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Unified Colt Fastest At OBS March Sale’s Opening Under Tack Session

Hip No. 163, a son of Unified consigned by Wavertree Stables, Inc., (Ciaran Dunne), Agent, worked a quarter in :20 2/5 to post the fastest work at the distance at the opening session of the Under Tack Show for Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2021 March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.

The dark bay or brown colt is out of stakes winner Promise Me a Cat, by D'wildcat, from the family of graded stakes placed stakes winner Tempered Halo.

Hip No. 1, Forever Clever, a bay filly by Speightster consigned by Parrish Farms, Agent, turned in a quarter in :20 3/5. She's out of stakes winner Ice for the Lady, by Flatter, from the family of graded stakes winner Ice Tech.

Eight horses worked the distance in :20 4/5.

  • Hip No. 22, a dark bay or brown colt by Bernardini consigned by Boutte Sales, Agent, is a half brother to stakes winner Kiss N Scat out of Kassidy's Kiss, by Belong to Me.
  • Hip No. 23, a dark bay or brown colt by More Than Ready consigned by Ocala Stud, Agent, is out of stakes winner Katie's Kiss, by Kantharos, a half-sister to stakes winner Stonestreet Song.
  • Hip No. 57, consigned by Wavertree Stables, Inc., (Ciaran Dunne), Agent, is a dark bay or brown filly by Twirling Candy out of Locust Bride, by Dixie Chatter, from the family of graded stakes winner Horse Greeley.
  • Hip No. 121, also consigned by Wavertree, is a bay filly by Congrats out of No Acronyms, by Milwaukee Brew, from the family of stakes winner Barronette.
  • Hip No. 135, a dark bay or brown colt by Midnight Lute consigned by Navas Equine, Agent, is a half-brother to stakes placed Bayerly Seen out of Overseen, by First Defence.
  • Hip No. 162, consigned by Ortiz Training Stable LLC, is a chestnut colt by Carpe Diem out of stakes placed Project Rose, by Not For Love, from the family of Grade 1 winner Thirty Six Red.
  • Hip No. 174, a chestnut filly by Klimt consigned by All Dreams Equine, Agent, is out of stakes placed Readygetsgold, by Midas Eyes, from the family of graded stakes placed stakes winner Sweet Problem.
  • Hip No. 178, also consigned by Wavertree, is a chestnut colt by Midshipman out of Regal Approach, by Thunder Gulch, a half-sister to graded stakes winner Mr Maybe.

Sixteen horses shared honors for the fastest eighth, stopping the timer in :9 4/5.

  • Hip No. 10, consigned by de Meric Sales, Agent, is a bay filly by Into Mischief out of stakes winner Island Escape, by Petionville, and is half-sister to graded stakes winner Tricky Escape.
  • Hip No. 18, a gray or roan filly by Frosted consigned by Top Line Sales LLC, Agent, is out of graded stakes winner Jody Slew, by Slew City Slew, a half-sister to stakes winner Cape of Bradford.
  • Hip No. 27, a gray or roan colt by Pioneerof the Nile consigned by Sequel Bloodstock, Agent, is a half-brother to graded stakes winner Lucy N Ethel out of Kid Silver, by Silver Ghost.
  • Hip No. 36, consigned by 30-30 Ranch, is a dark bay or brown colt by Carpe Deim out of Lady Astola, by Lonhro (AUS), a daughter of graded stakes placed Fortunia.
  • Hip No. 41, a dark bay or brown filly by American Freedom consigned by RiceHorse Stable (Brandon & Ali Rice), Agent, is a half-sister to stakes winner Dattts Our Girl out of Lakefront, by Thunder Gulch.
  • Hip No. 48, consigned by Kirkwood Stables, Agent, is a dark bay or brown colt by Violence out of Lemon Belle, by Lemon Drop Kid, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Unrivaled Belle.
  • Hip No. 50, a dark bay or brown filly by Mohaymen consigned by Paul Sharp, Agent, is a half-sister to stakes winner Mother of Dragons out of Lets Dance Charlie, by Indian Charlie.
  • Hip No. 72, also consigned by de Meric Sales, is a dark bay or brown colt by Ocean Knight out of Magical Merry, by Aragorn (IRE), a daughter of graded stakes winner Mona Rose.
  • Hip No. 85, also consigned by Top Line Sales, is a dark bay or brown colt by Into Mischief out of graded stakes-placed stakes winner Minks Aprise.
  • Hip No. 86, a chestnut colt by Practical Joke consigned by Kings Equine, Agent, is out of Miss Adele, by Speightstown, a half-sister to champion Hollinger.
  • Hip No. 89, Mischievous Anna, a bay filly by Fast Anna consigned by Havens Bloodstock Agency, Inc., Agent, is out of Miss Chevious Lady, by Into Mischief, from the family of prominent sire Malibu Moon.
  • Hip No. 92, consigned by McKathan Bros. Sales, Agent, is a gray or roan filly by Cupid out of stakes winner Miss Lederhosen, by Valid Expectations, a full-sister to stakes placed Breathethefire.
  • Hip No. 110, a dark bay or brown colt by Unified consigned by Dark Star Thoroughbreds (Stori Atchison), is a half brother to stakes winner Malibu Saint out of stakes winner Mykindasaint, by Saint Ballado,
  • Hip No. 127, Devils Gonewile, is a chestnut filly by Daredevil out of stakes winner Oilgonewile, a full-sister to graded stakes placed Seize the Day.
  • Hip No. 161, a bay colt by Kantharos consigned by Julie Davies, Agent, is out of Princess Julia, by Distorted Humor, a daughter of champion Folklore.
  • Hip No. 188, consigned by Harris Training Center LLC, Agent, is a dark bay or brown colt by Cairo Prince out of stakes placed Sadie Be Good, by Big Drama, from the family of graded stakes placed stakes winner It'sallinthechase.

