WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2019 RECORDS FALL AS CLAIBORNE TO STAND CATHOLIC BOY UPON RETIREMENT MIDLANTIC SALE Claiborne Farm has purchased an interest in Catholic Boy (More Than Ready--Song of Bernadette, by Bernardini), a CONCLUDES Grade I winner on both dirt and turf and victor of the GII Dixie S. at Pimlico on Preakness Day in his 2019 debut. He will stand at the farm upon his retirement from racing, they announced Tuesday. AWhat an incredible horse. What an incredible effort [in the Dixie],@ said Robert LaPenta, who campaigns Catholic Boy in partnership with Madaket Stables, Siena Farm, and Twin Creeks Racing Stables. ASix and a half months offB[the Dixie S.] was not an easy race, and he made us proud.@ Cont. p13 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY THE PAT SMULLEN COLUMN $1.8-million Into Mischief filly - Hip 360 | Fasig-Tipton This week, retired champion jockey Pat Smullen reflects on the influence of legendary Irish trainer Dermot Weld. Click or tap by Jessica Martini here to go straight to TDN Europe. TIMONIUM, MD - With a blockbuster final session, the Fasig- Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale concluded Tuesday in Timonium with records in nearly every major category. A filly by Into Mischief caused the day=s biggest fireworks when selling for $1.8 million to Michael Lund Petersen. The seven-figure price was the most ever paid for a horse in the Midlantic sales ring and bettered the previous mark of $1.5 million set in 2017. With 326 horses sold, the sale gross was a record $29,374,000, bettering the previous mark of $25,237,000, also set in 2017. The average of $90,104 bettered the 2015 figure of $88,859, while the median of $43,000 trailed only 2015's figure of $45,000. AI was hoping we would do something big based on what everyone was telling me with what they were bringing and it all came to be,@ said Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sales Director Paget Bennett. AWe had a lot of new buyers and a lot of new consignors here, so when you get all the new faces, that tells you that people have confidence in this sale.@ For the fifth straight year, the Midlantic sale produced a seven- figure transaction when Petersen, standing alongside bloodstock agent Donato Lanni, made his record-setting final bid for hip 360, a bay filly from Bobby Dodd=s consignment. Cont. p3 MAKING . Sires of Sale Toppers from the Major 2YO Sales: 2019 EASMAY Into Mischief OBSAPR Into Mischief KEEAPR Tapit FTFMAR Curlin OBSMAR Tapit 2018 EASMAY Medaglia d’Oro OBSAPR Medaglia d’Oro FTFMAR Into Mischief OBSMAR Scat Daddy INTO MISCHIEF www.spendthriftfarm.com MAKING . $1,800,000 HIGHEST-PRICED HORSE EVER SOLD IN MARYLAND Buyer: Donato Lanni, Agent for Michael Lund Petersen Consignor: Bobby Dodd, Agent Breeder: Stonestreet INTO MISCHIEF www.spendthriftfarm.com PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Wednesday, May 22, 2019 Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Amie Morosco Advertising Assistant/Dir. Of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey Photographer/Photo Editor Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] Social Media Strategist Multiple graded stakes winner Tower of Texas begins his second career. Campaigned Justina Severni by Scott Dilworth and Tom Van Meter, the eight-year-old son of Street Sense is now in training for this year’s Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover. Director of Customer Service Vicki Forbes [email protected] THE ‘BEST’ COLONEL JOHN COLT 6 Marketing Manager Bloodstock agent John Dowd, bidding on behalf of Larry Best's OXO Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen Equine, was forced to $850,000 to acquire a colt by Colonel John Director of Information Technology Tuesday in Timonium. "We thought he was a really good individual Ray Villa who breezed really well," Dowd said. "He checked all the boxes. He [email protected] was a big strong, two-turn colt who has a natural turn of foot.” Bookkeeper Terry May [email protected] ‘SPEEDY’ PALACE FILLY GOES FOR $570K 8 Peter Fluor of Speedway Stable and bloodstock agent Marette WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Farrell have been focused on buying fillies with an eye towards International Editor increasing the operation's fledgling broodmare band this week. Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] They added another potential broodmare to the stable Tuesday, European Editor going to $570,000 for a filly from the first crop of Palace (City Zip). Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MAY 22, 2019 The previous Midlantic record was set in 2017 when Breeze bucks in Maryland in May.@ Easy and John Oxley teamed up to buy a colt by Curlin for $1.5 From a catalogue of 600 head, 425 horses went through the million. sales ring and 99 failed to find new homes for a buy-back rate of The record-setting filly topped 23.3%. It was 22.6% a year ago, an impressive sale for Into when 333 horses sold for Mischief, who had nine juveniles $24,868,500. The 2018 average sell in Timonium for a total of was $74,680 and the median $4,215,000 and an average of was $38,000. $468,333. The Spendthrift AI think it=s been strong and stallion was represented by with a solid middle market,@ three of the sale=s top eight bloodstock agent Liz Crow said prices, including a $710,000 colt. of the action in Timonium. AI Bennett admitted the record- think there have been a lot of setting auction exceeded her new names on the results sheet, expectations. which is nice to see and this a AYou hope to always improve great place to have a sale. You over your previous year, but this get all of these trainers who really exceeded my don=t go to a lot of the other expectations,@ she said. AWhen Sale-topping Into Mischief filly - Hip 360 | Fasig-Tipton sales. It=s one of the sales where that horse came in--everybody the middle market is actually knew it was a lovely horse--and when it just kept going and existent and it=s been nice to see.@ going, it was very exciting. It=s great for this marketplace that Consignor Eddie Woods was more pragmatic about the market consignors have the confidence to bring that type of horse to conditions. Maryland and for everybody to see that you can get the big AIt=s all or nothing,@ he said. AI think what you are able to TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MAY 22, 2019 peddle here are the horses that just need to be gone and you=ll get $35,000, $40,000 or $50,000 for them because there are people here to buy them. There is more racing in this part of the country than there is in any other part of the country period, so hence there is a bigger market for them. But it=s still all for the good horse at the end of the day and that=s all you can aim to have because, selling horses for $35,000, $40,000 or $50,000, that=s great that they are gone, but you don=t do any good.@ Into Mischief Filly Sets Midlantic Record Michael Lund Petersen | Fasig-Tipton A filly by Into Mischief became the most expensive horse to ever sell in the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sales ring when bringing a final bid of $1.8 million from Michael Lund Petersen. Petersen stood alongside bloodstock agent Donato Lanni, who did his bidding out back of the pavilion, not far from where Larry Best=s advisor John Dowd was bidding while on the phone. For Petersen, a founding shareholder in Pandora Jewelry, the filly=s appeal started squarely with her future trainer, Bob Baffert. ABob loved her,@ Petersen said. AI was hoping it wouldn=t go that high, but we had Bob on the phone and he still thought it was a good idea. I am solely relying on Bob. If he thinks it=s a good purchase and it=s my turn, then I am going to buy them. I don=t know enough about horses to spend $1.8 million on one. So I need a little bit of advice.@ The bay filly (hip 360) was the first to work the furlong in the bullet :10 flat time during last week=s under-tack preview. She is out of stakes-placed Peggy Jane (Kafwain) and was consigned by Bobby Dodd. Brad Grady=s Grand Oaks purchased the filly for $220,000 at last year=s Keeneland September sale. Petersen purchased another :10 flat worker from Dodd=s Midlantic sale consignment last year, going to $925,000 for a colt by Union Rags named Tale of the Union, who turned in a TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 14 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • MAY 22, 2019 Brad Grady | Fasig-Tipton >TDN Rising Star= debut at Del Mar last August.