New York-bred Laoban filly tops OBS winter mixed sale

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Hip 805, New York-bred yearling filly by Laoban, tops OBS winter mixed sale on bid of $175,000. Judit Seipert Photo.

By Tom Law

Worth the wait.

Such was the case for McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds Wednesday during the second and final session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s winter mixed sale and specifically for Hip 805. The New York-bred short yearling daughter of Laoban wound up the last horse through the ring – after originally not being cataloged or even included in an addendum because she was entered late – and the sale’s most expensive when all was complete in Ocala.

Sand Hill Stables went to $175,000 for Hip 805[2], a filly out of the Grand Reward mare Best Reward, to top the sale.

McMahon of Saratoga sold the filly, foaled at its farm in Saratoga Springs and bred by the late Ken LeJeune.

“It was wild,” McMahon of Saratoga’s Joe McMahon said Thursday from the farm, where he watched the sale. “A lot of drama.”

The sale-topping filly, who ended a strong run for New York-breds in the open session, landed in the OBS winter sale after LeJeune passed away suddenly Dec. 4 after a brief illness. The longtime horseman, who also worked in the industry for four decades as a jockey, trainer and bloodstock agent, worked with McMahon for about 15 years.

“He and I had been trading horses for years,” McMahon said. “Buying and selling horses, he’d send mares up here to foal, we would send yearlings down there to be broken. Then, all of a sudden he’s got two mares here and I have two yearlings down there and he passed away.

“I talked it over with his wife Carey and we decided to we had to get the horses in the sale, but it had already closed. It was going to go in the online section but that didn’t work either. So they ended up adding the horse in the last minute, maybe two weeks ago.”

The filly wound up being the last horse through the ring and was announced as selling without reserve prior to bidding.

“They started her at $2,000 and Ryan (Mahan, OBS auctioneer) had to work very hard,” McMahon said with a laugh. “I think he got it up to $5,000 increments until it was around $80,000 or $90,000 but it was $2,000 forever.”

Best Reward placed in three stakes during her career and earned $164,496. Her first two foals, by McMahon of Saratoga-based stallion Central Banker, are winners and her third, a 3-year-old Laoban colt named Johnny Fontaine, sold as a yearling for $50,000 and is in training.

Best Reward’s fourth foal, an unnamed 2-year-old filly by Central Banker, sold for $25,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale, and she’s back in foal due in March to McMahon of Saratoga’s Solomini. LeJeune bred or co-bred all of Best Reward’s foals.

“It’s great that it all worked out with that horse,” McMahon said. “It was really something. I think Laoban was a longshot in the first place. And to have it come out like that for Kenny’s family was just like, the greatest.”

[3]The sale-topping filly also ended a strong run for New York-breds in the open session, which short yearlings sell for $67,000, $65,000 and $60,000.

McMahon also sold another Laoban New York-bred, Hip 652[4], that brought $67,000 from Dailey Bloodstock LLC. Bred by Seidman Stables and foaled at McMahon of Saratoga, the colt is out of the winning Forestry mare Double Dinghy Day. From the family of graded stakes-placed producer Windson, $485,345-earner Pinson and stakes winner Falconese, the colt is also a half brother to three winners from four foals to race for Double Dinghy Day.

Hip 673[5], a New York-bred colt from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Army Mule, sold for $65,000 at Rosewood Stable. Bred by Four Winds Farm LLC and Eagle View Farm LLC and consigned by Francis and Barbara Vanlangendonck’s Summerfield, agent, the colt is out of the unraced Souvenir Copy mare Fife. Foaled at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, the colt is a half-brother to four winners led by $112,160-earner Mumbo.

Another New York-bred short yearling colt by Army Mule, Hip 647[6], sold for $60,000 to Tami Bobo and Fernando De Jesus of First Finds. Bred by and foaled Saratoga Glen Farm LLC in Schuylerville and consigned by Stuart Morris, agent, the colt is the first foal out of the winning Dialed In mare Dial the Doctor from the family of champion, classic winner and leading sire Unbridled.

