WAR FRONT’s Grade 1 winning son ANNAPOLIS has already found success in the sales ring with his first weanling selling for $130,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale and Monday he looks for even more success when three sell at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale.
Hip 25 offered by Garrencasey Sales comes through the ring after receiving stakes updates.
Bred by Yancy Williams, the colt’s dam Mabsota is a half-sister to the dam of Cabo Spirit. That multiple Grade 2 winning millionaire finished second in the City of Hope S. (G2) and third in the Del Mar S. (G2) in recent months. He is also multiple Grade 1 placed as a mainstay on the California circuit. His dam Fancy Day is also the dam of BLAME’s multiple stakes placed Blame Day and multiple stakes place Convention.
This colt is of out a Shamardal mare who has two winners from two to race as a daughter of Tiznow’s Grade 2 winning full sister Tizdubai. Tizdubai is also the granddam of Grade 2 winner Tarifa and stakes winner Five Star Rampage among her daughters’ seven stakes placed runners.
Nicky Drion Thoroughbreds sends Hip 50 through the ring at the sale, the first foal out of Curlin’s Star Packer.
Bred by MKW Racing and Breeding, this filly is a granddaughter of dual stakes winner Flattering Bea. Flattering Bea is one of three stakes performers out of the stakes placed Wild Bea alongside the stakes winning Doctor Jeff and Grade 2-placed Queen of Beas. This February born weanling’s fourth dam is the stakes winning Tarquina, who also produced two stakes performers.
A half-sister to Grade 3 winner Highway Robber sells with breeder Blandford Stud as Hip 65.
The filly is out of Lemon Drop Kid mare Yabba, who has seen all three of her foals to race win with the group including seven-time winner For Fun. Yabba is a granddaughter of the stakes winning See the Wind, who produced four winners of her own and is out of multiple stakes winner Spinnakers Flying. Out of a strong producing mare who produced multiple stakes winners, Spinnakers Flying also produced Grade 3 winner Fly Smartly, Grade 2-placed Longship, and the dam of Grade 3-placed Swift of Flight.
ANNAPOLIS was very popular in his second season at stud with his 2025 book consisting of 25% blacktype earners from 115 mares bred.