Stakes-placed Pan Handle tops works for Hastings paddock sale

The stakes-placed Pan Handle turned in the fastest time at six furlongs on Saturday during the Hastings paddock sale preview day at Hastings Racecourse, stopping the clock in 1:12 4/5 over a sloppy main track.

Pan Handle, a 3-year-old Texas Wildcatter gelding, has run second in two of his four career starts, including a runner-up effort in last year’s Jack Diamond Futurity at Hastings. He raced for owner Glen Todd’s North American Thoroughbred Horse Company, which also consigned the gelding at the paddock sale. Todd also trains Pan Handle.

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Bred in British Columbia by Salishan Meadows and North American Thoroughbred Horse Company, Pan Handle is out of the winning Thunder Gulch mare Thunder Goddess, who is the dam of three winners from five foals to race. His extended family includes Grade 3 winners The Seven Seas and Royal Gem.

Horses entered in the sale had the option to breeze or gallop during the preview day, and only a handful of the offerings registered a time on Saturday. Other racing-age horses going under the clock for six furlongs were Act Up, a winning Stephanoatis gelding who went in 1:13, and Kelson, a winning Sungold gelding.

Eight juveniles are entered in the paddock sale, and one turned in a time on Saturday: the Haynesfield colt No Bid, who went a quarter-mile in 25.

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No Bid is the first foal out of the winning Stormy Atlantic mare Shirley Street. Bred in Florida by Beclawat Stable, he hails from the family of Grade 2 winner Ransomed Captive and Grade 3 winner Skyler’s Scramjet.

The colt is consigned by 3480 Equine.

The Hastings paddock sale will take place Saturday in the paddock area at Hastings Racecourse in Vancouver, B.C., beginning at 1 p.m. Pacific.