March  2000

Barretts March Sale Preview
The sale features 55 California-breds by such sires as
Bertrando, In Excess (Ire), and Smokester.
by DEBRA GINSBURG   
   

Fifty-five California-bred juveniles are slated to sell at the Barretts March two-year-olds in training sale on Tuesday, March 14, at Fairplex Park in Pomona.
    Last year, management of Barretts Equine Sales added a Cal-bred session to the March select sale that was well received by buyers and consignors alike. The 50-minute session offered 21 registered California-breds, of which 16 sold for gross receipts of $1,307,000 and an average of $81,688. Topping the session was an In Excess (Ire) filly that was bought by Padua Stables for $400,000, the highest price ever paid for a California-bred juvenile at public auction.
    "We've always wanted to develop a market for California-breds and I feel that the group we have this year is the best group we have ever assembled," said Barretts president and general manager Gerald F. McMahon. "Not only do we have youngsters by popular California stallions like Bertrando, General Meeting, In Excess and Smokester, but we're broadening the choice by also offering California-breds by Kentucky stallions like Dynaformer, Fly So Free, Gilded Time, Honor and Glory and Peaks and Valleys. We think it's a very unique selection of Cal-breds."
    Some of the Cal-breds offered during the March vendue came into the sale when the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association decided to merge its California-bred two-year-olds in training sale, originally scheduled for April 4, with Barretts' March and May sales. Consequently, CTBA Sales will not be conducting a two-year-old sale of its own this year.
    Among some of the more notable Cal-breds slated to sell during the Barretts March sale is hip number 194, a gray colt from the Kirkwood Stables consignment. Named Upsanddowns, he is from the first crop of Peaks and Valleys out of Cal Cup Juvenile Fillies winner and California champion Don B's Princess. This consignment also includes hip number 178, a colt now named City Livin, by top Kentucky sire Gilded Time. This youngster is a half-brother to stakes winner Viv ($356,282) and hails from the family of Eclipse champion Proud Delta.
    Prado Del Oro, an El Prado (Ire) colt from a large Mary Knight consignment, hails from the immediate female family of Excellent Meeting, Doneraile Court, Souvenir Copy and Advancing Star. He will sell as hip number 198. This consignment also features a Cal-bred Affirmed colt out of a stakes-winning General Assembly (by Secretariat) mare, a filly by Memo (Chi), and four outstanding prospects by In Excess, including a filly out of $103,328-earner Jetinwith Kennedy.
    Havens Bloodstock Agency has consigned hip number 190, a dark bay colt by Pirate's Bounty out of Blonde Fever, which makes him a full brother to 1999 Cal Cup Matron winner Feverish, a multiple stakes winner with earnings of more than $400,000. Also offered in this consignment is a General Meeting colt, now named Chris's Lad, who hails from the family of Gamely, Drumtop, Topsider and Take Your Place, as well as Cal-breds by Strodes Creek, Bertrando, Avenue of Flags and Alydeed.
    A colt named Settle My Nerves will sell as hip number 209 from Nick de Meric's consignment. He is by Strike Gold out of Nervous Neala, which makes him a half-brother to stakes-winner Rattle My Nerves from Bertrando's first crop. This consignment also features a Cal-bred Dynaformer filly out of stakes-winning Oh Sweet Thing from the family of Decathlon, Prince Blessed and Soviet Sojourn (dam of Indian Charlie).
    Equine Prep is selling a Private Terms half-brother to three-time Cal Cup Starter Handicap winner His Legacy. Also included in this consignment is hip number 191, a General Meeting filly from the family of California champion Sandy Blue; hip number 196, a Smokester filly from the family of Canadian champion Peteski; and hip number 200, a Smokester colt named Take It Outside, who was produced from a winning half-sister to stakes-winner Lady Lavinia and hails from the family of California champion Magical Allure.
    A Bertrando filly out of an unraced half-sister to the dam of Pirate's Bounty sells as hip number 173 from the J. H. Gomez consignment. Also in this consignment is an El Gran Senor colt from the family of Pinjara, Pelegrin and Amri-An. He sells as hip number 184.
    The Jerry Bailey consignment has a West by West colt out of an unraced half-sister to Real Connection ($1,225,018) and Right Con ($664,425). The youngster, now named Western Lonestar, goes through the ring as hip number 207. The consignment also has a General Meeting colt from the family of Flying Sensation, Some Sensation and Sounds Fabulous.
    Asmussen Horse Center, Agent, has consigned a filly from the first crop of 1996 Metropolitan Handicap winner Honour and Glory out of a stakes-winning full sister to $295,550-earner Troyalty. Also offered is a Half Term colt, now named Halfagoldmine, who is a half-brother to 1999 stakes-placed juvenile Proudtobeahalfterm.
    From Clear Creek Farm is hip number 211, a Bertrando colt out of a stakes-placed half-sister to the dam of She's Tops ($200,880) and from the immediate family of top 1999 juvenile Dixie Union, winner of the Hollywood Juvenile Championship and Norfolk Stakes. This is also the family of Timber Country, Northern Aspen and Prince of Thieves. Clear Creek Farm, as agent, is also offering hip number 201, Charm Alone, a Bertrando filly out of a half-sister to $1,171,628-earner Sefa's Beauty.
    Creston Farms is selling hip number 175, a Smokester half-brother to stakes-winning Turkish Prize and stakes-placed Walk That Walk. As agent for the Robert H. Walter Family Trust, Creston Farms is selling a Batonnier filly from the family of Back in Paris, Paris Review and Joans Paris, and a Slewvescent colt from the family of Bold Clarion and Enemy Number One.
    Hip number 197, from the consignment of Niall Brennan Stables Inc., is a colt from the first crop of the young Gulch stallion Golden Gear, a stakes winner of $634,009.
    Sequel Bloodstock has assigned hip number 203, Papa Leonard, to the March sale. The In Excess colt topped the yearling session at last year's Barretts fall mixed sale when he fetched a final bid of $125,000. Also featured in this consignment is a Cal-bred Fly So Free colt out of $194,238-earner Heartlight. Fly So Free, of course, is the sire of Kentucky Derby prospect Captain Steve.
    A colt from the first California crop of the young Storm Cat stallion Distinctive Cat sells as hip number 185 from the Juvenile Prep Bloodstock consignment. This is the family of Cal-bred stakes winner Stan's Bower, an earner of $288,221.
    Jockey Club Farm has consigned Smoke and Ice, a Smokester colt from the immediate family of California champion Our First Delight. Also featured in this consignment is an Evansville Slew colt from the family of Appealing Phylly ($341,748), a colt by Distinctive Cat and a filly by Avenue of Flags.
    Mi Camino, a Cahill Road filly out of a stakes-placed half-sister to Ballindaggin ($946,894), sells as hip number 188 from the Summer Mayberry consignment. Stubblefield Thoroughbreds is selling a Sultry Song filly named China Jewel that goes through the ring as hip number 168.     There will be previews under saddle on March 6 and March 12.


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