BETCHA BY GOLLY she's a winner!

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Published: 27 September 2020

The 2-year-old filly Betcha by Golly was getting closer and closer to a win. On Sept. 26, in her third career start and her first at a distance greater than a mile, the daughter of Tapizar went right to the front over a sloppy Pimlico track and stayed there, sweeping home by two and three-quarter lengths for owners Skeedattle Associates and trainer Graham Motion.

Betcha by Golly has always looked special. Skeedattle Associates’ Willy White, who with partners Bob Orndorff and Lou Rehak has operated a highly-successful Maryland-based racing stable for decades, went to $150,000 to take her home from the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearling sale – making her the highest-priced filly in the sale. She not only boasts great looks, but a pedigree to match. White told the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred after the sale: “If we can get a Maryland-bred that’s put together, balanced like that, with that kind of family, with the kind of opportunity we have to race in Maryland, you can’t beat it.” In her short career, Betcha by Golly has earned $44,369.

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PROJECT WHISKEY shows fighting spirit with first graded win!

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Published: 05 July 2020

Proving the word quit is not in her vocabulary, Project Whiskey battled down the Delaware Park stretch on the 4th of July and won the Grade 3 Delaware Oaks in her first graded stakes start! The daughter of Tapizar out of the Dark Hollow Farm-bred Over the Moon (by Malibu Moon) is now a two-time stakes winner, having shown the same grit and determination when taking the Parx Juvenile Fillies Stakes at 2.

Trained by Butch Reid, Project Whiskey was purchased by Charles J. Zacney at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale for $35,000 and races for Cash is King LLC and LC Racing. In seven starts, she has won three times, been on the board in five, and has earnings of $262,580.

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A daughter of Plum, at $400,000, is top priced Maryland-bred filly at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic June sale

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Published: 03 July 2020

The 2-year-olds out of Plum sure are sweet! Her Upstart filly turned heads at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic juvenile sale, which was moved from its traditional May date to June. After zipping an eighth-mile in 10 seconds flat at the Under Tack Show, equaling the fastest time at the distance, the dark bay filly walked into the ring and drew a final bid of $400,000 from Sallusto/Albina, Agents. Cary Frommer prepared and consigned the filly, who went through the ring as a yearling for $120,000.

Two years earlier, Plum’s Bodemeister colt went through the May sale and sold for $300,000.

Plum also was a looker at 2 while making her mark on the track. The daughter of Pure Prize was named Maryland-bred champion 2-year-old filly of 2011 after capturing three straight races, including the Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship Stakes. Stakes-placed at 3 and a winner of four races with earnings of $128,440, Plum retired to the Dark Hollow Farm broodmare band to join her dam, homebred multiple stakes-placed Bamba (by Not For Love).

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Dream filly tops Maryland-bred 2-year-olds at $300,000 at Ocala June sale

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Published: 22 June 2020

The Malibu Moon filly Dream did well for breeders Dark Hollow Farm, Dorsey Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Davidov and Mr. and Mrs. David Schwaber. After their homebred won her debut at 2 and was three-times stakes-placed at 3 in six starts, once in graded company, she retired to the Dark Hollow broodmare band. Of her four foals to sell at auction, three have brought six figures, including her gray filly by The Factor, who topped all Maryland-bred offerings at the 2020 OBS Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training in June.

Willis Horton Racing LLC went $300,000 for Dream’s daughter, who breezed an eighth in :10.20 at the under tack show. Willis Horton has had prior success with a Dark Hollow Farm prospect, having purchased future graded stakes winner Partner’s Hero from the Haydens at Saratoga as a yearling in 1995.

Dream’s current 2-year-old was sold by her breeders for $100,000 as a yearling last September at Keeneland. Dream’s first foal, a colt by Speightstown, brought $120,000 at the 2014 Keeneland September sale, and the partners hit a homerun when getting $410,000 the next year for her Ghostzapper colt. In 2017, a colt by More Than Ready sold for $80,000. The mare’s four yearlings sold for a combined $710,000 at Keeneland. Her sales average (her offspring selling a total of five times) is $202,000.

One of Dream’s foals went to the sale but didn’t reach her reserve and was brought home. That filly, Caught Dream’n (by Blame), became a two-time stakes-placed runner, was on the board in six of her seven starts, and is now a member of the Dark Hollow Farm broodmare band. Dream’s current 3-year-old filly, Dazzle’m (by Super Saver), was not offered for sale and is in training for the partnership.

Dream, in foal to City of Light, sold for $170,000 at the 2019 Keeneland November Breeding Stock sale – her final foal bred by the partnership is a yearling colt by Maclean’s Music who will be sold at the Midlantic Fall Yearling Sale at Timonium in October.

TOY finds his way home for second win in a row

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Published: 31 May 2020

Toy continues to add exciting chapters to his story. The blaze-faced 3-year-old chestnut gelding was unfazed by the challenges he faced early in the 1-mile allowance on Sunday, May 31 at Laurel Park, finding an open lane late, turning on the afterburners and recording his second win in a row.

Repeatedly blocked as he headed into Laurel’s far turn, Toy was making a winning move in the stretch when shut off in tight quarters near the three-sixteenths pole, found room when shifted to the outside of the leaders and lengthened his stride to sweep by for a length and a quarter win. The field of 11 included three stakes performers, and his time of 1:36.14 was the fastest by more than a second of the four races contested at the distance on the card.

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OXIDE is in his element at Churchill Downs

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Published: 19 May 2020

The flashy Golden Lad colt OXIDE delivered an eye-catching maiden victory on the first day of Churchill Downs' spring meet on Saturday, May 16. One of the top choices in the 12-horse field of 3-year-olds seeking their first win, he pressed the early leader, took control turning for home and powered away down the stretch to win by five and a half lengths going a mile and a sixteenth on the wet-fast main track.

OXIDE races for Joe Sutton, who purchased him for $120,000 at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale from the consignment of Cary Frommer. The blaze-faced chestnut trained by Eddie Kenneally had finished third twice in earlier efforts. He put on a show before his win, dazzling onlookers in the post parade and warm up, and proved as dazzling at the finish as he strode home brilliantly.

Bred by Dark Hollow Farm and sold for $50,000 as a yearling at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall sale, OXIDE is from the noteworthy family that includes Maryland-bred champion Not for Silver and the $2 million record-equaling juvenile Mercantile, half-brothers to OXIDE’s dam Silver Ashlee bred by Dark Hollow in partnership with Will DeBurgh and George Harris.

Not for Silver was named state-bred champion 3-year-old and champion sprinter for a year in which he won or placed in five stakes, three graded. His two stakes wins included the Grade 2 Carry Back. He would retire with career earnings of $303,870 from 19 starts. Other recent stakes performers in the family are graded stakes-placed Put Da Blame On Me, out of Silver Ashlee’s stakes-winning half-sister Roman Chestnut. OXIDE is one of three winners from four starters out of Silver Ashlee bred by Dark Hollow.