Not only did five-time reigning leading sire Into Mischief get on the board with his first graded stakes winner of 2024 on Saturday, he continued to advertise his growing legacy, as three of his sons sired stakes winners on the same day. Three Witches captured last fall’s Grade 3 Princess Rooney before finishing third in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, contributing to a season that saw her sire, standing at Spendthrift Farm, become the first stallion to lead the North American earnings list in five consecutive years since the great Bold Ruler. Three Witches subsequently sold for $1.7 million at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale. Making her first start for Yuesheng Zhang and Michael McCarthy, she won the Grade 2 Santa Monica on Saturday at Santa Anita to kick off this year’s graded stakes tally for Into Mischief. Two-time Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Goldencents, who stands alongside Into Mischief at Spendthrift, added to his accomplishments on Saturday with Mystik Dan winning the Grade 3 Southwest at Oaklawn to jump onto the Kentucky Derby trail. Audible (WinStar Farm) was represented by his first graded stakes winner from his first crop when Life’s an Audible won the Grade 3 Sweetest Chant at Gulfstream. Rounding out the trio on Saturday, Skelly won the King Cotton at Oaklawn for Practical Joke (Coolmore’s Ashford Stud). :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. Lothenbach digital dispersal Multiple stakes-placed gelding Minnesota Ready sold for $380,000 last week to lead a digital dispersal of the late Robert Lothenbach’s Lothenbach Stable’s horses of racing age. The sale, hosted on Fasig-Tipton’s digital platform, saw 66 horses change hands for a total of $4.84 million. This was one part of a three-pronged dispersal for the Thoroughbred holdings of Lothenbach, who died last November. His broodmares and young stock are being sold at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale Feb. 5-6, while his juveniles are cataloged to the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s March sale. Minnesota Ready sold for $380,000 to Richard C. Colton, Jr. The 5-year-old is coming off a consecutive third-place finishes in the Richard R. Scherer Memorial and Duncan F. Kenner Stakes at Fair Grounds with trainer Neil Pessin. No future plans were immediately available for Minnesota Ready. Colton’s most recent flat runners have been with trainer Tom Amoss. The next two highest prices were $360,000 for Dazzlin’ Dictator and $340,000 for Happy American. Trainer Rodolphe Brisset, as agent for Ann Harrison, purchased Dazzlin’ Dictator, a 3-year-old filly who won back-to-back races at Turfway Park for trainer Ian Wilkes. “I think Ian was pointing, possibly, to the Bourbonette Oaks,” Steve Castagnola of Taylor Made Sales, which handled the digital consignment as agent, told Fasig-Tipton. “She’s got the potential to pick up [Kentucky] Oaks points, and she’s extremely well bred.” Pessin, who lost his biggest client in Lothenbach, saw 19 of his barn’s 22 horses up for sale in the dispersal. In addition to purchasing 6-year-old Happy American, a Grade 3 winner last year at Fair Grounds, for $340,000, he also purchased Churning Berni, Flatter Me Silly, Hogslayers R I P, and Ready to Pounce for a combined $233,000. “Now I just have to find investors,” Pessin, who was the underbidder on Minnesota Ready, told Fair Grounds publicity. “I’m just trying to decide if I should do it individually or as a group.” Pessin trained runners such as Grade 1-winning multimillionaire Bell’s the One, on offer at Fasig February, for Lothenbach. “We had so many good times,” Pessin said. “We became pretty close, not just as an owner, but as friends. Even his brothers and I got to be friendly. Bob and I were pretty tight.” First foals for top mares Two accomplished racemares, Eclipse Award champion Letruska and Kentucky Oaks winner Shedaresthedevil, delivered their first foals over the weekend in Kentucky. Letruska, an 8-year-old Super Saver mare, delivered a filly by perennial leading sire Curlin early on Feb. 4 at Terrazas Thoroughbreds in Lexington. Terrazas is an adviser to St. George Stables, which campaigned Letruska as a homebred. Letruska earned more than $3 million while winning 19 of 28 career starts. After winning multiple Group 1 races in Mexico, where she was named a champion, she came to the United States in late 2019, and ultimately won 10 graded stakes races in this country. After winning the Grade 1 Apple Blossom in early 2021, edging two-time Eclipse champion Monomoy Girl by a nose with fellow champion Swiss Skydiver in third, Letruska went on to win three more Grade 1 races that season in the Ogden Phipps, Personal Ensign, and Spinster. That campaign earned her a divisional Eclipse. Letruska went on to win one more Grade 1, in the 2022 Apple Blossom. Shedaresthedevil, a 7-year-old Daredevil mare, is boarded at Timber Town Stables in Lexington for owner Whisper Hill Farm, which bought out partners on the mare for $5 million at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton November sale. Whisper Hill announced on Feb. 3 that the mare had delivered a filly by young phenom Gun Runner. Shedaresthedevil won 10 of 21 career starts while earning more than $2.7 million. Her eight graded stakes wins were highlighted by the 2020 Kentucky Oaks. She added a pair of Grade 1 wins the following season in the La Troienne and Clement L. Hirsch. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.