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Bolt d’Oro Filly Out of Beholder Tabbed ‘TDN Rising Star’ After Del Mar Debut Victory

by Jessica Martini & Alan Carasso

Just under two weeks after her yearling by Curlin lit up the ring at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, champion Beholder (Henny Hughes) enjoyed another banner result when her 2-year-old daughter Tamara (Bolt d'Oro) was tabbed a 'TDN Rising Star' following her professional debut victory at Del Mar Saturday.

Sent off as the 3-1 second choice, Tamara bobbled slightly at the break from the inside gate, but rushed up along the rail beneath Mike Smith to sit just off pacesetting favorite Hope Road (Quality Road) through fractions of :22.53 and :46.11. She tipped out a path at the top of the lane, collared Hope Road–a dead-heat runner-up to recent GIII Sorrento S. third Dua (Arrogate) on her bow July 22–inside the final furlong before skipping clear to the wire to win by 2 1/4 lengths. It was another 5 1/2 lengths back to Desert Rhapsody (Cairo Prince) in third. The final time for the 6 1/2 furlongs was 1:17.37.

Tamara, named for late Spendthrift owner B. Wayne Hughes's daughter, is the fourth foal out of the operation's four-time champion Beholder. Her year-older half-sister Teena Ella (War Front) won the GIII Senorita S. in May, while her year-younger half-brother by Curlin topped the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale two weeks ago when selling for $4 million to Amr Zedan.

“[Late Spendthrift owner] Wayne [Hughes] insisted we breed Beholder to Bolt out of respect for our partner Mick Ruis,” Spendthrift's Mark Toothaker tweeted after the victory. “There was some debate, but Wayne would hear none of it. Beholder's groom taking care of her as well.”

Tamara's deeper female family needs little introduction. Beholder, a $180,000 purchase by Spendthrift at Keeneland September in 2011, was bred by Clarkland Farm, who purchased dam Leslie's Lady for $100,000 in foal to Orientate at the 2006 Keeneland November Sale. Just over a year later, Into Mischief made that decision look good when taking out the GI CashCall Futurity for Hughes and Richard Mandella. Into Mischief has since gone on to become one of the most successful sires in the world, with 133 black-type winners to date.

By the time Leslie's Lady's Scat Daddy colt sold to Coolmore for a sales-topping price of $3 million at Keeneland September in 2016, Beholder had won 10 Grade Is and three Eclipse Awards before adding to both totals when going out a winner in a memorable renewal of the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff. Mendelssohn became a Breeders' Cup champion in his own right in the 2018 GI Juvenile Turf–at Del Mar–and is also off to a promising start at stud. Leslie's Lady is also the dam of Clarkland's 'TDN Rising Star' Marr Time (Not This Time).

Barren to Gun Runner for 2023, Beholder was bred back to Spendthrift's Jackie's Warrior this year.

7th-Del Mar, $84,500, Msw, 8-19, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:17.37, ft, 2 1/4 lengths.
TAMARA f, 2, by Bolt d'Oro
1st Dam: Beholder (Ch. 2yo Filly, Ch. 3yo Filly, 2x Ch. Older Mare,
MGISW, $6,156,600), by Henny Hughes
2nd Dam: Leslie's Lady, by Tricky Creek
3rd Dam: Crystal Lady, by Stop the Music
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $49,200. O/B-Spendthrift Farm LLC; B-Spendthrift Farm LLC (KY); T-Richard E. Mandella. *1/2 to Teena Ella (War Front), GSW, $128,740.
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Saturday Insights: Big Pedigrees On Display In Saturday Action

7th-DMR, $82K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 8:15 p.m.

A filly whose pedigree needs no introduction, TAMARA (Bolt d'Oro) is the latest foal out of MGISW Beholder to make the races for Spendthrift Farm and trainer Richard Mandella. Beholder, now a graded-stakes producer with Teena Ella (War Front), saw her youngest foal by Curlin bring a sale-topping $4,000,000 at last week's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale. Out of blue hen Leslie's Lady, she is of course a half-sister to GISW Mendelssohn and leading general sire Into Mischief. Drawn on the rail, Tamara picks up veteran Mike Smith for her debut.