The Under Tack Show continues Friday morning at 8:00 a.m. with Hip No.'s 189 – 376 scheduled to breeze.

To view the day's full results, click here.

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Unified Colt Clocks Quickest Quarter at OBS Under-Tack Opener

A colt from the first crop of former 'TDN Rising Star' Unified (Candy Ride {Arg}) breezed a quarter-mile in a slick :20 2/5 to post the fastest work at the distance at Thursday's first of three under-tack sessions ahead of next week's OBS March Sale in Ocala.

The February foal is being consigned to the March sale by Ciaran Dunne's Wavertree Stable Inc., agent, and is out of the stakes-winning Promise Me a Cat (D'wildcat). Hip 163 is bred by Gatewood Bell, who paid $35,000 for the colt's dam carrying this foal in utero at Keeneland November in 2018. The dark bay fetched $77,000 when offered as a weanling at Keeneland the following November and was subsequently purchased by Redwings for $190,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale, the joint-second priciest of 62 Unified yearlings reported as sold in 2020. The cross of Candy Ride over Storm Cat-line dams has been a productive one, yielding the likes of Horse of the Year Gun Runner and champion Shared Belief, to name a few.

No fewer than 16 juveniles shared the furlong bullet with a clocking of :9 4/5. Hip 10 (video), a filly by Into Mischief, consigned by de Meric Sales, agent; hip 18 (video), a Frosted filly from the draft of Top Line Sales LLC, agent; hip 27 (video), a colt by Pioneerof the Nile from Sequel Bloodstock; agent; hip 36 (video), a colt by Carpe Diem consigned by 30-30 Ranch; hip 41 (video), an American Freedom filly from the RiceHorse Stable consignment; hip 48\fs21f1 (video), a colt by Violence being offered by Kirkwood Stables, agent; hip 50 (video), a Mohaymen filly from Paul Sharp, agent; hip 72 (video), an Ocean Knight colt from de Meric Sales; hip 85 (video), an Into Mischief colt consigned by Top Line; hip 86 (video), a colt by Practical Joke prepped by Kings Equine, agent; hip 89 (video), a filly by the late Fast Anna from Havens Bloodstock Agency, agent; hip 92 (video), a McKathan Bros.-consigned daughter of Cupid; hip 110 (video), a Unified colt from Dark Star Thoroughbreds; hip 127 (video), a Daredevil filly consigned by Gayle Woods, agent; hip 161 (video), a son of Kantharos from the consignment of Julie Davies LLC, agent; and hip 188 (video), a colt by Cairo Prince from Harris Training Center LLC, agent.

The under-tack show continues Friday morning at 8 a.m. ET, with hips 189-376 scheduled to breeze. The show may be viewed in real time at the TDN homepage.

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Consignors Talk First-Crop Sires Ahead of 2-Year-Old Sales (Part 2)

With the 2-year-old sales right around the corner, the TDN reached out to consignors with juveniles heading to the sales rings at the Mar. 16 and 17 Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training and the Mar. 31 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale to discuss which of their offerings by first-crop sires have impressed them. This is the second installment of the series (click here to view the first section which was published in Tuesday's TDN).

