Pirate's Punch provides Catch the Moon with another star

LEXINGTON, KY. – The young broodmare Catch the Moon has already become a star, officially recording her third graded stakes winner as Pirate’s Punch won the Grade 3 Salvator Mile at Monmouth on Sunday.

Pirate’s Punch, by Shanghai Bobby, had also crossed the line first in the Grade 3 Philip H. Islein last month, but was disqualified to second for interference. His Salvator Mile win punched his ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.

Catch the Moon, an 11-year-old Malibu Moon mare, produced her first foal, the Colonel John colt Cocked and Loaded, in 2013. He won the Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes and the Tremont Stakes as a juvenile, and went on to be graded stakes-placed at 3. The mare followed up with millionaire Girvin, by Tale of Ekati. He won the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational in 2017 after having won the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby and Grade 2 Risen Star earlier that year.

Stonestreet Farm purchased Catch the Moon for $240,000 at the 2015 Keeneland November breeding stock sale while she was carrying Pirate’s Punch. With the subsequent success of Girvin, her stock rose significantly. Last year, the mare’s Tiznow colt sold for $525,000 to Winchell Thoroughbreds at the Keeneland September yearling sale. Now named Midnight Bourbon, he was recently second in the Iroquois. Catch the Moon’s yearling Curlin colt sold for $500,000 to Shadwell last week at Keeneland September.

Catch the Moon delivered a Quality Road colt in February, and was bred back to Curlin for 2021.