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January 26: First time starter GO ON MO (’20 c. Uncle Mo / Brusquer) wasted no time finding the winners circle at Gulfstream Park on Thursday. Sent off as the favorite, the WESLEY WARD trainee overcame a bumpy start to race confidently to a 2 ½ length victory.
GO ON MO was purchased by M.V. MAGNIER out of the 2022 FASIG-TIPTON Gulfstream Sale for $575,000. The colt races for the ownership group of MRS. JOHN MAGNIER, MICHAEL B. TABOR, DERRICK SMITH, WESTERBERG, JONATHAN POULIN, PETER M. BRANT, JOSEPH ALLEN, LLC. And GANDHARVI, LLC.
Congratulations to GO ON MO and his connections.
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January 29: RESPECT THE CODE (’19 g. Honor Code / Anabaa’s Creation (IRE) earned his first black-type placing at Santa Anita on Sunday when finishing a game third in the $100,000 Clocker’s Corner Stakes. The gelding was a $55,000 OBS April Sale graduate in 2021. From eleven career starts he has tallied two wins, a second & two thirds earning $107,523.
Congratulations to owners DAVID A. BERNSEN, LLC & OMAR ALDABBAGH and conditioner GEORGE PAPAPRODROMOU.
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January 29: Performing some magic of her own, TITUBA (’20 f. Good Magic / Sabi Sands) relinquished her lead in the stretch-run only to fight back on the rail to win by a neck in a MSW event at Gulfstream on Sunday.
THREE DIAMONDS FARM purchased the bay filly last July at the FASIG-TIPTON HORSES OF RACING AGE SALE for just $47,000. The TODD PLETCHER trainee is now 2-1-0-0. She was given a masterful ride Sunday by newly crowned Eclipse Award winning jockey IRAD ORTIZ, JR.
Congratulations to the talented TITUBA and her connections.
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Wavertree graduate & multiple G1 winning millionaire COLONEL LIAM has been retired from racing & will take up stud duties at Ocala Stud for the 2023 breeding season.
Purchased as a yearling out of the 2018 Keeneland September Sale for just $50,000 the gray son of Liam’s Map blossomed into a $1.2 million 2-year-old in training. He was purchased by agent JACOB WEST for owners ROBERT & LAWANA LOW out of the 2019 OBS April Sale.
Trained by TODD PLETCHER, COLONEL LIAM made 12 career starts – 7 in Graded Stakes, of which he won 4. His most notable win came in the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational Stakes, G1 last year. The 6-year-old horse retires with earnings of $1,812,565.
We would like to wish COLONEL LIAM the best in his new career. This great horse has been so good to us all, and has earned his retirement. May it be a long & successful one.
COLONEL LIAM we salute you!
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After breaking her maiden last time out at Oaklawn, KLASSY BRIDGETTE (’20 f, Army Mule / Klassy Katlyn) returned on January 13 to chalk up her second lifetime victory in an allowance optional claiming contest at that same track. Sent off the favorite, the CHRIS HARTMAN trainee cruised to an easy 6 length victory to improve her record to 4-2-2-0. She has amassed earnings on $167,775 for owners JD THOROUGHBREDS, LLC., JOEY KEITH DAVIS & LARRY J. ROMERO.
An astute juvenile purchase by JR THOROUGHBREDS & JOE DAVIS. KLASSY BRIDGETTE was hammered down at $70, 000 when she went through the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale.
Congratulations to all!
