Maverick Racing Secures Violence Colt for $410,000
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The Violence colt consigned as Hip 1694 in the ring at the Keeneland September Sale
A son of Violence offered during the Sept. 19 sixth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale attracted the attention of Maverick Racing, which went to $410,000 to secure the bay colt.
Maverick Racing is the buying arm of WinStar Farm. WinStar's president and CEO, Elliott Walden, signed the ticket on the colt, consigned as Hip 1694 by Hidden Brook, agent.
"He was quality. He's as good of a horse as we've seen all week," Walden said. "Nice horse and there's some really good physicals still coming. I'm encouraged with what's in Books 3 and 4."
Violence scored his first North American grade 1 winner this year when No Parole led all the way in the June 20 Woody Stephen Stakes Presented by Claiborne Farm (G1) at Belmont Park. The Hill 'n' Dale Farms stallion then had Volatile take the July 25 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G1) at Saratoga Race Course and Dr. Schivel score in the Sept. 7 Runhappy Del Mar Futurity (G1) at Del Mar. Violence's son Dandy Del Barrio won a group 1 in Argentina in June 2019.
"Wouldn't be buying (his progeny) last year, but you have to look at (them) this year," Walden said of Violence.
Elliott Walden at Keeneland
Hip 1694 was bred in Kentucky by Douglas Scharbauer and is the second foal out of the stakes-placed City Zip mare Brinkley. Brinkley's first foal, 2-year-old Bobby Brinkley (by Shanghai Bobby), has a win and a second from three starts this year.
Brinkley is a half sister to grade 2 winner Bound for Nowhere, and her dam, the Alydeed mare Fancy Deed, was produced from the Dehere mare Candytuft, best known as the dam of champion sprinter and grade 1-producing sire Midnight Lute , who also stands at Hill 'n' Dale.