2024 TTA YEARLING DETAILS

Pedigree Insights:

Hip # 50 Unnamed Colt (LA)
Bay colt foaled April 5, 2023
(Spun to Run x Martyr of Charity, by Empire Maker)

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• From the 2nd crop by Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner SPUN TO RUN – a son of top sire Hard Spun from the prolific Danzig branch of the Northern Dancer sire line

• SPUN TO RUN is already off the mark as a sire – he has three winners from his first crop, including the stakes-placed MIDNIGHT HUMOR

• Son of G1 HARD SPUN, sire of 40 Graded Stakes Winners, including 15 Grade 1 winners – 10th among all active North American Sires

• HARD SPUN has sired 14% stakes horses from named foals

• This yearling is bred along the same cross of Hard Spun with an Empire Maker mare that produced Grade 1 Met Mile winner Silver State ($1,993,094); Hard Spun to Empire Maker mares has produced 8% stakes winners

• An “A” True Nicks cross

• First foal out of a winning mare by Empire Maker – the broodmare sire of more than 80 stakes winners, including 5 champions

• 2nd dam a half-sister to champion mare and Grade 1 winner POSSIBLY PERFECT, a graded stakes producer and 3rd dam of TENFOLD, winner of the G2 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga and 3rd in the Preakness less than a length behind Triple Crown winner Justify

• Extended female line traces back to the Whitney family’s TRAVERSE, dam or second dam of 15 stakes winners, including her Broodmare of the Year daughter Traffic Court, dam of champion Hasty Road and the influential sire Traffic Judge; the latter sired Best in Show – 2nd dam of the champion classic winner El Gran Senor – who appears 4x5 in this colt’s pedigree