CIARAN DUNNE (Wavertree Stables)

Among the 26 juveniles Ciaran Dunne's Wavertree Stables has consigned to the OBS March sale and a further 22 targeted at the Gulfstream sale are a bevy of youngsters by first-crop sires. Dunne joined the chorus of consignors singing the praises of Practical Joke (Into Mischief–Halo Humor, by Distorted Humor).

“Some of the first-season sires, people want to get excited about because they are a little precocious,” Dunne said. “The Practical Jokes actually look like they have a bit of quality. They have speed, but they aren't all speed all the time. Obviously, it's early days, but they have been very sound horses to this point and are very easy to train. You don't have to gear your training around them, they just do whatever you put in front of them. He was a fast horse himself, so they should be fast, but they have a license to go a little bit farther.”

Wavertree will offer a colt by the Ashford stallion (hip 273) at the OBS March sale and a colt (hip 31) and filly (hip 156) at Gulfstream.

“The colt we have in March looks like he'll be very early and very quick, but he's a half to a really quick filly [Jo Jo Air {Scat Daddy}]. The two that are in Gulfstream, the filly is beautiful. She's big and tall and leggy. She's out of a Five Star Day mare and I don't know why she looks the way she does because it's speed on speed and she is big and strong and beautiful and looks like she'll go two turns. And the colt that is down there has a big pedigree. He is a half to [graded winner] Plainsman (Flatter) and [graded-placed] Liam (Liam's Map).”

Dunne continued, “We have an American Freedom filly (hip 154) for Gulfstream that was a very expensive yearling [$160,000 FTKSEP], but she acts the part. She was beautiful filly as a yearling. She ticked all the boxes then, and now in training she is the same. She's tall and lean and leggy and gets over the ground well. She acts like she could have a bit of quality.”

American Freedom (Pulpit–Gottcha Last, by Pleasant Tap) stands at Airdrie Stud. Winner of the 2016 GIII Iowa Derby, he was second in that year's GI Travers S. and GI betfair.com Haskell Invitational.

Wavertree will offer a pair of colts by Unified (Candy Ride {Arg}–Union City, by Dixie Union) at the OBS March sale. The Lane's End stallion, who stands for $10,000, won the 2016 GII Peter Pan S. and GIII Bay Shore S., as well as the 2017 GIII Gulfstream Park Sprint S.

“The Unifieds that go to March are surprisingly quick,” Dunne said. “I wouldn't have thought that they had the license to be that fast.”

Dunne will send a pair of fillies by Claiborne Farm stallion Mastery (Candy Ride {Arg}–Steady Course, by Old Trieste) through the OBS sales ring (hip 173 and hip 378), and a colt by the Grade I winner will be offered at Gulfstream (hip 33).

“The Masterys are beautiful horses,” Dunne said. “Really, really good-moving horses. How quick they will be at the end of the day, I don't know, but from the way they are training on a day-to-day basis, they are very impressive and they look like they will be two-turn horses.”

Wavertree has a pair of juveniles by the late champion Arrogate (Unbridled's Song–Bubbler, by Distorted Humor), one of which will be offered at Gulfstream as hip 158.

“The Arrogates we have we really like,” Dunne said. “It's obviously going to be a small sample with him, but he seems to have thrown to the mare. We have one out of a Salt Lake mare and one out of a Silver Deputy mare and that's kind of what they are. But they are both really nice horses.”

The Wavertree freshman sire bench also includes a filly by Klimt (Quality Road–Inventive, by Dixie Union) (hip 84) who will be offered at OBS March.

“The Klimt filly that is in there is very nice,” Dunne said. “She might have been one of the most expensive of the Klimts [$160,000 FTKSEP]. She is a real Quality Road, a big strong filly who looks like she'll run all day. She has a great attitude.”

TRISTAN DE MERIC (De Meric Sales)

“We've got five Practical Jokes,” Tristan De Meric said of the much-hyped freshman stallion. “They are all training really well. I'm not telling you anything new, but he'd be my obvious top pick. They all look the part and they are all just getting better the more you do with them. I love their dispositions, they have great minds, they put a lot in their training, leave it all out on the track. They are very professional and very smart, classy nice horses. I have high hopes for him as a sire.”

De Meric Sales will offer two colts (hip 1 and hip 7) and a filly hip 81) by the multiple Grade I winner at the Gulfstream sale.

