Queen's Plate pedigree profile: Halo Again
Halo Again
Speightstown – Halo’s Verse, by Unbridled’s Song
Bred in Ontario by Anderson Farms ($600,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Winchell Thoroughbreds)
Halo Again, a stakes winner both as a juvenile and this season, is by a stallion who excelled as a sprinter but has produced his share of route runners.
Speightstown won the 2004 Breeders’ Cup Sprint to lock up an Eclipse Award as champion sprinter. He is the sire of several Grade 1/Group 1-winning routers on both dirt and turf. In the Northern Hemisphere alone, those include Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Sharing, Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Haynesfield, and Competitionofideas, Force the Pass, Golden Ticket, and Seek Again. He also is the sire, at shorter distances, of Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Tamarkuz, Cigar Mile winner Jersey Town, this summer’s H. Allen Jerkens winner Echo Town, and Grade 1/Group 1 winners Dance to Bristol, Lighthouse Bay, Lord Shanakill, Mona de Momma, Poseidon’s Warrior, Reynaldothewizard, and Rock Fall.
Halo’s Verse, a winner at a mile, is already the dam of multiple graded stakes-placed Inflexibility. That filly not only won the Wonder Where Stakes, part of Canada’s Triple Tiara, she set a course record for 1 1/4 miles while doing so. Halo’s Verse also is the dam of Fundamental, who is Grade 2-placed routing on the turf.
This is the extended family of Eclipse Award champion Ashado, winner of the Kentucky Oaks and Breeders’ Cup Distaff, and of Grade 1 winner Sunriver.