SARATOGA TAKES CENTER STAGE

Racing returns to Saratoga July 20 and Denali’s consignment for The Saratoga Sale, August 6 & 7 includes several exciting prospects buyers will not want to miss.

A full brother to millionaire MUSHKA-G1, a Denali sold sale topper at $1.6-million at this same sale in 2006, is a real star, selling as hip 91. Hip 167, also by Empire Maker, is a filly from the same female family as MUSHKA, her dam is the Thunder Gulch stakes winner DATTTS OUR GIRL, selling as hip 167.

Another outstanding filly, hip 118, is by Medaglia d’Oro out of the Gone West stakes winner, WET COAST SWING, from the great Canadian family of leading sire Smart Strike, also the sire of hip 103 out of the stakes winner SUPPOSEDLY.

Rounding out the consignment are two fillies by exciting young sires, hip 60 is from the first crop by Colonel John out of Quiet Down, dam of QUIET MEADOW, a stakes winner of over $300,000 that was graded stakes placed five times. Hip 173 is from the second crop by Tiz Wonderful, the first crop sire of 2YOs is off the mark with an impressive maiden winner at Churchill Downs and is a half sister to the multiple graded placed stakes winner LADYECHO.

Hip 29, Tale of the Cat filly out of Mayan Maiden is out of the sale.