Preakness legacies walk back to FT Saratoga Sale

Perhaps Fasig-Pipeon will decorate its sales ring with some black eyes Susans for the 104th edition of the Saratoga Sale, Fasig-TipTon’s Select Yearling Sale, 4-5 August in Saratoga Springs, NY

The official flower of the preakness stakes (G1) would be suitable if half or full brothers and sisters for the past three winners of the Baltimore Classic are offered on Monday and Tuesday during the Select Sale for Yearlings. The tires are deep, because those three winners themselves were also sold as yearlings at the Saratoga -sale among the same senders who will offer their brothers and sisters early next week.

Hip 10, Dynasty, full brother of Nationale Treasure

The first of the trio is planned to go through the ring is, is Hip 10called Dynasty, a full brother of 2023 Preactness winner National treasure who went 4 to win the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) and Metropolitan Handicap (G1) to earn 2024 champion older dirt male honor.

Dynasty, a Bay Colt born on January 19, 2024 – eight days before the Pegasus score of National Treasure – was bred by Peter E. Blum Thoroughbrreds. The foal is sent by Bridie Harrison, who has been treating Blum’s horses for 40 years.

“Regardless of breeding, he is one of the best foals on the farm of that class,” said Jonathan Harrison, son and assistant of Bridie. “He has always been one of our nicer individuals, let alone his pedigree.”

That pedigree is of course formidable. Dynasty is a son of Quality roads – Trease, by Gold medal . National Treasure is the first classic winner for his father and one of the four winners for his dam, including the winner of Stakes Ultimate and grade 1-posted Pirate .

Harrison said that dynasty is a little longer, perhaps a tap bigger than national treasure. He also said they have very similar spirits.

“They are both simply quiet, easy horses,” Harrison said. “I don’t know how much that has to do with performance on the job, but I think it helps them to go well. I think it helps them to train, to be able to form them the way you want; versus they do what they want.

And the interest has been steadily in Barn 4.

“(Buyers) definitely know he is here,” said Harrison. “They are absolutely well aware.”

As a yearling of 2021, National Treasure was purchased by the collaboration of SF, Starlight and Madaket (Donato Lanni, Agent) for $ 500,000 from this sale.

HIP 165, Half Sister of Journalism

The Conrad Bandoroff of Denali Stud discovered moments before Kentucky Derby (G1) this year that Denali would offer Journalism This year’s half -sister on Saratoga Sale as an agent for the breeder of the yearling, Don Alberto Corporation.

This news brought some excitement this year to the Triple Crown Races for Bandoroff, who looked at journalism in the Derby and Belmont Stakes (G1) (G1) about a preakness in which he claimed the victory by overcoming an apparently impossible stretch defense to place a clear victory about a clear victory about Gosger .

“I was with the preakness and it was just jubilant; only delightfulness,” said Bandoroff. “Journalism just has the refusal to lose. He just has the heart of a champion. You can never count it because he just finds a way to win.

“I think Fortitude is something that the mare has been passed on to all her descendants. If the mandriffen has an ounce of the heart that has journalism, then she has some career for her.”

Journalism is a son of Curlin While this yearling merrieve, sent as Hip 165, has another current steadfast stallion in Calamity The ruling six-time leading father in North America, who is well on top of the list of general morals of 2025. Journalism is the first starter for his dam, MopotismA grade 2-winning daughter of Uncle Mo who also placed 1 races in several degrees.

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On one morning of 2 August in which the trainer of journalism, Michael McCarthy, saw the popular Bay Filly, Bandoroff noted that her striking resemblance to her classic extraction-half brother.

“Her family tree clearly speaks for herself, but she is also a physical striking,” said Bandoroff. “She has a lot of the physical characteristics of journalism. She has the shoulder, the circumference, the head; I mean, they are creepy comparable. It is really creepy. She may have a little more size and scope, but in this stage it is fair to call them CO2 copies.

“She is a nice mare and one of my favorite attributes about her is that she has this class and this presence over her. She is royal, very intelligent and simply has this air and presence about her. I think she knows she is special.”

As a yearling of 2023, journalism was purchased for $ 825,000 from this sale by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners.

Hip 209, half to grab the gray

Price Bell or Consignor Mill Ridge Sales noted that promoting half a brother or sister, a classic winner, always makes his work easier. The connections just celebrated the biennial anniversary of the final 2023 preakness winner Gray the gray Saving his first victory second in a maiden special weight race on July 29, appropriate enough, in Saratoga.

“That dream started with him around this time of the year and he defeated Dornoch In that race, “Bell said.” Anyway, it is great to be back this weekend with this marefeulen and try to repeat the magic. “

Both grab the gray and the yearling merringeveulen, sent as Hip 209, are out Smart shopping A deployed daughter of leading father Smart Strike. While it is gray gray, a son of the late arrogate, the Merrievefeulen is a daughter of the first -year father of the first crop Life is good . Both life is good and Arrogaat are distorted humor wrings.

Before she produced a classic winner, Smart Shopping had already established himself as a specially at Mill Ridge. For Bell, the story of The Yearling Filly is that her breeder, Audie Otto, started under the Banner Jamm Ltd by her deceased mother, Audrey “Tolie” Otto.

“Audie’s mother and my grandmother (Alice Headley Chandler) were the best friends, and Audrey’s mother, Tolie, with (Headley Bell’s) help, bought Smart Shopping’s mother (Weather shopping) in 2007, in Foal with her second foal. She was a good producer. She produced (grade 1 winner) Striker And had another winner of the commitment and a few really good sales horses.

“They chose to go shopping smartly and racing her, Tolie and Audie together, which is great. Brendan Walsh trained her and she had a lot of ability. We really thought she was a good horse. So we always believed in smart shopping, believed in the family.”

That conviction would bear fruit in grabbing the Gray, which brought $ 300,000 from Myracehorse during the 2022 edition of this sale. Bell said that the yearling merrieve seems to be at the family tradition.

“This mandrowing has just been nice, especially from the first day,” said Bell. “You remember your hair because you just saw her coming in from the fields, or you would see her in the fields and just see her develop.”