Karen Kirshner's two-year-old Cat Camille, a daughter of Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat out of Creole Delights, by Bertrando, bred by Prisco and Elizabeth Vacca, went gate-to-wire to take a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Portland Meadows by four lengths on October 31.
Dr. Vincentstein, a three-year-old offspring of Delineator-Marquet Formula, by Marquetry, bred in Washington by Jean M. G. Welch, took his second win in a six-furlong allowance test at Turf Paradise on November 2, coming home by 2 1/4 lengths. The bay gelding has earned $40,893.
2005 Washington champion two-year-old filly Cinderella Liberty had her second winner from her first three offspring when four-year-old Our Princecharming, by High Brite, won a maiden claimer at Golden Gate on November 9.
Three-year-old Classic Grand, a Washington-bred son of Lucky Aces' Matty G out of stakes winner Irene's Bonus Baby, by Free At Last, bred by Nina and Ron Hagen, took a $25,000 maiden claiming race at Golden Gate in November 6. Blaine Wright conditions the new winner for Wing Ho.
Sales
Fasig-Tipton November Sale
The day after the Breeders' Cup World Championships were run, Lexington changed gears on November 1 with the Fasig-Tipton November Sale of breeding stock. Of the 200 horses cataloged, 92 sold for a $43,666,000 total and $474,630 average - which was down 19.5 percent from 2014. Another 60 head were withdrawn and there were 46 horses listed as RNA (34.3 percent).Topping the sale for $3-million was Grade 1 winner Angela Renee, a three-year-old daughter of Bernardini. Thirteen other mares brought a figure of $1-million or more at the one-day venue.
Among those sold was Grade 1 stakes producer Courtly Choice who, bred to Tiznow, brought $500,000. She is one of eight winners out of I'maknightschoice, a Washington-bred stakes-winning daughter of Knights Choice.
Among the RNAs was 2011 Pegasus Training Center Two-year-old Sale graduate Belle Gallantley, a daughter of After Market who won both the Delaware Handicap (G1) and Beldame Stakes (G1) and earned over $1.1-million. Carrying her first foal by Bodemeister, she was a $590,000 no sale.
2015 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale
A total of 4,476 broodmares, broodmare prospects, weanlings, race and stallion prospects were cataloged for the 12-day Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale which began on November 2. Among the horses cataloged was the second phase of the complete dispersal of the late Jerre Paxton's Northwest Farms LLC, which are listed below in hip order.
Through November 11, 2,375 horses had been sold for a $217,740,000 gross. The average was $91,680 and the median $34,000. The $6-million sale topper, 2014 Eclipse Award two-year-old filly Take Charge Brandi, was purchased by John G. Sikura's Hill 'n' Dale Farm.
Northwest Farms LLC's Dispersal
Hip 9, 2015 colt, Awesome Again-Bisbee's Prospect, $90,000
Hip 10, 2000 mare, Bisbee's Prospect (SW), Smart Strike-Bisbee. Bred to Uncle Mo, $60,000
Hip 12, 2010 mare, Blueberry Smoothie (SW), Giant's Causeway-Shampoo. Bred to Candy Ride (Arg), $115,000
Hip 47, 2015 colt, Bodemeister-Elusive Horizon, $150,000
Hip 48, 2005 mare, Elusive Horizon (SW), Elusive Quality-Exogenetic. Bred to Paynter, $70,000
Hip 54, 2015 filly, Union Rags-Exclusive Diva, $120,000
Hip 55, 2009 mare, Exclusive Diva (SW), Bernardini-Puxa Saco. Bred to Bodemeister, $205,000
Hip 57, 2001 mare, Exogenetic, Unbridled's Song-Tangled Up in Blue. Bred to Union Rags, $180,000
Hip 75, 2010 mare, Goin to the Window (SW), Tapit-Queens Full. Bred to War Front, $400,000
Hip 146, 2012 filly, Our Deb On Air, Smart Strike-Taste the Passion, $110,000
Hip 159, 2015 filly, Bodemeister-Queens Full, $90,000
Hip 160, 2004 mare, Queens Full, Indian Charlie-Puestera, $25,000
Hip 191, 2005 mare, Smarty Deb (SW), Smart Strike-Taste the Passion. Bred to Uncle Mo, $120,000
Hip 204, 2010 mare, Stopshoppingdebbie (SW), Curlin-Taste the Passion. Bred to Medaglia d'Oro, $410,000
Hip 582, 2011 filly, Elusive Candy, Candy Ride (Arg)-Elusive Horizon. Bred to Bodemeister, $115,000
Hip 583, 2015 filly, Blame-Elusive Noise, $75,000
Hip 584, 2008 mare, Elusive Noise (SW), Elusive Quality-Noisette. Bred to Gemologist, $70,000
Hip 673, 2015 colt, Smart Strike-Lasting Code, $230,000
Hip 674, 1999 mare, Lasting Code (SW), Lost Code-Cajun Nite Lady, $40,000
Hip 745, 2000 mare, Puxa Saco (SW), Dehere-Salty Sal. Bred to Union Rags, $75,000
Hip 774, 2015 filly, Candy Ride (Arg)-Shehadmefromhello, $190,000
Hip 775, 2006 mare, Shehadmefromhello, Empire Maker-Lasting Code. Bred to Declaration of War, $80,000
Hip 822. 1997 mare, Taste the Passion (SW), Wild Again-Bisbee. Bred to Curlin, $150,000
Hip 893, 2015 filly, Awesome Again-A. P. Investment, $12,000
Hip 894, 2007 mare, A. P. Investment, A. P. Indy-Clear in the Wind. Bred to Giant's Causeway, $80,000
Hip 1394, 2011 mare, Deb's Candy Girl, by Candy Ride (Arg)-Bisbee's Prospect. Bred to Bodemeister, $75,000
Hip 1397, 2002 mare, Dinner At Arlene's (SW), Forestry-Connecting Link. Bred to The Factor, $4,000
Hip 1410, 1999 mare, Ema Bovary (Chi) (G2 SW), Edgy Diplomat-Coqueta. Bred to Union Rags, $20,000
Hip 1493, 2008 mare, Kids Kooler, First Samurai-Bisbee's Prospect. Bred to Trappe Shot, $50,000
Hip 1494, 2015 filly, Algorithms-Kids Kooler. Out.
