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Colt by Not This Time – Beauty Parlor, by Elusive Quality
Bred in Kentucky by Newstead Corp ($230,000 Keeneland January short yearling purchase by Quinns Ride; $210,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling purchase by Kenny McPeek, agent)
A catalog of 68 horses is now available for the 2026 Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. The auction, which is operated by the Texas Thoroughbred Association, is set for Wednesday, April 1, starting at 10 a.m. Central, and the under tack show is scheduled for Monday, March 30, at 8 a.m. Central. Both will be held at Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie.
As usual, the auction and under tack show will be streamed online, and online bidding will be available. The TTA is using a new online bidding system this year and interested bidders should plan to register in advance.
Lovesick Blues, winner of the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar last summer, and the multiple stakes winners Man O Rose and Om N Joy are finalists for the 2025 California-bred Horse of the Year award.
The California Thoroughbred Breeders Association announced the finalists on Wednesday, as well as divisional champions. The Horse of the Year will be announced at the organization’s annual dinner at the Le Meridien Hotel in Arcadia on March 2.
A filly out of CASSIDY'S REWARD born 1/19/2026 at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds reported John McMahon, "We are really pleased with this first foal, very correct and attractive, she is everything you could hope for."
PROVOCATEUR, by INTO MISCHIEF, is a multiple stakes winner and placed third in the Grade 1 Woody Stephens S. He is a full brother to Graded SW ONE LINER, stakes-placed Roderick and half-brother to Grade 2 winner RODRIGUEZ.
Yaupon dominated the freshman sire list in 2025 by more than a million-dollar margin, becoming the fourth consecutive leading freshman sire for Spendthrift Farm. His task in 2026 will be to keep rolling, as the farm’s other recent young sires have done, with a pair of classmates behind him appearing poised to hit their best stride.
Khozan continued to dominate Florida’s sires by earnings in 2025, but those following him on the earnings list held their own in some other metrics.
Khozan, who stands at Ocala Stud, led Florida’s first-crop and 2-year-old sire lists in 2019 and has led the state’s general sires for six consecutive years since. In 2025, he sired 121 winners from 216 individual runners – a 56 percent strike rate – and his progeny earned $6,291,875.
He’s an Indiana-bred who was a multiple graded stakes winner in Kentucky while racing worldwide. His current runners were conceived while he was standing in Florida. His best performer to date is a New Jersey-bred. And along the way, he’s become the profile of the type of stallion who’s valued in the rising New York market.
