After getting outbid for grade 2 winner Slammed two days earlier than, Flying Dutchmen went to $600,000 Nov. 6 to safe her half sister Smash Ticket throughout the second session of the Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale.
“It is a working household, we preferred the mare bodily. We’re simply actually glad we obtained her,” stated bloodstock agent Hunter Rankin, who signed on behalf of the Flying Dutchmen breeding and racing outfit. “We thought it was a good worth for her. I feel once you purchase one thing good you are all the time going to must pay for it.”
Smash Ticket, consigned as Hip 383 from Legacy Bloodstock, was the fifth mare Flying Dutchmen bought on the Keeneland November sale. Previously generally known as Boardshorts, the operation, based by Travis Boersma, not too long ago acquired a boutique farm off Previous Frankfort Pike within the Lexington space.
Throughout the opening session, Boardshorts spent $1,805,000 for 4 mares, led by $875,000 purchase Quick and Shiny , a stakes-winning Bernardini mare in foal to Curlin .
“We’re making an attempt to only get some very nice, quick mares that have been good on the observe to develop our program for racing,” Rankin stated. “These guys are actually dedicated to the long-term, they need to breed to race and have lots of enjoyable.”
Smash Ticket, a 5-year-old daughter of Midnight Lute , is in foal to scorching stallion Nyquist , sire of this 12 months’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) winner and sure 2-year-old champion filly Immersive .
The mare earned $226,870 in her profession, breaking her maiden at Del Mar as a 2-year-old earlier than working third within the 2021 Sorrento Stakes (G2). As a 3-year-old, she captured the 2022 Climate Vane Stakes at Pimlico Race Course, recording a 102 Equibase Pace Determine. In addition to Slammed, who fetched $1.1 million Nov. 4 at Fasig-Tipton’s The November Sale, Smash Ticket is a half sibling to a number of state-bred stakes winner Roll On Diabolical (Diabolical) and Smash It (Star Guitar ), a formidable 2-year-old winner this previous summer time at Del Mar.
