Final Reward ‘22, a daughter of Bolt d’Oro, was acquired by MyRacehorse for $450,000 early in the first session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Shortly after signing the ticket, the MyRacehorse bloodstock team was approached by agent Ramiro Restrepo–best known for acquiring 2023 Kentucky Derby winner Mage at the same sale two years earlier–who was the direct underbidder on the filly when she went through the ring.

A partnership was soon agreed upon, with Restrepo and his clients taking a minority interest in the filly with the plan to send her to Mage’s trainer, Gustavo Delgado. Fresh off its victory in the G1 Preakness S. just two days earlier with Seize the Grey, it was only fitting that MyRacehorse would team up with the prior year’s Derby-winning connections.

Final Reward ‘22 first caught the eye with her :10 2/5 breeze over the Timonium track during the first of three breeze shows and the session which yielded by far the slowest average times. She responded willingly to her rider’s encouragement and appeared to quicken late in the work, showing off some gears before galloping out very strongly in :11 2/5 and :24 flat.

She was equally impressive and classy-acting back at the barn, possessing a very balanced frame and very scopey and athletic walk. She vetted to perfection and was a horse all members of the bloodstock team considered a must-have.

Multiple Grade 1-winning juvenile Bolt d’Oro was the champion freshman sire of 2022 and has seen his stock continue to rise since then, having started at an initial stud fee of $25,000 and commanding a $60,000 fee in 2024. He sired five graded stakes winners in his first year at stud, and from his second crop was represented by the G1 Del Mar Debutante heroine Tamara. The Spendthrift Farm resident’s current crop of juveniles have been in high demand in 2024, including a colt who fetched $800,000 at OBS April and the $1.25-million sale-topping filly at the Fasig Midlantic sale. MyRacehorse’s bloodstock team did not believe that the respective credentials of the two high-dollar Bolt d’Oro fillies in Maryland warranted the disparity in price, and are confident that Final Reward ‘22’s price would have been higher if she were positioned in the catalog behind the other filly.

The filly’s dam Final Reward is by Arch, broodmare sire of nine highest-level winners including champion and top sire Uncle Mo and G1 Kentucky Derby hero I’ll Have Another. Final Reward’s first foal is current 3-year-old Yatta (Yoshida {Jpn}), who broke her maiden in a $156,000 Kentucky Downs maiden special weight last September who concluded her juvenile campaign with a late-running third in Del Mar’s G3 Jimmy Durante S. Absent in the afternoon since then, Yatta returned to the worktab at Fair Hill in mid-May.

Final Reward herself is a half to three stakes horses. Her dam Last Kitten is a full-sister to MG1SW Precious Kitten (Catienus) and half to none other than important sire and MG1SW Kitten’s Joy. This is also the extremely deep female family of champion juvenile filly Dreaming of Anna and SW/G1SP Fast Anna, sire of this year’s G1 Kentucky Oaks heroine Thorpedo Anna.

Final Reward ‘22 will get a brief respite out of the sale at Rebecca Maker’s Shantera Farm and will get legged up at Shantera before joining Delgado’s stable at Saratoga this summer.

An extremely accomplished horseman in his native Venezuela, Delgado began training in the U.S. in 2014. In addition to $290,000 purchase and $2.5-million earner Mage, his other Stateside standouts include Grade 1 winners Bodexpress and Paola Queen. The latter, winner of the 2016 G1 Test S. at Saratoga, later sold for $1.7 million as a broodmare prospect.