Further outside for Mandella, Flynn's Chance (Medaglia d'Oro) brought $675,000 as a yearling out of Keeneland September last year and is a full-sister to GSW Moonlight d'Oro. This is the family of champion 3-year-old filly Abel Tasman (Quality Road).

A filly making her second start for trainer John Sadler, Hope Road (Quality Road) dead-heated for second by just a half-length at Del Mar July 22. She is the first foal out of GISW Marley's Freedom (Blame). TJCIS PPS

1st-SAR, $136K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 1:10 p.m.

On the East Coast, Hunt Ball (Into Mischief) debuts for Godolphin and trainer Bill Mott. Out of the Tapit mare Dance Card, herself a Grade I winner, he is a half-brother to MGISW Cody's Wish (Curlin) and MGSW Endorsed (Medaglia d'Oro).

Act of Mutiny (Quality Road), a Will Farish homebred, is a half to GSW/GISP Eagle (Candy Ride {Arg}), MGSW and freshman sire Catalina Cruiser (Union Rags), and MGSW Royal Flag (Candy Ride {Arg}).

Against the rail, Risk It (Gun Runner) debuts for Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys Farm and was a $500,000 Keeneland September yearling. TJCIS PPS

7th-ELP, $70K, Msw, 3yo/up, 6f, 4:00 p.m.

Making a belated debut for Shadwell Stables is Sahalat (Speightstown), a 4-year-old colt who brought $800,000 as a yearling back in 2020. He is a full-brother to MGISP Dawn the Destroyer. TJCIS PPS

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Bolt d’Oro Filly a Professional Debut Winner at Saratoga

5th-Saratoga, $88,000, (S), Msw, 8-10, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:11.93, ft, 3 lengths.
MISS D'OR CHERIE (f, 2, Bolt d'Oro–Above Fashion {SW & GSP, $188,590}, by Paddy O'Prado) was drawn widest in a nine-strong field for Thursday's state-bred maiden at Saratoga and turned in a most professional debut effort to open her account at first asking. Outsprinted through the opening exchanges by Snarky (Redesdale), who won the break from the rail, the $300,000 OBS April acquisition showed ample early pace to sit right off the leader's flank from second. Inching closer still at the midway point of the turn, the dark bay eased to the front with a bit more than a quarter-mile to travel, pinching a break entering the final furlong and went on to score by three lengths as the 14-5 favorite. Book of Wisdom (Solomini) ran on gamely for second while no menace to the winner. Miss d'Or Cherie also sold for $72,000 as a weanling at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton November Sale and again at that auction house's Kentucky July Yearling Sale, where she fetched $160,000. Christopher Shelli, who operates Fort Christopher's Thoroughbreds in Fort Edward, New York, purchased Miss d'Or Cherie's dam for $27,000 on behalf of Jon Stillman's Caliburn Farm in foal to Star Guitar at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale and they began upgrading her breeding record when mating her with Bernardini that season. He sold the resulting foal, a filly, for $90,000 as the Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Sale in 2021 and the mare has since been represented by a Vino Rosso colt of 2022 that sells as hip 494 during next Monday's session of the Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearling Sale and a McKinzie filly foaled this past Apr. 7. Above Fashion was subsequently covered by Epicenter. Stillman and his wife Margaret Davenport made the short drive from their farm to watch the race in person Thursday afternoon. “It was a magic moment, just great,” Stillman said. “When she hit the ground, she just had this maturity about her to go along with her physical appearance. As if she knew more than she really did. She looked like she'd been there before and she's shown that from the time she was a foal.” Stillman said that the decision to breed Above Fashion to Bolt d'Oro was his advisor's. “That was Chris's idea, he really nailed it.” Stillman maintains a broodmare band of six at Caliburn Farm.  Sales history: $72,000 Wlg '21 FTKNOV; $160,000 Ylg '22 FTKOCT; $300,000 2yo '23 OBSAPR. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $48,400. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
O-Reeves Thoroughbred Racing & Steven Rocco; B-Caliburn Farm LLC (NY); T-Christophe Clement.

 

 

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‘We Can’t Hide Anymore’: Success Builds C&S Thoroughbreds

People took notice when Carlos Estrada and wife Sarah Estrada-Brok built a steady drumbeat of pinhooking successes and the couple's C&S Thoroughbreds consignment, which began a few years ago as just one or two of their personal pinhooks prepared on rented farms in the Bluegrass, has turned into a barnful of 18 sales-bound yearlings prepped on their own farm in Georgetown. C&S Thoroughbreds makes its second appearance at the Fasig-Tipton July Selected Yearlings Sale next Tuesday with a five-horse consignment.

