First foal for Venezuelan Hug at Mill Creek Farm

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Venezuelan Hug’s first foal, a filly out of the Mizzen Mast mare Flutiste, born Wednesday at Mill Creek Farm. Photo provided.

Graded stakes winner Venezuelan Hug sired his first foal Wednesday when Flutiste delivered a filly at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater. Venezuelan Hug, a 6-year-old son of Constitution out of the Giant’s Causeway mare Downtown Diva, stands for $2,500 at Mill Creek Farm.

Owned by Sal Spedale’s Spedale Family Racing, the filly is also the first foal for the 5-year-old Mizzen Mast mare Flutiste. Bred by Gerard and Alain Wertheimer, Flutiste was claimed out of her maiden-breaking victory in mid-December 2020 by Spedele Family Racing and Flying P Stable.

“Mr. Spedale is super excited about the next chapter for Venezuelan Hug and is extremely involved with breeding and supporting him,” Mill Creek Farm owner Anne Morgan. “The filly is super cute and feisty, very correct and well balanced.”

Venezuelan Hug raced for Spedale Family Racing and R. A. Hill Stable before retiring to stand his first season in 2022 at Mill Creek. He won six of 10 starts and earned $252,830. He ended his career with three straight victories in stakes company, winning the Millions Turf Preview Stakes in November 2020 at Gulfstream Park West, Sunshine Turf Stakes in January 2021 at Gulfstream and the Grade 3 Canadian Turf Stakes in late February 2021 at Gulfstream.

Flutiste is one of five winners out of the Dynaformer mare Etincelle, a half-sister to stakes winners Take the Ribbon, Flash Forward, Flash Mash, Glinda the Good, Bright Magic and Hot War. Glinda the Good is the dam of champion and multiple Grade 1 winner Good Magic.

Venezuelan Hug is one of several stallions based in New York and other states with seasons for sale in the New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc.’s annual Stallion Season Auction set for January 27-31 on Wanamakers.com.

The auction raises funds that allow the NYTB to carry on its two-fold mission of promoting New York breeding and racing and protecting the welfare of industry stakeholders.

Donations of stallion seasons will be accepted until the beginning of the auction. Please visit nytbreeders.org [2]to view the current list of stallions in the auction and contact NYTB directly at 518.587.0777 or info@nytbreeders.org[3] to donate a season.

Endnotes:
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  2. nytbreeders.org : http://nytbreeders.org/
  3. info@nytbreeders.org: mailto:info@nytbreeders.org

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Dream Passage sells for $425,000 at Keeneland

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Dream Passage, a stakes-placed daughter of Stormy Atlantic in foal to top sire Gun Runner, sold for $425,000 Tuesday at the Keeneland January sale. Photo courtesy of Mulholland Springs.

Stakes-placed $461,801-earning New York-bred Dream Passage commanded a bid of $425,000 to finish the second session of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale as one of the top-priced broodmares Tuesday in Lexington.

Matt Dorman’s Determined Stud purchased the 9-year-old daughter of Stormy Atlantic, who sold as Hip 804[2] and in foal to top sire Gun Runner. Dream Passage, who is out of the stakes-placed Raffie’s Majesty mare Raffie’s Dream, was consigned by Mulholland Springs, agent.

“I had pegged her somewhere in that price range,” consignor John Henry Mulholland said. “She’s just such a beautiful and classy mare and has a lovely Constitution yearling filly. She’s in foal to the best young sire in the world, probably. She stood out here and sold really well. I’m pleased.”

Bred by Wellspring Stables LLC, Dream Passage compiled a record of 8-7-4 in 28 starts and finished second in the 2020 Jersey Lilly Turf Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park. Her eight wins came on the NYRA circuit, including a run of three straight at Belmont Park and Aqueduct in the fall of 2019.

A full sister to multiple stakes winner and $336,649-earner Stormy’s Majesty and Bullish Sentiment, the dam of multiple stakes winner Sassy Agnes, Dream Passage’s first foal is the yearling filly by Constitution. Dream Passage finished the day as the co-sixth most expensive horse through the ring and one of five six-figure New York-breds.

Keeneland reported sales on 15 New York-breds Tuesday for a total of $1,389,000, an average price of $92,600 and median of $40,000.

Hip 506[3], a colt by Violence, brought the second most expensive price and highest price for a New York-bred short yearling on a bid of $175,000 from SKPJ Stables.

Bred by Fred W. Hertrich III, foaled at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham and consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, the colt is the first foal out of the winning Liam’s Map mare Liam’s Lookout.

The January sale continues with the third of four sessions at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DreamPassage-KeeJan2023.jpg
  2. Hip 804: http://apps.keeneland.com/sales/k423/pdfs/804.pdf
  3. Hip 506: http://apps.keeneland.com/sales/k423/pdfs/506.pdf

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