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Pretty easy choice for Broodmare of the Week: Sudden Departure. Before we dissect this fledgling mare let's get a word from this week's sponsor, the Ballard Driving Academy:
One of my favorite skits from Almost Live. And since I lived in Ballard for almost 20 years, I can confirm it is true. When I lived in Ballard, me and my brothers we were the youngest people living there by 68 years.
Sudden Departure is Broodmare of the Week based on Find Your Spot's victory in the Irish Day Handicap. This post is a little more personal for me because I have a small connection to Find Your Spot. You see at the 2012 WTBOA Sale, I thought the best looking Nationhood was the colt out of Artic Mist who sold for $15,000 at the sale. I discussed this with several people at the sale. Being affiliated with One Horse Will Do Corporation and Chris Stenslie, I told them that I liked the Nationhood colt a little more than the filly out of Sudden Departure. However, they both made an astute purchase picking up the Nationhood filly, Find Your Spot, for $10,000.
Most important is what happened in the next year as I saw how Find Your Spot developed during breaking and her training as a 2-year-old. This filly blossomed as a 2-year-old under Chris's training and I was clearly willing to admit my mistake; this was the filly to buy. Guess it is just an experience thing. Someday I will learn. Here is a picture of Find Your Spot at the Sale:
Now let's discuss this young mare. Sudden Departure is by Demon's Begone out of the Wild Again mare Impulsive. Impulsive was purchased by Blue Ribbon Farm for $3,000 at the 1996 Keeneland September sale. Impulsive won over $33,000 and was put in the broodmare band. Impulsive only had two foals, the last being Sudden Departure.
Sudden Departure had a good racing career. She won 4 of 12 starts and won the King County Handicap at 8 Furlongs. Retired in 2007 to the broodmare band, Sudden Departure left the track with over $77,000 in earnings. Here is her Equibase profile if you want to take a closer look:
http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=6489266®istry=T
This is what Blue Ribbon Farm Manager Carly Doran had to say about what Sudden Departure is like as a broodmare:
"She is the sweetest kindest mare. She was the first yearling I lead when I first started on the farm with no horse skills. She won me a nice exacta (Robert Geller called it a blue ribbon exacta, I believe) for my birthday when her and She's All Silk ran 1-2"
Sudden Departure's first foal was Sudden Arrival, a filly by the recently departed Tribal Rule. Sudden Arrival won 4 races and over $34,000 at Northlands Park in the claiming ranks. Sudden Arrival sold for $10,000 at the 2010 WTBOA Sale.
Sudden Departure's second foal was a beautiful Candy Ride colt that topped the 2011 WTBOA Sale at $105,000. Unfortunately, the colt, named Gratian, only started once winning a Maiden Special Weight race at Golden Gate. Interestingly enough, Gratian beat both Disruption and Prayer for Da Bric in that race; both horses we still see around these parts. Gratian won $16,800 for his victory. A picture of Gratian at the sale:
Sudden Departure's third foal is Find Your Spot by Nationhood, the winner of the Irish Handicap last weekend. To date Find Your Spot has won just under $100,000. Find Your Spot was claimed out of her first race and went through all of her conditions down south before returning to Washington. She won a $32,000 Maiden Claiming race at Golden Gate making her eligible for Starter Allowance races, which she won on her second try. She then went down to Santa Anita and won an 80k Optional Claiming race at odds of 25.10-1. She was put in for a tag that race making her eligible for an 25K Optional Claiming N1X at Emerald Downs on June 14. She fit the conditions beautifully as she did not need to be put in for a tag of 25k because she had yet to win a race other than a Maiden, Claiming or Starter Allowance race, even though she had three wins. In that race she easily beat a group of mostly non-winners of 2 lifetime. Here is Find Your Spot's Equibase Profile:
http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=9061375®istry=T
In the Irish Handicap, Find Your Spot sat in the garden "spot" and made a nice move on the turn. She did not switch leads until later in the stretch. A replay of the Irish Handicap:
http://replays.robertsstream.com/racereplays/playf_llnw.php?customer=EmeraldDowns&t=1404270363&h=eebebaeaa9f2e063c9eb29747d1692a2&url=201406292103EMD8
Find Your Spot is the first Stakes Winner for Washington Stallion Nationhood:
Sudden Departure had a Sharp Humor filly in 2012 which was purchased for $11,000 at the WTBOA sale. In the pipeline are a Harbor the Gold colt which is scheduled to be sold in August at the WTBOA sale. Sudden Departure had a First Samurai Colt on March 18th this year. A few pictures of the Harbor the Gold colt:
And the Harbor the Gold hanging with a Nationhood filly by Sweet Forty:
You might also want to check out this video in which Star Wars puts her performance last weekend in perspective:
You just got Rick Rolled!!!
All pictures by the excellent Terra Lee and the Rick Rolling was by William Brewer.
Always Love Your Animals,
Will
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