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Breeders’ Cup Winner Aunt Pearl Retired; To Join Dayoutoftheoffice, Duopoly, Etoile In Fasig-Tipton November Sale

Aunt Pearl, winner of last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, has been retired from racing and will be consigned by Elite Sales at Fasig-Tipton's Night of the Stars on Nov. 9 in Lexington, Ky. She will be part of a consignment that features three other Grade 1 winners.

At last year's Fasig-Tipton Night of the Stars, Elite led all consigners by average, median, and gross sales, with its seven-horse consignment producing total sales of more than $22 million. Since its inception in 2017, Elite Sales has led the world in selling racehorses, having sold 15 millionaires in four years.

Aunt Pearl, owned by Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables, Peter Deutsch, Michael Kisber and The Elkstone Group, went undefeated in 2020 with three gate-to-wire scores, culminating in her Breeders' Cup triumph. That race subsequently produced the winners of this year's Group 1 English 1,000 Guineas and the G1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot, cementing Aunt Pearl's global status as one of the best of her generation.

The 3-year-old daughter of Lope de Vega, became a TDN 'Rising Star' with a five-length maiden win over the Churchill Downs turf course before setting a new stakes record in winning the G2 Jessamine Stakes at Keeneland, completing the 1 1/16 miles on turf in 1:40 4/5.

Also featured in Elite's Night of the Stars draft is last year's G1 Frizette Stakes winner Dayoutoftheoffice.

Campaigned by Siena Farm and Blazing Meadows Farm, Dayoutoftheoffice will be just the second Grade 1-winning daughter of top sire Into Mischief to be sold at a breeding stock sale. After breaking her maiden in her debut at Gulfstream Park, Dayoutoftheoffice shipped to Saratoga and won the G3 Schuylerville by six lengths before defeating subsequent Eclipse champion Vequist by two lengths in the Frizette. Dayoutoftheoffice rounded out her 2-year-old season with a second-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland, besting fellow Grade 1 winners Simply Ravishing and Princess Noor.

Elite will also consign Etoile, a 5-year-old Grade 1 winning daughter of leading international sire Siyouni, to the Fasig-Tipton auction.

A top-rung stakes performer on both sides of the Atlantic, she captured last year's G1 E.P. Taylor at Woodbine for owners Peter M. Brant, Mrs. M. V. Magnier, and Mrs. Paul Shanahan. Prior to her Grade 1 victory in North America, Etoile captured France's G3 Prix Cleopatre at Saint-Cloud before missing by just a length in the G1 Prix de Diane. She finished ahead of eight group or listed stakes winners in that classic race, including two G1 winners. Etoile is on schedule to defend her crown in the E.P Taylor Stakes on Oct. 15.

Rounding out Elite's quartet of Grade 1 winners is last year's American Oaks conqueror Duopoly.

Owned by Klaravich Stables, Duopoly won the G1 American Oaks in impressive wire-to-wire fashion, finishing the last quarter mile in a sharp :22.63. She defeated a strong field that included two other G1 winners, one of which was 2019 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner, Sharing. Prior to her win at Santa Anita, Duopoly also captured the Winter Memories Stakes at Aqueduct in front running style.

“We are honored that many of the sport's most successful owners are entrusting Elite to bring their best to the marketplace,” said Bradley Weisbord of Elite Sales. “These four Grade 1 winning females, all off the track, should have broad appeal to the world's leading buyers. We look forward to showcasing them at Fasig-Tipton's Night of the Stars on Nov. 9 after the Breeders' Cup.”

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Aunt Pearl Retired And Scheduled to Sell at FTKNOV

Breeders' Cup winner and 'TDN Rising Star' Aunt Pearl (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}–Matauri Pearl {Ire}, by Hurricane Run {Ire}) has been retired and will be entered in the Nov. 9 Fasig-Tipton November Sale, according to a release from Elite Sales, who will consign the 3-year-old filly. Campaigned by Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables, Peter Deutsch, Michael Kisber, and The Elkstone Group, Aunt Pearl was undefeated in three starts at two, beginning with her five-length 'TDN Rising Star' debut in a Churchill Downs maiden special weight and continuing in the GII JPMorgan Chase Jessamine S., where she set a new stakes record, getting the 1 1/16 miles in 1:40.86 over the Keeneland turf. The Brad Cox trainee capped the season with victory in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. She made just one start this year, as the 1-5 favorite in the GII Edgewood S., but bled after not having raced on Lasix as a 2-year-old and finished off the board. She retires with three wins from four starts and earnings of $661,604.

