WAR FRONT and BLAME represented Claiborne sires well at this week’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale with both seeing their only yearling offered selling well.
Pin Oak Stud was the buyer of a $475,000 BLAME colt out of Dream to Dream offered by Runnymede Farm, who bred him with Peter Callahan, Manlius Stable, and Bill Opp. The colt is the fifth foal out of his dam, whose two runners include the stakes placed Dreamworker.
Dream to Dream is a full sister to Grade 2 winner Daddy Long Legs and half-sister to the multiple stakes winning Tres Dream with her dam producing eight winners overall. That dam is the multiple stakes winner Dreamy Maiden, who is the only stakes winner out of Sparrow Lake, but also one of two stakes producers out of the mare.
Dreamy Maiden’s half-sister Fleet Sparrow produced stakes winner and Grade 2-placed Medzendeekron.
Each of this BLAME colt’s first six dams have produced at least one stakes performer with four of his first five producing stakes winners.
A WAR FRONT filly out of Frolic’s Dream sold for $400,000 to Tropical Racing late in Monday’s session.
The only offering for her sire, the Bedouin Bloodstock-offered filly was bred by SF Bloodstock. She is a half-sister to stakes winner Bode’s Dream, Grade 1-placed Madaket Road, and Grade 3-placed Wyeth from the six winners from six to race.
A Grade 2 winner herself, Frolic’s Dream is also a half-sister to Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed Mokat and stakes winner Frolicing with two of her sisters producing stakes performers. There are nine additional stakes performers under this filly’s stakes placed third dam, including Grade 3 winners Fabulous Frolic and Lindsay Frolic.
It’s been a big week for BLAME, who also saw two of his daughters produce Grade 1 winners with World Beater winning the Saratoga Derby (G1) and Kilwin winning the Test (G1).