Train to Artemus Keeps Rolling With $250k HORA Sale

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Photo: Skip Dickstein
Train to Artemus captures the May 19 The Very One Stakes at Pimlico Race Course

Since claimed for $35,000 at Saratoga Race Course in the summer of 2022, Train to Artemus  made $432,103 in winning six of 14 starts for trainer Kelly Breen and owner M and W Stables.

Then, in the auction ring Nov. 17 during the Keeneland November Horses of Racing Age Sale, she continued paying off, selling for $250,000 to Dixiana Farms. Bluewater Sales consigned the 5-year-old mare.


A daughter of Tapizar  out of the Kitten's Joy mare Pay Day Kitten , Train to Artemus initially raced for owner Ken Ramsey, who bred her with his late wife, Sarah. Wesley Ward and later Saffie Joseph Jr. trained her through her first seven starts, during which time she won thrice, including on Aug. 28, 2022, when Breen and John Martino of M and W Stables claimed her at Saratoga.

For Breen and M and W Stables, she developed into a stakes horse this year, winning the Feb. 18 Lightning City Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, the May 19 The Very One Stakes at Pimlico Race Course, and the June 24 Goldwood Stakes at Monmouth Park. Following the Goldwood, she placed in four stakes in five other starts, including in her most recent race when third in the Oct. 15 Franklin Stakes (G2T) at Keeneland, her first graded stakes placing.

She has a career record of 9-2-5 in 21 starts with earnings of $549,718, with seven wins in turf sprints. She also has a sprint win on a sloppy track on dirt at Churchill Downs and another on Tapeta at Gulfstream Park.

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Bill Shively, who co-owns Dixiana Farm with his wife, Donna, said Train to Artemus could race before being bred, adding that he wanted to evaluate her after the sale. She sold as a racing/broodmare prospect.

"I really like grass fillies, and we like to breed grass horses," he said. "I think she's a really nice mare. She's very physically fit; she's a nice one."

Moments after acquiring Train to Artemus (Hip 4132), Dixiana acquired another racing/broodmare prospect in Up and Down  (Hip 4138) for $165,000. The gray/roan Mill Ridge Sales-consigned Creative Cause   filly is a half sister to graded stakes winner Fluffy Socks .