Darley’s freshman sire Desert Party, who relocated to Becky Thomas and Dennis Narlinger’s Sequel Stallions New York in 2013 after starting his stallion career in Kentucky, sired his first winner from his first starter when 2-year-old colt Unlashthekraken scored a 2 1/2-length victory from off the pace going six furlongs over good/soft turf at Capannelle Racecourse in Rome (1:12.05). [VIDEO]
Owned and trained by Massimiliano Narduzzi, Unlashthekraken was bred in Kentucky by Azienda Agricola le Ferriere Di Giampaolo Raponi. His dam, the stakes-placed Royal Academy mare Honeypenny, is a half-sister to graded winner and Grade 1-placed Millie’s Quest. Honeypenny’s current sophomore, Hoovergetthekeys (Henrythenavigator), was stakes winner at two in Italy and Group 3-placed this year.
Desert Party, a son of Street Cry (Ire) out of the Tabasco Cat mare Sage Cat, was bred in Kentucky by David Smith and Steven Sinatra. A $475,000 Keeneland September yearling in 2007, he was purchased by Sheikh Mohammed at Fasig-Tipton’s Florida February sale of two-year-olds in training in 2008 for $2.1 million.
A first-out winner who went to become multiple graded/group winner and $928,467-earner (10-6-1-0), Desert Party captured the Grade 2 Sanford S. at Saratoga Racecourse in 2008 by open lengths, the one-mile Group 3 UAE 2000 Guineas in 2009 and the Group 3 Mahab al Shimaal S. in 2009. He also finished second in the Group 2 UAE Derby in 2009. In his final career start he took the 2010 Donald LeVine Memorial Handicap at Philadelphia Park, completing seven furlongs in 1:22.04.
Desert Party stands for a 2014 fee of $7,500.
