Clearly Perfect and her newborn colt, the first foal for Mill Creek Farm’s Killybegs Captain. Samantha Little Photo.
Graded stakes winner Killybegs Captain was represented by his first foal when the winning Cryptoclearance mare Clearly Perfect delivered a colt Jan. 31 at Anne Morgan’s and Tim Little’s Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater.
Killybegs Captain, an 8-year-old son of Mizzen Mast out of the Holy Bull mare Al Maha, stands for $2,500 LFSN at Mill Creek Farm.
Bred by Morgan, the newborn colt is the third foal out of Clearly Perfect. The mare’s first foal, the Giant Surprise gelding Clear Surprise, sold for $14,000 2014 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale and won four of 18 starts and $48,651. Clearly Perfect is also the dam of the newly turned 2-year-old Frank Conversation filly Franca who sold for $10,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale.
Campaigned by Curragh Racing and trained by John Terranova, Killybegs Captain won seven of 27 starts with five seconds and three thirds for $572,453 in earnings. A $75,000 purchase at the 2016 OBS April 2-year-olds in training sale, Killybegs Captain was a winner at 3, 4, 5 and 6 and rose from the allowance ranks to become a stakes winner in his last two seasons.
Killybegs Captain scored his biggest victory in the Grade 3 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash at Laurel Park in 2019, defeating a field that included He Hate Me and New York Central in 1:08.10 for 6 furlongs.
Third in the Grade 2 John A. Nerud Stakes at Belmont Park and Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in 2019, Killybegs Captain also won back-to-back editions of the Pelican Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs in 2019 and 2020. He defeated multiple Grade 1 winner Imperial Hint in the 2019 edition of the Pelican, winning the 6-furlong stakes in 1:09.66.
