Sales Analysis | Fasig-Tipton Summer Selected Horses of Racing Age: Hip 401

Hip 401- Harlan's Honor

2012 Filly, Harlan's Holiday/Indian Rush, Paramount Sales Agent II

SIRE: Harlan’s Holiday is a 1999 Thoroughbred stallion. He was euthanized in Argentina in 2013. Before his death he sired Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Shanghai Bobby, Arlington Classic and American Derby winner Willcox Inn, Cashcall Futurity winner Into Mischief, Natalma Stakes (CAN) winner Conquest Harlanate.

Harlan’s Holiday won the Hoover Stakes (6 furlongs), Cradle Stakes (1 1/16 mile), Iroquois Stakes (1 mile), Florida Derby (1 ⅛ mile) and Blue Grass Stakes (1 ⅛ mile) before finishing seventh in the 2002 Kentucky Derby. He went on to win the Pennsylvania Derby (1 ⅛ mile) and the Donn Handicap (1 ⅛ mile). Other notable performances include:

2nd- Breeders Futurity (1 1/16 mile)

2nd- Holy Bull (1 1/16 mile)

2nd- Fountain of Youth (1 1/16 mile)

4th- Preakness Stakes (1 3/16 mile)

4th- Cigar Mile (1 mile)

2nd- Dubai World Cup (1 ¼ mile)

2nd- Hollywood Gold Cup

Harlan’s Holiday’s foals tend to be early maturers and have some of their best seasons as two- and three-year olds. His foals aren’t huge monsters but are well built and solid. They have high withers. They have thick, large hips and a large stride.
DAM: Indian Rush is a stakes placed mare by Indian Charlie. She came second in the Finger Lakes Juvenile Fillies (6 furlongs). She has twenty-four starts with five first, six seconds and one thirds. She’s made $98,208 in her four year career.

WATCHMAKER ANYLSIS:

This 3-year-old stakes filly is by the deceased Harlan’s Holiday, from the stakes performing Indian Charlie mare Indian Rush, who herself is a full sister to a multiple stakes performer. What distinguishes this filly is she is a registered New York bred who really hasn’t yet taken advantage of that lucrative program, but she is already an open stakes winner. She won her debut last summer on the main track at Monmouth Park over straight maidens in decisive fashion, and then after showing good early speed in the Lynbrook Stakes at Belmont Park in what remains her only start to date against fellow New York breds, she returned to Monmouth, moved to turf and wired eight opponents in a four length romp in the Colleen Stakes. She also showed high early speed in the Selima Stakes in her penultimate 2-year-old start. In two starts this year, she competed in turf sprint stakes, and finished third in both. But she still has her second-level allowance condition available to her, as well as the option to return to dirt if so desired.