A short yearling filly by Hard Spun, Hip 90[7], sold for $67,000 to DKW Racing to finish as the top-selling New York-bred during Tuesday’s consignor preferred session. Bred by Michael Shanley, foaled at Song Hill Farm in Mechanicville and consigned by C & S Thoroughbred Sales, agent, the colt is the first foal out of the winning Pioneerof the Nile mare Cleo from the family of graded stakes winners Prospective Saint, Ruling Angel and Nigon’s Eclipse.

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Hip805-OBS-Winter.jpg
  2. Hip 805: https://obscatalog.com/jan/2021/805.PDF
  3. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OBS-Winter.jpg
  4. Hip 652: https://obscatalog.com/jan/2021/652.PDF
  5. Hip 673: https://obscatalog.com/jan/2021/673.PDF
  6. Hip 647: https://obscatalog.com/jan/2021/647.PDF
  7. Hip 90: https://obscatalog.com/jan/2021/90.PDF

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2021/01/28/new-york-bred-laoban-filly-tops-obs-winter-mixed-sale/

First Foal Arrives in NY for Multiple G1 Solomini

Solomini - Another Level filly[1]

Solomini’s first foal, born at Hidden Lake Farm.

McMahon of Saratoga Press Release

McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds announced the arrival of the first foal from the first crop by Curlin’s son Solomini, a multiple G1 performer.

Out of track record setter and stakes performing Another Level, her first foal is a filly by Solomini. The bay arrived at Hidden Lake Farm in Stillwater, NY on January 15, 2021 and is from the immediate family of Grade 1 winning millionaire Octave, winner of New York’s CCA Oaks and Mother Goose Stakes. Chris Bernard of Hidden Lake Farm said, “Solomini’s first foal out of Another Level is a lovely filly with a lot of body and very nice frame. 3C Stables and Hidden Lake Farm bred 20 mares to Solomini and are committed to his success.”

Solomini covered 123 mares in 2020 standing at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds, his stud fee for 2021 is $5,000 live foal. For more information contact Joe McMahon (518) 587-3426.

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Solomini-Another-Level-McMahon-press-release.jpg

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2021/01/26/first-foal-arrives-in-ny-for-multiple-g1-solomini/

Mr. Buff makes it three straight Jazil victories

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Mr. Buff rolls to third straight Jazil Stakes victory Saturday at Aqueduct. Joe Labozzetta/NYRA Photo.

By Melissa Bauer-Herzog

The ultra-consistent Mr. Buff kicked off 2021 the same way he has the last two years Saturday – with a victory in the Jazil Stakes at Aqueduct. Chester and Mary Broman’s 7-year-old homebred Friend Or Foe gelding stayed undefeated in the 9-furlong stakes with a 7-length victory.

Breaking strongly, the 17.2-hand gelding conceded the lead early to Musical Heart as he galloped along in a comfortable second. Musical Heart covered the first quarter-mile in :23.96 and opened up multiple lengths on the small field with Mr. Buff another few lengths clear of the next three.

Mr. Buff cut into the frontrunner’s lead as :48.95 flashed on the board for the half and less than a furlong later he joined Musical Heart. Jockey Kendrick Carmouche looked full of confidence as he and Mr. Buff raced into the stretch. Glancing back to see Tenderfoot attempting to close, Carmouche urged Mr. Buff to click into another gear. The race was over before Tenderfoot even had a chance with Mr. Buff romping to a decisive victory in 1:53.47.

“He’s the winningest horse I’ve ever had,” winning trainer John Kimmel said. “He’s settled more and more. He’s just a very good and sound horse. He’s stayed very healthy all through the years. That’s the key with these horses; to keep them sound and healthy.”

Already a millionaire, Mr. Buff took his earnings to $1,295,786 with the win and registered his 16th victory from 43 starts.

By the Bromans’ multiple stakes-winning homebred Friends Lake stallion Friend Or Foe, Mr. Buff helped his owners become last year’s leading New York breeders by victories and was their highest earner with $307,500 bankrolled in 2020. Foaled at the Bromans’ Chestertown Farm in Chestertown, Mr. Buff hasn’t ventured far from home during his career with just two starts coming outside the Empire State.

