Monomoy Girl will be bred to Into Mischief

Two-time Eclipse Award champion Monomoy Girl will be bred to two-time reigning leading sire Into Mischief in her first season as a broodmare, Spendthrift Farm confirmed Monday.

Monomoy Girl's retirement from an accomplished racing career in which she won seven Grade 1 events, including the Kentucky Oaks and two editions of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, was announced last week after she sustained an injury training at Churchill Downs in Louisville. She was vanned on Monday to Spendthrift Farm outside Lexington. The operation had purchased her for $9.5 million at last November’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale. At the time of her arrival, the farm confirmed that she would be bred to its standard-bearer Into Mischief, who was a Grade 1 winner in the operation’s colors and entered stud there in 2009.

Into Mischief led the national sire ranks in 2019 and 2020, setting a single-season earnings record for a North American sire last year while powered by Horse of the Year Authentic, who won the Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic. The stallion narrowly missed becoming the first stallion in history to record back-to-back Kentucky Derby wins when Mandaloun crossed the wire second to Medina Spirit this May. Medina Spirit tested positive for the regulated medication betamethasone; the case is the subject of ongoing legal action, which could lead to an eventual change in the official order of finish.

Into Mischief is also the sire of Eclipse Award champions Covfefe and Gamine, two-time Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Goldencents, and additional Grade 1 winners Audible, Dayoutoftheoffice, Mia Mischief, Mischievous Alex, and Practical Joke.