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A powerfully built son of Flatter, a sire whose progeny include two champions, West Coast and Avie’s Flatter, and Flat Out, a $3.5 million earner and multiple Grade 1 winner whose robust career featured 29 starts.

MyRacehorse and Dan Agnew partnered to acquire this colt for $270,000 at the second session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s March Sale of 2-year-olds in training. He will be conditioned by leading Southern California trainer Mark Glatt.

This colt has a classic two-turn pedigree with a physical presence that matches. He breezed a quarter mile in 21 seconds flat at the OBS March sale and did so in a very consistent and effective manner that convinced our team his better days will be going a route of ground.

The colt was sent to California straight from the sale and after a minor setback and time on the farm to mature, is now back in trainer Mark Glatt’s barn at Santa Anita and is preparing for a winter 2022 debut.

Flatter, a sire of more than 50 stakes winners, is a son of the one and only, A.P. Indy. His dam Praise, a beautifully bred daughter of Mr. Prospector, was a prolific producer of winners, and can count among her offspring multiple stakes winner Congrats.

On the racetrack, Flatter’s career was cut short by injury, but not before he won four consecutive starts and became a graded stakes-placed performer.

Co-bred and campaigned by Claiborne Farm, Flatter became a part of Claiborne’s fabled stallion operation in Kentucky in 2004, and stands there today for a fee of $35,000.

As a sire, Flatter has become known for durable and productive racehorses, who utilize their speed to successfully cover a distance of ground. One of his sons, West Coast, turned heads with an Eclipse Award-winning campaign that saw him crowned the champion 3-year-old male of 2017. A multiple Grade 1 winner, West Coast had a breathtaking season that year, winning five consecutive starts, including a 3 1/4-length, wire-to-wire victory in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes at 1 1/4 miles. Following his win in the Travers, he dominated nine rivals in the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby and won by 7 1/4 lengths. As a 4-year-old, West Coast accounted for three runner-up finishes in Grade 1 races: the Pegasus World Cup Invitational, Dubai World Cup, and Awesome Again Stakes, before entering stud in 2019. His eagerly anticipated first crop are yearlings this year.

Another son, Avie’s Flatter, was named the Sovereign Award winner as a 2-year-old in Canada in 2018. Currently still in training as a 5-year-old, Avie’s Flatter is a multiple stakes winner who finished second in the prestigious Queen’s Plate at 1 1/4 miles in 2018.

And yet another heralded son sired by Flatter is Grade 1 winner Flat Out, who entered the starting gate 29 times to produce a solid record of 9-5-5 with career earnings in excess of $3.6 million. During Flat Out’s six winning seasons on the racetrack, he accounted for six graded stakes victories, including back-to-back wins in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup, which was run at the distance of 1 1/4 miles. He also was a versatile sort who didn’t need a distance of ground to do his best running, as evidenced by his 1 1/4-length victory in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile Handicap, a race that closed out his career in 2013.

There’s also stamina on the female side of this colt’s family. His dam, Echo Warrior, is a daughter of two-time Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Tiznow. Second dam War Echo is a daughter of standout sire Tapit, and was a 2-year-old maiden winner at one mile, around one turn, at Belmont Park. She became a graded stakes winner the following year in the Grade 3, 1 1/16-mile Silverbulletday Stakes at Fair Grounds and later that same year at the New Orleans track won the 1 1/8-mile Daily Racing Form Distaff Stakes.

There’s also some speed on the female side with third dam, Wild Vision, producing Grade 1 winner Pyro, who won graded races from seven furlongs up to 1 1/16 miles.

Expected on track: Winter 2022