California Chrome Sires First North American Winner
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Cilla romps in a maiden test at Delaware Park
Freshman expatriate sire California Chrome sired his first North American winner Aug. 13 when his daughter Cilla won her second start, a six-furlong maiden special weight at Delaware Park, by 7 1/4 lengths on a sloppy, sealed track.
Cilla is a homebred for owner P. Dale Ladner and owner/breeder Brett Brinkman. The partners bred the filly in Louisiana out of the Into Mischief graded-placed, stakes winner Sittin At the Bar, who Ladner and Brinkman also raced.
Sittin At the Bar was bred by Spendthrift Farm and bought by Ladner for $30,000 at the 2011 Breeders Sales Company of Louisiana Yearling Sale out of the Pauls Mill Bloodstock consignment. As a racehorse, Sittin At the Bar won 11 of 19 starts and banked $705,896 in earnings, mostly in her home state of Louisiana.
Out of three foals to race, Sittin At the Bar has produced three winners, including black-type winner Jack the Umpire (by Bodemeister ). The mare delivered a filly this year by Spendthrift's Lord Nelson and was bred back to Darley's Frosted .
The 2014 and 2016 Horse of the Year while in training with Art Sherman, California Chrome sired his first winner July 18 when Sunkar Time won the first race at Krasnodar Racetrack in Russia.
The 9-year-old son of Lucky Pulpit entered stud in 2017 at Taylor Made Stallions in Kentucky and shuttled for two seasons to Sumaya Stud in Chile. He completed his first breeding season at Arrow Stud on Hokkaido, Japan this year.