Con Te Partiro Bound for Breeders' Cup, Keeneland Sale

Internationally successfully race mare Con Te Partiro—a stakes winner in the U.S., Britain, and Australia—is being pointed for the Breeders' Cup Nov. 7 at Keeneland before selling at Keeneland's November Breeding Stock Sale Nov. 9.

Racing for owner Newgate SF and trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott in Australia, Con Te Partiro this year won two group 1 events: the 7 1/2-furlong Coolmore Classic and 1-mile Coolmore Legacy Stakes, both on turf. Last year at 5, Con Te Partiro won a group 3 in her Australian debut.

The well-traveled 6-year-old daughter of Scat Daddy has started at 14 tracks on three continents over five seasons of racing.

"It is remarkable to reflect on what Con Te Partiro has achieved in her racing career," Waterhouse said in a Keeneland release. "It is a rare feat in itself to win stakes races on three continents, but it is her performances at the elite level in Australia for which she will be remembered. Con Te Partiro won both of the time-honored group 1 races, the Coolmore Classic and the Coolmore Legacy, making her, arguably, the best-performed mare in Australia." 

Con Te Partiro's return to Keeneland will come more than four years after she opened her career at the Lexington track with a dominating 5 1/2-length victory on dirt as a 2-year-old for trainer Wesley Ward and owner Hat Creek Racing in the spring of 2016. Transferred to turf, she won the Bolton Landing at Saratoga Race Course by 5 3/4 lengths and was second against males in the Juvenile Turf Sprint on the Breeders' Cup undercard that year at Santa Anita Park.

Her 3-year-old campaign included a trip to England, where she won the Sandringham Stakes at Royal Ascott, and she raced in grade 1 stakes at Del Mar and Keeneland. The next season, she was third in the Arlington Matron Stakes (G3) in Chicago. 

Con Te Partiro is out of the grade 1-placed Street Cry mare Temple Street. She is a half-sister to stakes winner and multiple graded stakes-placed Donworth.

SF Bloodstock and Newgate Farm purchased the filly for $575,000 from the Ashview Farm consignment in 2018 at The November Sale, Fasig-Tipton's marquee breeding sale in Lexington.

"Con Te Partiro truly is a one-of-a-kind mare," said Tom Ryan of SF Bloodstock in the Keeneland release. "Her accomplishments on the track—including two grade 1 wins in Australia, stakes victories at both the Royal Ascot and Saratoga race meets and successes on both dirt and turf—put her in an elite category of racehorses with the ability to perform at the highest level around the world. 

"We purchased her in 2018 as a beautiful stakes-winning filly by Scat Daddy from the family of Into Mischief, and we are proud to say she has exceeded all expectations since."

She is also a graduate of Keeneland's 2015 September Yearling Sale, having been purchased by Cromwell Bloodstock for $130,000 when consigned by Taylor Made for her breeder, K. C. Garrett Farm.

"Con Te Partiro has excelled at the highest level of international racing while she has exemplified just how small the global Thoroughbred industry is," Keeneland president-elect and interim head of sales Shannon Arvin said in the release. "We are thrilled to hold a Keeneland homecoming for Con Te Partiro. She sold as a yearling at the September Sale and she began her racing career here during the 2016 spring meet. We look forward to presenting her at the November Sale with all the fanfare she deserves."