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Ohio Fall Mixed Sale Catalog Now Online

The catalog for the 2021 Ohio Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Fall Mixed Sale is now online, featuring 92 horses on offer.

The auction will take place Friday, Oct. 15 at the Delaware Co. Fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio, beginning at 2:30 p.m. Eastern.

This year's catalog features 52 yearlings, 16 juveniles, 12 broodmares, 11 weanlings, and a 3-year-old. The yearlings and weanlings are almost exclusive Ohio-breds, save for a pair of young horses born in Kentucky.

Stallions whose first crops are represented in the Ohio Fall Mixed Sale catalog include Army Mule, Awesome Slew, National Flag, Rivers Run Deep, and Tough It Up. Preservationist also has a first-crop weanling in the catalog, while Shancelot has multiple pregnant mares from his first book at stud.

To view the online catalog, click here.

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Runhappy’s First Japanese Winner Makes Huge Impression

Run This City (Runhappy) became the first Japanese winner for his progressive young sire Wednesday, taking a 1400-meter maiden on the dirt at Ohi Racecourse by an imposing margin.

First to break the line from gate six, the March-foaled bay raced under a nice hold, stalking the pace from the outside for the opening half-mile. Given his head with about 500 meters left to travel, Run This City cornered in front, swapped his leads professionally, his rider sitting hard against him, and was pushed out through the final sixteenth of a mile to score by the better part of 22 lengths. He returned money back (i.e. zero profit) as the prohibitive betting favorite.

Bred in Kentucky by Betz/Magers/CoCo Equine/Kidder/J Betz/Davidson, Run This Time was bought back on a bid of $70,000 at last year's Keeneland September Sale. He is a half-brother to Godolphin's Man of Promise (Into Mischief), winner of the Listed Jafza Dubai Sprint S. sprinting a straight six furlongs over the Meydan turf course this past February and his yearling half-brother by Mendelssohn fetched $310,000 from Mike Ryan on day one of this year's Keeneland September sale.

Run This City is out Involved (Speightstown), a winning half-sister to MGSW Skip To the Stone (Skip Trial) and SW My Heavenly Sign (Forest Camp), the dam of the SP Avasaraia (Point of Entry). Involved was not bred in 2020 and was purchased by Dunthreath Farm for $8,000 at Keeneland January earlier this year. She was most recently covered by Audible.

Run This City is the ninth 2-year-old winner from the second crop of Runhappy, whose son Run To Daylight became his fourth black-type winner in the Henry Mercer Memorial S. Sept. 18.

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Filly By Collected Leads Tuesday At Keeneland September Sale

Three Ontario-bred fillies from families of Canadian champions – led by a $320,000 filly from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Collected – commanded the highest prices of Tuesday's eighth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Anderson Farms, agent, consigned the session topper, who sold to Speedway Stables. She is out of the Medaglia d'Oro mare Bezzera, a full-sister to Canadian Horse of the Year Wonder Gadot and a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Hard Not to Love.

On Tuesday, Keeneland sold 313 horses for $20,569,000, for an average of $65,716 and a median of $45,000. Cumulative sales are $326,782,000 for 1,801 yearlings sold through the ring, for an average of $181,445 and a median of $120,000.

Two closely related fillies consigned by Canada's Sam-Son Farm brought $300,000 and $295,000.

Ben McElroy, agent, purchased the $300,000 filly, a daughter of Bernardini out of the Unbridled's Song mare Siren's Song. She is from the family of Canadian champions Comet Shine and Irish Mission.

The filly's second dam is stakes winner Misty Mission, by Miswaki, also the second dam of the $295,000 filly, a daughter of Pioneerof the Nile, sold to CJ Thoroughbreds. She is the first foal of stakes winner Mythical Mission, by Giant's Causeway, a full sister to Irish Mission.

