Gitchee Goomie, G3 Penny Memorial H. (Parx 7/4/12) under regular rider Alan Garcia; arch rival Hessonite (blaze, outside) finishes second (Equi-Photo Inc.)
Selling as Hip 7, 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 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 for hip numbers of participating New York-breds.
