By Bloodhorse.com
PLEASANTON, Calif. (Aug. 8, 2017) — Breeders have a wide assortment of stallions to choose from in California, and that translates to similar choices at the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Northern California yearling and horses of racing age sale. More than 60 stallions, most of them standing in the state, will be featured via their offspring in the 2017 catalog.
PLEASANTON, Calif. (Aug. 8, 2017) — Breeders have a wide assortment of stallions to choose from in California, and that translates to similar choices at the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Northern California yearling and horses of racing age sale. More than 60 stallions, most of them standing in the state, will be featured via their offspring in the 2017 catalog.
Most of the 150 horses are California-bred yearlings, with a few horses of racing age also offered. The sale will be conducted Tuesday, Aug. 15, beginning at noon at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton.
A $500 travel allowance is being offered to any trainer from out of state, or Southern California, who attends and makes a minimum purchase of $2,500.
Already the 2016 sale has had eight winning graduates, and two of those have siblings in this year’s catalog.
Holy Yodeler, who sold for $18,000 last year and broke his maiden in May, has a half brother by Northern Causeway as part of Kim McCarthy’s McCarthy Bloodstock consignment. Holy Yodeler and his half brother are out of the Holy Bull mare Holy Script.
Walk On Water sold for $5,500 last year and broke his maiden in June. His full sister, a daughter of Tannersmyman-Smoke Over Water, by Stormy Atlantic, is in this year’s sale as part of the Woodbridge Farm consignment.
The catalog includes five by Lucky Pulpit, the sire of two-time Horse of the Year California Chrome. Two come from the consignment of Dan Kiser, agent for Tree Top Ranches, two from Harris Farms, and one from Fairview.
Larry and Marianne Williams own Tree Top Ranches. They bred and raced Lucky Pulpit and stood him at Harris Farms. Their two Lucky Pulpit offerings are fillies. One is out of the Ministers Wild Cat mare Domasco Cat, a half sister to multiple stakes winner Swiss Lake Yodeler, and the other is out of the stakes-placed Aptitude mare Can Do It Again. Tree Top also has the only yearling by deceased Heatseeker in the catalog.
The Harris Lucky Pulpit offerings are a colt and a filly. The colt is out of the multiple stakes-winning Talkin Man mare Aspen Gal, while the filly is out of grade 3 winner Speak Easy Gal, a daughter of West Acre.
Fairview has a colt by Lucky Pulpit out of the stakes-winning Two Punch mare Two Punch Gal. The mare is a half sister to two other stakes winners.
Bluegrass Cat, the current California leading sire of 2017 by earnings, has one in the catalog. Easterbrook Livestock Management has consigned the Cal-bred son of the Eurosilver mare Silver Dowery.
The Easterbrook and McCarthy consignments also include several yearlings by millionaire grade 1 winner Champ Pegasus. The stakes-winning River Flyer mare Chabuka has produced a colt who is part of the Easterbrook consignment, and the stakes-winning Glitterman mare Exciting Justice has a filly who is part of the McCarthy group.
Easterbrook also has the only yearlings by Big Brown and Haynesfield in the catalog. The Big Brown filly is out of the Broken Vow mare Jeannie’s Genie. Haynesfield, the sire of 2017 stakes winner She’s So Fine, has a filly out of the Fusaichi Pegasus mare Prospecting Peg. Other stallions represented in the Easterbrook consignment are Atticus, Blazonry, Coil, Flame Thrower, Gig Harbor, Marino Marini, Midshipman, and The Pamplemousse.
Papa Clem is among the year’s leading California sires. He has two colts in the catalog.
Smiling Tiger’s first foals have done well at auction, and the young stallion was recently represented by his first winner. Four from the millionaire’s second crop are in the catalog.
Woodbridge Farm has three of the Smiling Tigers-two colts and a filly. The colts are out of the Bertrando mare Double Velvet and the Any Given Saturday mare Saturday’s Girl, while the filly is out of the Forest Wildcat mare Purplengold. Harris’ Smiling Tiger is a filly out of the Cee’s Tizzy mare Mulberry Lane.
