Bo Knows His Bellamy Roads

By Justina Severini   Hip 280, a colt by Bellamy Road fetched the second highest price of the session when trainer Randy Morse signed the ticket for $340,000 on behalf of David Clark. 
    “I liked everything about him and, obviously, some other people did too,” Morse said. “He went :10.1 and is a two-turn type of horse. He’s young, he’s almost a June foal. I just really liked him.” 
    Clark purchased Street Strategy (Street Sense) for $425,000 at this sale last year and the colt broke his maiden at Oaklawn Jan. 30, before finishing sixth in the GII Rebel S. Mar. 15 for Clark’s Iron Horse Racing stable. Morse cites the colt’s success as the reason they returned to the sale. 
   “We bought a really nice colt here last year called Street Strategy,” the conditioner said. “He got hurt in the Rebel, but he’ll be back.” 
    The colt, who was bred by Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Osterloh, was purchased by Bo Hunt’s Royal Flush Racing for $35,000 at the Fasig-Tipton October Sale. Hunt consigned him yesterday. 
    “I’ve always wanted to buy a Bellamy Road, but I’ve never seen one that I liked,” Hunt explained. “He throws really plain horses, who aren’t very physically attractive, but they’re runners. He was just one that I really liked. He was one of the first ones I’ve seen that I just really wanted to buy. I just went with it on his pedigree and the way he walked. Being a really late foal, I thought he’d grown up to be a nice horse. 
    “He developed better than I thought he would,” Hunt continued. “I thought he’d bring about $150,000 to $175,000. He doubled what I thought he’d bring.”