A daughter of Shaman Ghost whose half-brother is multiple Grade 1 winner Dortmund sold for $270,000 to White Birch Farm. Consigned by Bona Terra Stud, agent, the filly is out of stakes winner Our Josephina, by Tale of the Cat, and from the family of champion Lakeville Miss, Grade 1 winner Mogambo and Grade 3 winner I'm a Looker.

Quarter Pole Enterprises paid $250,000 for a filly by Munnings out of stakes winner Tensas Harbor, by Private Vow. Consigned by Woodford Thoroughbreds, agent, she is from the family of Grade 3 winner Storm On the Loose.

The session's leading buyer was Gentry Farms, which paid $497,000 for four yearlings.

Taylor Made Sales Agency, agency, led consignors, selling 31 yearlings for $2,168,000.

The September Sale continues tomorrow and runs through Friday. All sessions begin at 10 a.m. ET.

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Baffert’s Attorneys File Letter Protesting Planned NYRA Hearing

Attorneys for embattled trainer Bob Baffert have filed a letter with U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon, notifying the court they intend to file a motion to hold NYRA in contempt and stay the racing organization's planned hearings.

NYRA had temporarily banned Baffert ahead of this year's Belmont Stakes, citing his recent history of medication violations and conflicting public statements around the betamethasone overage in Medina Spirit, the reigning Kentucky Derby winner. The organization informed Baffert of its decision in May, triggering a civil suit from Baffert in the Eastern District of New York. Baffert won a motion for preliminary injunction against the racing organization after Amon ruled in July that NYRA could not rule him off without a hearing allowing him to address the organization's accusations against him.

Read more about that decision here.

On Sept. 10, NYRA released a statement of charges against Baffert and fellow trainer Marcus Vitali, along with dates for preliminary hearings to deal with scheduling and logistics for formal hearings into whether they should be denied privileges at the organization's tracks. Those preliminary hearing dates had been scheduled for next week. Baffert's preliminary hearing has since been pushed back to Oct. 11 — a date which all parties have agreed to, according to NYRA.

In a letter filed on Baffert's behalf, attorney Craig Robertson claims that NYRA's announcement it intended to proceed with a hearing is in “direct contravention” of the court's order, since the organization did not appeal the judge's ruling on the motion for preliminary injunction. NYRA's list of charges against Baffert released two weeks ago is nearly identical to the reasons it gave for banning him earlier this year.

“The only thing different is that it appears that NYRA has concocted some procedures — apparently just for this case — in an attempt to retroactively install legitimacy to its blatantly unlawful actions,” Robertson wrote.

Further, Robertson said “The Court made it clear to NYRA in oral argument that it was 'too late' to try to give Baffert an after-the-fact hearing to fix its errors … NYRA cannot turn around and attempt to reissue the same suspension based on the same factual allegations — as it has explicitly stated it aims to do — when this Court has enjoined that very conduct.

“There is nothing new which has transpired since NYRA was enjoined. No new facts, no new allegations. If anything, the facts have moved more solidly in Baffert's favor and toward maintaining the status quo, as Baffert has raced several horses at the recent Saratoga meet without incident.”

NYRA issued the following statement via a spokesman soon after news broke of the coming filing:

“Contrary to the assertion filed in court today, Mr. Baffert is not currently under suspension at any NYRA racetrack. In fact, Mr. Baffert is free to stable horses and enter races at all NYRA facilities, just as he has been for the past two months,” said Pat McKenna, senior director of communications for NYRA.

“NYRA is not seeking to 'enforce' the May 17, 2021 letter temporarily suspending him. That letter is no longer in effect and NYRA does not now or in the future intend to enforce or otherwise invoke that letter as the basis for any action taken against Mr. Baffert. The current NYRA hearing proceeding was independently commenced pursuant to NYRA's common law and regulatory authority to exclude licensees, subject to the requirements of due process, and in full compliance with the U.S. District Court's order and memorandum, dated July 14, 2021, in Bob Baffert v. The New York Racing Association, Inc.”

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