{"id":12329,"date":"2019-05-18T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=12329"},"modified":"2019-05-18T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T16:10:21","slug":"mischief-thrives-black-eyed-susan-day-pimlico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/mischief-thrives-black-eyed-susan-day-pimlico\/","title":{"rendered":"Into Mischief Thrives On Black Eyed Susan Day at Pimlico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12330\" src=\"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Into-Mischief-300x244.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/>In 2009, a client requested I get his mare a season to a first-year stallion, Into Mischief, who was standing for $7500. I did so, and his mare got in foal, but I thought he was crazy. Who the heck was Into Mischief? Was the Harlan\u2019s Holiday line going to produce a rightful heir? I didn\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n<p>I was wrong, in a big way. Today, Into Mischief, who stands for $150,000 at Spendthrift in Lexington, Kentucky, couldn\u2019t get any hotter\u2014or so it would have seemed, until his daughter, Covfefe, won the Miss Preakness S.-G3 on Black Eyed Susan day at Pimlico, breaking a 29 year-old track record by more than a second.<\/p>\n<p>She won by 8 \u00bd lengths, and finished the six furlongs in a blazing 1:07.70, under Javier Castellano, who is as hot as Into Mischief. Out of an Unbridled\u2019s Song mare, the automatic nicking services give her a yawning C nick, but the Storm Cat\/Unbridled\u2019s Song cross is a classic, and those automatic services fail to take into account such things as Covfefe\u2019s third dam being the Blue Hen Courtly Dee, with her second dam Champion Althea. Covfefe was a $250,000 yearling at Keeneland September 2017, and she looks like the bargain of the century today.<\/p>\n<p>From the same file, \u201cStallions Who Can Get No Hotter,\u201d it must be noted that a Curlin colt and a Curlin filly took the Pimlico Special S.-G3 and the Black Eyed Susan S.-G2. Curlin, who stands at Spendthrift in Lexington for $175,000, can do no wrong these days. His colt, Tenfold, out of a Tapit mare, took the PImlico Special, and his filly, Point of Honor, out of a Bernardini mare, took the Black Eyed Susan. The pattern is clear\u2014Curlin bred to an A.P. Indy line mare is golden, especially when that that A.P. Indy line includes a big dose of Fappiano or his son Unbridled.<\/p>\n<p>To top off the day for Curlin, Mylady Curlin took the Distaff S.-G3 in a photo\u2014an unbelievable three stakes sweep for the stallion. And, what a surprise, she is out of a Seattle Slew-line mare, her broodmare sire Slewdledo. So I\u2019d take a Slew-line or A.P. Indy-line mare to Curlin any day, and an Unbridled-line mare to Into Mischief. If I could afford the stud fee!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8212; Roberta Smoodin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-12330\" src=\"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Into-Mischief-e1558195707944-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>In 2009, a client requested I get his mare a season to a first-year stallion, Into Mischief, who was standing for $7500. I did so, and his mare got in foal, but I thought he was crazy. Who the heck was Into Mischief? Was the Harlan\u2019s Holiday line going to produce a rightful heir? I didn\u2019t think so. I was wrong, in a big way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloodstock","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}