Barretts Sale Features Wide Selection

Homebreds and pinhooks at just about every price range make up the catalog for the Barretts May sale of 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age May 27 at Del Mar. It begins at 1 p.m. PDT.

With California-based Nyquist having won this year’s Kentucky Derby (gr. I) Presented by Yum! Brands, Hip 61, who is by his sire Uncle Mo  , should attract interest. The colt is also the most expensive pinhook in the catalog, having sold for $360,000 at last year’s Keeneland September yearling sale. Earlier, he sold for $240,000 at the 2015 Keeneland January mixed sale.

Raul Reyes’ Kings Equine consigned the Uncle Mo colt, who breezed a furlong in :10, equaling the second-fastest time, at the May 25 under tack preview. Marathon Farms bred the colt in Maryland from the stakes-winning Dayjur mare Lucette. The mare has already produced 2009 Hirsch Jacobs Stakes (gr. III) winner Everyday Heroes, by Awesome Again  .

The Kings Equine consignment includes several other six-figure pinhooks, including Hip 18, a Kentucky-bred Kitten's Joy   filly, who sold earlier this year for $125,000, and Hip 99, a Kentucky-bred Speightstown   colt, who sold as a yearling for $155,000.

“I think our top end might be a little better this year,” said Kim Lloyd, general manager of Barretts. “We love the fact that we can have a wonderful sale here at Del Mar.”

Horse of the Year Ghostzapper   has a colt and a filly in the catalog. John Brockleback, agent for Vern Dickman’s Legacy Ranch, brings Hip 2, a Kentucky-bred son of the stakes-placed Arch mare Aide. The colt sold for $18,000 at the Keeneland September yearling sale.

Andy Havens’ Havens Bloodstock Agency is consigning the filly, Hip 95, named Awesome Form. Bred in California by Premier Thoroughbreds and Alan Klein from the stakes-placed Dynaformer mare Quarayed, the filly has not been through a prior sale.

Other major sires represented in the catalog include Candy Ride  , City Zip  , Lucky Pulpit  , Malibu Moon  , More Than Ready  , Pioneerof the Nile  , Tale of the Cat  , Unbridled's Song, and Unusual Heat.

A combination of sale scheduling across the country and events taking place at Del Mar have led to the late May date for the sale in 2015 and 2016, since Barretts moved to Del Mar. Previously, the company conducted its sales at Fairplex Park in Pomona, a racetrack that has since closed, and the date was earlier in the month, usually between the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes (gr. I).

“We would love to have it back to that date in the future,” said Lloyd.

The main catalog consists of 138 2-year-olds, with several juveniles and a few older horses of racing age added as supplemental entries.