The Woodbridge consignment also includes two Cal-breds by Broken Vow, the sire of champion Champagne Room, who won last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1). Redhotnreadytowed is a daughter of Red Barris, a full sister to stakes-winning Kinz Funky Monkey. The other Broken Vow youngster is a colt out of the Lawyer Ron mare Courtroom Kiss.
Woodbridge also has several by Peppered Cat and Sundarban in the catalog. Peppered Cat’s offspring include graded winner Pepper Crown, while Sundarban is by Horse of the Year A.P. Indy, and his second dam is champion Sky Beauty.
Willow Tree Farm also has a yearling by Sundarban, a filly out of the Giant’s Causeway mare Transcending, dam of stakes-placed Oh Molly Brannigan.
Grazen is a California stallion doing well with the likes of Cal-bred champion Enola Gray. Woodbridge is offering Legally Gray, a son of Grazen out of the stakes-placed Wild Deputy mare Isit Still Legal.
Rancho de los Aviadores, a regular consignor to the sale, has four cataloged, including the only one by U S Ranger. That filly is out of the Desert Classic mare Ankha, already the dam of Cal-bred champion and millionaire Ultra Blend.
Slew’s Tiznow has been represented this year by Kentucky-bred Zakaroff, winner of the El Camino Real Derby (G3). The California-based stallion has two in the Northern California catalog.
Desert Code, the sire of the current Cal-bred stakes-placed runner Desert Steel, has three in the catalog-one from Harris and two from Stony Creek Farm. Both consignors are longtime supporters of the Northern California sale.
Current Cal-bred stakes winner Ambitious Brew is representing his sire, Tizbud, well on the racetrack, most recently by winning the Bertrando Stakes. Tizbud has three in the catalog.
Lovacres Ranch is bringing a large consignment to the sale, many by stallions that stand at the farm. Stakes winners Elusive Thought, Enumclaw Girl, and La Sorpresa have yearlings in the catalog by Merit Man, Awesome Gambler, and Congrats My Lov, respectively. Stakes-placed Hameildaeme, Sobresaliente, Amybdancing, and Bold Kiss have produced yearlings by Time to Get Even, Awesome Gambler, Twice the Appeal, and Merit Man, respectively.
Lovacres also has two by graded stakes-placed Empire Way, a full brother to Eclipse Award winner Royal Delta, and one by stakes-placed Grace Upon Grace.
Sierra Sunset Ranch is another with a large consignment. Sierra Sunset the stallion, whose four stakes victories include the 2008 Rebel Stakes (G2), is the sire of several in the group, as are the stallions Brave Cat, Mesa Thunder, and Run Brother Ron. Brave Cat’s foals include a son of California-bred champion Sierra Sweetie, a multiple stakes-winning daughter of Old Topper.
Paradise Road Ranch has six in the sale, including the very first horse in the catalog. Named Turret, the colt is by Comic Strip out of the stakes-winning Ski Chief mare Eclisse.
The Cal Poly Corporation is bringing two yearlings and a 2-year-old. The 2-year-old is one of two in the catalog by Kafwain, while the yearlings are by The Pamplemousse and Northern Causeway.
Capital Account, Clubhouse Ride, Lakerville, and Northern Causeway will be represented by several members of their first crop in the Northern California sale. Other California stallions Acclamation, Affirmative, Allaboutdreams, Cyclotron, Daddy Nose Best, Eddington, Forest Command, Jeranimo, Many Rivers, Roman Dancer, and Sway Away each have one in the sale.
Elena Crim, a longtime supporter of the Northern sale, has returned with another H&E Ranch consignment. H&E has an Arizona-bred daughter of Artie Schiller, an Arizona-bred daughter of Mineshaft, a Kentucky-bred son of Shackleford, and a Kentucky-bred daughter of The Factor.
Other stallions with horses in the catalog include Fort Larned, Shanghai Kid, Tizway, and To Honor and Serve.