Close relative to Kentucky Derby winner Country House offered at Arqana
Breeze-up prospect is with Johnny Collins’ Brown Island Stables
There could hardly have been a higher-profile overnight page update than the one received by lot 9 in the upcoming Arqana Breeze-Up Sale.
The grey colt, by Three Chimneys Farm’s Palace Malice, is now a half-brother to the dam of a Kentucky Derby winner following the controversial success of Country House at Churchill Downs.
His dam is the Sky Classic mare Shooting Party, whose best performance came with a second in the Grade 1 Garden City Breeders’ Cup Handicap at Belmont. She shares her mother with Quake Lake, whose meeting with Lookin At Lucky has produced Country House, the beneficiary of the stewards’ momentous decision to demote Derby first-past-the-post Maximum Security to 17th place for impeding rivals.
Country House had broken his duck at the third time of asking at Gulfstream in January but had earned his place in the line-up after taking third in the Arkansas Derby.
Bill Mott’s first Derby winner, as well as for Lookin At Lucky, was bred by the late Joseph Shields and is owned by his widow Maury along with various friends and family.
"Any updates are always good to hear," said Collins. "He's a big, good-moving horse who goes well. I bought him privately and the pedigree was always quite good, although this is obviously a big update."
Some 160 two-year-olds have been catalogued for Arqana, with notable graduates including the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches winner Teppal and US Grade 2 winner War Of Will - who was the chief victim of Maximum Security hanging right into the home straight at Churchill Downs on Saturday before finishing seventh in the Run for the Roses.
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Published on 5 May 2019inNews
Last updated 19:44, 5 May 2019
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