Sunday Insights: Well-Bred Son Of Tapit And Lady Take Charge Debuts At Oaklawn

5th-OP, $115K, Msw, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 3:22 p.m. ET.
A $700,000 Keeneland September purchase by Willis Horton Racing and trained by Eddie Milligan Jr., WILL TAKE IT (Tapit) is the first to the post out of unraced Lady Take Charge (War Front).

The latter was the top-priced foal at the 2015 Keeneland November Sale when she was hammered down to Whisper Hill Farm for $3.2 million. Eclipse Award winner Take Charge Brandi (Giant's Causeway), a daughter of Lady Take Charge's half-sister Charming (Seeking the Gold), was the overall topper when sold to John Sikura and Hill 'n' Dale Equine for $6 million.

Last year, Lady Take Charge produced a full-sister to Will Take It, who went to Sinandigan Stable at the Keeneland September Sale for $1.3 million.

The extended female family runs through influential second dam MGISW Take Charge Lady (Dehere), who is responsible for GI Florida Derby champ Take Charge Indy (A.P. Indy), Horton's champion 3-year-old colt Will Take Charge (Unbridled's Song), GI Beholder Mile winner As Time Goes By (American Pharoah), and Take Charge Brandi's half-brother and top-five first-crop sire Omaha Beach (War Front). TJCIS PPS

5th-AQU, $85K, Msw, 2yo, 1m, 2:14 p.m. ET
Trained by Todd Pletcher, Don Alberto and Bridlewood Farm homebred Carolo Rapido (Curlin) is out of GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Cathryn Sophia (Street Boss). She was a Blandford Bloodstock buy last year during Fasig-Tipton's Fall Mixed Sale for $1.2 million while in-foal to Gun Runner. TJCIS PPS

6th-OP, $115K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 3:50 p.m. ET.
SF Bloodstock bred Guarani (Speightstown), who will be making his first start for Three Chimneys Farm after they purchased him for $425,000 at Keeneland September. The Steve Asmussen trainee is out of MGSP Czechers (Indian Charlie), who also produced his full-brother, G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen S. hero Switzerland. TJCIS PPS

 

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Catalogue for Fasig-Tipton’s The November Sale Online

A total of 299 main-catalogue entries–the largest in the history of the sale–have been taken for Fasig-Tipton's The November Sale, the auction house's boutique mixed sale, to be held in Lexington, Kentucky, Sunday, Nov. 6, beginning at 1 p.m., one hour earlier than last year's 2 p.m. start in order to accommodate the extra volume of offerings.

“The Fasig-Tipton November Sale annually offers the highest concentration of quality breeding stock in the world, and this year's catalogue more than lives up to that billing,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. “We have 56 graded stakes winners or producers catalogued, 23 of which are Grade 1. Included among these are Eclipse champions, international champions, Breeders' Cup winners, a dual Royal Ascot winner and three Kentucky Oaks winners.”

The sale kicks off with a selection of 180 weanlings, including the offspring of first-crop weanling sires Authentic, Complexity, Game Winner, Gift Box, Global Campaign, Higher Power, Honor A. P., Improbable, Instagrand, McKinzie, Spun to Run, Thousand Words, Tiz the Law, Tom's d'Etat, Vekoma, Volatile, and War of Will.

