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KETTLE WON created quite a stir in his 2-year-old debut during the 1998 Saratoga meet as the Todd Pletcher-trainee blew away the opposition with a ten and a half-length romp in maiden special company. He has since competed successfully on dirt and turf, going short and long, and fiinished second in the Fort Lauderdale Handicap-G3 over Gulfstream Park's turf course in March of 2000. A half-brother to the durable allowance horse GLIDE HOME, KETTLE WON is out of championSAFELY KEPT's half-sister SAFE AT THE PLATE, a stakes-placed winner of $114,923.

Ch.c. 1996, Colonial Affair–Safe At the Plate, by Double Zeus. Bred and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $120,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale. Purchased by Anstu Stables for $370,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Currently standing stud in New York.

 

Produce History

2011 Not Mated
2010 (unnamed), colt by SONGANDAPRAYER
2009 Barren
2008 ROCKABELLA SONG, filly by DONERAILE COURT
2007 EVENING TAPS, filly by PLEASANT TAP


ROXYETTE
2001 Dark Bay/Brown Mare, by Not For Love–Chemise, by Secret Hello
Owned by: Robert & Linda Newton

Details
KETTLE WON created quite a stir in his 2-year-old debut during the 1998 Saratoga meet as the Todd Pletcher-trainee blew away the opposition with a ten and a half-length romp in maiden special company. He has since competed successfully on dirt and turf, going short and long, and fiinished second in the Fort Lauderdale Handicap-G3 over Gulfstream Park's turf course in March of 2000. A half-brother to the durable allowance horse GLIDE HOME, KETTLE WON is out of championSAFELY KEPT's half-sister SAFE AT THE PLATE, a stakes-placed winner of $114,923.
 

Ch.c. 1996, Colonial Affair–Safe At the Plate, by Double Zeus. Bred and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $120,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale. Purchased by Anstu Stables for $370,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Currently standing stud in New York.

 

A stakes winner from a family of stakes winners, ACCESS TO CHARLIE was purchased in 2014 carrying her first foal (by TIZNOW). The daughter of Indian Charlie retired after winning or placing in seven stakes and earning $260,220. Her five lifetime wins included Laurel Park's Twixt S. at 3 and Geisha S. at 5.  

ACCESS TO CHARLIE is a half-sister to 2014 Maryland Million Ladies S. BEAR ACCESS. Her dam, MEDIA ACCESS (by Devil's Bag), was a stakes winner and multiple stakes-placed runner of $211,372 and one of five stakes winners produced by the winning Storm Bird mare Foufa. The Maryland Broodmare of the Year of 2003, Foufa is also the dam of graded stakes winner FOUFA'S WARRIOR, multiple stakes winner and Gr. 1-placed MARYLAND MOON, multiple stakes winner and Gr. 3-placed FULL BRUSH, as well as CERTANTEE and the dams of Gr. 1 winner BRILLO DE SOL, Gr. 2 winner LONDON LANE, SUCCESSFUL AFFAIR and ICE MIST.

Produce History

2024 bred to INDEPENDENCE HALL
2023 ch.f. by GIFT BOX
2022 Barren
2021 BRAVO CHARLIE,  dk.b./br.f. by BOURBON COURAGE
2020 HOLDING SWAY, ch.c. by MASTERY 
2019 TWIST 'N TWIRL, dk.b./br.c. by TWIRLING CANDY. Winner at 3, $76,576.
2018 dk.b./br.f. by UNION RAGS 
2017 bred to PAYNTER 
2016 FRIEND ME CHARLIE, dk.b./br.f. by BANDBOX. Winner at 3 & 5, $60,859. 
2015 TIZ CECILE, dk.b./br.f. by TIZNOW. 2 wins at 3. Sold for $160,000 at Kee Sept Yearling Sale

ACCESS TO CHARLIE
2008 Dark Bay or Brown Mare
Indian Charlie—Media Access, by Devil's Bag
Owned by Ellen Charles' Hillwood Stable

Details
KETTLE WON created quite a stir in his 2-year-old debut during the 1998 Saratoga meet as the Todd Pletcher-trainee blew away the opposition with a ten and a half-length romp in maiden special company. He has since competed successfully on dirt and turf, going short and long, and fiinished second in the Fort Lauderdale Handicap-G3 over Gulfstream Park's turf course in March of 2000. A half-brother to the durable allowance horse GLIDE HOME, KETTLE WON is out of championSAFELY KEPT's half-sister SAFE AT THE PLATE, a stakes-placed winner of $114,923.
 

