Queen's Plate pedigree profile: Telekinesis

Telekinesis
Ghostzapper–Intentional Cry, by Street Cry
(Bred in Ontario by William D. Graham)

The 2011 dispersal of Edward P. Evans’s Spring Hill Farm has had a far-reaching effect on the Thoroughbred industry, with those connected to it including U.S. Horse of the Year Gun Runner and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Hootenanny.

Queen’s Plate contender Telekinesis may be the next major stakes winner with connections to the Spring Hill Farm dispersal. The Ghostzapper colt is out of the unraced Street Cry mare Intentional Cry, who sold out of the Evans dispersal to William D. Graham’s Windhaven operation as a 2-year-old for $125,000 at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.

She entered Graham’s broodmare band during the 2012 breeding season and has produced two winners from three runners.

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Telekinesis’s second dam is the Grade 2 winner Gold Mover, and the extended family includes Hootenanny and Grade 1 winners Dance Teacher, Cat Moves, and Ascend.

Offspring of Ghostzapper have won two of the past three editions of the Queen’s Plate. Both horses raced as homebreds for Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs operation. Shaman Ghost won in 2015 en route to winning Canada’s champion 3-year-old male honors. He went on to become a multiple Grade 1 winner in the United States.

Last year, Holy Helena became the 36th filly to win the Queen’s Plate and earned the Sovereign Award as champion 3-year-old female. She’s on a three-race winning streak, most recently taking the Grade 2 Sheepshead Bay Stakes at Belmont Park.

Ghostzapper, an Adena Springs homebred by Awesome Again, was named U.S. Horse of the Year in 2004 after winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic, Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, and Grade 1 Woodward Stakes.