2024 TTA YEARLING DETAILS

Pedigree Insights:

Hip # 112 Unnamed colt (LA)

Bay colt foaled March 14, 2023

(Clearly Now x Spartanburg, by Sharp Humor)

 

• By CLEARLY NOW, a Claiborne-bred winner of 8 races and over $1.1-million, multiple Graded winner and Grade 1 placed, scored a 6-plus length win over Palace in the G3 Belmont Sprint Championship, setting a new track record for 7 furlongs (1:19.96); at age 7, set a new track record at Gulfstream Park for 7 furlongs on the dirt (1:20.17).

• From 24 runners, sire of 13 winners (54%); he has sired 13% stakes horses, including CLEARLY A TEST (winner of Louisiana Stallion Stakes on August 2nd and two other stakes for earnings of $238,500 to 3), CLEAR AS A BELE (to 4 this year – 4 wins at Fair Grounds, and 2nd in the Louisiana Legends Sprint Stakes at Evangeline after overcoming a slow start),

• Sire of 2yo BIG RASEE, a winner second time out at Lone Star and most recently 3rd in the D. S. Shine Young Futurity at Evangeline in 3 starts to date.

• Sire of this yearling’s full sister, 2yo CRAWFISH BURL, recently 3rd in a maiden special in her first lifetime start.

• First dam SPARTANBURG won 10 races, including 4 wins at Fair Grounds, and over $225,000.

• SPARTABURG is by Sharp Humor, a G2 winner who sire more than 20 stakes winners including 4 champions. Among the runners out of mares by Sharp Humor are multiple stakes winner MY BOY TATE, who after breaking his maiden at Saratoga, went on to earn $837,288 and 11 races; Grade 2 winner GINOBILI, a winner of just shy of $600,000, who also ran second to Life Is Good in the G1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar; and millionaire Grade 1 winner ZENDEN.

• Through Sharp Humor, this yearling’s dam carries an interesting 3 x 5 cross of super sire DISTORTED HUMOR’s third dam, GAY SONNET.

• Second dam was also a tough race mare, whose career on the track spanned over six seasons and 47 starts, including 10 wins and over $125,000 earnings.

• This family extends back to ROSE LEAVES, dam of the stallion BULL LEA, five times the Leading Sire in North America, and 4 times the Leading Broodmare Sire; his offspring included the great Triple Crown winner CITATION and two other Kentucky Derby winners.

• Members of this female family further enhanced the Calumet legend with champion NELLIE MORSE and her champion daughter NELLIE FLAG, whose descendants include 3-time American Horse of the Year FOREGO and Kentucky Derby winner BOLD FORBES.