Ch.c. 1996, Colonial Affair–Safe At the Plate, by Double Zeus. Bred and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $120,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale. Purchased by Anstu Stables for $370,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Currently standing stud in New York.

A stakes winner of $159,200, HIGH MOMENT won Laurel Park's Dahlia S. at a mile on the turf, and Philadelphia Park's Dr. James Penny Memorial S. at a mile and a sixteenth on the turf over multiple graded stakes winner J'ray. 

HIGH MOMENT's first two foals of racing age are winners, including graded stakes winner LUNA TIME, whose first stakes win came in the Grade 3 Obeah S. at Delaware Park. Earlier in the year she finished third in the Maryland Racing Media S. in her stakes debut. HIGH MOMENT's son by first-year sire TRAPPE SHOT, now named BEST DRIVE, sold for $230,000 at the 2015 Barretts Select 2-year-old sale. He initially sold out of the Dark Hollow consignment for $127,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling sale.

Out of multiple stakes-placed Apogee (a daughter of champion sprinter STAR DE NASKRA), HIGH MOMENT is a half-sister to Gr. 2 Gulfstream Park H. winner SIR WHIMSEY, a $521,784-earner who won or placed in nine stakes, with a third in the Gr. 1 Pimlico Special among his efforts. The family includes Gr. 1 winner and $836,765-earner JESSICA IS BACK. HIGH MOMENT's first three dams are all stakes performers.

Tragically, HIGH MOMENT died of foaling complications in 2015 after producing a filly by Trappe Shot, who survived.

Produce History

2015 ch.f. by TRAPPE SHOT
2014 TAP THE MOMENT, b.g. by TAPIZAR
2013 BEST DRIVE, ch.c. by TRAPPE SHOT. Winner of $91,656 in Japan. $127,000 Kee Sept Yrlg; $230,000 Barretts Select 2-year-old sale
2012 Barren
2011 LUNA TIME, ch.f. by MALIBU MOON. GSW winner of $195,073.
2010 WALK OFF WINNER, ch.f. by GRAND SLAM. Winner.
 

HIGH MOMENT
2003 Chestnut Mare
High Yield—Apogee, by Star de Naskra
Owned by Dorsey Brown & Rich Palmer

 

 

Details
KETTLE WON created quite a stir in his 2-year-old debut during the 1998 Saratoga meet as the Todd Pletcher-trainee blew away the opposition with a ten and a half-length romp in maiden special company. He has since competed successfully on dirt and turf, going short and long, and fiinished second in the Fort Lauderdale Handicap-G3 over Gulfstream Park's turf course in March of 2000. A half-brother to the durable allowance horse GLIDE HOME, KETTLE WON is out of championSAFELY KEPT's half-sister SAFE AT THE PLATE, a stakes-placed winner of $114,923.

Ch.c. 1996, Colonial Affair–Safe At the Plate, by Double Zeus. Bred and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $120,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale. Purchased by Anstu Stables for $370,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Currently standing stud in New York.

