PROFILE
| Foaled: | March 4, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Breeder: | Blackstone Farm |
| Color/Sex: | Bay/Filly |
| Sire: | Justify |
| Dam: | Essential Rose |
| Dam Sire: | Bernardini |
| Trainer: | Todd Pletcher |
HORSE OVERVIEW
A must have for any racing fan. From the first crop of Triple Crown winner Justify, this gorgeous filly will be trained by Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher.
MyRacehorse went to $625,000 to secure this gorgeous daughter of racing’s 13th Triple Crown winner, Justify, whose first yearlings hit the sales grounds this year. The filly looks to have her sire’s speedy frame and is bred the part to get two-turns being out of the Bernardini mare, Essential Rose. The 2006 Preakness winner Bernardini, a leading stallion in his own-time and son of the legendary stamina influence stallion A.P. Indy, is now becoming a prolific broodmare sire with the likes of Kentucky Oaks winner Serengeti Empress and Grade 1 winners Catholic Boy, Maxfield, and Dunbar Road.
Our team believed this was the best offspring by Justify on the sales ground, a comment echoed by a number of highly respected horsemen, including representatives of Coolmore, who stand Justify at stud. The filly has a well-defined physique with a powerful hip and great mental disposition, the same traits that propelled her superstar sire to Triple Crown glory.
The filly’s pedigree has a lot of international influence on the bottom side and includes Grade 3 winner Flameaway, who ironically competed in the 2018 Kentucky Derby against Justify.
Fasig-Tipton Select Six Bonus
This filly comes with a $2 million bonus designed specifically for horses purchased by MRH at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale of Selected Yearlings. If this filly were to win the Kentucky Oaks, shareholders would be paid a $2 million bonus ($200/share prior to fees). Unlike some of our past offerings, where the bonus was split in partnership with co-owners, this bonus would be paid out only to MRH shareholders.
Breeding Insights
When American Pharoah ended the Triple Crown drought by winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes in 2015, many racing fans wondered if they would have to wait another 37 years before it would happen again. Lightning struck twice not long after, when Justify, another electrifying colt trained by Bob Baffert, burst on the scene in February of 2018. Just 111 days later, Justify would become the 13th horse and most recent to sweep the Triple Crown by defeating nine rivals in the 150th running of the Belmont Stakes.
In capturing the Triple Crown, Justify became the second undefeated horse (the other was Seattle Slew in 1977) to win the series and the first to do so without ever having raced at age 2.
Prior to winning the Triple Crown, Justify was victorious in a Maiden Special Weight and an allowance race at Santa Anita, in advance of his three-length romp in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby, which served as his prep for the Kentucky Derby. In capturing the Kentucky Derby, he became the first horse since Apollo in 1882 to win the Run for the Roses without having raced as a juvenile.
Justify, who was recognized as the 2018 champion 3-year-old male and Horse of the Year, was retired several weeks after winning the Triple Crown due to an ankle injury and began stud duties at Ashford Stud in Kentucky in 2019. He stands for a fee of $125,000 in 2021, after standing for $150,000 during his first two years at stud.
His first crop of yearlings in 2021 have already commanded huge respect in the auction ring at the recent Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale, with the hammer dropping with final bids in the high six-figures on several occasions. Justify’s first yearling through the ring this year was a colt in Japan, who was the highest priced yearling by a freshman sire ever sold at the Japan Racing Horse Association Select Sale when bringing $1.8 million.
A striking chestnut with a white blaze and a massive frame who stands 16.3 hands-tall, Justify is a son of Scat Daddy, a four-time leading sire in North America and a sire of 15 champions.
Justify’s dam, Stage Magic, is a daughter of 2004 Horse of the Year Ghostzapper.
This filly’s dam, Essential Rose, is an unraced daughter of the late Bernardini, a 3-year-old champion and the winner of the 2006 Preakness Stakes, and a sensational sire with nearly 50 graded winners to date.
This filly’s half-brother, Rose’s Vision, is a black-type winner and earner of $255,333. Another half-sibling, Crystalology, was a winner on debut earlier this year.
Second dam Essential Edge, a daughter of Storm Cat, was a graded stakes winner in Canada, and is a dam of three winners, including a graded stakes-placed runner.
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