Brant buys Unaided, dam of Uni

Unaided, the dam of Breeders' Cup Mile winner Uni, was purchased by Peter Brant's White Birch Farm for $1,382,661 in U.S. funds over the weekend at the Arqana December breeding stock sale in France.

British-born Unaided, a 10-year-old Dansili mare, was unplaced in eight starts while racing for Japanese connections. She was shipped to the U.S. to be bred to internationally-successful sire More Than Ready, then sold for $230,000 at the 2013 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. Her resulting first foal, Uni, was born in Great Britain for Haras D'Etreham.

Uni was a minor stakes winner in France before being privately sold to continue her career in the U.S. She has won 8 of 12 starts since her first U.S. start in summer 2017 and has only missed the board once. She concluded this season with back to back Grade 1 wins, setting a course record in the First Lady at Keeneland before winning the Mile at Santa Anita.

Uni is the only winner to date out of Unaided, whose other foals of racing age, in order from oldest to youngest, are Al Mujahaz who is unplaced in Qatar and France; Isolate, who is placed in England; and Bring Him Home, an unraced 2-year-old. The mare is the dam of a yearling colt by Almanzor, and sold to Brant, with Oceanic Bloodstock acting as agent, carrying a foal by No Nay Never, a son of Scat Daddy who was a breakout success as Europe's leading freshman sire of 2018.