2024 TTA YEARLING DETAILS

Pedigree Insights:

Hip # 94 LAURA LU (KY)

Gray/roan filly foaled May 1, 2023

(Volatile x Ready at Nine, by More Than Ready)

 

• By VOLATILE, already with 7 winners from his first crop of runners this year, including Saratoga maiden special winners RELIABLE SOURCE and INCENTIVE PAY.

• His first crop to sell as yearlings averaged $119,333, with top sales including:

• Colts for $700,000, $600k, $400k, $315k, $250k.

• Fillies for $1,150,000, $400k, $285k, $275k, $259k, $230k, $220k.

• Buyers included Pin Oak Stud, Mike Rutherford, Kenneth McPeek, Mike Ryan, Whisper Hill Farm, Three Chimneys, Cherie DeVaux, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Eddie Kenneally, and Davant Latham

• A brilliant racehorse, VOLATILE won 5 of 6 lifetime starts, running second in his lone defeat, and capping his career with a gate-to-wire win in the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt at Saratoga, defeating a field including Whitmore and Firenze Fire

• VOLATILE is a son of VIOLENCE, sire of 2yo champion FORTE and 11 other graded stakes winners; VOLATILE is a grandson of MEDAGLIA D’ORO, a leading sire of 5 champions and more than 70 graded stakes winners including RACHEL ALEXANDRA, SONGBIRD, TALISMANIC, and BOLT D’ORO.

• This filly’s dam is by the G1 winner MORE THAN READY,  a leading juvenile sire 3 times, and just the fourth sire in history to sire 200 stakes winners. He is the broodmare sire of over 170 stakes winners, including champion REGAL GLORY and recent Saratoga G2 winner NEAT

• First dam, Ready At Nine, won a maiden special weight at Lone Star by over 5 lengths. She has produced the stakes performer DRUMMER BOY, who has won or placed in 19 starts.

• This filly’s half-sister is the dam of HAULIN ICE, now a stakes winner since the catalogue, taking the Azalea Stakes at Gulfstream on July 13th. Now sporting a record of 4 wins and 3 seconds in 7 starts, she won a maiden special at Oaklawn by six lengths in February.

• Another half-sister to this filly is the dam of ALTERNATE ROCK, whose versatility was showcased by wins or stakes placings on dirt, turf, and all-weather.

• This filly’s 4th dam is the three-time Grade 1 winner CLASSY CATHY, a product of the outstanding breeding program of the late Ed Cox, who acquired her dam from Claiborne. Dam of 7 winners, CLASSY CATHY’s descendants include Kentucky Derby winner and hot second-crop sire AUDIBLE.