Cupid Well Represented at OBS June
Only days after seeing his first runner miss a win by only a head at Churchill Downs on debut, Cupid has 15 juveniles from his first crop set to go through the ring at the OBS June 2-Year-Old Sale this week.
Breezing in :10.1, a colt out of Charming Becky was among Cupid’s leaders at the Under Tack Show and is one of his first through the ring. Offered by Vargas Sales as Hip 183, the Destiny Oaks of Ocala-bred is a half-brother to two winners from three to race. There are winners throughout the page with his granddam also a half-sister to Grade I winner Mandy’s Gold and stakes winner Matula with Mandy’s Gold also producing a stakes-placed runner.
The colt also comes from the family of champion Gallant Bob and is bred on the same cross as four of Tapit’s graded stakes winners led by Mohaymen and Pauline’s Pearl, Grade III winner By Your Side is also by a Tapit son out of a Dixie Union mare.
Also breezing in :10.1 for Cupid was a colt named Twokidsfromdabronx. Offered by Coastal Equine as Hip 457, the $200,000 Keeneland September Yearling graduate is a three-quarter brother to Grade III-placed Quick Release and three other winners out of his Distorted Humor dam. That mare is a granddaughter of champion Safely Kept, who saw Venetian Harbor win the Grade II Monrovia for Munnings on Saturday.
Sons of Tapit bred to Distorted Humor mares have sired seven stakes performers. Tapit’s own Grade I winner Constitution is also bred on the cross – that stallion is also the sire of Cupid’s multiple Grade I winning stablemate Tiz The Law.
Out of a half-sister to Grade I winner Dance With Fate is Hip 578. The first foal out of Must Be Fate, the Best A Luck Farm-offered filly was a :10.2 breezer last week. It’s the first time through the ring for the filly offered by her breeder and she enters it with stakes performer Pursing Fate and multiple graded stakes winner Biogio’s Rose also among the stakes performers on the page.
Out of a full sister to multiple graded stakes winner Elusive Diva is Touch of Love, offered by Kilbride Stables as Hip 850. A Louisiana-bred from the Scott & Company Farm breeding program, the filly also sees dual champion Roy H under Elusive Diva’s name with her dam also a half-sister to three other stakes winners and two stakes performers.
The sale kicks off at 10:30a.m. on Wednesday with Cupid’s first through the ring Hip 41. On Wednesday, the Grade I winner sees his offerings led by Hip 408 and the final day of the sale sees Cupid’s session start with Hip 636.