The Ocala-based operation will offer a colt by Horse of the Year Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}–Quiet Giant, by Giant's Causeway) (hip 388) at OBS in March.

“We have three Gun Runners,” de Meric said. “One is in the March sale and he's freaky fast. He's a very quick colt with a good family behind him. He's out of Brazen Persuasion, who was a good race mare. He is the only Gun Runner we have going to a sale, but the two we have for the races are also really nice horses. I'd be surprised not to see Gun Runner up there next year also.”

De Meric added, “At the yearling sales, we obviously tried to pick up a few more Practical Jokes and Gun Runners, they were just hard to buy and we didn't end up with as many as we wanted. But we are thrilled to have a few of them because they are doing great.”

Another freshman sire whose progeny have impressed de Meric is Connect (Curlin–Bullville Belle, by Holy Bull). De Meric Sales will offer a pair of colts (hip 71 and hip 524) by the Lane's End stallion at the OBS March sale and a third colt (hip 60) at Gulfstream.

“I think, as a sleeper sire, Connect might be really good,” de Meric said. “They may be later developing. We have one entered in the Miami sale out of Wild Hoots (Unbridled's Song). He looks the part. There is nothing not to like about him. He's a beautiful horse. And we have a really nice filly out of Nest Egg (Eskendereya) going to April who is an elegant, two-turn looking filly.”

Of his impressions of the Connects he has seen, de Meric said, “The ones we have, they are throwing to the broodmare sire maybe a bit. But they are great-minded and training really well. I wouldn't say the five we have have a lot of similarities, but the one similarity that they all have is that they are all training great. They have great minds and I think they are going to be solid, nice horses.”

Of his expectations for the upcoming calendar of 2-year-old sales, de Meric said, “The top end will be as strong as ever, I hope. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the market is. Hopefully, there is a deep pool of buyers and we can move horses and have a good year.”

TORIE GLADWELL (Top Line Sales)

Top Line Sales had its first seven-figure sale a year ago when a daughter of first-crop sire Not This Time sold for $1.35 million at the OBS Spring Sale. The operation has another strong group of freshman offerings in 2021, led by the omnipresent Practical Joke.

“They are just extremely forward horses,” Torie Gladwell said of the Practical Joke juveniles who will represent Top Line in the sales ring this spring. “The ones that we have, you're almost slowing them down. They just want to do too much too early. So we are just trying to slow them down and do what we need to do to get there and keep them happy and sound. Because they are the kind of horses who want to go out there and do too much.”

Top Line Sales has a filly (hip 311) and colt (hip 563) by Practical Joke catalogued at the OBS March sale and a second filly (hip 85) targeted at Gulfstream.

“The filly going to Gulfstream, she wasn't a really big filly when we bought her and now she's probably 15.3,” Gladwell said. “We actually went and bought her mom [Caribbean Lady {Speightstown}] and her baby sister by Mendelssohn, we liked this filly so much.”

Top Line Sales will also offer a colt by American Freedom (hip 454) at OBS March.

“We have two American Freedoms,” Gladwell said. “They are a little bit bigger than some of the other freshman stallions that we have, but they seem precocious and early.”

Gladwell said she has also been impressed by the first crop of runners by 2016 GI Del Mar Futurity winner Klimt.

“We have a handful of Klimts and we like those,” she said. “They are really good-boned horses. They are smart and take everything in stride. They are really sound, solid horses.”

Reflecting on the success Top Line enjoyed with $1.35-million future Grade I winner Princess Noor (Not This Time) at last year's Spring Sale, Gladwell said, “I think it really just proved that those top, top horses can step up and perform no matter what sale you go to, whether it's June, April, Miami, Maryland. It doesn't matter who the horse is by, whether it's a freshman stallion or not, if a horse steps up and performs, you're going to get paid for it.”

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Kentucky Derby Consignor Standings Presented By Keeneland: Final Countdown Sees Sequel New York, Taylor Made On Top

When a young horse goes through the ring at any auction, a few cents of every dollar in the hammer price is spent on the hope that the horse will one day end up in the Kentucky Derby. Before they can be bought, though, they have to be found.

At the end of a Derby trail that had a four-month detour, we have a final picture of which consignors had the most success producing horses who earned Derby qualifying points for this year's race, both in quantity and quality. Of the 18 horses with intentions to run as of Monday afternoon, 15 went through the ring at least once at public auction, and all but two of those earned points for their consignors in this year's Kentucky Derby Consignor Standings.

