Arrogate Half Sister Osare Retired

Bridlewood Farm's Osare, a stakes-winning half sister to Arrogate  trained by Jonathan Thomas, has been retired following an off-the-board effort in the July 6 Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes (G3T) at Delaware Park.

Bred in Kentucky by Clearsky Farms, the dark bay daughter of Medaglia d'Oro  is out of the multiple stakes-winning Distorted Humor  mare Bubbler, who also produced 2016 Eclipse Award-winning 3-year-old colt and 2017 Dubai World Cup Sponsored By Emirates Airline (G1) and Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) winner Arrogate.

Osare was a $300,000 purchase by Bridlewood from Clearsky's consignment to the 2016 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

"She chased a fast pace at Delaware," Thomas said. "She's already a stakes winner, but with her pedigree, you want to give her a chance to be graded stakes-placed. We're going to retire her to be a broodmare. She went back to Bridlewood, and they have a lot of time until the breeding season to decide who she will be bred to. With her pedigree and the fact that she is a stakes winner, there's nothing but upside."

Thomas also provided an update Friday on Robert LaPenta, Madaket Stables, Siena Farm, and Twin Creeks Racing Stables' versatile Catholic Boy, a grade 1 winner on turf and dirt.

The son of More Than Ready  finished second to Preservationist in the $700,000 Suburban Stakes (G2) on the Belmont Park dirt after acing his season debut in the May 18 Dixie Stakes (G2T) on the turf at Pimlico Race Course.

Though he has remained at the Elmont, N.Y. oval, Thomas said he will ship Catholic Boy to Saratoga at the end of the month with the $750,000 Woodward Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1) Aug. 31 as the target.

"I'll bring him up here in a week or two," Thomas said. "I'm just letting him get over his race down there. He came out of it OK for the most part. The Woodward is still the primary target."