In a catalog brimming with first-crop weanling sires, Amy Bunt is optimistic in her third 12 months of bringing a consignment to the Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale. The consignor’s Baldwin Bloodstock is stacked with choices by promising younger stallions, together with some set to make a splash within the gross sales ring.
“I believe I’ve a very good bodily consignment right here,” Bunt stated. “There’s actually not a single one which I would not add to somebody’s quick listing in the event that they have been asking me. We now have a whole lot of first-season sires. A few of these first seasons are actually, actually quick sires and a few are traditional sires so I believe I’ve a fairly good unfold.”
Among the many weanlings to move by means of the ring Nov. 8 for the primary day of promoting for Guide 3 embrace a pair of colts by Drain the Clock  . Bunt had nothing however reward for the younger Gainesway stallion. Â
“Simply seeing the Drain the Clock infants to this point everybody appears fairly enthusiastic about them. Up in New York some very nice ones bought,” Bunt stated. “The joy about that sire was so nice that individuals are already attempting to purchase breeding rights from breeding rights holders in order that’s at all times encouraging. I’ve two Drain the Clocks in right here and they’re each pretty.”
Drain the Clock, a son of Maclean’s Music  , was a notably fast sprinter for coach Saffie Joseph Jr., incomes his most interesting victory within the 2021 Woody Stephen Stakes (G1) over champion Jackie’s Warrior  . Ultimately month’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Fall Blended Sale, two of the stallion’s weanlings bought for six figures.
The Drain the Clock colt consigned as Hip 1403 on the Baldwin Bloodstock consignment
Bunt’s Drain the Clock colts are Hip 1403, a scopey bay out of the Orb mare Last Journey, and a sturdy chestnut consigned as 1190 from the Arduous Spun  mare She’s a Honey. Hip 1403 hails from the household of grade 1 winner Marylebone (Unbridled’s Tune) and grade 2 winner Alpha Kitten (Story of the Cat). Hip 1190’s dam, whereas unraced, is a daughter of Southern Honey, a grade 3-winning sprinter by Colonel John.
“One seems to be so much faster and one seems to be like extra of a route form of horse but additionally has velocity so I believe they will enchantment to all of the patrons,” Bunt stated. “(Drain the Clock is) a fairly thrilling stallion fairly early within the recreation.”
Different first-crop sires with weanlings on provide from Baldwin Bloodstock embrace Early Voting  , Epicenter  , Speaker’s Nook  , Mystic Information  , and Aloha West  .
Taylor Made Stallion’s Early Voting just lately sired a six-figure weanling on the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Fall Blended Sale.
“Individuals are liking the sire to this point. He additionally did very effectively in New York,” Bunt stated.
Consigned as Hip 1482, Baldwin Bloodstock’s Early Voting filly is produced from the profitable Lemon Drop Child mare Lemon Gala, a half sister to grade 2-winning Concave (Colonel John).
“She could be very fairly transferring, a sublime filly,” Bunt stated of Hip 1482. “She has all the best elements, she has an ideal vet report, very right. She’s very balanced. Fairly head. Nothing to fault in any respect.”
Bunt was additionally complimentary of Mystic Information and Speaker’s Nook, two new Darley stallions with their first weanlings on provide this fall. Baldwin consigns Hip 1176, a colt by Speaker’s Nook, and Hip 1317, a colt by Mystic Information.
The Mystic Information colt consigned as Hip 1317 on the Baldwin Bloodstock consignment
“Darley has an thrilling younger crop of sires out. Maxfields have bought rather well and now they have Mystic Information and Speaker’s Nook,” Bunt stated. Each Mystic Information (by Ghostzapper  ) and Speaker’s Nook (by Avenue Sense  ) have been grade 1 winners on the monitor, capturing the 2021 Dubai World Cup (G1) and 2022 Carter Handicap (G1), respectively.
Hip 1176 is out of the profitable Metropolis Zip mare Run Away’s Sis, a full sibling to a number of graded stakes winner Run Away and Cover , who went undefeated in his three begins as a 2-year-old.
“This man seems to be very, very quick and is out of a cool household,” Bunt stated of Hip 1176. “He is received a pleasant pedigree. We’re hoping he sells effectively.”
