Attila’s Storm Filly Tops Ruidoso New Mexico-Bred Yearling Sale’s Thoroughbred Session

A filly from the late leading sire Attila's Storm topped the Thoroughbred session of the Ruidoso New Mexico-Bred Yearling Sale on Aug. 20, bringing $90,000

The Thoroughbred session was the opening segment of what was a two-day auction at Ruidoso Downs, largely consisting of Quarter Horse yearlings.

A total of 55 horses changed hands during the Thoroughbred session for revenues of $759,600. The average sale price finished at $13,811, and the buyback rate finished at 38 percent.

Joe Dee Brooks purchased the sale-topper, an Attila's Storm filly offered as Hip 41, for $90,000.

The bay filly is out of the winning Gone Hollywood mare Ringback, whose four foals to race are all winners, including stakes winner Hollywood Henry and stakes-placed Fill the Bill. The latter is a full-sibling to the sale-topper.

Bred in New Mexico, the filly hails from the family of English Group 2-placed Miss Demure, and Royal Shyness, who was Group 1-placed in England and a stakes winner in the U.S. She was consigned by A & A Ranch.

Attila's Storm, who died in July, accounted for the three most expensive offerings of the sale's Thoroughbred portion, all consigned by A & A Ranch,

In addition to the top horse, he also saw Hip 68, a filly named High Dollar Hush out of the stakes-winning Untold Gold mare Hush's Gold, sell to Pierre and Leslie Amestoy for $70,000. Rounding out the trio was Hip 51, a filly named Happy and Bold out of the Smoke Glacken mare Bold Jubilation who went to Brad King and Suzanne Kirby for $55,000.

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Grade 1 Winners Vequist, Search Results Out For Remainder Of 2021

Two Grade 1-winning sophomore fillies have been sidelined for the remainder of 2021, reports the Daily Racing Form.

Vequist, last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies champion, had been preparing to return off a seven-month layoff this week, but an issue was discovered after her latest workout.

“She had a minor setback coming out of her last work and will be off for rest of the year,” trainer Butch Reid told DRF.

The 3-year-old daughter of Nyquist has only started once in 2021, running ninth in the G2 Davona Dale on Feb. 27 at Gulfstream Park. She completed five workouts at Saratoga this summer, and Reid had planned to enter her in an allowance race on Thursday.

Search Results, winner of the G1 Acorn and a valiant second to Malathaat in the Kentucky Oaks, has also been taken out of training. Trainer Chad Brown said the filly, most recently third in the G1 Test Stakes, does not have any series issues. She just needs a break from the races.

“I'm really looking forward to running her in mile-and-an-eighth races next year,” Brown told DRF. “That was a really good race in the Oaks. If she can just get a couple of lengths faster as a 4-year-old, she's a real player in these mile-and-an-eighth races all over the place next year.”

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Gun Runner Filly Makes It Two-For-Two at Indiana

3rd-Indiana Grand, $36,000, Alw, 8-23, (NW2L), 2yo, f, 6f, 1:10.89, ft, 8 1/4 lengths.
JOYRUNNER (f, 2, Gun Runner–Joy {MSW, $250,544}, by Pure Prize) passed five of her eight rivals in the final furlong to annex her July 8 debut going a sloppy 5 1/2 furlongs and was the 11-10 chalk to put them back-to-back. The McIngvale colorbearer hopped a bit at the break, but was patiently handled and raced three wide into the turn. Roused to the front nearing the quarter pole, the Maryland-bred drifted out off the home corner and raced a bit greenly inside the final furlong, but ran out a facile 8 1/4-length winner. Inbred 4×3 to Storm Cat, Joyrunner is out of a multiple stakes-winning half-sister to MSW O Dionysus (Bodemeister) and hails from the deeper female family of champion Safely Kept. Joy is the dam of a yearling colt by Union Rags, a colt foal by City of Light and most recently returned to the Lane's End stallion barn for a date with Gift Box. Sales history: $145,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $42,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart.
O-James McIngvale; B-Dark Hollow Farm (MD); T-Laura Wohlers.

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Indiana Grand Moves Post Times Up Due To Extreme Heat

Due to forecasted extreme heat on Wednesday, Aug. 25 and Thursday, Aug. 26, Indiana Grand has changed post times for each of those days. Racing will now begin at 10 a.m. to accommodate the participants scheduled to race.

“The forecasted temperatures are the most extreme we have seen in Shelbyville in decades,” said Eric Halstrom, Vice President and General Manager of Racing. “Keeping in mind that the health of our staff and equine athletes always comes first, we have decided to move our post times so we can avoid the highest temperatures. This decision isn't made with business interests in mind but for the safety of all participants while giving our loyal horsemen the opportunity to race.”

The program Wednesday, Aug. 23 includes 11 races. The final race will have an estimated post time of approximately 2:50 p.m. The program Thursday, Aug. 24 includes nine races with the final race of the day slated for 1:50 p.m.

Training hours for both days has also been moved to accommodate the early post. Training will now be held from 6 – 9 a.m.

The 19th season of Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racing is now in progress and continues through Monday, Nov. 8. Live racing is conducted at 2:25 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, with first post on Thursday set at 3:25 p.m. A special Indiana Champions Day highlighting the state's top Thoroughbred and Quarter Horses will be held Saturday, Oct. 30, beginning at noon. More information about the 2021 racing season is available at www.caesars.com/indiana-grand.

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