Schosberg Sells ‘Monied’ Filly for $500,000

Longtime breeder Jane Schosberg enjoyed a big lead-off single yesterday at September after the Giant’s Causeway filly she bred from Well Monied (Maria’s Mon) brought $500,000. Alex and JoAnn Lieblong joined with Team D to purchased the handsome bay filly, who was consigned by Eaton Sales as Hip 381. 

“In this market, I’m very, very happy with that,” said the 75-year-old Schosberg, who has been breeding for some four decades. “I thought it was an excellent price. It makes you nervous when you’re the first horse in the ring, but when you’ve got the goods, it works. And she went to people who will race her, which I like.”

Schosberg praised Eaton Sales, as well as to Ashford Stud, which raised the filly and prepped her for auction. 
“The folks at Ashford deserve a lot of credit for putting that filly together the way she was,” said Schosberg by phone. “I was down in Kentucky last weekend to see her and make sure everything was right, and it was. She was absolutely beautiful, and I think she’ll do well.” 

The filly is the first foal from the top California racemare Well Monied, a half-sister to MSW & GSP Jimmy Simms (Lost Soldier) who herself won the GII Honeymoon H. and placed in the GI American Oaks and GI Del Mar Oaks. 
Schosberg, along with her husband Paul, operate Pine Lane Farm in Katonah, New York. Their son is New York trainer Rick Schosberg. In 2012, Jane traveled down to Kentucky to purchase Well Monied for $610,000 at Fasig-Tipton November. The gray was carrying this filly at the time. 

“My son trained Maria’s Mon, and he trained a Giant’s Causeway filly for me who was a graded winner, and I thought the cross was perfect,” Schosberg explained. “So I went down there and bought her.” 

Well Monied became part of a very small, very select broodmare band. Schosberg has only one other mare, the aforementioned Giant’s Causeway mare Sunshine for Life, who Rick Schosberg sent out to victory in the 2008 GIII Athenia H. 

Sunshine for Life gave Schosberg another big score as a breeder earlier this year when her second foal, the filly Make the Sun Shine (Malibu Moon), sold for $700,000 at the OBS March Sale. That was the top price for a filly at the auction. 
“That filly had cut her leg just before last year’s September Sale, and we had to scratch her,” said Schosberg. “So we sent her down to Niall Brennan, and he did a great job with her. She was a beautiful filly, too.” 

Schosberg said that, while the colors of all three horses are different, yesterday’s Giant’s Causeway filly resembled both her sire and Well Monied physically. 

“Because the mare and Giant’s Causeway are very similar physically, which is something I think is very important when planning matings,” she explained. “It’s more important to me than pedigree. But her personality was like her mother’s and Maria’s Mon’s. He was a very calm horse.” 

Schosberg said we should be hearing more from Well Monied’s foals in the new few years. “She has a gorgeous Speightstown on the ground, and she’s back in foal to Giant’s Causeway,” she said. “Sunshine for Life has a Henrythenavigator colt who sells at Goffs Orby in a few weeks, and has a Tapit weanling filly on the ground.” 
Schosberg boards both mares at Ashford. “We foaled and raised our own for years and years,” she said. “But we stopped around 1995–it just got to be so much work.” -LM