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BETCHA BY GOLLY she's a winner!
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. PROJECT WHISKEY shows fighting spirit with first graded win!
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. A daughter of Plum, at $400,000, is top priced Maryland-bred filly at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic June sale
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). Dream filly tops Maryland-bred 2-year-olds at $300,000 at Ocala June sale
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
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. OXIDE is in his element at Churchill Downs
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. |
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David & JoAnn Hayden 16123 Dark Hollow Rd Upperco, Maryland 21155 Phone: 410.239.7075 Fax: 410.239-8220 info@darkhollowfarm.com Directions To Farm |
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