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Te sale will be held Tuesday, Aug. 11, beginning at noon. It will be conducted in the Amador Pavilion at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton. John Harris’ Harris Farms topped the 2019 edition of the sale with a $45,000 California-bred son of Mr. Big. Harris is bringing the only ofspring by that sire to this year’s sale, cataloging hip #121, a Cal-bred flly out of the War Chant mare Tis Means War. Te mare is a half sister to $440,611-earner and multiple stakes winner Lynne’s Legacy. Te Harris consignment also includes a Cal-bred half brother to 2019 King Glorious Stakes winner Club Aspen, who has placed in two stakes thus far this year. Te sale colt, hip #12, is by Tamarando, whose frst foals are 2-yearolds this season, out of the stakes-winning Talkin Man mare Aspen Gal. Five in the catalog are by hot California sire Smiling Tiger, who stands at Harris, and four are in the Harris consignment. Te ffth, hip #48, is a Calbred flly out of the Friends Lake mare Hong Kong Lake consigned by Graeme and Lu Tomas’ Willow Tree Farm Inc. Te mare is a half sister to champion and $2,323,040-earner Summer Bird. 18
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oung stallions with their frst crops join their older, established counterparts in the catalog for the 2020 California Toroughbred Breeders Association Northern California yearling and horses of racing age sale. Te variety will give buyers many opportunities to purchase exciting racing prospects.
Tamarando is one of many young sires with offerings at CTBA’s Northern California sale
Harris also has two by Clubhouse Ride, a successful California sire who stands at Legacy Ranch, including hip #71, a colt out of the stakes-placed
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Desert Code mare Moving Desert. Stallions in the Willow Tree group include Acclamation, Boisterous, Misremembered, Race Day, Shanghai Kid, and Stay Tirsty. Danzing Candy’s frst foals are yearlings of 2020, and two from that crop are in the Northern California catalog. Tom Bachman’s Fairview will ofer hip #67, a Cal-bred out of the Gulch mare Mary Coughlan, also the dam of multiple stakes winner Outside Nashville and stakes-placed Bluegrass Derby. Sue Greene’s Woodbridge as agent has consigned the other Danzing Candy, hip #106. Te Cal-bred colt is out of the unraced Point Given mare Siena’sgotapoint, a half sister to Cal-bred champion stakes winner Leave Me Alone and to stakes winner Stoney. Woodbridge also has yearlings by Boat Trip, Field Commission, Northern Causeway, and Southern Image. Fairview has a Cal-bred daughter of two-time Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1)