Mr. Buff is the second foal out of Grade 3-placed Speightful Affair with his older New York-bred half-brother Organic Gemini stakes placed in New York-bred company. The Bromans purchased Speightful Affair the year after Organic Gemini was born for $80,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale and sent her to Friend Or Foe for her first breeding under their name.

The mare returned to Mr. Buff’s sire the year of his birth to produce the winning New York-bred Cain Is Abel before producing a four-time winning New York-bred Scat Daddy son named Daddy Knows. That gelding gave Speightsful Affair the beginning of a productive run at Aqueduct by winning there Thursday.

The mare produced her first filly three years ago when giving birth to Mr. Buff’s unraced full sister Miss Buff. Speightful Affair produced a New York-bred Accelerate colt last year.

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Mr-Buff-JoeLabozzetta.jpg

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2021/01/23/mr-buff-makes-it-three-straight-jazil-victories/

NYTB Seats 2021 Board, Gallo Re-elected President

[1]By Najja Thompson

The Board of Directors of New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. (NYTB) held its first meeting of 2021 on Thursday, January 21. The new seated board re-elected Thomas J. Gallo, III, founder and managing owner of Dream Maker Racing, Thomas J. Gallo III Sales Agency, LLC and owner of Blue Stone Farm, as Board President.

Mallory Mort was re-elected as NYTB Board Vice-President. Vivien Malloy was likewise re-elected for another term as NYTB Secretary / Treasurer. All three NYTB board officers will serve two-year terms concurrent with their two-year tenure on the board.

NYTB Officers and Board of Directors for 2021:

Officers:

Directors:

Directors Emeriti:

 

 

 

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/NYTB-Logo-Lg2.jpg

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2021/01/22/nytb-seats-2021-board-gallo-re-elected-president/

Pair of $95,000 short yearlings close out Keeneland

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Keeneland wrapped its January horses of all ages sale last week. Keeneland Photo.

By Tom Law

Five G Ranch scooped up two short yearlings for $95,000 during last week’s final session of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale, a strong finish to the first major North American auction of the year for horses bred, foaled or with ties to New York.

The pair were also among three that finished the day tied as most expensive short yearlings of last Thursday’s session.

The first to bring $95,000 was Hip 1370, a colt from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Mo Town out of the winning Tale of the Cat mare Coral Beach.

Bred by and foaled at Hidden Lake Farm in Stillwater and consigned by Mulholland Springs, agent, he is the second foal out of Coral Beach from the family of Chilean champion Desert Power, Grade 2 winner Cool Coal Man, stakes winner Kathleens Reel. Coral Beach won two of 14 starts with two seconds for $72,382 in earnings.

Hip 1479, a New York-bred filly from the first crop of 2017 Preakness Stakes winner Cloud Computing, also brought $95,000. Bred by Saratoga Glen Farm and Beals Racing Stable, foaled at Saratoga Glen Farm in Schuylerville and consigned by Stuart Morris, agent, the filly is the third foal out of the winning Birdstone mare Literary Lady.

Literary Lady, purchased carrying the Cloud Computing filly in utero for $4,000 at last year’s Keeneland November breeding stock sale, won four of 19 starts and earned $53,074. She’s the dam of two other foals – a now 3-year-old unraced New York-bred colt by Upstart named Up for Adventure in training at Belmont Park and a newly turned 2-year-old unnamed colt by War Dancer.

Five G Ranch bought another short yearling out of the Stuart Morris consignment in the final session, going to $50,000 for a colt foaled in New York from the first crop of multiple graded stakes winner Good Samaritan.

Bred by and foaled at Saratoga Glen Farm, the colt is out of the winning Candy Ride mare Uman Candy. He’s a half-brother to an unnamed 2-year-old colt by Exaggerator that sold for $25,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale.

The sales of those short yearlings from first-crop sires came a day after another foaled in New York from the first crop of Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming brought $55,000. Bloodstock agent Steve Young purchased that colt, Hip 1096, from the consignment of Bedouin Bloodstock, agent.

