MACHO UNO Sire of G1-winning Millionaires from DAILY 6F to 10F AAAAA SSSSASS WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016 WWW.BLOODHORSE.COM K A A K K K KK SALES UPDATE IN TODAY’S EDITION F-T SALE SHOWCASES CALUMET’S FRESHMEN SIRES 2 FIRST YEARLINGS FROM ADENA SPRINGS STALLIONS 4 PARX DASH ATTRACTS TOP TURF SPRINTERS 5 NEW HIGH NOTE FOR OUTSIDE NASHVILLE 6 HANDLE DOWN, PURSES UP IN JUNE 7 FORTY NINER STILL GOLDEN 8 FRANKEL GETS FIFTH WINNER FROM SIX STARTERS 8 MICROCHIPPING, TIME TO RIDE DISCUSSED 9 ADAM COGLIANESE ADAM Fort Larned is one of many sires with representatives of their first crop PURSES SET TO FALL IN WEST VIRGINIA 10 of yearlings on sale at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July sale COUP DE GRACE STUD FEE SET 10 EXCITEMENT GROWS AT FIRST-CROP SIRES HAWKBILL ADDS TO KITTEN'S JOY'S RECORD 11 By Alastair Bull RESULTS 12 ew topics create more interest at the summer year- ENTRIES 14 Fling sales than how the yearlings by first-crop sires look and will be received by the market. LEADING LISTS 18 Over the next six days Blood-Horse Daily will profile all of the first-crop sires represented in the Fasig-Tip- ton Kentucky July catalog, the kick-off auction for the yearling season. BENCHMARK TRAINING CENTER In this edition are profiles of Calumet Farm's new sires: Preakness Stakes (gr. I) winner Oxbow, who has eight year- lings cataloged; Raison d'Etat, a well-related son of A.P. Indy with one cataloged; and Snapy Halo, an Argentinian-bred, TURNING OUT SUCCESSFUL RUNNERS Australia-based son of Southern Halo who has one yearling from his first U.S.-conceived yearling crop on offer. Also featured in this edition are two new stallions from Full Service Adena Springs. Five-time grade I winner Point of Entry, Training Facility with Quality Services. who stands at Adena Springs Kentucky, has two yearlings Call about our cataloged for the sale, and there are four yearlings in the Competitive Pricing! catalog by Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) winner Fort Larned, who stands at Adena Springs South in Florida. Besides market leaders, the series will provide insight BENCHMARK TRAINING CENTER into several stallions standing outside Kentucky and a cou- Gerwyn “Taffy” Jones, Owner/Trainer Mark Brennan, Farm Manager ple that may only be represented by one North American 9645 County Road 2300 • Quinlan, TX 75474 Phone/903.356.2998 • Fax/903.356.3480 crop. BH www.benchmarktc.com • Email: [email protected] BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF 18 SALES UPDATE F-T SALE SHOWCASES CALUMET’S Blood-Horse's MarketWatch, the five foals from FRESHMEN SIRES Oxbow's first crop sold as weanlings averaged $89,000, with a $105,000 median, ranking him By Ron Mitchell fifth and third, respectively, in those categories hen Oxbow defeated Kentucky Derby Pre- for first-year sires. Wsented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Orb Oxbow is by the Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. to win the 2013 Preakness Stakes (gr. I), the son I) winner and top-quality sire Awesome Again, of Awesome Again provided an eighth win in the whose sire sons include Ghostzapper and Awe- middle leg of the Triple Crown for historic Calu- some of Course. Oxbow is out of Tizamazing met Farm and the first classic win for Brad Kelley, (Cee's Tizzy—Cee's Song), a full sister not only to the Lexington nursery's current owner. champion racehorse and outstanding sireTiznow, Initially retired to Taylor Made Stallions near but to the stakes winners Budroyale, Tizbud, and Nicholasville, Ky., Oxbow was popular from the Tizdubai. beginning, his first crop producing 78 foals. As That mating also produced the mare Tizso, Calumet built its own stallion roster, Oxbow relo- whose progeny include three stakes winners—Tiz cated to the farm for the 2015 season and stood West, Tizakitty, and Paynter. The latter is also by for a $17,500 fee this year. Awesome Again, and like Oxbow he has his first Now, three years after his classic success, Ox- yearlings on the market at Fasig-Tipton July. bow has his first crop of yearlings selling at public In addition to the Preakness, Oxbow won the auction during the July 12 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Lecomte Stakes (gr. III) and finished second in the select yearling sale in Lexington. According to Belmont Stakes (gr. I) behind Palace Malice. Two of the eight Oxbow offspring cataloged at Fasig-Tipton have been withdrawn. Of the remaining six, which are being sold by various consignors, three were bred by Calumet. All of the remaining Cal- umet-bred Oxbow yearlings are from daughters of A.P. Indy. Hip 118 is a colt out of Alligator Style, whose dam is grade II winner Sensibly Chic, and Hip 124 is a filly out of A P's Hidden Honey, whose solid black-type fam- ily includes multiple grade II winner and grade I-placed Top Secret. Hip 259 is a colt out of $121,828-earner Inda, RICK SAMUELS a daughter of champion The first yearlings to hit the market by Calumet Farm’s Oxbow are being offered at the Queena. Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July sale (continued on page 3) BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016 PAGE 2 OF 18 smartphone app F-T SALE SHOWCASES CALUMET’S LATEST HEADLINES FROM BLOODHORSE.COM FRESHMEN SIRES WARD TO WORK LADY AURELIA AT (continued from page 2) KEENELAND Trainer Wesley Ward is favoring the Prix Morny (Fr-I) in France The other three Oxbows cataloged were foaled for his star juvenile filly Lady Aurelia, in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. Bred in one of the most impressive winners at Maryland by Marathon Farms, Hip 136 is a filly out Royal Ascot in June, and hopes to work of the Gone West mare Beautiful Lu and from the her at Keeneland in the next 10 days. family of prominent sires Ghostzapper and City Zip. Blackstone Farm bred Hip 158, a colt produced from BREEDERS' CUP LATE-NOMINATION stakes-placed Buck Trout's Niece (Waquoit), in Penn- DEADLINE NEARS Owners of horses sylvania. Multiple stakes-placed Bessiepunkindo, the of racing age currently not nominated dam of stakes winners Lil Punkindo, is the second to the Breeders' Cup program can dam of Hip 297, a colt out of the El Corredor mare nominate their runners at discounted Makeitagame bred in Kentucky by Michelle, Mallory, rates on or before July 15 for and Matthew Morehead. competition in this year's Breeders' Cup Joining Oxbow among Calumet-based sires with World Championships Nov. 4-5 at Santa first North American crops are Snapy Halo and Rai- Anita. son d'Etat. A winner of the Gran Premio Estrellas Mile (Arg-I) DARK NILE, BROWSE TO MEET AGAIN AT in his native Argentina, Snapy Halo completed his DELAWARE Dark Nile and Browse, the career in Australia and entered stud there. The one-two finishers in the local Our Mims 12-year-old is a son of multiple leading Argentinian Stakes in early June, are among nine sire Southern Halo, best-known in the U.S. as the sire 3-year-old fillies entered for the $300,000 of the highly-successful More Than Ready, out of the Delaware Oaks (gr. III) at Delaware Park. stakes-winning Ringaro mare Esnaola, who has pro- CHURCHILL HANDLE IMPROVES AT duced two other grade I winners to Southern Halo: SPRING MEET For a second straight year champion older female Halo Ola and Sebi Halo. Snapy Halo sired two Australian crops and en- Churchill Downs registered an increase tered stud at Calumet in 2014 for a $7,500 fee that in total pari-mutuel handle for its 38- has remained unchanged. He has 21 yearlings, one day spring meet. of which is cataloged at the Fasig-Tipton sale. TCA ANNOUNCES AWARD OF MERIT Also with one entered is Raison d'Etat, a well-bred WINNERS FOR JUNE Thoroughbred son of A.P. Indy campaigned by breeder Juddmonte Charities of America has announced Farms throughout most of his career. He finished the Award of Merit recipients honored second in the Curlin Stakes and third in the Discovery at state breeders' association awards Handicap (gr. III) before Kelley's Bluegrass Hall Farm ceremonies in June. acquired him in November 2012. Raison d'Etat, who stood for $7,500 this year, is out of the grade I win- SUFFOLK ATTRACTS 192 ENTRIES FOR ner Sightseek and traces back to champion filly Chris TWO PROGRAMS Suffolk Downs, which Evert. His first season at stud produced 19 horses. BH will host the first racing programs this year in Massachusetts, attracted 192 Contact us entries for 22 races scheduled for July (800) 582-5604 or (859) 278-2361 9-10 as part of its six-day 2016 race Comments, Story Ideas meet. [email protected] Advertising Questions [email protected] Customer Service © 2016 Blood-Horse LLC [email protected] BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016 PAGE 3 OF 18 smartphone app SALES UPDATE FIRST YEARLINGS FROM ADENA SPRINGS Virginia by James Miller produced from a winning STALLIONS Macho Uno half sister to grade II-placed Riveting Reason and stakes-placed Bang Bang Bang. Mill By Ron Mitchell Ridge Sales is the consignor. ort Larned and Point of Entry had outstanding Point of Entry, a son of Dynaformer out of F2012 campaigns—the former on dirt, the latter the Seeking the Gold mare Matlacha Pass, who on grass—but their accomplishments weren't is also the dam of multiple grade I winner Pine enough for either to outpoll Wise Dan, who was Island, stood for $25,000 this year, unchanged voted Horse of the Year, champion older male, from 2014.