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Five Classic Crackers from Holbrook Thoroughbreds

Sponsored Content - by Tara Madgwick - Monday January 31

Julie Harris and the Holbrook Thoroughbreds team expect to be busy when they get to Riverside Stables this week with a quality draft of five for Inglis Classic all by popular sires including young gun Hellbent.

A Group I winning son of I Am Invincible, Hellbent has had a flurry of early runners including stakes performers Miss Hellfire and Bohemian Daisy with his stock proving in keen demand at Magic Millions.

Holbrook will offer a gorgeous Hellbent colt with a Black Type pedigree as Lot 599.

Lot 599.
He is the third foal of unraced Sepoy mare Hanami, a half-sister to Group III winner Kanzan (dam of Group III winner Ranier) and stakes-winner Kordia from the family of Group I winner Inference. Bred on successful I Am Invincible x Elusive Quality USA) (sire of Sepoy) nick that has produced six winners from six runners headed by 2YO stakes-winner Steal My Kisses.

Also to be offered by Holbrook Thoroughbreds are the following:


Lot 68 Colt Astern x Merge, by Commands

Lot 68.

By proven young sire Astern, a son of champion sire Medaglia D’Oro. Half-brother to two winners from metro winning half-sister to Group III winner Clothilde from Group II winner Seika.

Lot 583 Filly Headwater x Gipsy Countess (IRE), by Sadler’s Wells

Lot 583.

By Headwater, the sire of outstanding Group II winning filly Jamaea. Strikingly marked chestnut, this filly is a half-sister to four winners from a daughter of legendary sire Sadler’s Wells and comes with a big international Black Type pedigree.

Lot 687 Colt Foxwedge x Montelimar, by Fusaichi Pegasus (USA)
 

Lot 687.

The only yearling in the sale by proven Group I sire Foxwedge. Half-brother to three metro winners from stakes-placed Montelimar, a half-sister to stakes-winner Superfly from stakes-winner Allez France. Bred on successful Fastnet Rock (sire of Foxwedge) x Fusaichi Pegasus nick that has produced four SW’s, three of them Group I winners Catchy, Rocket Spade and Albany Reunion.

Lot 769 Filly So You Think x Corrosion, by Lonhro

Lot 769.

By champion racehorse and leading sire So You Think. Fourth foal of an unraced half-sister to Group II winner Viridine. Bred on the same So You Think x Lonhro cross as Group III winner and $1.8 million earner So Si Bon.

See the draft at Barn K Stables 65 - 69.




 

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