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First Foal Is A Colt For New York Stallion Killybegs Captain

Graded stakes winner Killybegs Captain was represented by his first foal when the winning Cryptoclearance mare Clearly Perfect delivered a colt Jan. 31 at Anne Morgan's and Tim Little's Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, N.Y.

Killybegs Captain, an 8-year-old son of Mizzen Mast out of the Holy Bull mare Al Maha, stands for $2,500 LFSN at Mill Creek Farm.

Bred by Morgan, the newborn colt is the third foal out of Clearly Perfect. The mare's first foal, the Giant Surprise gelding Clear Surprise, sold for $14,000 2014 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale and won four of 18 starts and $48,651. Clearly Perfect is also the dam of the newly turned 2-year-old Frank Conversation filly Franca who sold for $10,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale.

Campaigned by Curragh Racing and trained by John Terranova, Killybegs Captain won seven of 27 starts with five seconds and three thirds for $572,453 in earnings. A $75,000 purchase at the 2016 OBS April 2-year-olds in training sale, Killybegs Captain was a winner at 3, 4, 5 and 6 and rose from the allowance ranks to become a stakes winner in his last two seasons.

Killybegs Captain scored his biggest victory in the Grade 3 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash at Laurel Park in 2019, defeating a field that included He Hate Me and New York Central in 1:08.10 for 6 furlongs.

Third in the G2 John A. Nerud Stakes at Belmont Park and G1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in 2019, Killybegs Captain also won back-to-back editions of the Pelican Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs in 2019 and 2020. He defeated multiple Grade 1 winner Imperial Hint in the 2019 edition of the Pelican, winning the six-furlong stakes in 1:09.66.

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Grade 3 Winner Venezuelan Hug Retired To Mill Creek Farm In New York

Graded stakes winner Venezuelan Hug, who ended his career with three straight victories in stakes company, will stand his first season in 2022 at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, N.Y. The 4-year-old son of Constitution out of the Giant's Causeway mare Downtown Diva will stand for $2,500 LFSN.

Bred by Orlyana Farm, Venezuelan Hug started his career in his native Florida with victories in two of his first four starts including a 5 1/2-length score in a 1 1/16-mile maiden special weight on the grass April 25, 2020 at Gulfstream Park.

Venezuelan Hug won a nine-furlong allowance on the grass that summer at Saratoga Race Course, defeating eventual multiple stakes winner City Man. He started exclusively in stakes company from there and closed his career with victories in the Millions Turf Preview Stakes in November 2020 at Gulfstream Park West, Sunshine Turf Stakes in mid-January at Gulfstream and the Grade 3 Canadian Turf Stakes in late February at Gulfstream.

Venezuelan Hug retired with six wins in 10 starts and $252,830 in earnings for owners Spedale Family Racing and R. A. Hill Stable.

Bred on the same Constitution-Giant's Causeway cross as Group 1 classic winner Alaskan Queen, winner of the Polla de Potrancas, Venezuelan Hug hails from the family of Rare Perfume, Jaipur and What a Treat.

Venezuelan Hug is the first foal out of Downtown Diva, a half-sister to multiple stakes winner and $193,455-earner Winter, six-time winner and $158,153-earner Gray Phantom and four-time winner and $145,446-earner Downy Boy.

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Grade 3 Winner Killybegs Captain Retired To Mill Creek Farm In New York

Graded stakes winner Killybegs Captain was retired this month and will enter stud in 2021 at Anne Morgan's and Tim Little's Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, N.Y. The 7-year-old son of Mizzen Mast out of the Holy Bull mare Al Maha will stand his initial season for $2,500 live foal/stands and nurses.

Campaigned by Curragh Racing and trained by John Terranova, Killybegs Captain won seven of 27 starts with five seconds and three thirds for $572,453 in earnings. A $75,000 purchase at the 2016 OBS April 2-year-olds in training sale, Killybegs Captain was a winner at three, four, five and six and rose from the allowance ranks to become a stakes winner in his last two seasons.

Bred by H. Allen Poindexter, Killybegs Captain is the sixth foal out of Al Maha, a half-sister to stakes winner Find the Treasure and the dam of multiple graded stakes winner Pontchatrain from the family of Grade 1 winner Past Forgetting and Grade 2 winner and sire Concerto.

Killybegs Captain is one of six winners out of Al Maha, who is also the dam of a now 2-year-old unnamed filly by Cross Traffic purchased for $50,000 by Tonja Terranova, agent for Curragh Racing at last year's Keeneland September yearling sale.

“He was a beautiful horse – sound horse – he retired sound,” Tonja Terranova, assistant to her husband, told Daily Racing Form. “He beat Imperial Hint, he was third to Mitole. He was just a solid racehorse; ran short, ran long.”

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