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2024 TTA YEARLING DETAILS

Highlander Training Center

Highlander Training Center is proud to offer these exceptional Yearlings.

For more detailed information, feel free to contact Jeff Hooper

Hip # 146 Unnamed Colt (LA)
Dark bay or brown colt foaled February 26, 2023
(El Deal x Aife, by Paddy O’Prado)

Accredited LA-Bred
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Pedigree Insights:

Hip # 146 Unnamed Colt (LA)

Dark bay or brown colt foaled February 26, 2023

(El Deal x Aife, by Paddy O’Prado)

 

  • By EL DEAL, an 8-length winner of Saratoga’s prestigious Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap; he has four crops of racing age.

  • Sire of 14% stakes horses from runners.

  • Top runners include FREE LIKE A GIRL, a stakes winner of 17 races and $1,622,978, who this year has run second in the Grade 1 La Troienne to champion Idiomatic while finishing ahead of last year’s champion 3yo filly Pretty Mischievous; she was also third in the Grade 1 Apple Blossom to Adare Manor

  • Sire of 70% winners from starters.

  • A sire line of class and speed – EL DEAL is by the top sprinter MUNNINGS, who is a son of champion sprinter SPEIGHTSTOWN from the Mr. Prospector sire line

  • MUNNINGS has sired 76 stakes winners to date, including the Grade 1 winners JACK CHRISTOPHER, KIMARI ($1.1-million), I’M A CHATTERBOX, EDA, and Canadian champion MUNNYFOR RO

  • SPEIGHTSTOWN has sired 4 champions and 145 stakes winners including Grade 1 winner Charlatan, leading first-crop sire at the sales this year.

  • 1st dam AIFE won or placed in 22 of 32 starts to age 6, earning nearly $300,000. She raced at 11 tracks across 8 states, getting her first win at Saratoga, where she ran a mile on the turf in 1:34.81.

  • AIFE followed up her turf win with wins on the dirt at Churchill and Keeneland, then went back to turf for the balance of her wins.

  • Her first foal is a 2yo colt by Aurelius Maximus who has not started yet.

  • 1st dam is by Grade 1 winning millionaire and classics-placed PADDY O’PRADO; a son of leading sire EL PRADO whose other sons include leading sires MEDAGLIA D’ORO and KITTEN’S JOY.

  • AIFE carries an interesting 4 x 4 cross to KRIS S. and same to NORTHERN DANCER; this yearling adds a 5 x 5 cross of MR. PROSPECTOR.

  • 2nd dam won a maiden special at Hollywood Park and two allowances on the turf at Santa Anita for trainer Neil Drysdale; she was fourth in stakes races in her last two starts, just missing black-type in a Grade 3 against males by 3/4th of a length and a length in a stakes at Del Mar against her own sex.

  • 3rd dam, by the Mr. Prospector horse Machiavellian, was a winner in Ireland before she transferred to the West Coast, winning a stakes at Del Mar and finishing off her career in a Grade 1 stakes at Santa Anita, beaten just over 5L.

  • Fun fact: this colt’s female line traces back to a mare bred by Queen Victoria.

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