Shedaresthedevil to Remain in Training After $5M Sale

American Classic winner Shedaresthedevil  will remain in training after lighting up the bid board for $5 million late Nov. 9 at The November Sale, Fasig-Tipton's premier breeding stock sale near Lexington.

"I'm excited about it," said trainer Brad Cox. "(A trip) back to the Breeders' Cup would be the year-end goal with obviously some grade 1s sprinkled in throughout the year. She's very sound, there is a lot of tread left on the tire, and I'm excited to get her back." 

The 4-year-old daughter of Daredevil   will be campaigned in partnership by Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm with Qatar Racing and Flurry Racing Stables. The latter two were among the original partners to campaign the Cox trainee. 

"It's great to have the opportunity to be on board with my new partners and to go racing for another year," said Pope. "Alex Solis put us all together so I'm looking forward to it and not only to having a lot of fun but winning a lot of money. It will be great. She's such a wonderful racehorse, and she's gorgeous. She reminds me a lot in her physique and the way she carries herself of Havre de Grace ."

"It's fantastic and she'll go to Mandy as well," said Adrian Regan of Hunter Valley Farm. "We were very busy, and she behaved like a champion the whole time and showed herself fantastic. She is one in a million, or one in five million." 

Consigned as Hip 232 by Hunter Valley Farm, Shedaresthedevil was bred in Kentucky by WinStar Farm out of the Congrats mare Starship Warpspeed, making her a half sister to stakes winner Mojovation and from the family of grade 1-place Crafty C.T. 

Shedaresthedevil first went through the sales ring as a weanling, selling for $100,000 to Big Cuse Bloodstock from Taylor Made Sales Agency's consignment to the 2017 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. She failed to meet her reserve when consigned by Warrendale Sales as a yearling back in the ring at Keeneland, where the hammer fell at $20,000. After beginning her racing career for Glencrest Farm, and after one start for that outlet in partnership with Qatar Racing, Flurry Racing went to $280,000 to buy her as a 2-year-old from Hunter Valley's consignment to the Keeneland November sale in 2019, Qatar Racing stayed in for a piece, and her incredible journey began. 

After one allowance start for Flurry and Qatar, Big Aut Farms joined the group to form the trio that would campaign Shedaresthedevil to her greatest successes. She brought home her first stakes win in March 2020 in the Honeybee Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park. In a year during which the American classic races were rescheduled for the fall due to the continued spread of COVID-19, the filly racked up extra points on her way to Churchill Downs with another win in the Indiana Oak (G3). She went on to win the 2020 Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) in record time.

At 4, Shedaresthedevil returned to win the Azeri Stakes (G3) and picked up additional top honors in the La Troienne Stakes Presented by Twinspires.com (G1), Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (G1), and Locust Grove Stakes (G3). She most recently placed sixth in the Nov. 6 Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) at Del Mar. To date, she holds a 9-2-4 record from 17 starts and $2,331,458 in earnings.