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Santa Anita Announces Turf Starter Series For Fillies & Mare; Eight Races Beginning Jan. 17

Santa Anita Park has announced that beginning Jan. 17, it will offer a lucrative series of eight starter allowance races for fillies and mares on turf. The Santa Anita Turf Starter Series will be comprised of four sprints and four routes at distances of five furlongs on up to a marathon turf event at a mile and one half.

Patterned after last season's successful Tin Man Starter Allowance Series, fillies and mares which have started for a claiming tag of $25,000 or less beginning in 2020 through entry time, are eligible. In addition to regular purse money, points will be awarded on a graduated scale to the first four finishers in each race, with 10 to the winner, six for second, three for third and one point to the fourth place runner.

At the end of the eight-race series, separate monetary awards will be given to owners of horses in both the sprint and route components of the series. Owners with the most points in each division will be awarded $5,000, with second place earning $3,000 and the third place finishers will each receive $2,000.

Those opting to run in sprints will compete at graduated distances of five furlongs, 5 ½ furlongs, six furlongs and 6 ½ furlongs.

Route races will start at one mile, then go to a mile and one eighth, a mile and one quarter and culminate at 1 ½ miles.

With leg one on Jan. 17 being contested at one mile, leg two, the beginning of the sprint series, will be run on Jan. 28 at five furlongs. Dates and distances for all subsequent races will be announced later.

“What we've done is package both a sprint series and route series as one,” said Santa Anita Director of Racing and Racing Secretary Chris Merz. “Although we anticipate that those horses running in sprints will aim for the four short races and that our routers will try to do the same going long, horsemen may opt to mix and match in terms of distances at some point and they're welcome to do so.

“The Tin Man Starter Series, which we'll again be offering this winter and spring, was well received last season and we're hopeful this new series for fillies and mares will also generate a good deal of interest. It gives owners and trainers more options and obviously, it's a way to stay on the turf and run for good purse money against comparable horses without risking them for a claiming tag.”

Santa Anita's Winter/Spring opening day is Sunday, Dec. 26. For additional information regarding the Santa Anita Turf Starter Series for fillies and mares, please contact the Santa Anita Racing Office at (626) 574-6352.

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Three Horses Of Racing Age Supplemented To Closing Session Of Keeneland November Sale

Keeneland has added three horses to the horses of racing age portion of Friday's final session of the 78^th November Breeding Stock Sale. The November Sale began Nov. 10.

A total of 290 horses of racing age have been cataloged to the closing day of the November Sale. They will sell following the conclusion of the breeding stock sale, which has cataloged 148 offerings.

Horses in the final round of supplements are:

Furia Vikinga (CHI), a winning, Group 1-placed 5-year-old daughter of Scat Daddy consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. Out of Cheeky, by Lemon Drop Kid, she is from the family of Grade 3 winner Derrianne and stakes winners Tapitation and Squadron.
Karmari, a 2-year-old filly by Mastery who is a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Miss Sunset. Consigned by Johnson Cross, agent, she is out of the Trippi mare Tuscan Sunset and from the family of multiple Grade 2 winner and sire Prayer for Relief and stakes winners Sizzlin South, Sparklin Lil and Laddie Liam.
Not That Serious, a 2-year-old colt by Munnings who won Nov. 12 at Churchill Downs. Out of the winning War Front mare Mobilize, he is from the family of stakes winners Katy Smiles and Straight Faced. Bluewater Sales, agent, consigns the colt.

The online horses of racing age catalog includes pedigrees, Daily Racing Form and Equibase past performances, race videos and Ragozin and Thoro-Graph figures. Consignors may upload photographs and walking videos.

Click here to download Daily Racing Form past performances for all racing prospects and the horses in the HRA section by their hip numbers.

A print catalog of the horses of racing age in the Nov 19 session with Equibase past performances will be available at Keeneland.

The entire November Sale is streamed live on Keeneland.com.

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Valiant Minister Leads Baoma Corp.’s 2022 Stallion Roster

The advertised 2022 fees have been announced for the three stallions that comprise the Chu family's Baoma Corp., standing at Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla., BloodHorse reports.

The trio is led by Valiant Minister, who will stand for $5,000. The 8-year-old son of Candy Ride currently sits atop Florida's freshman sire list, led by multiple stakes winner Outfoxed.

Tunwoo, a 6-year-old Medaglia d'Oro horse, will stand for $4,000. His first foals will race in 2022.

Rounding out the group is Chitu, a Grade 1-placed 10-year-old son of Henny Hughes who will stand for $3,500.

Grade 2 Winner Engage Retired To Northview Stallion Station In Maryland

Multiple graded stakes-winning sprinter Engage has been retired to Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md., for the 2022 season.

Engage, a son of champion sire Into Mischief, competed at the top level of sprint competition throughout his 19-start career, starting with trainer Chad Brown before being transferred to Steve Asmussen. He won graded stakes at two and four, including Keeneland's Grade 2 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix, a Breeders' Cup “Win and You're In” event for the 2019 Breeders' Cup Sprint while defeating a field that included eventual Eclipse Award-winning sprinter Whitmore and Grade 1 winners Lexitonian, Hog Creek Hustle and Promises Fulfilled.

“This horse is pure speed,” said Northview general manager David Wade. “He is the first true sprinter we've retired to Northview in years.”

Engage was one of his sire's top juveniles in 2017 when winning two of three starts, topped by Belmont Park's G3 Futurity in which he drew off by 3 1/2 lengths going six furlongs. He finished first or second during a seven-race streak from two to three – his highlights at three were a win in 1:09 and change in Belmont Park's six-furlong Gold Fever Stakes, and seconds in the Grade 3 Bay Shore at Aqueduct, G2 Woody Stephens, and G3 Amsterdam at Saratoga, the latter to Promises Fulfilled.

Off for nearly a year from three to four, he returned that fall to win Parx's Bensalem Stakes, the Phoenix, then made the trip to California for the Breeders' Cup Sprint where he finished fourth behind stablemate Mitole. He retires with earnings of $802,780 and five wins, five seconds and two thirds in 19 starts.

Engage represents the highly successful pedigree cross of Into Mischief, the top stallion in the U.S. the past three years who now stands for $250,000, with Speightstown mares, which to date has yielded five black-type winners from 14 starters, including Grade 1-winning sprinters Mia Mischief and Mischevious Alex, and Grade 1-placed Make Mischief. His dam, the stakes-placed Nefertiti, is out of Clearly a Queen who was a three-time graded winner of $504,532.

Engage will stand for $5,000 live foal and is now at the farm and available for inspection. He will be showcased with the rest of the high-powered stallion lineup at an open house on Dec. 11 from 11 a.m. till 2:30 p.m.

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