Sweet Sting

Oh, for a daughter to take the legacy forward! That was the late Marty Wygod's thought, year after year, when his dual Grade I winner Tranquility Lake (Rahy) persisted in stubbornly producing colts. True, her Storm Cats had served his program well: After Market and Courageous Cat both won Grade Is, while their brother Jalil made $9.7 million as a yearling. But then, finally, the mare delivered a filly--her very last foal, by Smart Strike. Emily Bushnell, his daughter, recalls ecstatically calling Wygod at 5 a.m. when the foetal test...

An Into Mischief colt from the immediate family of champion and Breeders' Cup winner Perfect Sting (Red Ransom) became Tuesday's new leader at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale when selling for $2.4 million to Speedway Stable. Consigned by Lane's End, agent for Pamela Wygod and the Wygod Family Revocable Trust, Hip 183 was bred in Kentucky by Wygod and her late husband, Martin Wygod. The couple bought the colt's dam, stakes-placed Sweet Sting (Awesome Again), for $310,000 in 2020 at Keeneland November. The mare is out of the aforementioned Perfect Sting,...