Far from it.

One Bad Boy, the younger of the two half-siblings – both of whom were foaled in Ontario – was a $65,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase by bloodstock agent Brooke Hubbard on behalf of Sayjay Racing in 2017. The Twirling Candy colt traveled north of the border to win last year's Queen's Plate, the most important horse race for Canadian-breds. Through seven career starts, One Bad Boy has earned $556,732.

Hubbard had some inside information while shopping at Keeneland in 2017. One Bad Boy's older half-sister by Blame, Ms Bad Behavior, showed promise in a pair of 2-year-old maiden races in California for trainer Richard Baltas just before the September auction. She had purchased him for Sayjay and Greg Hall for $75,000 at the 2016 Keeneland September Sale.

Ms Bad Behavior would go on fulfill that promise in an 18-race career that would include four wins, seven seconds and three third-place finishes over three seasons. She would retire with earnings of $502,251.

Foremost among the wins was her lone graded stakes victory in 2019 at 7-1 odds in the Grade 3 Three Chimneys Ladies Turf Stakes at Kentucky Downs. Ridden by Jose Ortiz, Ms Bad Behavior controlled the pace, drawing off late to defeat 11-10 favorite Mitchell Road by 1 1/2 lengths.

Even though she didn't qualify for Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund purse enhancements, the Ladies Turf Stakes win was worth $180,420, her richest payday.

Both One Bad Boy and Ms Bad Behavior were trained in Southern California by Richard Baltas and raced for the partnership of Sayjay Racing, Greg Hall and Brooke Hubbard.

One Bay Boy remains in training: he finished fourth Aug. 29 in a Del Mar allowance race, his first start since running third in the Canadian Triple Crown's middle leg, the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie on July 23, 2019.

Ms Bad Behavior was entered in Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's November Sale last year, bringing a final bid of $600,000 from Australia-based Freyer Bloodstock.

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In a whirlwind month for the auction season, the industry's attention now turns to Keeneland for the marathon September Yearling Sale, and the Paulick Report has what you need to read in the preview edition of the PR Special.

In this edition, bloodstock editor Joe Nevills examines equine financial lending, how it has changed since the last boom of the mid-2000s and the subsequent market crash, and what the activity that lenders have seen in the midst of COVID-19 uncertainties can tell us about the current direction of the Thoroughbred economy.

Walker Hancock of Claiborne Farm answers questions about veteran sire First Samurai in the latest Stallion Spotlight, then Bryce Burton of Muirfield Insurance discusses what to do and what to know if your Thoroughbred is being transported to the veterinary clinic for an emergency.

We then turn our attention to a pair of horses succeeding in unique ways. First, in Honor Roll Presented by the Runhappy Meet at Kentucky Downs, Ray Paulick looks at the family ties that led Ms Bad Behavior from being a $75,000 yearling purchase to an earner of over $500,000, including a victory in the G3 Three Chimneys Ladies Turf Stakes at Kentucky Downs. In the Florida-Bred Leaderboard, we take a look at the top Florida-bred juvenile earners on dirt during the Gulfstream Park summer meet; a category dominated by homebreds for Gil and Marilyn Campbell's Stonehedge LLC. Finally, we list the newcomers in the stallion ranks over the two-week Keeneland September sale in First-Crop Sire Watch.

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