In addition to Aunt Pearl and the previously announced GI Frizette S. winner Dayoutoftheoffice (Into Mischief), Elite will offer two other Grade I-winning fillies at Fasig's “Night of the Stars.” Lightly raced Duopoly (Animal Kingdom–Justaroundmidnight {Ire}, by Danehill Dancer {Ire}) enters the sale off a win in the Dec. 26 GI American Oaks. She is joined by stablemate Etoile (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}–Milena's Dream {Ire}, by Authorized {Ire}), who is scheduled to try and defend her title in the GI E.P. Taylor Oct. 17 for Chad Brown and the partnership of Peter M. Brant, Mrs. M. V. Magnier, and Mrs. Paul Shanahan.

“We are honored that many of the sport's most successful owners are entrusting Elite to bring their best to the marketplace,” said Elite's Bradley Weisbord. “These four Grade I-winning females, all off the track, should have broad appeal to the world's leading buyers. We look forward to showcasing them at Fasig-Tipton's Night of the Stars on Nov. 9 after the Breeders' Cup.”

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Bloodlines Presented By Diamond B Farm’s Rowayton: Charlatan And The Chestnut Tide

Chestnut coats are not the most common color in the Thoroughbred. Bay, and then dark bay or brown, far outnumber the red-headed wunderkind of the breed, and yet for some reason, there are a considerable number of very high-class racers who are chestnuts. Man o' War, as well as Triple Crown winners Sir Barton, Omaha, Whirlaway, Assault, Secretariat, and Justify, to name that few, stand out as superb racers with a chestnut coat.

Racing at Santa Anita on Dec. 26 was swept with a flood of three chestnuts getting their first Grade 1 victories. The most famous of these was Charlatan (by Speightstown), who won a division of the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby on May 2, only to have that prestigious prize removed from his record following the discovery of lidocaine in his system after a routine post-race test.

In the G1 Malibu, Charlatan was making his return to racing after nearly eight months away due to ankle soreness, then the recovery from that, and such was the quality of his competition that the flaming son of Speightstown was not the favorite. That honor went to another impressive son of Speightstown, Nashville, who last flashed his speed with victory in an undercard race at the 2020 Breeders' Cup.

Nashville broke first and led for a half-mile in the seven-furlong race, being credited with a quarter in :21.81 and a half in :43.95. The surface or those efforts proved tiring enough, however, for Nashville to retire rather quietly to fourth at the finish. Charlatan, a length off Nashville at each of those calls in second, inherited the lead, had four lengths on his competition at the stretch call, and won by 4 1/2 lengths in 1:21.50.

Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, Charlatan is the second foal and second stakes winner out of the high-class stakes winner Authenticity (Quiet American), who won the G2 La Troienne, as well as the G3 Shuvee at Saratoga, but perhaps more importantly, Authenticity was second in the G1 Personal Ensign, Ogden Phipps, and Zenyatta, then was third in the G1 Breeders' Cup Distaff.

Shortly after her finish in the Breeders' Cup for owner Padua Stables, Authenticity was sold at the Fasig-Tipton November sale to Stonestreet for $1.2 million. Her first foal for her new owner was stakes winner Hanalei Moon (Malibu Moon); Charlatan was born in 2017, after his dam had slipped her 2016 pregnancy, but the colt sold as a yearling for $700,000 at the 2018 Keeneland September sale to SF Bloodstock and Starlight West. Charlatan races for those entities, plus Madaket Stables, Stonestreet Stables, Fred Hertrich, John Fielding, and Golconda Stables.

This family traces back to generations of mares bred and raced by Bwamazon Farm, and the colt's ninth dam is multiple stakes winner Betty Derr (Sir Gallahad III), who was a yearling when her half-brother Clyde Van Dusen (Man o' War) won the 1929 Kentucky Derby. This is one of the oldest American-bred lines, going back more than 250 years to Selima, a daughter of the Godolphin Arabian.