Notable weanlings in the catalogue include: A full-brother to Practical Joke (Into Mischief), selling as hip 2 for Bedouin Bloodstock; an Into Mischief half-brother to Grade I winner Leofric (Candy Ride {Arg}), selling as hip 14 through Bluewater Sales; a Kantharos colt who is a half-brother to Grade I winner Promises Fulfilled (Shackleford) and the multiple stakes winner and graded stakes placed Marquee Miss (Cowboy Cal), selling as hip 35 from Vinery Sales; a Tapit colt whose second dam is Drumette (Henny Hughes), the dam of champion Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) and graded stakes winner Mr. Monomoy (Palace Malice), selling as hip 38 for Gainesway; a Gun Runner half-brother to the Grade I-placed Oviatt Class (Bernardini) from the family of champion Essential Quality, selling as hip 48 for Stuart Morris, Agent; a filly by Munnings from the family of Grade I winners Shackleford (Forestry) and Lady Joanne (Orientate), selling as hip 50 for Paramount Sales; a filly by War of Will from the family of GI Metropolitan H. winner Mor Spirit (Eskendereya), selling as hip 62 for Vinery; a Justify filly from the family of Epsom Derby winner Lammtarra, selling as hip 72 from the Frankfort Park Farm consignment; a Union Rags half-sister to GII Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth winner Simplification (Not This Time), selling as hip 78 through Taylor Made Sales; an Uncle Mo half-brother to MGSW and GISP Awesome Slew, selling as hip 80 for Paramount Sales; an Into Mischief colt from the family of GI Breeders' Cup Sprint runner-up Shancelot (Shanghai Bobby), selling as hip 93 for Taylor Made Sales; a Gun Runner half-sister to GII Jim Dandy winner Tenfold (Curlin), whose third dam is MGISW Possibly Perfect (Northern Baby), selling as hip 97 for ELiTE Sales; an Honor A. P. Colt whose third dam, Cappucino Bay, produced Medaglia d'Oro, selling as hip 98 for Bridie Harrison, agent; hip 99 from Darby Dan, Dracula (Authentic), from the family of GI Spinaway S. winner Awesome Humor (Distorted Humor); an Improbable colt from a full-sister to GI Santa Anita Derby and Travers winner Colonel John (Tiznow), selling as hip 103 for Ballysax Bloodstock; an Instagrand filly whose second dam produced GI Dixiana Breeders' Futurity winner Noble's Promise, selling as hip 114 for Gainesway; an Authentic half-sister to MGISW Casa Creed (Jimmy Creed), selling as hip 117 for Paramount Sales; a full-brother to MGISW Colonel Liam (Liam's Map), selling as hip 120 for Darby Dan; a Bolt d'Oro colt whose second dam produced English champion and Classic winner Russian Rhythm (Kingmambo), selling as hip 121 for Taylor Made Sales; an Authentic half-brother to multiple Grade I-winning sophomore colt Cyberknife (Gun Runner), selling as hip 125 for Taylor Made Sales; the first foal out of MGISW Bellafina (Quality Road), a colt by Uncle Mo, who sells as hip 128 for Eaton Sales; a Constitution filly from the family of GI winners Rail Trip and Palace Malice, selling as hip 132 for St. George Sales; an Audible filly whose first dam produced Beach Walk (Distorted Humor), the dam of Life is Good (Into Mischief), selling as hip 133 for Ledgelands LLC; a Volatile filly from the family of Grade I winners Girvin (Tale of Ekati) and Midnight Bourbon (Tiznow), selling as hip 146 for Wynnstay Sales; a full-sister to GI Breeders' Cup-winning champion Caledonia Road (Quality Road), selling as hip 150 at Eaton Sales; an American Pharoah half-brother whose second dam is Canadian champion and champion producer Sealy Hill (Point Given), selling as hip 151 for Scott Mallory; the first foal from Diamond Ore, whose dam Bubbler (Distorted Humor) produced Arrogate (Unbridled's Song), a colt by Justify, selling as hip 157 for Taylor Made; hip 159, a filly by Justify and the first produce of 'TDN Rising Star' Donna Veloce from Eaton Sales; a Justify second foal out of Etching, whose dam is GI Kentucky Oaks winner Summerly (Summer Squall), selling as hip 166 for Ballysax Bloodstock; an Omaha Beach filly from the family of Grade I winners Hookedonthefeelin (Citidancer), Pussycat Doll (Real Quiet), and Jimmy Creed (Distorted Humor), selling as hip 170 for Bluegrass Thoroughbred Services; and a Munnings filly whose second dam, the champion Smuggler (Unbridled) is out of champion Inside Information (Private Account), selling as hip 180 for Taylor Made.

