Violence, Mshawish Weanlings Drive Early Book 3 Market

A weanling colt by Violence  that sold for $180,000 and a Mshawish  filly that brought $170,000 drove the early market Nov. 8 during the first day of Book 3 at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Both second-crop sire Violence and Mshawish, who entered stud last year, are by top sire Medaglia d'Oro .

The youngsters were the top-priced weanlings during the early afternoon of session 4. However, a colt by Flatter  sold for $200,000 in the late afternoon and was soon outdone when a Speightstown  colt brought $285,000 to be the highest-priced weanling of the day.

Doug Arnold's Buck Pond Farm bred and consigned the Violence colt as Hip 1077 that went to Dudley Racing. The colt is out of the New Jersey stakes winner Al Max Diner (by End Sweep), who is also the dam of the stakes-winning and grade 3-placed Manuka Honey (by Borrego).

"This is a sire-driven sale, and Violence is extremely hot right now," Arnold said. "A lot of breeders are on him and have been since the start. His pipeline looks loaded, and he figures to be a force to be reckoned with for the foreseeable future.

"The colt had a lot of people on him, and he had several scopes this morning."

The sire had two other weanlings sell during Day 4 of the sale—a filly consigned by Bedouin Bloodstock as Hip 1105 out of the Medallist mare Bessie M, and a colt consigned by St. George Sales as Hip 1167 out of the Discreet Cat mare Discreet Girl. Both sold for $80,000.

With eight black-type winners in 2018, Violence, who stands at Hill 'n' Dale Farms near Lexington for a 2019 fee of $40,000, is the leading second-crop sire by progeny earnings.

Sarahsponda Racing bred the Mshawish filly, who is out of the Indian Charlie mare Frere Pilgrim. She was consigned as Hip 1210 by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, and purchased by de Meric Stables.

"On physical, I think she's as good as anything that will sell today," Nick de Meric said. "To me, she is a top individual. She had a lovely, scopey walk on her. She looks like she has the mind and disposition to go with it.

"Mshawish was a very talented racehorse. I think he has a license to make a successful run as a stallion as anyone out there. He was an accomplished horse out of a pre-potent sire line."

Mshawish's first crop are selling as weanlings this year. A multiple grade 1 winner out of the Thunder Gulch mare Thunder Bayou, Mshawish stands at Taylor Made Stallions near Nicholasville, Ky. Winner of the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (G1T) and Donn Handicap (G1), as well as finishing third in the Dubai Turf Sponsored by DP World (G1), Mshawish's fee for 2019 is $10,000. Another Mshawish weanling filly sold earlier in the day for $70,000.