Stacy Mitchell

Secret Oath (Arrogate), winner of this year's GI Kentucky Oaks and fifth in Saturday's GI Breeders' Cup Distaff, has been withdrawn from an expected engagement in Sunday's Fasig-Tipton November sale with owners Robert and Stacy Mitchell deciding to campaign the filly in 2023, according to a release from the sales company. "We watched her run in the Breeders' Cup and following the race, we decided that we would like to see her back in the winner's circle again before she enters the sales ring," said Stacy Mitchell.

By this stage, they've probably had enough of being asked about that $1 mare. But the remarkable thing is that the first Thoroughbred ever acquired by Robert and Stacy Mitchell still cost more (cover fees aside) than all the others that have stocked Briland Farm, on and off the racetrack, since 2001. That was the year, having begun an inadvertent breeding career with a mare discarded by a friend of a friend, they decided to see what they could do with one that cost as much as $36,000. Her name...