Uncle Mo Half Sibling to Shedaresthedevil Brings $2.5M

During the second session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale Sept. 12, buyer John Stewart was able to secure the pièce de résistance in the Uncle Mo   half sibling to multiple grade 1 winner Shedaresthedevil . The WinStar Farm-bred filly sold for a hefty $2.5 million. 

"She is a lovely filly," Gavin O'Connor, agent for John Stewart, said. "I know the family personally—I worked for WinStar for five years. She is an unbelievable broodmare prospect as well. The residual value is there; we feel we have a safe asset. (The price) was a little bit more than we wanted to go, but like we said, John is a buyer. John was on the phone, giving us the clearance to keep going. We've had an incredible sale, and I think we are sealed up now; we're done. We have a total of 10, and for John, as a first-time owner, he has an exciting stable of horses."

O'Connor added: "She is so pretty, and I love Uncle Mo babies. They are so smart, so intelligent. When you see them, you see them. Everybody loved her. She was a standout filly. To get her is a dream come true."

Denali Stud consigned the filly out of Starship Warpspeed  as Hip 337; the filly's Daredevil   sister has accumulated earnings of $2,77,458 and a record of 10-3-6 in 21 races. She captured the Kentucky Oaks (G1), La Troienne Stakes (G1), and Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (G1) before Whisper Hill's Mandy Pope bought out her partners at $5 million during last year's Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

"Good things come to those who wait," Conrad Bandoroff, VP for Denali Stud, said. "It's a cliché to say, but she's a queen in every sense of the word. She was a beautiful filly with an unbelievable physical, fantastic pedigree, and raised by one of the best programs in the industry. David Hanley said, 'Leading into the sale, (I think) she is one of the best horses they've raised in a few years.' And she's one of the best horses we've seen all year. We go around to a lot of places, looking at a lot of horses, and that's the kind of horse that you're going to hope walks out of the stall, and she just had everything to back it up.

"We couldn't be more thrilled for WinStar and wish the best of luck to the connections. She's the kind of filly that you would hope to see running like her sister in the Kentucky Oaks and further down the line being a foundation blue hen mare for somebody. She's got every license to do that."

Over the past two days Stewart purchased 10 individuals, including a $350,000 Uncle Mo filly; a $650,000 Curlin   colt; an Into Mischief   colt for $800,000; a $350,000 American Pharoah   filly; a Constitution   colt for $850,000; the $1 million Into Mischief colt out of Halo Humor ; a $350,000 Omaha Beach   colt; the $650,000 Gun Runner   colt; and a $250,000 More Than Ready colt.