbeaten in three starts to date, and her sibling Quiet Company (Temple City) has earned $196,835, has a third in the Jameela Stakes.

Overall, this family has shown a lot of ability at two, but frequently kept up the good work, and it traces back to the splendid Monique Rene (Prince of Ascot). The chestnut mare was a racing marvel, winning 29 races from 45 starts, multiple stakes, and becoming a noted producer and dam of producers.

This family traces back through a couple of good producers for Rex Ellsworth to the Whitney stud at the turn of the 20th century and thence to the great broodmare Ballet (Planet) and is the American family number 1, going back to the Janus mare of approximately 1760.

Bred in Kentucky by John M. Clay, Ballet was a younger half-sister to The Banshee (Lexington), who won the 1868 Travers Stakes at Saratoga. A foal of 1871, Ballet was a stakes performer, although not of the same stature as her older sibling. The chestnut mare produced 16 named foals, including the 1884 American Derby winner Modesty (War Dance) and multiple stakes winner Peg Woffington (Longfellow).

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Owned as a broodmare by George H. Clay, Ballet became one of the best-known broodmares in the country with the successes of Modesty, who won 35 races, including the Kentucky Oaks and numerous other important events at the time, as well as the first running of the American Derby. Owned by Edward Corrigan, Modesty was ridden by Issac Murphy, who rode the winners in four of the first five American Derbys, and was trained by John Rogers. Both the rider and trainer are in the Hall of Fame.

Although Modesty is not in the Hall of Fame, she is the third dam of Regret (Broomstick), who won the 1915 Kentucky Derby and has been elected that honor.

Modesty's full sister, Blue Grass Belle (War Dance), is the conduit of the line that leads to Brightwork, as well as other important horses. Blue Grass Belle is the second dam of 1897 Travers Stakes winner Rensselaer (Hayden Edwards), later exported to Europe, where he won races in England and Germany; of Half Time (Hanover), who won the 1899 Preakness Stakes and finished second in the Belmont Stakes; and is the fourth dam of the great gelding Exterminator (McGee), who won the 1917 Kentucky Derby and 49 other races.

Brightwork provided an opportune update to Hip 19 at the opening session of Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga select sale of yearlings, and the bay filly by first-crop sire Volatile (Violence) brought $285,000 from Ocala Stud, agent.

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$4-Million Son Of Beholder Tops Record-Setting Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale

On the heels of a record-setting edition of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale in 2022, this year's renewal set new high-water marks in gross and average sale price, led by the $4-million purchase of a Curlin colt out of Hall of Famer Beholder.

A total of 153 yearlings changed hands over the two-day sale for revenues of $74,780,000, surpassing last year's record gross of $66,955,000 from 143 sold by 11 percent.

The average sale price hit an all-time high of $488,758, up four percent from last year's record-setting figure of $468,217. The median went unchanged from a record $375,000.

This year's buyback rate closed at 26 percent, compared with 20 percent in 2022.

Zedan Racing purchased the sale's two most expensive horses, both going through the ring on Tuesday evening.

Hip 165, a Curlin colt out of Beholder, a Hall of Fame daughter of Henny Hughes, topped the sale for $4 million, tying for the third-highest price in Fasig-Tipton Saratoga history. The record is held by a Northern Dancer colt who brought $4.6 million in 1984.

The chestnut colt is a half-brother to Grade 3 winner Teena Ella. His second dam is Broodmare of the Year Leslie's Lady, putting him in the family of four-time leading sire Into Mischief, Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner and popular young sire Mendelssohn, and successful California sire Curlin to Mischief. Taylor Made Sales Agency consigned the colt, as agent for breeder Spendthrift Farm.

Hip 228, an Into Mischief colt out of the unplaced American Pharoah colt All American Dream, dropped the hammer for $3.2 million.

The bay colt is the first foal out of All American Dream, hailing from the family of Grade 1 winners Dream Supreme, Spinning Round, and Majestic Warrior. Indian Creek consigned the colt, as agent.

To view the auction's full results, click here.

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