Blue-blooded Cowboy Cal Colt Brings $550K

Hip 154 (Cowboy Cal–Refugee, by Unaccounted For) was hammered down to NorthwestﾠStud for $550,000. Consigned by Hidden Brook, the handsome bay is a half-brother to MGISW Executiveprivilege (First Samurai) and GII Rebel S. winner and GI Santa Anita Derby runner-up Hoppertunity (Any Given Saturday). His GSP dam Refugee sold to Blanford Bloodstock with this colt in utero for $480,000 at the Fasig-Tipton November sale in 2012 and the colt puchased by McMahon & Hill Bloodstock for $145,000 as a Keeneland November weanling. The colt was bred by Barronstown Stud (KY).