Bred by SF Bloodstock LLC and foaled at Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag, the colt is the first foal out of the winning Paynter mare Miminegash. The winner of one of six starts and $22,418, Miminegash is a half sister to champion female sprinter and Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner Judy the Beauty and five other winners out of the stakes-winning Holy Bull mare Holy Blitz. Miminegash sold in foal to Cataline Cruiser for $13,000 at last year’s Keeneland November sale.

The sales of those short yearlings also followed strong opening sessions of the January sale. Check out the links below to read about the first and second sessions:

Day 1: More Than Ready shot yearling sells for $175,000 at Keeneland[2]

Day 2: Four NY-breds bring six-figure prices at Keeneland[3]

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/KeeScenicThur.jpg
  2. More Than Ready shot yearling sells for $175,000 at Keeneland: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2021/01/12/more-than-ready-short-yearling-sells-for-175000-at-keeneland/
  3. Four NY-breds bring six-figure prices at Keeneland: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2021/01/13/four-ny-breds-bring-six-figure-prices-at-keeneland/

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2021/01/21/pair-of-95000-short-yearlings-close-out-keeneland/

Veteran sire Bellamy Road retires to Old Friends

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Bellamy Road, sire of New York-bred Horse of the Year Diversify and two other Grade 1 winners, retires to Old Friends Equine in Kentucky. Susie Raisher Photo.

Bellamy Road, one of New York’s leading stallions and the sire of Grade 1 winners Diversify, Toby’s Corner and Constellation, has been pensioned to Old Friends Equine retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky.

The 19-year-old son of Concerto stood in New York since 2016 – at Dutchess Views Farm in Pine Plains and recently at Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions in Stillwater. He was scheduled to stand the 2021 season for $5,000 before being retired last week.

Campaigned by the late George Steinbrenner’s Kinsman Stable and trained by Nick Zito, Bellamy Road won four of seven starts highlighted by a blowout 17 ½-length win in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial in 2005 at Aqueduct. He started his stud career at Hurricane Hall in Lexington before moving to WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky.

“Bellamy Road has always had a special place in my heart,” said Kinsman President Jessica Steinbrenner, daughter of George Steinbrenner. “His Wood Memorial is the most exciting race that I have ever been to. I remember going back to the hotel afterward and being escorted through the kitchen because of all the people gathered outside. To this day, I still watch his Wood Memorial on YouTube, and to hear the announcer say ‘a dazzling performance by a dazzling 3-year-old’ brings me to tears every time.

“Bellamy is a rock star. He deserves a retirement where his fans can visit and reminisce. It’s exciting to think he will be amongst the other great retired racehorses residing at Old Friends.”

Bellamy Road also won the Grade 3 Cradle Stakes at River Downs as a 2-year-old for trainer Michael Dickinson before being transferred to the two-time Kentucky Derby-winning Zito for his sophomore season. He won a Gulfstream allowance and the Wood Memorial before finishing seventh in the Kentucky Derby. Bellamy Road returned off a near four-month layoff to finish second in the Grade 1 Travers in his final career start.

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Grade 1 winner and Grade 1 sire Bellamy Road. Susie Raisher Photo.

“Jessica is following in her father’s footsteps,” Zito said of the decision to send Bellamy Road to Old Friends. “George would have done the same thing. They’re very special people.”

Bellamy Road joins his leading son, the now 8-year-old gelding Diversify, at Old Friends. Diversify earned New York-bred Horse of the Year and champion older dirt male honors in 2018 after winning the Grade 1 Whitney at Saratoga and Grade 2 Suburban at Belmont Park.

Bellamy finished fifth on New York’s sire list in 2020 with progeny earnings of $1,538,700, a year after he finished fourth on the state’s list with progeny earnings of $2,786,290. He’s the sire of 12 crops of racing age, including 21 2-year-olds of 2021, and 32 black-type winners, 27 black-type placed runners and the earners of $33,499,133 through Saturday.

