Sequel’s Mision Impazible retires to Old Friends

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Top New York sire and multiple Grade 2 winner Mission Impazible retired from stud duty and will take up residence at Old Friends in Kentucky. Barbara Livingston Photo.

Multiple Grade 2 winner and leading New York sire Mission Impazible has been pensioned and retired to Old Friends in Georgetown, Kentucky.

The 17-year-old son of Unbridled’s Song stood his entire career at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson, including the 2024 season for a private fee.

Bred by Summer Wind Farm, Mission Impazible was purchased by Twin Creeks Racing Stables for $200,000 at the 2008 Keeneland September yearling sale. Trained by Todd Pletcher, Mission Impazible won three of 21 starts and earned $1,284,949. He won or placed in nine graded stakes including victories in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby in 2010 and Grade 2 New Orleans Handicap in 2011. Mission Impazible finished second in the Grade 1 Donn and Stephen Foster Handicaps.

Retired to Sequel Stallions New York, Mission Impazible quickly emerged onto the breeding scene when his first-crop son, Silver Mission, won Belmont Park’s historic Tremont Stakes by more than 6 lengths in a time that equaled Hall of Fame member Buckpasser’s clocking.

Mission Impazible’s second crop included his speedy daughter Pure Silver, winner of Saratoga Race Course’s Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes by 9 1/2 lengths under top weight as a 2-year-old. The next two crops also produced North American black-type stakes winners led by hard-hitting Espresso Shot, the earner of $516,625 who won stakes at 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Mission Impazible was the leading Northeastern first-, second-, third-, fourth-, fifth and sixth-crop sire from 2016 to 2021, respectively. He sired the earners of almost $15 million to date.

“Mission Impazible made his mark as both an accomplished racehorse and well-respected sire,” Sequel Stallions New York said in a statement. “We wish him the best during his retirement.”

 

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Vekoma filly highlights OBS yearling sale

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A filly by Vekoma bred by Trail Creek Stables sold for $130,000 to D. J. Stable Tuesday at the OBS October yearling sale. Photo courtesy of Abbie Road Farm.

A filly by freshman sire and multiple Grade 1 winner Vekoma sold for $130,000 to top the New York-bred offerings at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s October yearling sale that wrapped up Tuesday.

D. J. Stable Inc. purchased the filly, offered as Hip 462[2] out of Lisa McGreevy’s Abbie Road Farm consignment. Bred by Trail Creek Stables LLC and foaled at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, the filly is the second foal out of the Empire Maker mare Sinister Siren.

Sinister Siren, a half-sister to stakes-placed Unanimously from the family of Canadian champion Delightful Mary and graded stakes winner Delightful Kiss, is the dam of the winning New York-bred 3-year-old Mitole filly Mitole’s Girl. She’s also the dam of a weanling New York-bred colt by Mendelssohn. Both were bred by Trail Creek Stables.

The OBS October sale, shifted to earlier in the week with Hurricane Milton expected in the area Wednesday, saw 33 of the 58 New York-breds through the ring sell for $549,500 and an average price of $16,652.

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Hip 517, a daughter of Kantharos also bred by Trail Creek Stables, sold for $85,000. Photo courtesy of Abbie Road Farm.

Hip 517[4], a filly by Kantharos also bred by Trail Creek Stables, foaled at Mill Creek and sold out of the Abbie Road Farm consignment, sold for the second highest price at $85,000 to Grassroots Training & Sales LLC. The filly is the first foal out of the Quality Road mare That’s My Cue.

Hip 335[5], a son of Violence from the family of stakes winner and Kentucky Oaks runner-up Gambling Girl, brought the highest price for a colt at $45,000 from Alta Visa Enterprises. Bred by TLC Thoroughbreds, foaled at Stonegate Stables in Fort Edward and consigned by Silver Oaks Farm, agent, the colt is the third foal out of the Malibu Moon mare Moon Delight.

The OBS October sale marked one of the final significant markets for yearlings in North America, with the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October sale – scheduled for October 21-24 – up next. Fasig-Tipton also hosts the Saratoga fall mixed sale Tuesday, October 15 in Saratoga Springs.

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  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/462p.jpg
  2. Hip 462: https://obssales.com/catalog/#/138/hip/462?refUrl=results
  3. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/517p.jpg
  4. Hip 517: https://obssales.com/catalog/#/138/hip/517?refUrl=results
  5. Hip 335: https://obssales.com/catalog/#/138/hip/335?refUrl=results

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