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WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. INDIAN CHARLIE COLT TOPS MIDLANTIC SALE A colt by Indian Charlie topped the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training sale yesterday when selling for $600,000 to the bid of EQB=s Patty Miller. Miller declined to say who she had purchased the youngster for, but FASIG-TIPTON MIDLANTIC 2YOS said it was not the TUESDAY’S TOP 10 LOTS same client who paid Hip Sex Sire Dam Price ($) $250,000 for a son 492 c Indian Charlie Bally Storm 600,000 of Harlan=s Holiday ($95,000 yrl ‘10 KEESEP) during Monday=s B-Jerry Jamgotchian (KY) opening session of Consigned by Sequel Bloodstock (Becky Thomas), agent the sale. AThey have Purchased by EQB Inc., agent to jump through a lot 409 f More Than Ready Uncork 300,000 of hoops,@ an ($50,000 yrl ‘10 KEESEP) Hip 492 Lydia A Williams exuberant Miller said B-Fares Farm (KY) after signing the ticket on the Indian Charlie colt behind Consigned by Lynne Boutte, agent Purchased by Whisper Hill Farm the sales pavilion. AAnd this one jumped through all the 538 c Indian Charlie Cariada 300,000 hoops very well. I watched him all week, and I had ($70,000 RNA ‘10 KEESEP; $13,000 2yo ‘11 OBSMAR) people watching him all winter. This horse had B-Gulf Coast Farms (KY) presence. We thought he was special. He looks like the Consigned by Breaking Point Farm genuine article.@ Of the sale-topping price, Miller Purchased by Carolyn R Vogel laughed, AI would have loved to get him for $350,000.@ 403 c More Than Ready Trippi Street 240,000 She added, AThat was our high end. But when they ($225,000 yrl ‘10 KEESEP) walk up here and they look like that, people are going B-Gulf Coast Farms (KY) to be lining up, so you have to be prepared. I kept all Consigned by M & H Training & Sales (David & Katie McKathan), Agent I my sheckels in my pocket all day. So it was good I had Purchased by Kingsbury Stables a few left over.@ The strapping Indian Charlie colt (hip 492) is out of Bally Storm (Sumer Squall) and is a half- brother to multiple stakes placed Silver Bayer (Smoke Glacken). He worked a furlong last Thursday in :10.1 (video) . The colt was consigned by Becky Thomas=s Sequel Bloodstock. Thomas purchased the youngster for $95,000 out of last year=s Keeneland September sale. After offering Miller a few congratulatory hugs, Thomas said, AHe was an awesome horse. I loved him. He ended up at this sale because of a bunch of circumstances, but he was the first horse that I=ve done a video on since we used to send videos to the Japanese in the 1990s. I loved, loved, loved this horse. He is just so awesome, so professional.@ Thomas was selling the horse along with partners Dennis and Michael Narlinger. AHe looked like this, but not developed,@ Thomas said of the colt as a yearling. AHe was immature. He has grown a lot, but he had the framework of what he=s turned into. Besides what he looks like, he=s just performed everyday of his life. And he=s got the most laid-back attitude. He=s just a really cool horse.@ Cont. p2 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 5/25/11 • PAGE 2 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com FTMMAY cont. Pope Takes Home More Than Ready Filly A filly by More Than Ready, named Corkage, sold for $300,000 to the bid of Whisper Hill Farm=s Mandy Pope. Pope, bidding alongside bloodstock advisor Chris Brothers from a back row inside the sales pavilion, only got into the action in the last couple of bids. She saw off a challenge from Donver Stable=s Verne Dubinsky, bidding with bloodstock agent Ciaran Dunne at the outside rail of the pavilion, to secure the bay filly. Asked what she liked about the filly, who worked a furlong in :10.1 (video) last Thursday, Pope said, AEverything. She=s gorgeous and she=s correct. She moves very well over the track. She went very fast and has a great attitude. There was nothing not to like. Everything was there. She couldn=t have done anything more.@ Pope admitted the final price tag was more than she expected to pay. AWe were hoping to pay around $150,000 to $200,000, to be honest with you,@ she said. ABut it=s the usual thing. The really nice ones, there are plenty of people who want them. You just have to, if you can, pay for them and cross your fingers, because everything has to go right to get that money back again.