Book 2 of the Keeneland November sale saw three six-figure New York-bred weanlings go through the auction ring, led by a $175,000 colt bred by SF Bloodstock LLC from the first crop of Grade 1 Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver.
Hip 1139[1], consigned by Craig and Holly Bandoroff’s Denali Stud, was purchased by WEF Stable late in the sale’s fourth session on Friday. The February colt is the first foal out of Broadway Hennessey, a Kentucky-bred juvenile stakes winner ($99,870) and 4 1/2-furlong track record-setter at Golden Gate Fields (51.70). Broadway Hennessey is out of stakes-placed producer of two stakes winners.
The second top New York weanling was a bay filly from the first crop of Majestic Perfection (Harlan’s Holiday), winner of the Grade 1 Vanderbilt H. Regis Farms acquired the foal for $145,000 from the consignment of Brereton C. Jones/Airdrie Stud. Bred by Jones, Hip 977[2] is out of Road to the Ball, a winning daughter of Cahill Road and dam of multiple graded stakes winner and millionaire Park Avenue Ball by Citidancer ($1,049,360). Road to the Ball has also produced stakes winner Beacon Hill Road by Forestry ($180,911) and two other winners.
The third six-figure weanling was a Tale of the Cat colt bred by William Parsons Jr. and David Howe who went to Snow Ridge Farm from the Hidden Brood consignment (Agent XIII) for $125,000 (Hip 1154[3]). The colt’s dam Celestial Sweep (Eddington), who placed at three and has no progeny of racing age, is out of Gail’s Brush (Broad Brush), a graded stakes winner and dam of multiple graded winner Aud by Wild Again ($485,623).
Seven New York-bred weanlings in all sold in Books 1-2 at Keeneland for an average price of $89,857 and median of $67,000.
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Mission Impazible, the multiple Grade 2-winning millionaire by Unbridled’s Song, will be retired to Becky Thomas’s and Dennis Narlinger’s Sequel Stallions in New York for 2013 after making his final start in the Grade 1 Clark H. on November 23 at Churchill Downs.
“Mission Impazible was a ‘TDN Rising Star’ at Keeneland in the spring of his 2-year-old season, and a significant graded stakes winner at both 3 and 4 while facing the best of his generation,” said Randy Gullatt of Twin Creeks Racing. “I thought we were finally going to get the Grade 1 win he deserves when he lost by a nose in the Donn Handicap earlier this year, but we still have one more shot in a couple of weeks in the Clark.”
Trained by Todd Pletcher, Mission Impazible broke his maiden first-time out a 4 1/2-furlong maiden special at Keeneland in April of his juvenile campaign before jumping onto the Derby Trail as a 3-year-old with a win in the Grade 2, $750,000 Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds, defeating such Grade 1 winners as Drosselmeyer, Ron the Greek, Discreetly Mine and Fly Down.
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Grade 1 Winner and leading second-crop sire Bob and John will stand at Highcliff Stallions at Mill Creek Farm[1] in Stillwater, New York for the 2013 breeding season.
The 9-year-old son of Seeking the Gold, who is relocating from Pin Oak Stud near Versailles in Kentucky, will continue to stand as a partnership between Magnolia Racing and Pin Oak Stud and will join fellow Magnolia Stable stallion Congaree at the farm, which is located outside of Saratoga Springs.
“We are very excited to add a stallion the caliber of Bob and John to our roster,” said resident veterinarian Dr. C. Lynwood O’Cain. “His sales horses were well received by horsemen from the start and he has sired stakes horses on multiple surfaces,” continued O’Cain. “We are very interested in having a successful sire of stakes winners from the sire family of Broad Brush and Capote at Highcliff Stallions.”
A graded stakes horse at 2, 3, and 4, Bob and John won the Grade 1 Wood Memorial, Grade 3 Sham, Grade 3 Lone Star Park H., and placed in the Grade 1 Hollywood Futurity, Grade 2 San Felipe, Grade 3 Texas Mile S., El Cajon and Real Quiet, earning $996,330 (5-3-3 from 14 starts).
“Being the winner of such a signature Derby prep as the Grade 1 Wood Memorial in New York, we feel that Bob and John will be quickly recognized by New York breeders as a serious opportunity,” commented Pin Oak Stud manager Clifford Barry. “Bob and John has sired several significant winners at Saratoga, Belmont and Aqueduct as well as other top tracks across the country and his runners perform well on all surfaces.”
For more information, contact C. Lynwood O’Cain, D.V.M. or Suzie O’Cain at (518) 573-2304 or (518) 306-5027.
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