From Barretts
DEL MAR, Calif. (Mar. 28, 2016) –With a cool breeze wafting over the Del Mar racetrack, a half-dozen 2-year-olds zipped a furlong in :09 4/5 during the March 28 under tack preview for the upcoming Barretts select 2-year-old sale.
The auction is set for March 30 at Del Mar, beginning at 2 p.m. PDT.
“The 2-year-olds just loved the surface,” said Kim Lloyd, general manager of Barretts Sales. “The colts and fillies were out there having a big time. It’s a very kind track that the horses were getting a hold of very, very well.”
Three colts and three fillies each turned in :09 4/5 for an eighth of a mile breeze, and they came from four different consignors. All six had gone through yearling sales the previous year.
The most expensive pinhook of the group was Hip 71, a City Zip colt from John Brocklebank’s consignment. Vern Dickman’s Dickman Legacy Ranch bought the youngster for $165,000 at last year’s Keeneland September yearling sale. The Kentucky-bred colt is out of the stakes-placed Horse Chestnut mare My Rachel, the dam of stakes-placed Rachel’s Ready and Firehouse Red.
Two California-based consignors each had two of the fastest-timed youngsters.
Andy Havens’ Havens Bloodstock Agency had the lone California-bred of the group, Hip 43, a daughter of Good Journey out of the winning Matty G. mare Hay Whatsamaddau. The mare has produced stakes-placed Korban. The filly sold for $35,000 at the 2015 Barretts fall yearling and horses of racing age sale.
Havens’ other :09 4/5 youngster was Hip 117, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Hat Trick out of the winning Gone West mare Westside Singer. That filly brought $32,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale.
Bruno DeBerdt’s Excel Bloodstock also had two of the six, both Kentucky-breds. Hip 33 is a filly by Dialed In out of the winning Menifee mare Fall Fantasy, and she sold for $32,000 at the Fasig-Tipton sale. Hip 56, a $70,000 purchase at the 2015 Keeneland yearling sale, is a son of Exchange Rate out of the winning Saarland mare Lily Luna, a half sister to stakes winner Turkappeal.
Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables offers Hip 12, a :09 4/5 previewer and a Kentucky-bred son of The Factor out of the winning Songandaprayer mare Broadway Lullaby. The colt went through the sales ring at Keeneland twice, as an $85,000 weanling and a $35,000 yearling.
While most of the horses breezed a furlong, four worked a quarter mile. Of those, Hip 30 turned in the fastest time, :20 4/5. Eddie Woods is offering the colt, a son of Flatter —Endless Sea, by Mt. Livermore. The half brother to stakes winners Silver Ocean and Over the Ocean was sold at Keeneland as a yearling for $65,000 and as a weanling for $40,000.