CT: Youth winners connect Sigler, Farrior barns
Ted Black- December 4, 2025
The month of November began and ended with a pair of West Virginia-bred stakes for two-year-olds, both won by the same freshman filly.
But she wasn’t the only high-profile youngster in Charles Town as a pair of recent first-time special weight winners found themselves in the spotlight as they graduated in style during the final week of live racing in November.
The victories connect the barns of trainers Ron Sigler and Anthony Farrior.
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Three weeks after settling for narrow wins in the West Virginia Triple Crown Nutrition Breeders’ Classic for state-bred 2-year-old fillies, Maskedandmummed regained her winning ways by capturing the $75,000 James Eleanor Casey Memorial Nov. 1 for trainer Ronald Sigler and owner-breeder Casey’s Legacy LLC. Three weeks after that, the young daughter of Candygram recorded her second straight stakes when she claimed victory in the Nov. 22 $50,000 Added West Virginia Futurity, in which three of the four starters were fillies.
“She really never had a bad race,” Sigler said of Maskedandmummed, who finished her freshman campaign with three wins and collected more than $120,000 from seven starts. “Even when she finished third in the Breeders’ Classics, I thought she ran her race that night. She came right back and won the next stakes when I was in Las Vegas, but then she won the West Virginia Futurity in her last start. She’s getting some time off now and I’ll try to get her back sometime in the spring and see what she can do next year. I expect her to be even better as a three-year-old.”
During the last week of November, a pair of two-year-olds, a filly and a gelding, both trained by Anthony Farrior and one with ties to Sigler and his family, graduated sharply in single-inning special weight events at Charles Town.
On November 26, Priority One was extremely impressive when initially winning by six lengths, completing the 4 1/2 furlongs in 52.27 seconds as the even money choice with Arnaldo Bocachica aboard.
The daughter of Jill Daniel’s own breeder, Fiber Sonde, is a half-sister to the fast, state-bred stakes winner Stryda, a 14-race, nearly $300,000 winner. Priority One had impressed Farrior with her morning exercises leading up to her debut and confirmed that work with her performance on Thanksgiving Day.
That might be all we see from Priority One this year, as Farrior said she has “a few minor issues.” None of these were seen in her debut or in her morning works leading up to the race.
“Her last two works were very fast,” Farrior said of Priority One’s Bullet Gate exercises on November 7 and 14. “She was surpassing everything else I had those days, and we did everything we could to take her back a little bit both times. She’s a half-sister to Stryda, who is a very fast filly here.”
Three days later, Farrior sent out Coach Siggy, named after Ronald Sigler’s late son, Tyler Sigler, 28, a former high school wrestling coach who died in an accident last May. Coach Siggy easily graduated in his second career start.
“Me and Ronnie have been close for a long time,” says Farrior, who has saddled 231 winners this year since December 3. “I asked him if I could name that colt for his son Tyler, who died when a tree fell on his golf cart at Locust Hill. [Golf Course]. He ran well the first time and finished second, but I felt a lot of pressure on me last weekend to win. There were many members of the Sigler family in attendance for that race. Luckily he broke sharply and won.”
“Anthony and I have been good friends for years,” Sigler said. “He was definitely a little nervous the other day. He told me he felt like there was more pressure on him to win that race than any other race. That horse broke well and he won as most people expected. It was great to have so many of Tyler’s friends in the winners circle with us that night. I have to admit, I couldn’t hold back the tears after that race.”
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