@ Pope is in a good position to judge the strength of the Midlantic market. Her Whisper Hill Farm ventured into the pinhooking business with a group of yearlings purchased at auction last year. Through De Meric Sales, Pope sold a colt by Grand Slam for $90,000 yesterday. She had acquired the gray for $30,000 at last year=s Saratoga New York-bred sale. AIf you have a nice horse, you=re going to be heads FTMMAY Toppers cont. above everything else that is in the sale,@ Pope said. Hip Sex Sire Dam Price ($) AWe probably only had four horses on our short list. It=s 551 c Tapit Chief’s Honey 210,000 a good place to bring something that can really stand ($230,000 yrl ‘10 FTSAUG; $245,000 RNA ‘11 FTFFEB) out. And I like [the sale] at this time of year, because B-Mike Abraham (KY) they are ready to go on. It=s not like buying them in Consigned by Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds LLC, agent Purchased by Sky Chai Racing February or March, because you=ll need to give them a 483 c Forest Grove Asheville 200,000 couple of months off since there is nothing else they ($10,000 wnlg ‘09 KEENOV; $22,000 RNA ‘11 OBSMAR) can do right then.@ Corkage (hip 409) is out of Uncork B-Nelson Bunker Hunt (Unbridled), a half-sister to stakes winner Chetten Consigned by Pike Racing, agent Purchased by Charles J Cella County (Giant=s Causeway) and to the dam of multiple 526 c Latent Heat Buzz Off Buzz 195,000 graded stakes winner Apart (Flatter). Bob Hess, Jr. will ($37,000 yrl ‘10 FTKJUL; $59,000 yrl ‘10 FTKOCT; $150,000 RNA ‘11 FTFFEB) train the filly. B-Dapple Bloodstock & Alastar T’breds Co (KY) Consigned by Cary Frommer, agent Far from a Swan Song... Purchased by Sagamore Farm, Bob Feld, agent 364 f Indian Charlie Sweet Monarch 170,000 Corkage was one of three horses consigned to the Midlantic sale by Ocala-based Lynne Boutte. The filly ($90,000 yrl ‘10 KEESEP) was purchased for $50,000 by Black Swan Stable. B-Grousemont Farm (KY) Consigned by De Meric Sales, agent Purchased by Stanley Hough Black Swan is a racing partnership, and the More Than 451 f Medaglia d’Oro Ada’s Dream 170,000 Ready filly was the group=s first foray into pinhooking. ($25,000 yrl ‘10 KEESEP) ABlack Swan is a group that I=ve been buying racehorses B-Twin Creeks Farm (KY) for the last couple of years, and they decided they Consigned by Eisaman Equine, agent wanted to try the pinhooking side of it,@ Boutte Purchased by Joseph Bucci & Peter Minikes explained yesterday. AThis filly, when we bought her, 484 f Empire Maker Ashley Hall 170,000 we bought her early, early in the day. Just with what ($70,000 RNA ‘10 KEESEP) we gave for her, it was the perfect opportunity to take B-Epona Bloodstock (KY) a shot.@ Consigned by Eddie Woods, agent for Daybreak Stables Inc Cont. p3 Purchased by West Coast Stable P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 5/25/11 • PAGE 3 of 9 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Far from a Swan Song cont. AMy parents couldn=t spell horse,@ she laughed. AI Boutte picked out the youngster along with Black grew up in New York, but my elementary school was Swan manager John DeStefano. AShe has been a right outside Belmont Park. I got hooked looking at the pleasure since the day we horses outside my school window. My parents allowed got her,@ Boutte said of me to start with show horses. We lived up the road the juvenile. AI love More from [Hall of Fame trainer] Allen Jerkens and he Than Ready. Even before actually helped me get my first job on the racetrack, he had two horses win at walking hots. I earned my way up from there.@ the Breeders= Cup, I just Boutte has been consigning horses for over two thought he was decades, but admitted changes in the economy have awesome. When I bought led to changes in how she does business. her, [Taylor Made=s] Frank AWe used to sell a lot, but now, with the industry Taylor came up to me and changing so much, it makes me sad to tell people I said, >I can=t believe you couldn=t sell their horse, so we=ve dropped back a lot,@ Chris & Lynne Boutte got her for that.= And I she explained. AMostly now we just sell our own horses Lydia A Williams said, >I can=t believe it that we=ve pinhooked. It=s just what we find that we either.=@ feel we want to own. You don=t just want to own a Boutte knew the filly would be sought after well horse anymore.