The notion of freshman sires throughout their first 12 months with 2-year-olds is about as unstable because the share worth of Fact Social inventory. Certainly, at this stage, even a promising maiden winner or two is sufficient to considerably transfer the needle. For considered one of this 12 months’s freshmen, McKinzie  , the needle simply moved to red-hot. Little greater than per week earlier than his second-crop yearlings start to go beneath the hammer on the Keeneland September Sale, he turned the primary member of this 12 months’s freshman group to be represented by a grade 1 winner.
That grade 1 got here by means of Chancer McPatrick , who outdueled the odds-on favourite, Ferocious , to seize the Hopeful Stakes (G1), together with his stablemate Incentive Pay (by one other freshman, Unstable  ), in third, on Sept. 2 at Saratoga Race Course.
Ferocious did apparently lose a entrance shoe, however Chancer McPatrick needed to overcome troubles of his personal. He hit the gate arduous at the beginning, inflicting Flavien Prat to lose an iron, and was practically 10 lengths off the lead on the first name. After making regular progress, Chancer McPatrick was pressured to go seven large into the stretch, however he maintained his momentum in an effort that means extra distance shall be no situation. This took Chancer McPatrick’s report to 2-for-2: on his July 27 debut, over 6 1/2 furlongs at Saratoga, he’d closed large from tenth to attain by a neck.
McKinzie himself had but to start out at this stage in his profession, though he did rapidly make up for misplaced time. He made a powerful successful debut for Bob Baffert at Santa Anita Park on the finish of the October of his 2-year-old season. On his solely different begin that time period he crossed the wire in second within the Money Name Futurity (G1) however was positioned first on the disqualification of Solomini  , who initially prevailed by three-quarters of a size in a tough, three-horse battle to the road.
Winner of the Sham Stakes (G3) on his 3-year-old debut, McKinzie was then first dwelling within the San Felipe Stakes (G2), however this time discovered himself on the incorrect finish of the stewards’ inquiry. It reversed the ending order between McKinzie and Bolt d’Oro  , who completed a head again. An harm to a hind leg took McKinzie off the Triple Crown path, however he was again in motion within the fall to take the Pennsylvania Derby (G1). After failing to fireside within the Breeders’ Cup Traditional (G1), McKinzie ended the marketing campaign on a excessive be aware with a 4 3/4-length victory within the Malibu Stakes (G1).Join BloodHorse Day by day
At 4, the son of Avenue Sense   was a mannequin of consistency, with seven begins bringing wins within the Alysheba Stakes (G2) and Whitney Stakes (G1) and seconds in 5 different graded stakes, together with the Santa Anita Handicap (G1), Superior Once more Stakes (G1), and Breeders’ Cup Traditional (G1). Saved in coaching at 5, McKinzie started the 12 months with a fruitless Center Jap enterprise for the Saudi Cup (G1). He did win the Triple Bend Stakes (G2) on his first United States begin of the 12 months, however disenchanted in his remaining two begins and retired to Gainesway Farm, Lexington, to face the 2021 breeding season at a charge of $30,000, which has remained unchanged by way of his first 4 years at stud.
Along with Chancer McPatrick, he has 5 different winners, all in maiden particular weight firm, together with different Saratoga scorers Briland and Quickick, and McKinzie Avenue, who scored impressively at Del Mar on her solely begin to date.
Picture: Courtesy of Gainesway / Louise ReinagelMcKinzie at Gainesway Farm
A $260,000 Fasig-Tipton July Yearling and $725,000 OBS Spring Two-Yr-Previous in Coaching, Chancer McPatrick is the third foal and second winner for his dam. A successful daughter of Bernardini, Bernadreamy, is a three-quarter sister to the A.P. Indy mare Bubbles and Infants, dam of Fireball Child, a four-time black-type winner within the Indiana-bred program.
The second dam, Dream Empress, was one of many prime 2-year-old fillies of her era, successful the Alcibiades Stakes (G1) and taking second within the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1). Dream Empress was by the Storm Cat horse Bernstein, out of Nijinsky II’s stakes-winning and graded positioned daughter Chinese language Empress, which meant she was inbred 4×3 to Northern Dancer by way of the equally bred Storm Hen and Nijinsky II. Chinese language Empress’ dam, Execution, was additionally dam of Potential Mate, whose 4 graded victories included the Sheepshead Bay Handicap (G2) and New York Handicap (G2), and of Canadian stakes winner Shy Proposal. Total, Execution is ancestress of greater than 40 stakes winners, together with different grade 1 winners Prenup, Yonaguska, and Bell’s The One, in addition to such well-known performers as Potential Mate, Guided Tour, Cat’s At Residence, Faucet Day, Honor the Hero, and Big Wrecker.
Execution’s third dam, Sunny Dale, was a top-class mare who gained 12 of 53 begins, six black-type races, together with the Beverly, Columbiana, Lexington, Suwanee River and Churchill Downs Handicaps. Sunny Dale can be a sister to the stakes-placed Sunny Vale, who remarkably is ancestress of greater than 30 grade 1 winners, together with champion turf horse Sunshine Eternally, Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Monarchos, Brian’s Time, To Honor and Serve, Winter Recollections, Angela Renee, Mozu Ascot, and Silver State.
Chancer McPatrick is bred on the Avenue Sense/Bernardini cross that has produced 4 different stakes winners, all by Avenue Sense himself, and all graded, together with different grade 1 winners Maxfield   and Speaker’s Nook  .
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