By Jessica Martini
In September of 2015, 'TDN Rising Star' Super Majesty (Super Saver) became the first graded stakes winner for the burgeoning racing stable of the Roth family's LNJ Foxwoods. The Roths are intent on building a world-class broodmare band, but advisor Alex Solis, Jr. admitted “they can't keep everything,” so Super Majesty will join the first wave of the family's runners to be offered at auction when she goes through the sales ring during Monday's first session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale as hip 238 through the Darby Dan Farm consignment.
“We were watching the trends in the market and it seemed like these really nice race fillies that are graded stakes winners that are really good looking, they are really bringing a premium right now,” Solis explained. “At the [Keeneland] January sale, we saw that Grade III-winning Tapit filly Delightful Joy brought $700,000.”
Super Majesty was entered in last year's Fasig-Tipton November sale, but was taken out of that auction as the team mulled mating options.
“We had her entered [in the November sale], but then we thought, 'Let's put her in foal and sell her next November.' But we've decided this is really a good time to take a shot and see how the market reacts to her. We thought that this would be good timing.”
Solis and Jason Litt purchased Super Majesty for $400,000 at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton Florida sale on behalf of LNJ Foxwoods.
“I talked to [consignor] Eddie Woods that year and asked him for a couple of fillies that he really thought a lot of and he told me he had a couple of fillies he really liked,” Solis recalled. “He gave me three fillies. He told me about her, he told me about [GISP] Enchanting Lady and he told me about Lady Eli. We were the underbidders on Enchanting Lady the sale before and then we went to that sale and Jason and I both really loved Super Majesty–we loved the look of her.”
Super Majesty dominated in her first starts in the spring and summer of 2015 and went wire-to-wire to win the GIII Dogwood S. at Churchill Downs. That victory earned her a spot in the GI Breeders' Cup F/M Sprint, where she came home 12th.
“You talk about raw talent,” Solis said of the now 5-year-old mare. “If you go watch her races, breaking her maiden first time out in 1:08 and change and coming back and winning her first condition by 15 lengths, she was the complete package. She won the Dogwood very impressively and our original plan was to go in the GII Raven Run S. with her and then aim for the GI La Brea S., but she was training so well after the Dogwood, Jerry [Hollendorfer] said, 'Why don't we take a shot in the Breeders' Cup.' She was a really neat filly. She was the Roths' first filly to really show immense talent.”
Super Majesty is out of graded stakes winner Gins Majesty (Go For Gin), a half-sister to GI Breeders' Cup Sprint winnter Dancing in Silks (Black Minnaloushe) and Grade I-placed Love at Noon (Afternoon Deelites). The bay's pedigree and looks should make her a standout at the two-day Winter Mixed sale, according to Solis.
“I think when people see her, they are going to love her,” he said. “She is a big, good-sized, she's probably 16.2 hands, she has nice length and she's a good scopey mare with a lovely walk. Physically, she's hard to knock. She is a really imposing filly and really kind to be around. She is a Grade III winner out of a graded stakes winner. She's really good looking by a good stallion. I don't think it's very often you get to see such a proven racehorse in the February sale with that kind of pedigree that is that good-looking. I think everyone is going to be pleasantly surprised when they see her.”
Super Majesty's win in the Dogwood was the first graded win for LNJ Foxwoods. She was followed less than a month later by GI Frizette S. winner Nickname (Scat Daddy) and Dreamologist (Tapit) and Constellation (Bellamy Road) have since continued the graded stakes winning trend.
Solis acknowledged it was a tough decision to sell the mare who gave the young operation its first graded victory.
“I think we'd love to keep them all, but it's one of those things that we've put a plan in place and it was set to keep no more than 15 mares. At this point in time, we're just getting numbers a little over that. So we sold Burning Arch (hip 134) in [Keeneland] November [for $325,000], we sold another one privately, and she is the next one. We're at the point where you're going to see more LNJ Foxwoods fillies sold.”
Solis continued, “They want to run it like a business and I think we have to put ourselves in every opportunity to be profitable. We think this is the perfect time to be selling her. What we've seen with the market, she is everything everyone is looking for.”
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale gets underway at 10 a.m. Monday in Lexington.
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