Gitchee Goomie goes to Adena for a cool quarter-million at Keeneland

by Sarah Mace

Selling as Hip 7[2], Patsy Symons’ Gitchee Goomie helped to get the 2013 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages sale off to a strong start when Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs went to $250,000 to acquire the 6-year-old daughter of City Zip as a racing or broodmare prospect from the Taylor Made consignment.

With a record of 7-9-2 from 22 starts and earnings of $680,520, Gitchee Goomie won five stakes races on turf for trainer Rick Violette, including last year’s Grade 3 Dr. James Penny Memorial Handicap at Parx Racing. Her other stakes victories came both in open company (Topicount at Belmont) and in the top turf stakes for New York-bred fillies and mares – back-to-back renewals of Belmont’s Mount Vernon in 2011 and 2012, and Saratoga’s Yaddo in 2011.

Runner up twice in the Grade 3 Beaugay, Gitchee Goomie also finished third in the Grade 1 Garden City in 2010, and placed in a total of eight stakes races. Gitchee Goomie’s popular rivalry with Hessonite, the other standout competing in the state-bred female turf ranks, enlivened the entire 2012 racing season in New York.

Bred by Barry R. Ostrager and foaled at Dutchess Views Farm[3] in Pine Plains, Gitchee Goomie is out of Riotous Miss, a stakes-placed Florida-bred daughter of Brief Ruckus, all of whose 13 victories came on turf ($382,310). Riotous Miss retired in 2004 after a remarkable 87 starts.

The dam of one other winner, Platinum and Plush, a 3-year-old filly by King Cugat, Riotous Miss has also produced an unnamed 2-year-old full sister to Gitchee Goomie, and a yearling filly by Patriot Act. She was bred back to City Zip last year.

The Keeneland January sale continues through Friday with each session beginning at 10:00 AM. Click here[4] for hip numbers of participating New York-breds.

 

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