The Estradas ran their first consignment in 2017 under the established consignment of Estrada-Brok's mother, Becky Merkel, before establishing their own brand. In its first year selling under their 2-year-old sales banner, Sterling Thoroughbreds, the couple sold a Brody's Cause colt–purchased as a yearling for $6,000–for $290,000 at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May Sale. At that fall's Fasig-Tipton October Yearling Sale, they sold a colt by Ghostzapper–purchased as a weanling for $7,000–for $140,000, as well as an Always Dreaming colt–purchased for $15,000–for $125,000.

“We started out just pinhooking two or three horses and we did well,” Estrada-Brok said. “So we got six horses and then we did even better and then we got 12 horses. Now we have a barn of 18 going to the sales. It started out just us and then people started to come to us. We tried to stay small with ourselves, but it didn't work out like that.”

She added with a laugh, “We can't hide anymore.”

The Estradas spent a year based in Pennsylvania helping with her parents' Diamond B Farm, but as that operation began winding down, they returned to Kentucky. And her parents, Glenn and Becky, soon followed.

“We were renting at a couple of different places and eventually we did well enough in the sales that we could buy our own farm,” Estrada-Brok said. “We are just here in Georgetown. It's really close to everything. The Horse Park and Hagyard are about two miles away, Fasig is six, but it's a great farm and we filled it up. Carlos built a round pen and he put a walker in. My parents bought the farm right next door, and they have an aqua tread, so we go and use that.”

Of the couple's move to Kentucky, followed by her parents, Estrada-Brok laughed and said, “My husband jokes that he brought the whole Brok family from Pennsylvania because my sister moved down here, too.”

C & S Thoroughbreds sold four horses at last year's Fasig-Tipton July sale, led by a colt by Classic Empire who sold for $140,000. The consignment also sold a filly by Distorted Humor last July for $110,000. That filly returned to sell for $485,000 at this year's OBS April sale.

“Last year was a great group and it's another strong group this year,” Estrada-Brok said. “I think our clients upped the price range a little bit when they bought them. It's a good, solid group of fast early horses. I am really happy with what we are taking over there.”

C & S Thoroughbreds' five-horse July consignment includes yearlings being sold on behalf of clients, as well as a pair in pinhooking partnerships. The group are all colts and all but one are the first or second foals out of their dams.

“This year when we went to the sales to buy, we bought more colts than fillies,” Estrada-Brok said. “And we did that on purpose. Everybody always has the Derby dream. So we tend to stick more to colts.”

She continued, “Typically when Carlos and I buy, we do look for the first or second foal. That's typically what we try to go for. Buying a horse with pedigree is expensive, we can't always afford those, so we need to look for angles.”

The couple's July consignment includes a pair of yearlings by Bolt d'Oro: Hip 161 was purchased by Gary Contessa for $33,000 at last year's Keeneland November and Contessa signed for hip 357 for $80,000 at the same sale.

“I have two really nice Bolt d'Oros for a client,” Estrada-Brok said. “And he is just as hot as anybody.”

As part of a pinhooking partnership, the Estradas purchased a colt by Munnings (hip 164) for $100,000 at this year's Keeneland January sale.

“He is a big, strong forward horse,” Estrada-Brok said of the colt. “He's a Saturday horse, that is what he is.”

Also part of a pinhooking partnership is a son of Complexity (hip 341) who was purchased for $27,000 at Keeneland November.

The C&S Thoroughbreds consignment is rounded out by a homage to the operation's roots in Pennsylvania. A homebred for Whiskey Run Stables, the colt (hip 204) is by Rowayton, a stallion who began his career at the Broks' Diamond B Farm.

In addition to the July sale, C&S Thoroughbreds will be offering yearlings at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Yearlings sale and the Fasig-Tipton October sale.

Fasig-Tipton will host its July Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale at its Newtown Paddocks facility Monday, with bidding beginning at 2 p.m. The company's July Selected Yearlings Sale will be held Tuesday beginning at 10 a.m.

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