The weanling section of the sale is to be followed by 119 broodmares and broodmare prospects. The high-class offerings include, chronologically in the catalogue: GI La Brea S. winner Kalypso (Brody's Cause), selling as a racing or broodmare prospect for Gainesway; Lenni Girl (Candy Ride {Arg}), a half-sister to Eclipse champion Jackie's Warrior (Maclean's Music), selling in foal to Charlatan for Hill 'n' Dale; Del Mar track-record setter in her debut, 'TDN Rising Star' Luminance (Tale of the Cat), the runner-up in the GI Santa Anita Oaks, selling in foal to Gun Runner with Gainesway; Majorette (Will Take Charge), a half-sister to Epicenter, selling in foal to Hard Spun for Bluewater Sales; graded stakes winner Mrs. Danvers (Tapit), a half-sister to four graded stakes winners including War Front, carrying her first foal by American Pharoah, selling for Taylor Made; GI Gamely S. winner Ocean Road (Ire) (Australia {GB}), selling as a broodmare prospect for Hunter Valley Farm; GI Mother Goose S. winner Off the Tracks (Curlin), selling in foal to Gun Runner for Blake-Albina; Ononimo (Hard Spun), daughter of broodmare of the year Oatsee (Unbridled), selling in foal to American Pharoah for Stoneriggs Farm; Onshore (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), the dam of G1 Grand Prix de Paris winner and 'Rising Star' Onesto (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), from a top Juddmonte family and in foal to Wootton Bassett (GB), selling for Gainesway; the multiple stakes-winning Queen Caroline (Blame), whose first foal 'Rising Star' Forte (Violence), won the GI Hopeful S. at Saratoga this summer, selling in foal to Not This Time for Bluegrass Thoroughbred Services; GI American Oaks winner Queen Goddess (Empire Maker) from a top Phipps family, selling as a racing or broodmare prospect for Ballysax Bloodstock; Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Pizza Bianca (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), selling as a racing or broodmare prospect with ELiTE Sales; Secret Oath (Arrogate), the D. Wayne Lukas-trained GI Longines Kentucky Oaks heroine, selling as a racing or broodmare prospect for Bluewater Sales; fellow Kentucky Oaks winner Shedaresthedevil (Daredevil), who brought $5 million at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton November Sale from Mandy Pope, Qatar Racing, and Flurry Racing Stables and who came back to win the GII Fleur de Lis S. and was twice Grade I-placed at five for trainer Brad Cox; Simply Confection (Candy Ride {Arg}), in foal carrying a full-brother to Simplification (Not This Time), this year's GII Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth S. winner, selling with Taylor Made; Thinking of You (American Pharoah) a full-sister to G1 Prix Saint-Alary winner Above the Curve, from the family of Giant's Causeway, selling for Taylor Made and in foal to Justify; GI Starlet S. winner Varda (Distorted Humor), selling as a racing or broodmare prospect for Hill 'n' Dale; Wicked Whisper (Liam's Map), a GISW at two and a GSW at three, selling in foal to Curlin for Denali Stud; Awesome Flower (Flower Alley), the dam of leading three-year-old Cyberknife (Gun Runner), in-foal with his full sibling; GI Santa Anita Oaks winner Bellafina (Quality Road), selling in foal to Tiz The Law with Eaton Sales; GI Test S. winner Bella Sofia (Awesome Patriot), selling as a racing or broodmare prospect with Taylor Made; Bell's the One (Majesticperfection), a Grade I stakes winner pointing for the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint for trainer Neil Pessin, selling with Taylor Made; Chilean classic winner Brooke (Chi) (No Nay Never), selling with Gainesway; Campanelle (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), the multiple European champion, two-time Royal Ascot winner, Group 1 winner in two countries and a Grade III winner in the U.S., selling with Eaton Sales, agent for Stonestreet Stables; GI Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia (Street Boss), selling in foal to Gun Runner for Gainesway; 'Rising Star' Crazy Beautiful (Liam's Map), a millionaire, MGSW and Grade I-placed runner, selling for Denali Stud; Diamond Ore (Tapit), a winning, stakes-placed half-sister to Arrogate (Unbridled's Song), and in foal to Charlatan with a weanling colt by Justify at her side, selling for Taylor Made; 'Rising Star' Donna Veloce (Uncle Mo), a nine-length debut winner who was second by a neck in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies in just her second start, in foal to Tiz The Law, selling for Eaton Sales; champion 'TDN Rising Star' Gamine (Into Mischief), the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic topper, a five-time Grade I winner and track-record-setter, selling in foal to Quality Road for Hill 'n' Dale; GI Del Mar Oaks winner Going Global (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}), selling as a racing or broodmare prospect for Elite Sales; and GI Del Mar Debutante winner Grace Adler (Curlin), selling as a racing or broodmare prospect for Hill 'n' Dale.

“This catalogue is as deep in quality as it is internationally diverse,” continued Browning. “Nearly 80% of the racing and broodmare offerings are either a black-type winner or the dam of a black-type winner, providing buying opportunities at a variety of price levels. I think it's one of the strongest if not the strongest November catalogue we have ever assembled. There is great depth amongst the mares and foals and fillies coming off the racetrack. It is unquestionably the strongest group of weanlings we have ever had, from a quality and quantity standpoint. In the Fasig-Tipton tradition, we will continue to accept quality supplements up until the sale.”

The catalogue may now be viewed online, including Fasig-Tipton's popular Enhanced Catalogue.