The other two chestnuts to become Grade 1 winners in the last week of 2020 were fillies: Fair Maiden (Street Boss) and Duopoly (Animal Kingdom). Fair Maiden comes from an exalted female family, as her third dam is Kentucky Oaks winner Secret Status (A.P. Indy), but Secret Status has been deeply disappointing as a producer, with only five winners from 15 foals. Of those, only Dunkirk (Unbridled's Song) earned black type with seconds in the G1 Florida Derby and Belmont Stakes. She has only one known producing daughter, the Giant's Causeway mare Code Book, who has five winners from 10 foals, including a minor stakes-placed racer. The first foal of Secret Status, Code Book produced a first foal named Shieldmaiden (Smart Strike), and she is the dam of Fair Maiden.

Fair Maiden is the third foal and second winner for Shieldmaiden; Fair Maiden is the fifth Grade 1 winner for her sire Street Boss. One of two important sons of leading sire Street Cry standing for Darley at Jonabell Farm, Street Boss showed more speed in his racing career than Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, who has eight Grade 1 winners. Interestingly, Street Boss has sired Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia and Arkansas Derby winner Danza, who then finished third in the Kentucky Derby.

The second North American Grade 1 winner for her sire, Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, Duopoly is out of Grade 3 winner Justaroundmidnight, an Irish-bred daughter of the fast, classy sire Danehill Dancer. Both Danehill Dancer and top sire Machiavellian (Mr. Prospector), the sire of Duopoly's second dam, added quality speed to a line of mares successively sired by English Derby winner Shirley Heights (Mill Reef), English Derby winner Teenoso (Youth), and English Triple Crown winner Nijinsky (Northern Dancer). That's a very classic line of mares, and the addition of speed has certainly perked up its versatility.

Duopoly is the second Grade 1 winner of 2020 for Animal Kingdom, who is now at stud in Japan. Earlier this year, the 6-year-old Australian-bred Oleksandra won the G1 Jaipur Stakes at Belmont Park. The sire's third G1 winner, Angel of Truth, won the Australian Derby in 2019.

Duopoly and other daughters of the chestnut classic winner may prove a lasting legacy in the States for the internationally pedigreed Animal Kingdom, who was the son of a Brazilian-bred sire out of a German-bred mare, and no doubt, his stamina and classic quality will be appreciated in Japan's racing program.

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Duopoly Ships West For Brown, Wires American Oaks Field

Trainer Chad Brown-trained Duopoly made it look easy on Saturday at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., as she waltzed to a front-running two-length tally going 1 1/4 miles on turf in the Grade 1, $300,000 American Oaks. Ridden for the first time by Flavien Prat, Duopoly stopped the clock at 2:01.61. on firm turf.

With a hillside start, Duopoly made the lead out of the gate effortlessly and while under a stout hold, enjoyed a length and a half advantage over favored Sharing as the field crossed under the wire for the first time. With Sharing applying pressure heading to the far turn, Prat let out a notch and from the top of the stretch home, Duopoly unfurled a genuinely Grade 1 charge to the wire in an emphatic win.

“I thought on the backside someone was going to hook up with me but lucky enough nobody did. We had a pretty nice trip,” said Prat. “She was full of herself and traveling perfect. When I asked her she really kicked in. She never really ran the distance but I guess Chad Brown doesn't come down here just to race.”

An ungraded gate to wire stakes winner at 1 1/16 miles on turf at Aqueduct Nov. 15, Duopoly was off at 6-1 in a field of 10 sophomore fillies and paid $14.00, $7.60 and $4.60.

By Animal Kingdom out of the Danehill Dancer mare Justaroundmidnight, Duopoly, who is owned by Klaravich Stables, LLC, notched her first Grade 1 victory and registered her fourth win from six starts. With the winner's share of $180,000, she increased her earnings to $308,034.

Ridden by Mario Gutierrez, the Richard Baltas-trained Going to Vegas out-finished Sharing by three quarters of a length for second money. Off at 14-1, she paid $14.00 and $7.00.

Ridden by John Velazquez for Graham Motion, Sharing, off at 8-5, had no apparent excuses and paid $3.00 to show.

Fractions on the race were 24.91, 49.67, 1:14.89 and 1:38.98.

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