Grade 3 stakes winner Ocho Ocho Ocho will stand at Haras San Pablo in Lima, Peru, starting in the 2021 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
By Street Sense, out of the Horse Chestnut (SAF) mare Winner, Ocho Ocho Ocho captured the Breeders' Cup day undercard Juvenile Turf Sprint Stakes impressively by 5 3/4 lengths (run on dirt due to weather conditions) and the 1 1/16-mile $1-million G3 Delta Downs Jackpot Stakes, beating Grade 1-placed Mr. Z in a tenacious fight, and showing the same E Speed Figure (105) as Goldencents and Gunnevara when they won the same race. Ocho Ocho Ocho remained undefeated as a 2-year-old and is, to date, the best 2-year-old Street Sense colt by earnings.
At three, he ran third to Carpe Diem in the 1 1/8-mile G1 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes, and he arrived 1 1/2 lengths behind stallion Force the Pass in the G3 Penn Mile Stakes. In the Blue Grass Stakes, he registered a faster E Speed Figure (102) than Vekoma, Brody's Cause, Flameaway, McCraken and Free Drop Billy; all active U.S. stallions that also ran that race in following editions.
At four, after two consecutive seven- and four-month periods away from the track, he came second in a Santa Anita allowance optional claiming race to stallion and elite sprinter Lord Nelson before the latter won three consecutive Grade 1 races during the following four months.
Ocho Ocho Ocho raced from ages two to five, and he completed a 3-1-1 record from 11 starts with earnings of $852,360. He holds the fifth-best Class Perfomance Index (CPI) registered by Street Sense colts, only behind McKinzie, Concert Tour, Hallowed Crown, and Maxfield.
Ocho Ocho Ocho is a half-brother to Private Ensign (by A.P. Indy), placed in the G2 Davona Dale Stakes.
His first dam, Winner, sold for $700,000 in 2014, and she is a half-sister to Grade 3 winner Animal Spirits. She broke her maiden in her debut by 7 3/4 lengths at Belmont Park, and she completed a record of 1-1-1 in only three starts at Belmont and Saratoga.
His second dam, Pennant Champion, a $700,000 RNA in 2006, is a full-sister to Grade 1 winners Miner's Mark and Traditionally, as well as multiple Grade 1-placed Our Emblem. She is also a half-sister to multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire My Flag, the dam of champion Storm Flag Flying.
Pennant Champion is an extraordinary second dam, having produced eight stakes winner/placed horses, among them Ocho Ocho Ocho, Divine Oath, Auntie Joy, and Interactif, from four different mares. Ocho Ocho Ocho has Hall of Famer and 1996 Kentucky Broodmare of the year Personal Ensign as his third dam.
“He is going to be an extraordinary match for our pool of mares during the following years” said Eduardo Villaran Gallagher, who runs Haras San Pablo. “Ocho Ocho Ocho showed both amazing sprint speed and stamina, with a pedigree geared towards stamina. He is a son of leading sire Street Sense, and has a very strong female family that will probably be represented in the 2021 Kentucky Derby by Dynamic One, who recently came second in the G2 Wood Memorial by a head, having Personal Ensign as fourth dam”.
Haras San Pablo, a leading stud farm in Peru, has bred over 55 Group 1 winners in its more than 40 years of existence, with seven winners of the Peruvian Derby and more than 60 Postin Awards (Peruvian equivalent to Eclipse Awards).
Ocho Ocho Ocho arrived late last year at Ocala Stud and covered 5 mares in 2020.
Bloodstock agent Carlos S.E. Moore brokered the deal.
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