2024 TTA YEARLING DETAILS

Pedigree Insights:

Hip # 78 Unnamed filly (AR)

Chestnut filly foaled March 10, 2023

(Mark Valeski x Patientoftheheart, by Lion Heart)

 

• By the highly successful regional sire MARK VALESKI, who has two Graded winners in 2024, and overall, is the sire of 7.4% stakes horses, including ISOLATE – a Grade 2 winner of $1.8-million to date, and FROSTED GRACE - winner of this year’s Oaklawn Mile Stakes (G3) and over $1.1-million

• MARK VALESKI, trained by Larry Jones, won 4 times and ran second 4 times in 10 starts. His wins included the Grade 2 Peter Pan at Belmont and the Grade 3 Mineshaft at Fair Grounds; he was runner-up in the Grade 2 New Orleans Handicap, the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby and beaten a nose by El Padrino in the Grade 2 Risen Star at Fair Grounds

• Out of a mare by LION HEART – a Grade 1 winner at 2 and 3, and 2nd to SMARTY JONES in the Kentucky Derby; LION HEART’s son KANTHAROS is among the top active sires

• All of this filly’s siblings to race are winners

• Her dam is a half-sister to stakes winner SPANISH PIPEDREAM, who sold as a yearling to Cromwell Bloodstock for $125,000, and resold as a broodmare prospect for $370,000 to SF Bloodstock and Newgate Farm. 

• Another half-sister to the first dam, HOOKAH LADY (by Smoke Glacken) produced GET SMOKIN, who has won over $2-million, including the Grade 2 United National Stakes since the catalogue. HOOKAH LADY has a 2yo full sister to GET SMOKIN, a yearling colt by Classic Empire, and a 2024 filly by Practical Joke.

• This filly’s second dam is a full sister to the talented PHI BETA DOC, winner of the Grade 3 Saranac Handicap at Saratoga in course record; he also set another course record in winning the Virginia Derby

• Second dam is also a full sister to the dam of 2014 Champion Grass Mare DAYATTHESPA, a winner of 11 of 18 races, and over $2.2-million while accounting for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) among her 14 stakes wins or placings (including 8 graded stakes)

• Her third dam is a half-sister to CLEV ER TELL, winner of 7 of 12 starts, including both the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby and Grade 2 Arkansas Derby

• This filly’s 7th dam is by Man O’ War, and is a full sister to one of that sire’s best sons in WAR RELIC. War Relic was responsible for carrying on the male line of Man O’ War through such sires as In Reality, Valid Appeal, Tiznow, Relaunch, and Valid Expectations. Among his descendants through the female side are leading sire Tapit, whose dam is 4x3 to In Reality, who in turn is 3x3 to War Relic.