Into Mischief, Gainesway Team Up Again on $2.3M Filly

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Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
The Into Mischief filly consigned as Hip 92 in the ring at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale

Sheikha Hissa, daughter of the late Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, didn't wait long to start adding yearlings to her elite stable of runners on Day 1 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale Sept. 11. When the Into Mischief   filly consigned as Hip 92 by Gainesway strode into the ring she was victorious at $2.3 million to add her to her collection.


The bay was bred in Kentucky by International Equities Holding and is half sibling to Perry and Ramona Bass' Summertime Oaks (G2) winner Window Shopping , by American Pharoah  , who took the Santa Anita Park | BloodHorse.com Track Profile">Santa Anita Park test in June, after being runner-up in the Santa Anita Oaks (G2) on the West Coast in April for trainer Richard Mandella. Both fillies are out of the grade 3-winning Tapit   mare Delightful Joy , winner of the 2015 Monmouth Oaks (G3) and second in that year's Turnback the Alarm Handicap (G3).

"I honestly thought she would bring every bit of $1.5 million," Graves admitted. "She's a top physical, out of a grade 3-winning Tapit mare who's already produced a grade 2 winner still performing on the track. She was one of the best-looking yearlings I saw this year. We thought that could happen. From the first time you looked at that filly, you thought that could happen. It's a pleasant surprise but not shocking."

Brian Graves with Hip 92 a yearling filly by Into Mischief out of Delightful Joy, that was consigned by Gainesway to the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale on Sept. 11, 2023 at Keeneland in Lexington, KY.
Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
Brian Graves fields questions to the media at the Keeneland September Sale

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Earlier in the day, Shadwell Racing snapped up an Uncle Mo   filly from Taylor Made Sales Agency, consigned as Hip 20. The Kentucky-bred by Don Alberto Corporation out of grade 1 winner Angela Renee , by Bernardini, sold for $750,000. Angela Renee is a full sibling to millionaire grade 1 winner To Honor and Serve.

The yearling filly is half sibling to the 4-year-old Medaglia d'Oro   colt Gilded Age, runner-up in the 2022 Curlin Stakes and third in last year's Withers Stakes (G3). She has a 2-year-old Curlin half brother and a weanling Curlin   half sister.

This year marks the first time the Sheikha has shopped the Keeneland September Sale herself since her father's passing in 2021. Johnny Smith of Shadwell said, "Sheikha Hissa is very happy to be here and excited to participate in the sale, there will be more fireworks tomorrow."