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Blended Citizen To Enter Stud At Collett Equine Veterinary Service In Oklahoma

Blended Citizen, a three-time graded stakes winner, has been purchased by DMW Racing Stables and will enter stud in Oklahoma for the 2021 breeding season. Mike Recio brokered the transaction on the 5-year-old son of Proud Citizen on behalf of owners Sayjay Racing, LLC, Greg Hall, and Brooke Hubbard.

At two, Blended Citizen broke his maiden at Del Mar around two-turns, defeating eventual Grade 1 winner River Boyne. In his second start at age three, Blended Citizen picked up his first graded stakes score in the Grade 3 Jeff Ruby Steaks at Turfway Park, a qualifying points race for the Kentucky Derby. Just two starts later, switching back to the dirt in the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes, Blended Citizen overcame a six-wide trip to win by open lengths to defeat a field that included eventual graded stakes winner Core Beliefs.

This year, at the age of five, Blended Citizen added the G3 Louisiana Stakes at the Fair Grounds to his resume. He retires with five career wins and earnings of more than $558,000.

“Blended Citizen was an incredibly talented and versatile individual,” said co-owner Brooke Hubbard, who purchased Blended Citizen at the 2017 OBS March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale for $85,000. “He showed tremendous ability to win on three different surfaces and to win graded stakes races on both dirt and synthetic against some of the top horses of his generation. We are excited about his future and to his first-crop of foals in 2022.”

By Proud Citizen, Blended Citizen is bred on the same cross that produced Kentucky Oaks winner Proud Spell, one of five champions sired by the graded stakes winning son of Gone West. He was bred by Ray Hanson out of the stakes winning Langfuhr mare, Langara Lass, a full sister to graded stakes winning filly Madeira Park. Blended Citizen is a half-brother to stakes winning millionaire and Kentucky Derby runner-up Lookin At Lee, and a full brother to stakes winning filly Battlefield Angel, who also placed in the G1 Darley Alcibiades, and is the dam of the graded stakes placed colt Manny Wah.

“We could not be more pleased to acquire an exceptional horse like Blended Citizen,” said Matt Wilkett of Tulsa, Okla.-based DMW Racing Stables. “We think a horse with his depth of pedigree, paired with his ability to win as a two-year-old and at the graded stakes level at three, makes him an attractive horse for breeders in Oklahoma at the southwest region.”

Blended Citizen will stand for an introductory rate of $2,000 at Collett Equine Veterinary Service. There will be a limited number of lifetime breeding rights available to the first 20 mares that are booked for Blended Citizen's first season.

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Graded Stakes Winner Blended Citizen Retired From Racing; Stud Plans Pending

Sayjay Racing LLC, Greg Hall, and Brooke Hubbard's multiple graded stakes winner Blended Citizen has been retired from racing.

Bred by Ray Hanson, Blended Citizen is by Gone West's most underrated son, two-time Kentucky Oaks sire Proud Citizen, out of the multiple stakes-winning Langfuhr mare Langara Lass. This makes him a half-brother to stakes-winning millionaire Lookin At Lee, runner-up in the 2017 Kentucky Derby.

Blended Citizen was a classic contender himself after graded wins in the Grade 3 Jeff Ruby Steaks over Turfway Park's all-weather surface and a score in the G3 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park. He proved to be one of the most durable, well-traveled and versatile members of his generation. He raced at 10 tracks and remained a graded performer this year at age five, ultimately being awarded the Jan. 18 G3 Louisiana Stakes at Fair Grounds via disqualification.

Blended Citizen's first win came in November of his juvenile season over the Del Mar turf course where he defeated future Grade 1 winner River Boyne in a maiden special weight. He was purchased eight months earlier at the OBS March 2-Year-Old in Training sale after a sparkling work, commanding the highest price for a juvenile by his sire in 2017.

The Gone West sire-line is responsible for some of the most important stallions in North America; namely Speightstown and Quality Road. Blended Citizen is bred on the prolific Gone West/Langfuhr cross similar to leading Pennsylvania sire Uptowncharlybrown.

A stud deal is pending for Blended Citizen. He's cataloged as a stallion prospect in the upcoming Keeneland November auction with South Point Sales.

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Honor Roll Presented By The Runhappy Meet At Kentucky Downs: Ms Bad Behavior Has Been All Good For Hubbard

With offspring like One Bad Boy and Ms Bad Behavior, it would be easy to assume that trouble runs in the family of the Stormy Atlantic mare Cumulonimble.

Far from it.

One Bad Boy, the younger of the two half-siblings – both of whom were foaled in Ontario – was a $65,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase by bloodstock agent Brooke Hubbard on behalf of Sayjay Racing in 2017. The Twirling Candy colt traveled north of the border to win last year's Queen's Plate, the most important horse race for Canadian-breds. Through seven career starts, One Bad Boy has earned $556,732.

Hubbard had some inside information while shopping at Keeneland in 2017. One Bad Boy's older half-sister by Blame, Ms Bad Behavior, showed promise in a pair of 2-year-old maiden races in California for trainer Richard Baltas just before the September auction. She had purchased him for Sayjay and Greg Hall for $75,000 at the 2016 Keeneland September Sale.

Ms Bad Behavior would go on fulfill that promise in an 18-race career that would include four wins, seven seconds and three third-place finishes over three seasons. She would retire with earnings of $502,251.

Foremost among the wins was her lone graded stakes victory in 2019 at 7-1 odds in the Grade 3 Three Chimneys Ladies Turf Stakes at Kentucky Downs. Ridden by Jose Ortiz, Ms Bad Behavior controlled the pace, drawing off late to defeat 11-10 favorite Mitchell Road by 1 1/2 lengths.

Even though she didn't qualify for Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund purse enhancements, the Ladies Turf Stakes win was worth $180,420, her richest payday.

Both One Bad Boy and Ms Bad Behavior were trained in Southern California by Richard Baltas and raced for the partnership of Sayjay Racing, Greg Hall and Brooke Hubbard.

One Bay Boy remains in training: he finished fourth Aug. 29 in a Del Mar allowance race, his first start since running third in the Canadian Triple Crown's middle leg, the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie on July 23, 2019.

Ms Bad Behavior was entered in Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's November Sale last year, bringing a final bid of $600,000 from Australia-based Freyer Bloodstock.

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