Tiz The Law has been the de facto leader of his division for much of the Derby prep season, and when he ascended to the top of the points standings, his consignor Sequel New York joined him. The son of Constitution was Sequel's only graduate to earn points on this year's Derby trail, but the postponement of the race from May to September left him and Sequel with an astronomical 372 points as the runners descend on Churchill Downs.

Tiz the Law's accumulation journey began at Churchill Downs, where he earned two points for a third-place effort in the G2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. He then picked up 10 points when he won the G3 Holy Bull Stakes, and he cemented himself as a top contender following a 100-point triumph in the G1 Florida Derby. From there, Tiz the Law piled it on during his summer campaign, earning 150 points by winning the Belmont Stakes, and another 100 points in the G1 Travers Stakes.

Sequel was the top consignor by Derby points, both in the overall standings and among consignors of yearlings. The top point-getter among consignors specializing in 2-year-old sales was Randy Bradshaw, who had 150 points on the lone strength of Nadal.

A son of Blame, Nadal picked up 40 points in the G2 Rebel Stakes, then earned 100 points by winning the second division of the G1 Arkansas Derby.

Nadal was an incredibly successful pinhook for Bradshaw, who bought him for $65,000 at the 2018 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, then sold him for $700,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Selected 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale.

Taylor Made Sales Agency led all consignors on this year's Kentucky Derby trail by the number of horses that earned qualifying points, with nine.

The group was led by Shotski, a Blame colt who picked up 19 points with a win in the G2 Remsen Stakes, a second in the G3 Withers Stakes, and a fourth in the G2 Fountain of Youth Stakes. The Taylor Made Grade 1 graduate board added another name last fall when Eight Rings, by Empire Maker, won the G1 American Pharoah Stakes and earned 10 points. Texas Swing, a son of Curlin, also earned 10 points with a third in the G2 Tampa Bay Derby.

Other Taylor Made graduates to pick up points on the Derby trail include Three Technique (Mr Speaker, 9 points); Scabbard (More Than Ready, 9 points); Arkaan (Into Mischief, 4 points); Cosmo (Distorted Humor, 4 points); Earner (Carpe Diem, 2 points); and Super John (Super Saver, 2 points).

Taylor Made will also send graduate Mr. Big News, a son of Giant's Causeway, into the Derby starting gate without any qualifying points.

A pair of juvenile consignors tied for the most point-earners, each with three.

Top Line Sales graduates picked up a combined 131 points on the Derby trail, led by Ny Traffic, a son of Cross Traffic who earned 110 points with runner-up efforts in the G1 Haskell Stakes, G2 Louisiana Derby, and G3 Matt Winn Stakes, along with a third in the G2 Risen Star Stakes.

The Top Line consignment also featured Candy Tycoon, an earner of 20 points by Twirling Candy, and Gozilla, by Flatter, who earned one point.

Wavertree Stables also saw three graduates earn points, including Country Grammer, a first-crop Tonalist colt who got 50 points for winning the G3 Peter Pan Stakes.

Independence Hall, also from a first-crop sire in Constitution, picked up 14 points with a win in the listed Jerome Stakes and a runner-up effort in the G3 Sam F. Davis Stakes. Rounding out the trio of first-crop point-earners was Wrecking Crew, who picked up five points with a third in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and a fourth in the G2 Los Alamitos Futurity.

Though the horse enters the first Saturday in September with no qualifying points, Wavertree Stables' graduates on this year's trail also include Money Moves, a son of Candy Ride who is a likely Derby starter.

As the field of potential Derby starters stands through Monday afternoon, Lane's End is the only consignor with multiple graduates scheduled to enter the starting gate.

Max Player, a first-crop son of Honor Code, has 60 points after winning the G3 Withers Stakes and finishing third in the Belmont Stakes and G1 Travers Stakes. Sole Volante, also a first-cropper by Karakontie, picked up 30 points with a victory in the G3 Sam F. Davis Stakes and a runner-up effort in the G2 Tampa Bay Derby.

Lane's End finished with the second-most point-earners on this year's Derby trail, with five.

The group was topped by Wells Bayou, a Lookin at Lucky colt with 104 points from winning the G2 Louisiana Derby and running second in the G3 Southwest Stakes. Arkaan, by Into Mischief, who earned four points with a third in the listed Pegasus Stakes. Express Train, by Union Rags, earned one point for running fourth in the American Pharoah Stakes.

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