Hip 3206, 2015 colt, First Defence-Seeking Ema, $5,000
Hip 3207, 2006 mare, Seeking Ema, Seeking the Gold-Ema Bovary (Chi). Bred to Algorithms, $4,000
Hip 3214, 2015 colt, Eskendereya-Shampoo, $28,000
Hip 3258, 2011 filly, Timeless Pleasure, Curlin-Salty Sal. Bred to Trappe Shot, $57,000
Among the buyers of the NWF horses, Spendthrift Farm purchased Emerald Downs stakes winner Blueberry Smoothie. Calumet Farm bought two: three-time Emerald stakes winner Exclusive Diva and three-year-old broodmare prospect Our Deb On Air. Wrangler Bloodstock purchased Emerald two-year-old champion Goin to the Window and Town and Country Horse Farm purchased the consignment's sale topper, eight-time Emerald stakes winner and two-time track champion Stopshoppingdebbie. David Mowat's Ten Broeck Farm bought the incomparable Taste the Passion and she has arrived home safely to his farm outside of Ellensburg. Halvorson Bloodstock signed for Deb's Candy Girl.
Other Consignments
Two former WTBOA sale yearlings who went on to become significant runners were sold. Three-time Grade 2 winner and $729,726 earner City to City, carrying her third foal - by Medaglia d'Oro - went for $775,000. Two-time Washington champion Madame Pele sold as a racing or breeding prospect for $95,000.
Mowat's Grade 1 winner Sunset Glow was sold as a racing or broodmare prospect for $1,375,000.
Grousemont Farm sold a Smart Strike-Dangerous Diva weanling filly for $310,000, but their 2015 Tapit filly out of Grade 1 winner Downthedustyroad was a $525,000 RNA. Grousemont Farm also brought home their Group 3 winner Middle Club (GB) as a $450,000 RNA.
Downthedustryroad's four-year-old winning daughter Comme Chez Soi, by Empire Maker, bred to Lemon Drop Kid, brought $210,000.
Pure Smiles, a Pure Prize mare bred to Orb, sold for $155,000. She is a half-sister to champion two-year-old filly She's a Tiger and WTBOA top earner and three-time Grade 1 winner Smiling Tiger. All three siblings are out of Dr. Rodney Orr's Federal Way Handicap winner Shandra Smiles, by Cahill Road.
Justmeandmyshadow, a daughter of Tiznow out of WTBOA sale yearling, stakes winner and stakes producer St. Helens Shadow, bred to Bodemeister, sold for $525,000. Justmeandmyshadow's first foal is 2015 Delaware Oaks (G3) winner Calamity Kate. Her third foal, a 2015 colt by Yes It's True, sold for $230,000.
Others selling with a connection to Washington include a Super Saver weanling out of a stakes-winning daughter of Washington champion and Grade 2 stakes winner Classy Cara which brought $170,000. A Tapizar weanling filly out of Classy Cara's daughter Canary Diamond, sold for $35,000. Another Super Saver weanling, this time a filly, out of a half-sister to Washington champions No Giveaway and Youcan'ttakeme, sold for $115,000. A weanling colt from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Violence out of $140,590 stakes-placed Light of a Star - who is a half-sister to Grade 3 winner Summer Hit and Emerald champion Starbird Road - sold for $210,000. All three stakes horses are out of Griffin Place broodmare Mia F Eighteen, by Tough Knight.
Ultimate Prize, a Smart Strike half-sister to Emerald champion Goin to the Window sold, bred to Point of Entry and with a free 2016 breeding to Awesome Again, for $120,000.
Canadian Horse of the Year Sealy Hill, who is the dam of Canadian champion Hillaby and 2015 Emerald Downs champion three-year-old filly Belle Hill, sold bred to Medaglia d'Oro for $750,000. Her weanling colt by Tiznow brought $275,000.
