Faith Understood

The 2026 Inglis Digital USA March Sale closed Tuesday displaying steady trade in the broodmare prospect market, led by the $80,000 purchase of broodmare prospect Faith Understood (Catholic Boy), the online auction company said on Tuesday. Chris Nolan was the winning bidder on the 5-year-old mare, who was made available for inspection in the Gulfstream Park barn of trainer Jennifer Young. She was consigned by owner Team Adams Racing. Faith Understood was a maiden winner at Keeneland in April of her 3-year-old season and was the runner-up in the Memories...

South African-bred Group 2 winner Feather Boa (Saf) (Flower Alley) is among the highlights in the catalog for the 2026 Inglis Digital USA March Sale which dropped Friday. The sale features a slate of 35 offerings that spans across regions and portions of the Thoroughbred marketplace. Bidding is currently open for the online auction which will run through Tuesday, March 3, with the first lot closing at 2 p.m. and each successive offering hammering in three-minute increments. The auction offers horses available for inspection in nine different states, giving potential...

The Keeneland April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale will cap closing day of the Spring Meet Friday in Lexington. Held following the conclusion of the 10-race card, the sale begins at 6:30pm and features a catalog of 88 hips (with supplements accepted through Friday) set to sell during the one-session auction. Notable hips to pass through the ring Friday include: Chandigarh (Speightstown) (hip 37, consigned by EliTE, agent), a 4-year-old gelding who in his second start won a maiden special weight race on the turf Apr. 13 at Tampa...

A pair of fillies is among the horses supplemented for Friday's Keeneland April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale. Keeneland's supplements is led by Faith Understood (Catholic Boy), a 4-year-old who won her first race at three at Keeneland and went on to finish second in the Memories of Silver Stakes at Aqueduct and third in the GIII Honeymoon at Santa Anita. Consigned by ELiTE, agent, Faith Understood is out of the stakes-placed winner Zia, by Munnings, and from the family of Grade 3 winner River Seven. Additionally, 4-year-old Purloin...

Grade I winner Catholic Boy (More Than Ready) has been relocated to California and joined the roster at Harris Farms for the 2025 breeding season, a release announced Monday afternoon. A winner at the highest level on turf and dirt, and only the third American 3-year-old in history to accomplish the feat by winning the GI Travers and GI Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes, he has two crops of racing age with 65% starters, 26% winners, and one stakes winner, El Catolico in Puerto Rico as of Oct. 21. He also...

Godolphin's progressive homebred Highland Falls (Curlin) has been made the 5-2 favorite in a field of 11 for Saturday's GIII Blame S. at Churchill Downs, one of four graded stakes that serve as an appetizer to corresponding races on Stephen Foster Saturday in a month's time beneath the Twin Spires. The chestnut son of Round Pond (Awesome Again), upset winner of the 2006 GI Breeders' Cup Distaff at the Louisville oval, makes his third consecutive appearance in graded company, having run on to be a good fourth to Newgate (Into...