By Bloodhorse.com
CLEMENTS, Calif. (Feb. 13, 2019) — Multiple grade 1-placed winner Straight Fire was represented by his first reported foal when a colt out of It’s High Time was born Jan. 20 at Legacy Ranch in California.
Bred by Straight Fire LLC, the colt is the first foal produced by It’s High Time, a black-type winner by Gone Astray who earned more than $234,000 racing from 2-4. The mare is the best runner to date from the winning Proud Accolade daughter My Rolex, who has produced two winners from as many to race. My Rolex is a half sister to grade 1 winner Black Seventeen (by Is It True).
Straight Fire, bred by Spendthrift Farm, was sold as a yearling by Vinery at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July Sale for $250,000 to Solis & Litt Bloodstock as agent. The colt was raced by Jim Rome’s Jungle Racing; Larry, Nanci and Jaime Roth’s LNJ Foxwoods; Kim and Kevin Nish’s KMN Racing; Jeff Davenport; and, Andrew Molasky. The son of Dominus broke his maiden in his second start and went on to finish second in the Del Mar Futurity (G1) and third in the FrontRunner Stakes (G1). Keith Desormeaux trained the colt who retired with $146,400 in earnings.
Pete and Evelyn Parrella’s Legacy Ranch near Clements, Calif., now stands Straight Fire, who is out of the A.P. Indy winner Trick Indy. Straight Fire’s dam is a half sister to multiple graded stakes winner Confide (by Phone Trick) and also has produced stakes-placed winner Magical Band along with two stakes-producing daughters.
Straight Fire stands for $3,500.