An unraced two-year-old half-brother, by Hold Me Back, to Washington champions Chu and You and Chu and I sold for $35,000.
Also noted as selling were winner Chelan Echo - who is out of Emerald stakes-placed Silver Echo, the dam of stakes winners Notoriously and Cherokee Echo - bred to Revolutionary; and a young daughter of Grade 1 winner Wildcat Bettie B - whose WTBOA-sold dam is One Number Short, by Katowice - sold bred to Archarcharch.
Other Connections
Three half-sisters to four-time and current leading Washington sire Parker's Storm Cat were sold. Curriculum, by Danzig, the dam of Grade 3 stakes winner Temple City and bred to Goldencents, brought $90,000. Both the other mares are daughters of A. P. Indy: Lady Nichola, dam of Grade 3 winner Worth Repeating, sold bred to Tizway for $75,000; and Patricias Prospect brought $60,000 bred to Declaration of War.
Three daughters of Washington-bred Our Dani, the dam of five-time Grade 1-winner and $2-million earner You, were sold. The top price of $175,000 was given for Unforgiving, by Giant's Causeway, bred to More Than Ready. Saravati, also by Giant's Causeway, sold bred to Shanghai Bobby for $40,000. Upscale Storm, by Storm Cat, sold bred to Tapizar for $19,000.
A weanling Pioneerof the Nile filly out of an unraced half-sister to Bar C Racing Stable stallion Harbor the Gold, as well as champion two-year-old Boston Harbor, sold for $220,000.
A Shanghai Bobby weanling half-brother to Emerald Downs stakes-placed and now Washington broodmare Jasmine's Melody sold for $90,000.
Alys, a Dixie Union half-sister to Grade 1 winner Graydar and two graded stakes-placed runners, sold bred to Super Saver for $165,000. The mare's weanling colt by Violence brought $140,000. Alys' dam, Sweetest Smile, is a half-sister to Washington-bred stakes winner Cielator and the dam of Barbara Shinpoch Stakes winner Sweet Saga.
Stakes winner and 2015 Washington Oaks runner-up Suva Harbor, by Rockport Harbor, sold for $75,000.
2014 Washington Oaks winner Lady Fifty Two sold bred to Strong Mandate for $80,000.
A weanling colt by Data Link, whose dam is an unraced daughter of Grade 1 winner Celtic Melody and whose fourth dam is Washington broodmare of the year Fool's Miss, by Saltville, sold for $120,000. Another member of that same female line, $178,465 earner Dulcedumbre, who is out of Washington horse of the year Delicate Vine's stakes-winning and stakes-producing daughter Rayelle, and bred to Midnight Lute, was a $130,000 RNA.
Dharana, by Street Cry, a daughter of Oak Crest Farm-bred Grade 1 winner Sutra, bred to Verrazano, was a $40,000 purchase.
Local Buyers
In addition to his purchase from the Northwest Farms dispersal, Enumclaw bloodstock agent Dana Halvorson signed for two weanlings: a filly by Sidney's Candy who is out of a $77,131 earning half-sister to two Grade 2 winners; and a Cape Blanco (Ire) filly who out of a half-sister to two graded stakes winners.
Ron and Nina Hagen's El Dorado Farms LLC purchased four weanlings: a filly by Alternation who is a half-sister to $148,867 stakes winners Five Star Daydream; a filly by Discreetly Mine who is a half-sister to $460,712 stakes winner Gunfighter; a colt by Archarcharch who is out of a $108,530 earning half-sister to Grade 1 winner Weemissfrankie; and a Overanalyze filly, the first foal out of an unraced half-sister to 2015 $132,000 stakes winner Yiannis.
Bar C Racing Stables bought a $46,059 winning Empire Maker mare in foal to Shackleford. This half-sister to stakes winner Lucky Pulpit (the sire of California Chrome) is also from the same family as 2015 Coca-Cola Handicap winner Thetrailerguy. The Christophersons also purchased a winning El Prado (Ire) mare, bred to Uncle Mo, who is a half-sister to Grade 3 stakes winner and $488,941 earner His Race to Win.
Preston Boyd also purchased two in-foal broodmares. A winning Posse mare, bred to Langfuhr, out of stakes winner and stakes producer I'maknightschoice; and a young Mizzen Mast mare, bred to Astrology, whose dam is a half-sister to three-time Grade 2 winner Snow Dance and two other stakes horses.
WTBOA member Rick Kessler purchased a daughter of Real Quiet out of a $62,340 winning half-sister to $545,873 stakes winner Miss Gibson County, bred to Ice Box; and a winning Yankee Victor mare who has already produced $257,447 stakes winner Malibu Yankee, bred to Lookin At Lucky.
Newaukum Racing Stable signed for a $153,395 stakes-winning A. P. Indy mare that is in foal to Jimmy Creed.
DiPietro Thoroughbreds signed for a weanling Hayensfield colt out of $282,161 Belle Roberts Handicap winner Make Contact.
Dr. Duane and Susan Hopp brought home a weanling Discreet Cat colt out of $272,486 stakes winner and stakes producer Silver Crown.
