2024 TTA YEARLING DETAILS

Pedigree Insights:

Hip # 177 Unnamed Colt (LA)

Bay colt foaled February 24, 2023

(Star Guitar x Catch the Magic, by Animal Kingdom)

 

• An “A++” True Nicks mating, this colt has a 3 x 4 cross of the great sire FAPPIANO through his two top sons, UNBRIDLED and QUIET AMERICAN.

• By STAR GUITAR who won an astonishing 24 of 30 starts (including 22 stakes wins), and over $1.7-million.

• Sire of 34 stakes horses to date (13% of starters) with average earnings per runner of over $70,000. Top runners include MINIT TO STARDOM (9 wins, including the G2 Honorable Miss Handicap at Saratoga), OVA CHARGED (15 wins in 19 starts, $918,575, including the G3 Unbridled Sydney at Churchill Downs), and TOUCHUPONASTAR, a winner of 12 of 17, with 4 seconds and 1 third, and $922,900 in earnings (2nd last out by a neck in the G3 Steve Sexton Mile at Lone Star), G3 winner MANAMA GOLD (at 3, 2024).

•  STAR GUITAR is by QUIET AMERICAN, Grade 1 winner and sire of champion and Kentucky Derby winner Real Quiet, broodmare sire of champion and Preakness winner Bernardini.

• First dam a daughter of Kentucky Derby winner ANIMAL KINGDOM, sire of champion REGAL GLORY, G1 winners ANGEL OF TRUTH, OLEKSANDRA

• Unraced, the first dam is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner SMOOTH ROLLER, as well as the Grade 3-placed winner ELITE ALEX

• This colt’s 3rd dam is a stakes-placed winner by Northern Dancer’s French champion and top sire NUREYEV, broodmare sire of the likes of Kingmambo.

• Incredible female family, tracing back to this yearling’s 9th dam, *Boudoir II. Her offspring include FLOWER BED (her branch includes GALLANT BLOOM, GRAUSTARK, HIS MAJESTY, GROUPIE DOLL, and FLOWER BOWL), YOUR HOST (sire of 5-time Horse of the Year Kelso), YOUR HOSTESS (descendants include MAJESTIC PRINCE, CARACOLERO, CROWNED PRINCE, REAL QUIET, and SECRETO).