2024 TTA YEARLING DETAILS

Pedigree Insights:

Hip # 188 Unnamed Filly (TX)

Gray/roan filly foaled April 9, 2023

(Sky Flight x Cowgirl N Up, by My Golden Song)

 

• By SKY FLIGHT, who within his first four lifetime starts, graduated from a maiden special win at Keeneland to an allowance win at Churchill Downs to a win in Gulfstream Park’s historic Tropical Park Derby – a stakes won by the likes of Barbaro and Kitten’s Joy; at 4 he added the Artie Schiller Stakes in New York, and a number of graded stakes-placings before retiring to the stallion ranks.

• By one of the industry’s most stalwart sires, SKY MESA, a Grade 1 winner who has sired 5 champions, and 26 Graded Stakes Winners among his 150-plus stakes horses. Among his top runners are champions DYNAMIC SKY ($1,099,258), GENERAL QUARTERS ($1,226,655, Blue Grass S. (G1); sire), Grade 1 winners PERFECT ALIBI, SKY DIVA, and 2-time champion AMI’S MESA (beaten a nose in the G1 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint at Del Mar).

• From the amazing sire line of A.P. Indy, sire of Bernardini, Rags to Riches, Mineshaft, Jump Start, Congrats, and Pulpit – the sire of the great Tapit, as well as Sky Mesa.

• SKY FLIGHT, from a small number of foals to date, has sired 62% winners from starters, who have an average earnings per runner of $29,730.

• Top runners include 2yo TICKET TO BROADWAY, 2nd in the Texas Stallion Pan Zareta Division Stakes at Lone Star for trainer Danny Pish; SKY FLIGHT has also sired SOARING LADY, winner of 5 of her 6 starts at 4 this year; stakes-placed LITTLE JONY; DULCE AMANECER YG (Lone Star allowance winner).

• Sire of the 3yo filly AVALING, a maiden special winner sprinting on the dirt at Lone Star, who has placed in 4 of her 6 starts, all in 2024, and $44,053 to date.

• This filly is out of a top race filly, a winner of 5 races and placed another 7 times over 19 starts; her maiden win came in her second start – the Darby’s Daughter Texas Stallion Stakes in which she led the whole way. A winner of two further stakes races and two allowances, she earned over $200,000.

• This filly is a half-sister to stakes-placed Cherokee Cowgirl, winner of over $82,000 with 2 wins, including sprinting on the turf in a Fair Grounds allowance.

• Second dam is also a stakes winner, who set the track record at Lone Star going 5 furlongs on the dirt in :58.23 with an 8-length win as a 2yo in her second out.

• This filly has a 3x4 to the champion 3yo UNBRIDLED, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Breeders’ Cup Classic, a leading sire whose major horses included Banshee Breeze, Empire Maker, Manistique, Unbridled’s Song, Grindstone, Broken Vow, and Halfbridled.