Summer Sweet

A weanling filly by Justify got the nicest sort of update Breeders' Cup Saturday: her half-sister She Feels Pretty (Karakontie {Jpn}) finished second in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf. She Feels Pretty has been making headlines for a long time as a multiple Grade I winner, but Monday during the weanling portion of the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, it was her half-sister's turn. Sold as Hip 54 through the Gainesway consignment, the chestnut filly hammered for $800,000 to Hugo Lascelles, agent. Born May 16, the $800,000 filly is...

When She Feels Pretty (Karakontie {Jpn}) first burst onto the scene, Christian Erickson received several substantial offers for her dam, Summer Sweet (More Than Ready). The first calls came in after She Feels Pretty's debut win and the numbers grew after her victory in the GI Natalma Stakes. Still relatively new to the sport, having taken on the role of trustee for the Virginia Kraft Payson Children's Trust earlier that year, Erickson reached out to his new acquaintance Brian Graves of Gainesway Farm for advice. "We were being offered basically...

8th-SAR, $100K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 4:28 p.m. ET. From the same Cherie DeVaux shedrow as her older half-sister MGISW She Feels Pretty (Karakontie {Jpn}), SHE FEELS STUNNING (American Pharoah) is unveiled for Lael who owns both fillies. The first-time starter was acquired by the stables for $650,000 during Keeneland September. Dam Summer Sweet (More Than Ready) is herself out of French stakes winner Summer Solstice (Ire) (Caerleon), who is also responsible for SW Adirondack Summer (Thunder Gulch), SW Summer Breezing (Langfuhr) and GISP Summer Solo (Arch)--the dam of...