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TAA Holding Second Annual Online Auction of VIP Racing Experiences

The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA) announced the launch of the second annual Off to the Races, an online auction campaign which offers the public an opportunity to bid on 17 VIP experience packages on major race days in 2023 and 2024. Each experience package offers a unique itinerary of horse racing-related bucket list activities and tickets to the specified race day(s).

“With the help of the racing industry, the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance supports 81 accredited charities and thousands of off-track Thoroughbreds,” TAA President Jeffrey Bloom said. “Outside of the TAA's automatic funding sources within the industry, the Off to the Races auction is a unique and exciting opportunity to support Thoroughbred aftercare while being treated like a VIP on some of the biggest days in horse racing.”

Bidding opens Thursday, Jan. 26, 10:00 a.m. EST and closes Friday, Feb. 3, at 10:00 p.m. EST. For more information or to bid, visit the TAA's auction website.

Featured Packages:
-23 VIP Last Chance/First Chance NHC Qualifier
-2023 VIP Tampa Bay Derby
-2023 VIP Florida Derby
-2023 VIP Arkansas Derby
-2023 VIP Santa Anita Derby
-2023 VIP Blue Grass Stakes
-2023 VIP Kentucky Oaks & Kentucky Derby
-2023 VIP Preakness 148
-2023 VIP Belmont Stakes
-2023 VIP Haskell Stakes
-2023 VIP Whitney Stakes
-2023 VIP King's Plate
-2023 VIP Pacific Classic
-2023 VIP Maryland Million Day
-2023 VIP Breeders' Cup Championships
-2023 VIP Canterbury Park Experience
-2024 VIP Pegasus World Cup

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First Foal For Firenze Fire Arrives in Japan

The first reported foal for nine-time GSW Firenze Fire (Poseidon's Warrior) has arrived in Japan, according to a tweet from Yano Farm in Hokkaido. The new filly is a daughter of the 5-year-old mare Wicked Bisou (Wicked Strong), who is out of Diva Delite (Repent) and therefore a half-sister to champion and millionaire Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute).

“I was born small, but the best thing is that I am healthy,” the tweet reads.

Florida-bred Firenze Fire raced over five seasons and amassed a career line of 38-14-7-3, $2,730,350. He won the GI Champagne S. as a 2-year-old and eight other graded stakes over his career, including the GII True North S. in both 2020 and 2021, the 2020 GII Vosburgh S. and 2018 GII Dwyer S. He was also third behind champion Whitmore in the 2020 GI Breeders' Cup Sprint.

Aside from his outstanding race record Firenze Fire is perhaps best known for savaging Yaupon (Uncle Mo) and grabbing his bridle during the stretch run of the 2021 GI Forego S. After the incident he finished second.

Owner-breeder Ron Lombardi sold Firenze Fire to stand at Arrow Stud in Japan following the horse's eighth-place finish in the 2021 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Del Mar.

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First Foals by Charlatan Reported

Hill 'n' Dale's Charlatan (Speightstown), a multiple Grade I stakes winner, was represented by his first two foals this past week. On Jan. 17, a bay colt out of Inventive (Dixie Union) was born at Seclusive Farm. Inventive is already the dam of GISW Klimt (Quality Road) and of GSP West Coast Chick (Malibu Moon).

“This colt has strength, power, substance, and great bone,” said Seclusive's Chris Baccari. “Excited to have other mares in foal to Charlatan and will plan to breed back to him after seeing this colt. I think Charlatan has a ton of potential with the likelihood of siring a great racehorse.”

In addition, Mill Ridge Farm reported the Jan. 20 birth of a bay filly by Charlatan out of SP Vevina (More Than Ready), who is a half-sister to GSW Friar's Road (Quality Road). Bred by RPS Bloodstock, the filly was purchased in utero at last year's Keeneland November sale for $400,000.

“She is a nice, leggy filly with good bone and correct,” said Mill Ridge's Price Bell.

Charlatan, who entered stud in 2022, stands for $50,000 for the upcoming breeding season. In five career starts, he won the GI Arkansas Derby and the GI Runhappy Malibu S. in addition to finishing second in the G1 Saudi Cup. His first in-foal mares sold for up to $1 million.

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OBS 2023 Calendar Opens with Winter Mixed Sale

The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company will open its 2023 schedule with the Winter Mixed Sale and Horses of Racing Age which begins its two-day run Tuesday morning in Central Florida. The auction begins at noon with a consignor preferred mixed session of 143 catalogued head, followed immediately by an offering of 148 horses of racing age. Wednesday's open mixed session, which also begins at noon, includes 253 catalogued offerings.

“We are excited to be kicking off the year with a good sale,” said OBS Director of Sales Tod Wojciechowski. “I think we have a good crop of short yearlings. We had the breeze show Monday and had some horses show out on the racetrack–there were a number of unraced 3-year-olds that are ready to go.”

The January sale benefits from buyers coming in from out of town to take advantage of both the horses on offer, as well as the warm weather, according to Wojciechowski.

“We see a lot of people who come down from Kentucky–I think they are looking for a reason to come down out of the cold and have a neat opportunity to shop for short yearlings,” he said. “And then we get a number of trainers who come in from all over the country for the racing age section who are getting ready to restock their stables for the spring and the summer.”

The 270 yearlings catalogued represent a diverse group of sires, including: Audible, Bolt d'Oro, Bucchero, Caravaggio, Catalina Cruiser, City of Light, Classic Empire, Enticed, Flameaway, Frosted, Girvin, Kantharos, Khozan, Kitten's Joy, Maclean's Music, Malibu Moon, Maximus Mischief, Midshipman, Mitole, More Than Ready, Omaha Beach, Practical Joke, Sharp Azteca, Solomini, Tapit, Union Rags, Upstart, Vino Rosso, Violence and World of Trouble.

First-crop sires with yearlings in the sale include Complexity, Gift Box, Global Campaign, Gunnevera, Improbable, Instagrand, Instilled Regard, McKinzie, Shancelot, Spun to Run, Thousand Words and Vekoma.

The sale also features mares in foal to such sires as: Awesome Slew, Bolt d'Oro, Connect, Dialed In, Girvin, Gunnevera, Improbable, Independence Hall, Midshipman, Mitole, Tacitus, Uncle Chuck, Vekoma and Violence.

During Monday's under-tack show, a pair of unraced 3-year-old geldings shared the three-furlong bullet time of :33 1/5: hip 210, an unnamed gelding by Dialed In consigned by Coastal Equine (video); and Honor You Vow (Broken Vow) (hip 215) consigned by Kaizen Sales (video).

An unraced 3-year-old filly by Micromanage (hip 309) worked a half-mile in :47 flat and that bullet time was equaled by the unraced 3-year-old colt D'Composer (Mendelssohn) (hip 348, video), who is consigned by CM Thoroughbreds, Agent I.

“We had very good attendance at the under-tack show,” Wojciechowski said. “We have seen a lot of activity in the barns starting Sunday and continuing on today. We are excited to start the new year off right.”

A yearling filly by Gun Runner topped the 2022 Winter Mixed sale when selling for $275,000 to Breeze Easy. The filly was one of eight six-figure horses at last year's auction.

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