 

Produce History

2011 in foal to: STEPHEN GOT EVEN
2010 (Unnamed) filly by: YES IT'S TRUE
2009 (Unnamed) filly by: PLEASANTLY PERFECT

HEDGE PROXY
2004 Chestnut Mare, by Silver Deputy–Hedge Ratio, by Unbridled
Owned by: Hillwood Stable LLC

 

 

 

Details
KETTLE WON created quite a stir in his 2-year-old debut during the 1998 Saratoga meet as the Todd Pletcher-trainee blew away the opposition with a ten and a half-length romp in maiden special company. He has since competed successfully on dirt and turf, going short and long, and fiinished second in the Fort Lauderdale Handicap-G3 over Gulfstream Park's turf course in March of 2000. A half-brother to the durable allowance horse GLIDE HOME, KETTLE WON is out of championSAFELY KEPT's half-sister SAFE AT THE PLATE, a stakes-placed winner of $114,923.

Ch.c. 1996, Colonial Affair–Safe At the Plate, by Double Zeus. Bred and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $120,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale. Purchased by Anstu Stables for $370,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Currently standing stud in New York.

 

Produce History

2011 in foal to: JUMP START
2010 (Unnamed) colt by: BERNSTEIN
2009 (Unnamed) filly by: QUIET AMERICAN
2008 BEAU AMERICAN, colt by QUIET AMERICAN
2007 FONDUE, colt by BROKEN VOW
2006 HELLO LOVER, colt by NOT FOR LOVE
2005 BENNY HAVENS colt by NOT FOR LOVE 
2004 Barren, (bred to NOT FOR LOVE) 
2003 DRESS GREY, gr/ro filly by LION HEARTED
1st– $75,000 Smart Halo Stakes at LRL
2002 MISS LOMBARDI, dk b/ filly by UNBRIDLED JET
1st- Maryland Million Ladies
Earned: $301,670
2001 ROXYETTE, dk b/ filly by NOT FOR LOVE
2000 COQUETTISH, gr/ro filly by NOT FOR LOVE
1st- Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship
Earned: $192,503
1999 KISSING ROCK, gr/ro gelding by NOT FOR LOVE 

 

CHEMISE
1995 Gray/Roan Mare, by Secret Halo–Cotton Too
Owned by: Robert & Linda Newton

 

 

 

 

 

Details
KETTLE WON created quite a stir in his 2-year-old debut during the 1998 Saratoga meet as the Todd Pletcher-trainee blew away the opposition with a ten and a half-length romp in maiden special company. He has since competed successfully on dirt and turf, going short and long, and fiinished second in the Fort Lauderdale Handicap-G3 over Gulfstream Park's turf course in March of 2000. A half-brother to the durable allowance horse GLIDE HOME, KETTLE WON is out of championSAFELY KEPT's half-sister SAFE AT THE PLATE, a stakes-placed winner of $114,923.
 

Ch.c. 1996, Colonial Affair–Safe At the Plate, by Double Zeus. Bred and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $120,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale. Purchased by Anstu Stables for $370,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Currently standing stud in New York.

 

HELLO NOW, a winning daughter of Horse of the Year TIZNOW out of graded stakes winner and Gr. 1-placed HELLO LIBERTY, sold as a yearling for $100,000 at the Keeneland September sale. A winner at 2, the bay filly broke her maiden at Laurel Park by a widening four lengths over a field that included eventual stakes performers Hot Fun and Ek Haseena.

HELLO NOW's dam HELLO LIBERTY (by Forest Camp) won or placed in eight of her 10 starts, among the highlights a score in Belmont Park's Nassau County Breeders' Cup S-G2, one of her two stakes wins, and second, by a neck, in the Gr. 1 Acorn S. HELLO LIBERTY is a half-sister is stakes winner/graded stakes-placed PIOUS ASHLEY as well as winner BUNEYA, who sold as a yearling at Keeneland in September 2012 for $625,000. The family includes Gr.1 stakes winner SET PLAY.

Produce History

2018 bred to MOSLER for 2018
2017 f. by GOLDEN LAD 
2016 HELLO AMIGO, dk.b./br.c. by BANDBOX

HELLO NOW
2010 Dark Bay Mare
Tiznow—Hello Liberty, by Forest Camp
Owned by Ellen Charles' Hillwood Stable

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