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Dorothy Crowfoot First Winner For WinStar Farm’s Audible

Dorothy Crowfoot made an auspicious career debut with a dominating 6½-length victory over maiden special weight foes at Hawthorne on Sunday, becoming the first winner for WinStar Farm's Florida Derby (G1) winner Audible.

Trained by Larry Rivelli and ridden by Julio Felix, Dorothy Crowfoot, the prohibitive favorite, took command at the break and won the 4½-furlong race under a hand ride in the fast time of :51.39, not far off the track record of :50.54 set in 2009. Owned by Carolyn Wilson and bred in Kentucky by Farfellow Farms, Dorothy Crowfoot was a $500,000 acquisition out of the Top Line Sales consignment at this year's OBS March Two-Year-Olds In Training Sale where she breezed an eighth in :10 at the sale's under-tack preview.

Consigned by her breeder to the 2022 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Dorothy Crowfoot sold originally as a yearling to Rosalie Bloodstock for $220,000. The bay filly is produced from the Midnight Lute mare Enjoy This Moment, a half sister to multiple graded stakes winner Sum of the Parts and graded stakes winner Rocket Heat out of the multiple graded stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Enjoy the Moment.

Audible, a son of perennial leading sire Into Mischief, was one of the most consistent 3-year-olds of his generation. With his undeniable talent and versatility, Audible emerged as a formidable contender on the 2018 Kentucky Derby (G1) trail for owners WinStar Farm, China Horse Club, Starlight Racing, and Head of Plains Partners and trainer Todd Pletcher.

In his seasonal and stakes debut at 3, following a pair of wins at two, Audible recorded an emphatic victory in the $350,000 Holy Bull (G2) at Gulfstream Park. Facing Grade 1 winner Free Drop Billy, Audible powered home to win by an impressive 5 ½ lengths, clocking the fastest time in the race since 2013, completing 1 1/16 miles in 1:41.92.

Building on his Holy Bull success, Audible continued his winning ways in the $1-million Florida Derby (G1), registering an eye-catching three-length victory over subsequent multiple Grade 1 winners Catholic Boy and Promises Fulfilled. In demonstrating his versatility in winning the 1 1/8-mile Florida Derby—his fourth consecutive win—Audible rallied from far back after winning the Holy Bull with a pace-stalking trip.

Audible headed into Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May ranked third on the Road to the Kentucky Derby Leaderboard with 110 points. After being repeatedly blocked and altering course in the stretch of the Derby, he bravely rallied along the rail and finished a determined third to eventual undefeated Triple Crown winner Justify. Audible returned in November and won the inaugural running of the seven-furlong Cherokee Run Stakes at Churchill Downs by a comfortable two lengths with a bold five-wide move. An earner of $2,130,520, Audible retired having won or placed in eight of 10 lifetime starts.

A $500,000 Fasig-Tipton March sale graduate, Audible was bred by Oak Bluff Stables and hails from a deep female family that traces directly to multiple Grade 1 winner and graded stakes producer Classy Cathy, who won the Alabama (G1), Ashland (G1), and Gazelle Handicap (G1) during her outstanding racing career.

Audible saw first yearlings in 2022 command up to $725,000, $675,000, $575,000, etc., and his first 2-year-olds this year sold for up to $535,000, $500,000, $425,000, etc.

For more information on Audible, contact Liam O'Rourke, Olivia Desch, or Ben Hanley at (859) 873-1717, or visit WinStarFarm.com.

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Iowa Oaks Winner Crypto Mo Added To Fasig-Tipton July Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale

Crypto Mo, winner of the Iowa Oaks (G3) on Saturday at Prairie Meadows, has been supplemented to Monday's Fasig-Tipton July Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale. She is catalogued as hip 645 with Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.

The 3-year-old filly led throughout in the 1 1/16-mile race to win by two lengths with a Beyer Speed Figure of 90. It was her second consecutive stakes win following a victory in the Panthers Stakes in early June. She has now won four of eight career starts and has earned $210,870. It is her third win this year.

“Crypto Mo is a very exciting addition to the catalogue,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “She is a ready-to-go graded stakes-winning 3-year-old filly with a lot of racing opportunities ahead of her. She has a similar profile to Stiletto Boy, who came into this sale off a win in the Iowa Derby a couple years back and is now a Grade 1 winner of $1.8 million.”

Crypto Mo will be available for inspection beginning Monday morning at Barn 12.

