My Meadowview Farm’s star broodmare Oatsee died Nov. 11 as a result of infirmities of outdated age, in keeping with the farm’s longtime adviser Lincoln Collins. The 2011 Broodmare of the Yr, who was pensioned on the farm on Lengthy Island, N.Y., was 27.
“She was a plain however robust mare and noteworthy in that she was profitable with all types of various stallions,” mentioned Collins. “She was vital, too, in that she produced a number of profitable daughters.”
Out of the 17 foals, Oatsee produced 14 starters, of whom 11 grew to become winners and 4 had been graded stakes winners. Her progeny have earned greater than $6 million. Her finest runners included 2011 Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Shackleford (Forestry); 2007 Alabama Stakes (G1) winner Girl Joanne (Orientate); Falls Metropolis Handicap (G2) winner Afleeting Girl (Afleet Alex); a number of grade 3 winner Baghdaria (Royal Academy), and grade 2-placed stakes winners Stephanoatsee (A.P. Indy).
Oatsee, a daughter of Unbridled out of the stakes-placed Lear Fan winner With Each Want, raced as a homebred for Bentley Smith. She grew to become a stakes-placed winner who earned $110,143 for coach Carl Nafzger. Smith retained her as a broodmare and acquired three winners from her first three foals, who included Girl Joanne and Baghdaria.
Smith, nevertheless, offered Oatsee in the course of the second session of the 2006 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Gross sales for $135,000 to Belvedere Farm, which purchased the mare as agent for Mike Lauffer and Invoice Cubbedge, who had been contributors in Belvedere racing partnerships and had been making their first broodmare buy.Join BloodHorse Every day
4 days after the January sale, Baghdaria gained her first stakes within the Silverbulletday Stakes (G3) at Louisiana Downs. Throughout fall of the identical 12 months, Girl Joanne gained the Golden Rod Stakes (G2) and would go on in 2007 to win three extra stakes and be runner-up within the Mom Goose Stakes (G1) and Spinster Stakes (G1).
In 2008, Lauffer and Cubbedge offered Oatsee in foal to main sire A.P. Indy for $1.55 million to My Meadowview in the course of the Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale. The companions additionally retained possession of the three foals they acquired out of Oatsee that included grade 2 winner Afleeting Girl and Shackleford, who gained or positioned in seven grade 1s, together with wins within the Preakness, Metropolitan Handicap (G1), and Clark Handicap (G1). Shackleford additionally ran fourth within the Kentucky Derby (G1).
The primary foal produced for My Meadowview was a number of graded-placed stakes winner Stephanoatsee, who would stand at stud in New York for 5 seasons earlier than being being relocated to Arkansas.
As for the legacy of Oatsee’s daughters, her oldest daughter, Grand Portege, is the dam of a number of grade 3 winner Florida Gained and the granddam of grade 3-placed stakes winner Pleased Is a Alternative. Baghdaria is the dam of stakes-placed winner Dancing Courageous Bear and the granddam of Turkish 2022 champion 3-year-old Last Dance and United States stakes winner Mohs. Oatsee’s unraced daughter Haysee (Orientate) is the dam of Uncle Lino , who set a 1 1/16-mile monitor file of 1:40.82 at Los Alamitos Race Course within the California Chrome Stakes and was second within the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) and third within the Santa Anita Derby (G1).
Oatsee’s final eight foals included six that raced and 5 that grew to become winners. Of the final eight foals, 5 are fillies and three have already produced winners. The legacy of those My Meadowview-bred Oatsee daughters remains to be unfolding, with 5 of their foals both yearlings or weanlings by sires reminiscent of American Pharoah , Structure , Curlin , Ghostzapper , and Maclean’s Music .
Photograph: Skip DicksteinOatsee’s son Shackleford (inside), winner of the 2011 Preakness Stakes, wins the 2012 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park