The Enhanced Catalogue provides up-to-date catalogue pages, Daily Racing Form past performances, and race replays; an Alan Porter pedigree analysis and five-cross pedigrees for all racing/broodmare prospects and broodmares; stallion register pages for all sires of weanlings and covering sires; as well as other tools to aid prospective buyers. All Grade 1-winning females off the track or carrying their first foals will also be profiled with individual feature videos.

Print catalogues will be available by Thursday, Oct. 6. The catalogue will also be available via the Equineline sales catalogue app.

Online bidding and phone bidding will be available.

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Sunday Insights: Daughter of Oaks Winner Debuts at Spa

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7th-SAR, $100k, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 7f, 4:29 p.m. ET

Bobby Flay's MEZCAL (Pioneerof the Nile), the first foal out of 2016 GI Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia (Street Boss), makes her debut in the seventh race at Saratoga Sunday. The 3-year-old filly, a $625,000 KEESEP yearling, is trained by Todd Pletcher. Bridlewood Farm and Don Alberto Corp. purchased Cathryn Sophia, with this filly in utero, for $2.3 million at the 2017 Keeneland November sale.

Courtlandt Farms' Big City Momma (Quality Road), a $700,000 KEESEP purchase, will look to improve on a third-place effort in her six-furlong debut at Belmont May 6 for trainer Shug McGaughey, while Bill Mott saddles Summer Wind Equine firster More Moonshine (Malibu Moon). Out of Unenchantedevening (Unbridled's Song), the sophomore is a full-sister to Grade I winner Moonshine Memories and a half to stakes winner and graded placed Indian Evening (Indian Charlie). Whisper Hill Farm homebred Perfect Grace (Tapit), a daughter of champion Havre de Grace (Saint Liam), makes her third trip to the post following a pair of runner-up efforts at Gulfstream for trainer Ralph Nicks.

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Million-Dollar Matings

The fireworks at the annual Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton November sales are always a highlight of the year as seven-figure bids abound on some of racing's top broodmares and broodmare prospects. But after the dust settles, it can be years before words get out on the breeding careers of the sales' top offerings. We catch up with the connections of a few of these most recent million-dollar broodmares and learn of their mating plans for 2021 in our ongoing 'Million-Dollar Matings' series.

 

 

CONSTELLATION (Bellamy Road-For Royalty, by Not For Love)

Sale: 2018 Fasig-Tipton November Sale

Purchaser/Owner: Don Alberto Corporation

Produce Record: 2019 Curlin colt, 2021 Into Mischief filly

2021 Booking: Quality Road

Offered carrying her first foal by Curlin, Grade I winner and 'TDN Rising Star' Constellation was purchased for $3.15 million by the Don Alberto Corporation at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

Her Curlin colt would go on to sell for $250,000 to Repole Stables and St. Elias Stables at last year's Keeneland September Sale.

After visiting Into Mischief but failing to produce a foal in her first year with Don Alberto, she was bred back to the Spendthrift sire last year.

Don Alberto's former Executive Director Fabricio Buffolo reported that Constellation foaled her Into Mischief filly on Jan. 31.

“We are extremely happy that she had a nice, robust filly,” he said. “She has been developing well. You can tell that she has all the parts there to turn into a nice filly as she grows.”

Buffolo said that Constellation will be bred to Quality Road this year.

“It will be interesting to see how she will produce with a horse like him with more scope and size,” he noted. “It's all about getting to know the mares and how they produce and it's a mating that has some contrasts on the physical aspect, which sometimes can be rewarding. Bellamy Road has only three blacktype winners as a broodmares sire and all three are from Mr. Prospector-line stallions.”

After a 'Rising Star'-worthy debut win as a juvenile for LNJ Foxwoods, Constellation ran in the money in her next two graded starts before capping off her 2-year-old season with a win in the Furlough S. As a sophomore, she added two more stakes wins before taking the GI La Brea S. At four, the chestnut ran second in four straight graded races including the GI Madison S. at Keeneland.

 

CALEDONIA ROAD (Quality Road-Come A Callin, by Dixie Union)

Sale: 2018 Fasig-Tipton November Sale

Purchaser/Owner: Narvick International

Produce Record: 2020 Justify filly, 2021 Justify colt

2021 Booking: Kizuna (Jpn)

Eclipse Champion Caledonia Road was purchased by agent Emmanuel de Seroux of Narvick International for $2.3 million at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

The million-dollar earner was bred to Justify as a maiden and produced a filly in January last year. De Seroux reported that the filly is “doing great” at the Ito family's Grand Farm in Japan, where Caledonia Road also resides.

The mare was bred back to Justify and foaled a colt on Jan. 27 this year.

