At the single-session Fasig-Tipton November sale on Monday evening in Lexington – an evening that belonged to broodmares – Bella Dorato, the New York-bred and New York-sired dam of Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Trinniberg, was purchased by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings for $460,000 from the consignment of Romans Racing & Sales (agent).
Stakes placed Bella Dorato (Hip 22), a 9-year-old daughter of former New York sire Goldminers Gold, could hardly have had a more impressive set of catalogue updates going into the sales ring.
Bella Dorato’s second foal, 3-year-old Trinniberg, won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint in 1:07.98 on Saturday and will certainly contend for an Eclipse Award as Champion Sprinter. Her 2-year-old filly Ostourah (Teuflesberg), a $450,000 purchase at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-old sale earlier this year, graduated impressively in her Belmont debut September 26. Finally, just a week and a half ago, Bella Dorato’s most recent foal, a New York-bred yearling filly by Bandini, commanded $250,000 at Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky Fall Yearling sale. The mare is not currently in foal.
”There’s nothing but upside,” Teresa Little of Romans Racing & Sales told the DRF. “She has big, strong foals – every one of them, just those big, long, rangy type racehorses you want to see. She’s throwing the deep heart, the girth, the hip. The family’s just going to just keep getting better and better.”
Bred by J M Stables and foaled at their farm in Saugerties, Bella Dorato was campaigned by John and Joseph Marino. A winner and earner of $103,420, she ran third in the 2005 Finger Lakes Juvenile Fillies Stakes. She is a half to three other stakes-placed runners.
Two other New York-bred broodmares/broodmare prospects changed hands in the session. Woodford Thoroughbreds snapped up Final Mesa (Sky Mesa) in foal to Giant’s Causeway for $370,000 (Hip 59). Bred by Carmine Telesca and John Guerrera and owned by Ice Wine Stable, Final Mesa is a Grade 3 and multiple stakes winner. She is also a half to New York sire Uncle Camie, also a Grade 3 winner.
Karakorum Fugitive (Ten Most Wanted), in foal to Uncle Mo, commanded $100,000 (Hip 96). Bred by Stonebridge Farm, the multiple stakes placed 6-year-old is a half to multiple stakes winners Lady on the Run and Mr. Windjammer. Townley Hall Bloodstock was the winning bidder.
A noteworthy RNA was Barry K. Schwartz homebred Lovely Lil (Tiznow), winner of the Grade 2 Go for Wand and Union Avenue Stakes and earner of $299,890 (Hip 106). The daughter of Grade 2 winner How About Now, was offered in foal to Awesome Again, but failed to meet her reserve when the bidding stopped at $495,000.
