Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Highgate kicks off the summer sales season with three exciting prospects in the Fasig-Tipton Horses of All Ages sale on July 11.
Starting at 3:00pm, Highgate’s first through the ring during the Horses of All Ages Sale is Hip 473, a half-sister to Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Acapulco. Offered as a broodmare prospect, Brooklyn’s Best is a lightly raced Uncle Mo 4-year-old who placed on debut at Santa Anita.
The filly was a $200,000 yearling purchase out of multiple stakes winner Global Finance, who has proven to be just as good a broodmare as racehorse. Global Finance has produced two stakes winners – one winning on dirt and one on turf – and six winners overall.The mare gets her producing talent honestly with Brooklyn’s Best’s first four dams producing 25 winners from 30 runners, including six stakes winners. Stakes success runs even further back in the family with each of her first seven dams producing stakes winners and many of them also having stakes producing daughters.
Brooklyn’s Best is an intriguing prospect for any serious breeder with no inbreeding in the filly’s first four generations. She is by a rising superstar stallion in Uncle Mo, who is the damsire of this year’s G2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes winner and G1 Ashland Stakes third Interstatedaydream and last year’s Grade 3 Iroquois winner Major General. In all, Uncle Mo’s daughters have produced 10 stakes performers and five stakes winners.
Brooklyn’s Best will be joined in the Highgate section of Barn 12 by supplemental entries Miss Costa Rica and Moretti.
Offered as a racing or broodmare prospect as hip 590, Grade 2-placed Miss Costa Rica is a daughter of young sire and G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Hit It a Bomb.
This page is almost guaranteed to improve in coming months with three horses under Miss Costa Rica’s first dam making at least one start since May 1. Those runners come in three different countries, including promising juvenile Wasabi Boy, who is out of Miss Costa Rica’s Grade 3-winning half-sister Gas Station Sushi and has finished runner-up in his two career starts.
Miss Costa Rica is out of the stakes winning Five Star Daydream with the duo joining 11 other stakes performers under Miss Costa Rica’s first three dams. That group includes eight stakes winners, led by the Grade 1 winning Taste of Paradise. In all, each of Miss Costa Rica’s first six dams are stakes producers with five producing at least one stakes winner and three producing more than one stakes winner.
Offered as a stallion prospect, $900,000 yearling and multiple stakes winner Moretti (hip 595) is one of eight stakes performers under his first two dams and one of six stakes winners in the group with. In addition to his Grade 1 winning dam Rigoletta producing a Grade 1 winner in Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Battle of Midway, her half-sister produced Grade 1 winning Patternrecognition.
Moretti himself was a successful racehorse as a dual stakes winner and multiple Grade 2-placed runner with wins coming from 1 1/16 miles to 1 ¾ miles. He kicked off his career with a juvenile win before showing longevity when adding stakes victories to his resume as an older horse.
Hailing from a family that also includes champions Musical Romance and Vuelve Ruben M., Moretti has another stallion box checked by being a son of Medaglia d’Oro. Medaglia d’Oro sons have sired 29 graded stakes winners and 211 stakes performers, led by six Grade 1 winners. Just like proven Medaglia d’Oro sire sons Vancouver and Astern, Moretti is out of a mare hailing from the Danzig line.
Highgate’s Horses of All Ages consignment will start showing in Barn 12 on Saturday, July 9th with their yearling consignment showing in Barn 2.