Bellamy Road’s 2008 daughter Sisterly Love earned champion older female honors in Canada in 2013 after a victory in the Grade 3 Ontario Matron Stakes. He also sired 2011 Grade 1 Wood Memorial winner Toby’s Corner, 2016 Grade 1 La Brea winner Constellation and graded stakes winners Land Over Sea, Position Limit, All Squared Away, Victoria’s Wildcat and Georgie’s Angel.

“We were privileged that Kinsman, WinStar, and the other syndicate members sent Bellamy to us, and have allowed us to stand him in New York for so long,” said Dutchess Views Farm’s Michael Lischin, on behalf of the syndicate manager, Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC. “He is sound and could continue as a stallion but the consensus was that, at his age, it would be in his best interest to retire him to a magnificent facility like Old Friends while he is still healthy and happy. We thank the syndicate and Old Friends for doing what was right for Bellamy Road.”

“We want to thank Jessica Steinbrenner for trusting us to care for her great horse,” said Old Friends’s Michael Blowen. “I know she went out of her way to make sure he’d get to us. Thanks also to Elliot Walden at WinStar who expedited everything, and to everyone at Dutchess Views for taking such great care of him.”

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/BellamyRoad-NYTB.jpg
  2. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/BellamyRoad2.jpg

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2021/01/17/veteran-sire-bellamy-road-retires-to-old-friends/

Secret Love upsets Franklin Square for first stakes win

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Secret Love improves to 2-for-3 with upset victory in Franklin Square. Chelsea Durand/NYRA Photo.

By Melissa Bauer-Herzog

Nedlaw Stable’s and Tobey Morton’s Secret Love took her record to two wins in three starts Saturday with an easy upset win in the $100,000 Franklin Square Stakes at Aqueduct.

Secret Love, a $270,000 OBS July 2-year-old sale graduate, led home a 1-3 finish for her sire Not This Time and punished bettors who disregarded her as the longest shot on the board in the 6 1/2-furlong stakes for New York-bred 3-year-old fillies. Pablo Morales rode the 13-1 upsetter in the field of five for trainer John Kimmel, but it wasn’t a cakewalk to get to this target.

Secret Love stormed home to win on debut by 6 1/4 lengths late September at Belmont Park but a setback forced her to sit out all the fall races. Returning in an allowance-optional claimer race in late December at Aqueduct, she finished second to Rossa Veloce in a defeat she would avenge in the Franklin Square.

“The filly broke her maiden very impressively but she lost a shoe and grabbed her quarter and that’s why she missed the next 90 days,” Kimmel said. “We came back and ran her in an ‘a-other-than’ off a long layoff and she needed that race. She had a couple breezes after that race and was breezing extremely well and outworking [stakes-placed] Frost Me.”

Secret Love looked ready to run in the Franklin Square and applied pressure on her rival Rossa Veloce quickly after they broke from the gate. Morales looked comfortable on his mount throughout as she galloped through early fractions of :22.76 and :46.68. The middle of the race looked very familiar to all who watched the December allowance with Secret Love shadowing Rossa Veloce just as she’d done before.

Drawing even with the leader as they left the turn, Morales asked her to go by and she obliged with a little more than a furlong to run. Secret Love pulled away to win by 1 1/2 lengths in a time of 1:19.86 with 3-5 favorite Laobanonaprayer and 8-5 second choice Vacay passing the pacesetter late to finish second and third.

“She came to run,” Morales said. “They gave me a lot of confidence in her. They told me to have her forwardly placed because they thought she was going to run big. I pretty much followed instructions and came out of there running. Once [Rossa Veloce] made the lead, I just sat second the whole way around there. She gave me a nice kick down the lane and I thought it was good enough to win and she sure did.”

With a stakes win under her belt, Secret Love is set to take on stablemate Frost Me in more than just a breeze. Kimmel indicated that the Maddie May Feb. 20 is a likely target for both fillies.

Secret Love was co-bred by Sequel Stallions NY and Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings and is a granddaughter of three-time Group 1 winner Exotic Wood. The filly’s A.P. Indy dam was purchased by Sequel New York for $17,000 at the 2018 Keeneland January horses of all ages while carrying Secret Love.