The July Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale will take place Monday, beginning at 2 p.m. (ET) in Lexington.

For further information: Evan Ferraro, (859)255-1555

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Pennsylvania Leaderboard: No Stakes Earnings, No Problem For Date Night Kisses

The purse and black type benefits that come with winning a stakes race are certainly appealing, but they're not the only way to make serious money with a Pennsylvania-bred.

Through the first four months of the year, Date Night Kisses generated $63,580 through various Pennsylvania incentive programs without making a single start in stakes company.

The 4-year-old Weigelia filly earned the bulk of that total in breeder's awards for Emilie Bateman, bringing in $33,200 in that category.

For horses bred and sired in Pennsylvania, breeders earn a 50 percent bonus on purse earnings for maiden races run within the state. Runners bred in the state but sired by a horse standing elsewhere are eligible for a 25 percent bonus. For all other races within the Keystone State, runners bred and sired in Pennsylvania can earn a 40 percent bonus, while those by out-of-state sires earn their breeders a 20 percent bonus.

Date Night Kisses is out of the winning Oratory mare Tribal Verse, who is herself a homebred for Bateman. The filly sold to Grassroots Training and Sales for $1,500 at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearling Sale.

Owner Walter Doggett III benefitted from $22,080 in owner bonuses from the first four months of Date Night Kisses' 2023 campaign. Depending on the track within the state, owner bonuses can tack on a boost of up to 40 percent on an overnight race's purse.

Meanwhile, WynOaks Farm, the owner of sire Weigelia, brought in $8,300 in stallion awards from Date Night Kisses.

The owner of a Pennsylvania-based stallion at the time of a foal's conception is eligible for stallion awards generated by that foal. Stallion owners receive 10 percent of the purse earned when a registered Pennsylvania-bred and- sired runner finishes in the top three in any pari-mutuel race within the state.

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Through the end of April, Date Night Kisses won two of three starts and finished third in the other effort, all coming at Parx Racing.

Trained by A. Ferris Allen III, the filly began her season with a dominant front-running seven-length score in a one-mile starter allowance on Jan. 18.

She followed up on Feb. 13 with another wire-to-wire score going a mile in an allowance optional claiming race, this time repelling a late stretch drive by a rival to win by three-quarters of a length. Her final start in the four-month period was a third-place effort in an April 11 optional claimer, where a wide trip left her empty in the stretch.

Leading Earners Of 2023 Pennsylvania Incentive Money Without A Stakes Start, Through April 30

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Sophomore Sire Watch Presented By Kirkwood Equine Advisory: 2023 Fasig-Tipton July Selected HORA Sale

Following is a list of stallions with 3-year-olds entered in Monday's Fasig-Tipton July Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale, regardless of their number of years at stud, including the number of horses cataloged and the farm where the stallion is currently advertised.

With much of the racing calendar still ahead of us, a sophomore offered in the Fasig-Tipton July sale sale still has plenty of time to take advantage of their age-related conditions in 2023, and develop into an even better horse in the years to come. There is still plenty of blue sky for many of the 3-year-old runners in the catalog.

Here are the sires with sophomores in the Fasig-Tipton July sale, along with analysis on that portion of the market by Kip Elser of Kirkwood Equine Advisory.

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Analysis of the Fasig-Tipton July HORA Sale's 3-year-old market from Kip Elser of Kirkwood Equine Advisory:

In an industry that seems to be going through an evolution on every front these days, one of the less controversial and more beneficial changes we've seen take place is the increase in horses of racing age (HORA) sales, which allows people to buy and sell based on their cash flow and inventory needs rather than waiting until the racing season has concluded. This week's July Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale comes at a perfect time for both buyers and sellers, and the team at Fasig-Tipton has put together a great group of horses.

For buyers, it's at an advantageous time of year. We've gotten an opportunity this year to see where many of these horses will be competitive throughout the remainder of the year. For those top tier racing operations chasing those elite Grade 1 wins, they have 2-year-olds waiting for a spot at the track and they are gearing up to shop for yearlings. Their excess inventory, however, could well be the stars of the stable for the vast majority of owners and trainers.

Furthermore, this week's sale has quite a few fillies that have a good bit of racing left in them before they retire to the breeding shed. While I am no tax expert, I do know that racing stock traditionally depreciates more quickly than breeding stock, so there are some tax benefits to shopping for fillies this time of year and having some fun with them at the races before thinking about mating plans.

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