Weanling half-sister to Unbridled Command tops F-T December Mixed

by Sarah Mace

New York-breds closed out the 2012 North American sales cycle on a high note when a weanling half-sister to Unbridled Command (Master Command), winner of the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby on November 25[2], topped the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed Sale at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium Monday. Another New York-sired Empire-bred by Bluegrass Cat shared the honors for second-highest seller of the day.

Bred by Rhapsody Farm LLC and Jon Davis, and foaled at Rhapsody Farm in Plymouth, the sale-topping filly (Hip 156[3]) was purchased by McMahon/Hill on behalf of Vivien Malloy’s Edition Farm from the consignment of Rhapsody Farm and Hidden Lake Farm (agents) for $100,000.

Born on April 15, 2012, the filly – grey like her famous half-brother – is by former New York stallion Read the Footnotes, sire of New York-bred Grade 1 winner Rightly So, who stood for Sequel Stallions New York[4] in Hudson from 2006 to 2011 before relocating to Oklahoma for the 2012 breeding season.

The filly’s dam, Unbridled Betty, an unraced daughter of Unbridled’s Song is out of Timotara (Secretariat), a winner who produced two stakes winners and three stakes producers, including Astaire Step, dam of multiple Grade 1 winner Manistique (Unbridled), who earned over $1.3 million.

Malloy plans to re-sell the filly next summer at Saratoga. “It is what I call my personal pinhook,” she told the TDN. “I do a couple of personal pinhooks a year. I don’t get sentimental or attached to them as much as I possibly can, because I want to keep a lot of the ones I breed, even though sometimes I shouldn’t. And this way, I know that I have some that I will sell. This filly, if she never steps on a racetrack, she is a half-sister to a Grade I winner and she is still valuable.”

Speaking of Unbridled Command’s recent Grade 1 victory for owner Lewis Lakin and trainer Tom Bush, Malloy added, “Tom Bush is my trainer, he’s trained for me for years, and he’s always liked [Unbridled Command]. They took a huge step and took him across the country to the Hollywood Derby, and he doesn’t do a thing like that unless he is pretty confident it is a wonderful horse. So I just think he is going to do very well with this half-brother for the rest of the year, which will help this weanling when I sell her in August.”

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Hip 128[5], a weanling colt by New York sire Bluegrass Cat (Vinery New York[6] at Sugar Maple Farm), shared with three others the second highest price of the day, selling from the consignment of Sally Thomas (agent) to Ken and Sarah Ramsey for $50,000.

From the family of millionaire Videogenic, the dark bay April weanling was bred by Bruce Smart and foaled at Stone Bridge Farm in Gansevoort. His dam is Texas-bred dam Richbabe (Richman) – a multiple stakes winner and earner of $98,319 – is a half to multiple stakes winner Bluegrass Sara by Tabasco Cat ($153,052) and has produced Grade 3 winner Richwoman (Successful Appeal), who earned $169,920. Richbabe’s 3-year-old Street Sense colt Street Thug ($71,720) brought $400,000 as a 2-year-old at the 2011 Fasig-Tipton Florida sale.

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