Familiar pedigrees featured at final Barretts sale at Del Mar

DEL MAR, Calif. – Barretts Sales holds its final yearling sale at Del Mar on Tuesday, and it has a tough act to follow.

Last year, a Bodemeister filly was purchased for $300,000, an all-time record for a yearling sold at Barretts. The overall sale showed growth from 2016, with a 9.5 percent increase in average price, from $37,174 to $41,075.

Barretts has two remaining sales before it ceases operation – Tuesday’s yearling sale and a fall sale of yearlings and horses of racing age in Pomona, Calif., on Oct. 16. The Los Angeles County Fair, which owns Barretts, has been unwinding its horse racing holdings in recent years. The county fair race meeting was last held at the actual fair in Pomona in 2013 and has been held at Los Alamitos since 2014.

In 2019, Barretts will not conduct any sales. Fasig-Tipton will hold two sales at Santa Anita – a 2-year-olds in-training sale in June and a yearling sale in September.

Tuesday’s Barretts sale has 86 yearlings, 74 of which are California-breds.

A familiar pedigree could feature on the list of leading horses sold.

A Square Eddie colt who is a half-brother to last year’s sale-leading filly is Hip No. 54. Consigned by Fairview LLC, the colt is out of North Freeway, the winner of the 2012 Winter Melody Stakes at Delaware Park who earned $273,610.

North Freeway is the dam of Take the One O One, a multiple stakes winner who is expected to start in the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby on Sept. 2

Take the One O One and the Bodemeister filly, named Takethediamondlane, are owned by Samantha Siegel and trained by Brian Koriner. Takethediamondlane, who has not raced, had 12 workouts from late March to mid-July at Santa Anita. She is out of training after suffering a minor injury, Koriner said on Friday.

Tuesday’s sale includes the last yearlings from the late stallions Lucky Pulpit and Unusual Heat, who led California sires in progeny earnings earlier this decade. There are three fillies by Lucky Pulpit in Tuesday’s catalog and two fillies and two colts by Unusual Heat. Both stallions died last year.

One of the Unusual Heat fillies – Hip No. 7 – is a full sister to the stakes winners America’s Friend and Bel Air Sizzle.

Also selling Tuesday is a Champ Pegasus filly who is a half-sister to Spectator, the winner of the Grade 2 Sorrento Stakes in 2017, and to Policy, the winner of a maiden special weight race on Aug. 19. She sells as Hip No. 17. An Acclamation colt who is a half-brother to Ismelucky, the winner of the 2017 Barretts Debutante, sells as Hip No. 37.