Bill Oppenheim, July 9-Pulpit, Meet Unbridled

PULPIT, MEET UNBRIDLED In a weekend replete with upsets, two longshots UPCOMING SALES CALENDAR introduced themselves as viable prospects by DATE SALE scoring their first Group 1 or Grade I wins. Sheikh JUL 8-11 JULY MIXED SALE Hamdan=s (), now a 5-year-old, JUL 14 FASIG-TIPTON JULY SALE & SUMMER SELECTED HORA SALE who had been placed twice behind () JUL 14-15 JHRA SELECT YEARLINGS/FOALS SALE in top Group 1 10-furlong races last year (the Prince of JUL 20 BARRETTS PADDOCK SALE Wales s and the Eclipse), then second to = AUG 4-5 FASIG-TIPTON SARATOGA SALE (Pivotal) in this year's G1 World Cup, in its last AUG 9-10 FASIG-TIPTON NY BRED PREFERRED YEARLINGS SALE year on Tapeta, finally got AUG 12 CTBA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA YEARLING & HORA SALE his first Group 1 win in AUG 16-18 ARQANA AUGUST YEARLING SALE Saturday=s Eclipse S., in AUG 19 ARQANA V.2 YEARLING SALE which the first three at the AUG 26 WTBOA SUMMER YEARLING AND MIXED SALE start were the first three at AUG 26 OBS SELCTED SALE OF YEARLINGS the finish. Then, in the AUG 26-27 DONCASTER PREMIER SALE inaugural GI Belmont Derby AUG 28 OBS OPEN SALE OF YEARLINGS for 3-year-olds at 10 AUG 28 DONCASTER SILVER YEARLING SALE furlongs on the grass, the SEPT 2 BADEN BADEN YEARLING SALES Phipps=s Mr Speaker, who is SEPT 2-4 DONCASTER HIT SALE bred on the same cross as Mukhadram SEPT 3 EQUINE SALES OF LA YEARLING SALE Tapit--by Pulpit out of an Racing Post photo SEPT 12-13 OSARUS YEARLING SALE Unbridled (who SEPT 8-21 KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE happens to be a daughter of SEPT 13 GOFFS CHAMPIONS SALE AT LEOPARDSTOWN the great Personal Ensign), established his stallion SEPT 19 SGA SUMMER YEARLING SALE credentials when red-hot jock Jose Lezcano cut the SEPT 23-24 TATTERSALLS IRELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE corner and came through on the inside rail to deny the Coolmore representative and favored Adelaide (Galileo). SEPT 29 FASIG-TIPTON MIDATLANTIC FALL YEARLINGS SALE Though only a Grade II winner himself, Pulpit=s OCT 1-2 GOFFS ORBY SALE credentials as a sire of sires are well established, OCT 3 GOFFS SPORTSMAN'S SALE primarily through runaway leading 2014 North OCT 4 ARQANA DE L'ARC TRIOMPHE SALE American sire Tapit, OCT 7 BARRETTS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE who stands at OCT 7 FASIG-TIPTON SARATOGA FALL MIXED AND HORA SALE Gainesway Farm; Three OCT 13 FASIG-TIPTON TEXAS YEARLINGS AND FALL MIXED SALE Chimneys= Sky Mesa; OCT 7-10 TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE BOOK 1 and, new this year, OCT 12-15 TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE BOOK 2 California=s Harris OCT 15-17 TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE BOOK 3 Farm=s Lucky Pulpit, sire OCT 20-22 ARQANA OCTOBER YEARLING SALE of GI Kentucky Derby OCT 20-22 FASIG-TIPTON THE OCTOBER SALE and GI Preakness OCT 26 EQUINE SALES OF LA YEARLING AND MIXED SALE winner California OCT 27-30 TATTERSALLS AUTUMN HIT SALE Chrome. Pulpit is also OCT 30-31 TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE BOOK 4 the sire of successful NOV 3 FASIG-TIPTON THE NOVEMBER SALE minor sires Stroll Mr Speaker NOV 3-5 DONCASTER AUTUMN SALE A Coglianese (Claiborne) and Sightseeing, who made NOV 4-14 KEENELAND NOVEMBER a very good start from limited opportunity in Kentucky, NOV 17-23 GOFFS NOVEMBER FOALS, YEARLINGS, BREEDING STOCK but died in South America while on dual-hemisphere NOV 24 TATTERSALLS DECEMBER YEARLING SALE duty. NOV 26-29 TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOAL SALE So we know Pulpit can sire a successful sire, and we DEC 1-5 TATTERSALLS DECEMBER MARE SALE particularly know he can do so out of an Unbridled DEC 8 FASIG-TIPTON MIDLANTIC DECEMBER MIXED SALE mare. DEC 6-9 ARQANA DECEMBER BREEDING STOCK SALE Data compiled by Brianne Stanley