A 15-year-old mare, Exotic Design has produced four winners from six to run and is a full sister to stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Key To Power. This has proved to be a productive family with Exotic Wood’s daughters and granddaughters producing six stakes performers.

Exotic Design’s New York-bred 2-year-old colt is by Sequel Stallions NY and Stonestreet Thoroughbreds’ Union Jackson with her yearling colt by that same stallion. The mating has proven popular for the partnership with Exotic Design back to foal to Union Jackson for her 2021 foal.

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SecretLove-NYTB.jpg

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2021/01/16/secret-love-upsets-franklin-square-for-first-stakes-win/

Tiz the Law among Eclipse Award finalists

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Tiz the Law, finalist for champion 3-year-old male honors, rolls to victory in the 2020 Belmont Stakes. NYRA/Elsa Lorieul Photo.

By Tom Law

Sackatoga Stable’s Tiz the Law earned an Eclipse Award nod in the 3-year-old male category after a 2020 season highlighted by his Belmont Stakes victory and two other Grade 1 triumphs.

Breeders’ Cup Classic and Kentucky Derby winner Authentic and Arkansas Derby winner Nadal join Tiz the Law in the 3-year-old male division.

The Eclipse Awards are determined by a vote of the National Turf Writers And Broadcasters, National Thoroughbred Racing Association and Daily Racing Form. Of the 249 eligible voters, 238 took part in the voting. Finalists are determined in each category by voters’ top three selections, using a 10-5-1 point system. The Eclipse Award winners are determined solely by first-place votes.

The winners in the 17 equine and human categories will be announced during a virtual ceremony of the 50th Eclipse Awards, presented by Spendthrift Farm, on TVG and other outlets at 8 p.m. ET Thursday, Jan. 28.

After a 2-year-old campaign that included a victory in the Grade 1 Champagne, Tiz the Law won four of six starts in 2020 with a second in the Kentucky Derby. He started the season with a win in the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes before a victory in the Grade 1 Florida Derby in late March, both at Gulfstream Park.

The coronavirus pandemic altered the Triple Crown and Tiz the Law opened the series with a victory in the Belmont Stakes June 20 at Belmont Park. Tiz the Law’s victory completed a career sweep of the spring classics for Sackatoga Stable and trainer Barclay Tagg, who teamed to win the Derby and Preakness Stakes in 2003 with Eclipse Award winner Funny Cide.

Tiz the Law added another Grade 1 victory and improved to 4-for-4 less than two months later in Saratoga’s Travers Stakes. He finished the season with a second in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs and a sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland.

Bred by Twin Creeks Farm and out of the Tiznow mare Tizfiz, Tiz the Law sold for $110,000 to Sackatoga Stables’ Jack Knowlton at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. He won six of nine and $2,735,300 before being retired in January.

Tiz the Law, who earned New York-bred Horse of the Year and champion 2-year-old male titles in 2019, will stand his first season for $40,000 at Coolmore America’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky.

The 2020 Eclipse Awards finalists (in alphabetical order) are:

Horse of the Year: Authentic, Improbable, Monomoy Girl

Two-Year-Old Male: Essential Quality, Fire At Will, Jackie’s Warrior

Two-Year-Old Filly: Aunt Pearl (IRE), Dayoutoftheoffice, Vequist

Three-Year-Old Male: Authentic, Nadal, Tiz the Law

Three-Year-Old Filly: Gamine, Shedaresthedevil, Swiss Skydiver

Older Dirt Male: Improbable, Maximum Security, Vekoma

Older Dirt Female: Midnight Bisou, Monomoy Girl, Serengeti Empress

Male Sprinter: Vekoma, Volatile, Whitmore

Female Sprinter: Gamine, Glass Slippers (GB), Serengeti Empress

Male Turf Horse: Channel Maker, Order of Australia (IRE), Zulu Alpha

Female Turf Horse: Audarya (FR), Rushing Fall, Tarnawa (IRE)