“He's reported to be a very good foal,” de Seroux said.

This year, Caledonia Road will visit champion Kizuna, a son of the late influential Japanese sire Deep Impact and the leading Japanese freshman sire in 2019.

Trained by Ralph Nicks, Caledonia Road won on debut and ran second in the GI Frizette S. before taking the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Filles to win Eclipse honors for Champion 2-Year-Old Filly in 2017. She is a half-sister to stakes winner One of a Kind (Lemon Drop Kid) and hails from the family of Grade I winners Data Link (War Front) and Hymn Book (Arch).

 

CATHRYN SOPHIA (Street Boss-Sheave, by Mineshaft)

Sale: 2017 Keeneland November Sale

Purchaser/Owner: Bridlewood Farm and Don Alberto

Produce Record: 2018 Pioneerof the Nile filly, 2019 Medaglia d'Oro filly, 2020 Into Mischief colt. In foal to Curlin.

2021 Booking: None

One year after Bridlewood Farm and Don Alberto partnered up to buy a sales-topping Baffled (Distorted Humor) for $3.5 million, the same duo went to $2.3 million at the 2017 Keeneland November Sale to purchase 'TDN Rising Star' Cathryn Sophia. The 2016 Oaks heroine was carrying her first foal by Pioneerof the Nile.

The Pioneerof the Nile filly, now named Mezcal, was purchased for $625,000 at the 2019 Keeneland September Sale by Bobby Flay, but does not yet have any recorded works or starts.

Cathryn Sophia produced a Medaglia d'Oro filly in 2019 and last year, foaled an Into Mischief colt in May.

“He is a late foal that has developed so well over the last few months,” said Don Alberto's Fabricio Buffolo. “He is a strong individual and typical of what you expect of the sire.”

Buffolo reported that this year, Cathryn Sophia is in foal to Curlin. A similar mating proved successful when the Hill 'n' Dale sire produced champion and young sire Vino Rosso with a Street Cry (Ire) mare.

Because Cathryn Sophia's Curlin foal is expected to arrive late, Buffolo said that she will take a year off this year.

Purchased as a yearling by Cash Is King LLC and trained by John Servis, Cathryn Sophia broke her maiden on debut by 12 3/4 lengths before crushing the competition in the Gin Talking S. by 16 1/4 lengths in her next start. She won her sophomore debut in the GII Forward Gal. and maintained the undefeated streak in the GII Davona Dale S. After a third-place finish in the GI Ashland S., the Maryland-bred scored a victory in the GI Kentucky Oaks. In the later half of her sophomore season, she ran third in both the GI Acorn S. and GI Cotillion S. and caught a win in the Princess of Sylmar S.

Cathryn Sophia was offered at the 2016 Fasig-Tipton November Sale as a broodmare or racing prospect and sold to SF Bloodstock for $1.4 million. It was announced a month later that she would retire from racing, and she returned to the sales ring a year later in foal to Pioneerof the Nile.

 

GALILEO GAL (Galileo (Ire)-Alpha Lupi (Ire), by Rahy)

Sale: 2018 Fasig-Tipton November Sale

Purchaser/Owner: Craig Bernick

Produce Record: 2020 Kingman (GB) filly. In foal to Lope de Vega (Ire).

2021 Booking: Kingman (GB)

The regally-bred Galileo Gal was offered at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. Watch out feature leading up to the sale here. She was purchased by Craig Bernick for $1.4 million.

She was sent to Norelands Stud in Ireland and was first bred to Juddmonte's hot young sire Kingman.

That mating produced a filly that is now a yearling.

“We are happy with [her],” Bernick said. “Our plan is to put her into training with Jessica Harrington next year.”

Galileo Gal was next bred to Ballylinch Stud's Lope de Vega (Ire) and Bernick reported that she is expected to foal any day now. She will return to Kingman later this year.

Bred by the Niarchos family, Galileo Gal was purchased by Gary Barber as a yearling and brought to race in North America, where she was a winner at three and four. The chestnut is a half-sister to champion and four-time Group 1 winner Alpha Centauri (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}), as well a second G1 Coronation S. winner in Alpine Star (Ire) (Sea the Moon {Ger}) and stakes winner Tenth Star (Ire) (Dansili {GB}). Her family includes several other champions in Miesque (Nureyev), East of the Moon (Private Account) and Rumplestiltskin (Ire) (Danehill), as well as Group 1 winners and sires Kingmambo (Mr. Prospector) and Karakontie (Jpn) (Bernstein).

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