Violence Filly Sizzles Quarter-Mile for Midlantic Sale
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The Violence filly consigned as Hip 470 works a quarter-mile in :21 1/5 during the under tack show at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale
Topped by a :21 1/5 quarter-mile breeze by a 2-year-old Violence filly consigned by All Dreams Equine, the third and final under tack session took place May 19 in advance of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale in Timonium, Md. Her time was the co-fastest over three preview days over two furlongs, shared with a Collected filly (Hip 202) that breezed two days earlier during another under tack session.
The sale is May 23-24, closely following the May 21 Preakness Stakes (G1) when the national racing spotlight is focused upon Maryland.
The Violence filly, Hip 470, is the first foal out of the unplaced Distorted Humor mare La Titina , a half sister to stakes winner Belgrano (War Front ). Hip 470's second dam, Ask the Moon (Malibu Moon), was a dual grade 1 winner.
Bred by Stonehaven Steadings and Leah O'Meara in Kentucky, Hip 470 was purchased for $42,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale by Thoro Ventures from the consignment of her co-breeder, Stonehaven Steadings.
Eleven horses shared the co-fastest furlong time of :10 on Thursday, slightly off a sale-best time of :09 4/5 from a Bernardini colt (Hip 385) a day earlier. The group that hit :10 Thursday included progeny of American Pharoah , Friesan Fire , Violence, Speightster , West Coast , Golden Lad , Cairo Prince , Sharp Azteca , Good Samaritan , and Good Magic .
Of those, Hip 443 (American Pharoah), Hip 516 (West Coast), and Hip 592 (Good Magic) are several produced from stakes-winning dams.
The West Coast colt consigned as Hip 516 works an eighth-mile in :10 during the under tack show at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale
Hip 443, a filly bred by Erv Woolsey and Ralph Kinder in Kentucky and consigned by McKathan Bros. Sales, is out the graded-winning Henny Hughes mare Jordan's Henny . She went unsold when bidding halted at $290,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale when offered by the same consignor.
Hip 516, a colt bred by Hermitage Farm in Kentucky out of the Closing Argument mare Midst , is related to two black-type horses, including Inthemidstofbiz , winner of the 2020 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes (G2) at Keeneland. He was a $150,000 buy by Superfine Farm from his breeder's consignment to Keeneland's September Yearling Sale last year.
The Good Magic colt consigned as Hip 592 breezes an eighth-mile in :10 during the under tack show at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale
Hip 592, a colt consigned by Sequel Bloodstock, is out of the Big Brown mare Puca , who captured the 2017 Steve Pini Memorial Stakes at Suffolk Downs and placed in the Gazelle Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Bred in Kentucky by Grandview Equine, he was a $235,000 buy last September at Keeneland by New Team from the Runnymede consignment. His only sibling of racing age, a 3-year-old Gun Runner filly named Gunning, has yet to start but is currently breezing at Churchill Downs toward her debut.
As of 4 p.m. ET Thursday, 95 outs were reported, leaving 541 hips in the two-day sale, which Fasig-Tipton officials believe attracted one of the strongest catalogs in the sale's history. Grade 1 winners Beyond Brilliant , Gamine , Got Stormy , and Switzerland exited previous Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sales.