Steeplechase Horse: Moscato (GB), Rashaan (IRE), Snap Decision

Owner: Godolphin LLC; Klaravich Stables Inc.; Spendthrift Farm LLC, MyRaceHorse Stable, Madaket Stables LLC, and Starlight Racing

Breeder: Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds LLC, Calumet Farm, WinStar Farm LLC

Trainer: Steve Asmussen, Bob Baffert, Brad Cox

Jockey: Irad Ortiz, Jr., Joel Rosario, John Velazquez

Apprentice Jockey: Luis Cardenas, Yarmarie Correa, Alexander Crispin

 

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tiz-the-law-the-belmont-stakes-credit-elsa-lorieul.jpg

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2021/01/16/tiz-the-law-among-eclipse-award-finalists/

Killybegs Captain retired to Mill Creek Farm

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Killybegs Captain wins the 2019 Frank J. DeFrancis Memorial Dash at Laurel. Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club Photo.

Graded stakes winner Killybegs Captain was retired this month and will enter stud in 2021 at Anne Morgan’s and Tim Little’s Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater. The 7-year-old son of Mizzen Mast out of the Holy Bull mare Al Maha will stand his initial season for $2,500 live foal/stands and nurses.

Campaigned by Curragh Racing and trained by John Terranova, Killybegs Captain won seven of 27 starts with five seconds and three thirds for $572,453 in earnings. A $75,000 purchase at the 2016 OBS April 2-year-olds in training sale, Killybegs Captain was a winner at 3, 4, 5 and 6 and rose from the allowance ranks to become a stakes winner in his last two seasons.

Killybegs Captain scored his biggest victory in the Grade 3 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash at Laurel Park in 2019, defeating a field that included He Hate Me and New York Central in 1:08.10 for 6 furlongs.

Third in the Grade 2 John A. Nerud Stakes at Belmont Park and Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in 2019, Killybegs Captain also won back-to-back editions of the Pelican Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs in 2019 and 2020. He defeated multiple Grade 1 winner Imperial Hint in the 2019 edition of the Pelican, winning the 6-furlong stakes in 1:09.66.

Bred by H. Allen Poindexter, Killybegs Captain is the sixth foal out of Al Maha, a half sister to stakes winner Find the Treasure and the dam of multiple graded stakes winner Pontchatrain from the family of Grade 1 winner Past Forgetting and Grade 2 winner and sire Concerto.

Killybegs Captain is one of six winners out of Al Maha, who is also the dam of a now 2-year-old unnamed filly by Cross Traffic purchased for $50,000 by Tonja Terranova, agent for Curragh Racing at last year’s Keeneland September yearling sale.

“He was a beautiful horse – sound horse – he retired sound,” Tonja Terranova, assistant to her husband, told Daily Racing Form. “He beat Imperial Hint, he was third to Mitole. He was just a solid racehorse; ran short, ran long.”

Endnotes:
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First foals for Grade 1 winner Leofric

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Leofric’s second foal, a filly out of Escape to Malibu, born Jan. 14 at Rockridge Stud in Hudson. Photo provided.

The first two reported foals for Leofric, an 8-year-old Grade 1-winning son of Candy Ride who stands at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, were born in the Northeast in a matter of days this month.

The first foal was born Jan. 11, when the Take Charge Lady mare Jurere delivered a filly at Daydream Farm in Hamburg, Pa. Bred by Amber Cobb, the filly is the second foal out of Jurere from the family of Weekend Surprise, A.P. Indy and Summer Squall.

Leofric’s second foal – and first in the Empire State – came three days later when the Malibu Moon mare Escape to Malibu produced a filly at Rockrdge Stud. Bred by Chad Carter, the filly is the third foal out of Escape to Malibu from the family of Affirmed Success.

Leofric, who is out of the Unbridled’s Song mare Lady Godiva, won eight of 14 starts and earned $951,040. He won three graded stakes in his final four starts to close his career in 2018 – the Grade 3 West Virginia Governor’s Stakes at Mountaineer Park, Grade 2 Hagyard Fayette Stakes at Keeneland Race Course and Grade 1 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs.

Leofric will stand his second season in 2021 for $7,500.

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