Page 17 - March 2017 Thoroughbred Highlight

Hubert Vester Jr. is the owner of this We Miss Artie lly born February 13 out of his maiden mare, Blue Kisses, by Pulpit - Bluegrass Sara, by Tabasco Cat. The lly is the rst foal of We Miss Artie’s rst foal crop. G1 winner, We Miss Artie is standing for $3,000 in his second season at Colebrook Farms Stallion Station.
This colt by Bear’s Kid out of the Stakes winning mare Cristina’s Halo was born March 2. Graded Stakes winner Bear’s Kid
entered stud in 2010 and is standing for $2500 in 2017.
Five time winning mare, Eeny
Meeny (2003 Chester House) purchased by Colebrook Farms in 2011 with her Leonnatus Anteas lly born January 22, 2017.
The mare is con rmed back in foal to Canada’s leading rst crop sire, Signature Red.
Signature Red entered stud in 2013 after a successful racing career for owner Howard Walton’s Norseman Racing Stable. A multiple Graded Stakes winner, Signature Red was a two time winner of the G2 Highlander Stakes (2010 & 2011) and placed in the G3 Kennedy Road, G3 Vigil, the King Corrie, the Bold Venture, and Jacques Cartier Stakes.
Owned by John Brnjas, this colt out of Apocalyptica (Pulpit - Lost in the Storm, by Storm Cat) born March 3 is the second foal out of the rst crop of foals for Ontario sire, We Miss Artie.
Bred in Ontario by Richard Lister, We Miss Artie, was purchased for $90,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale in 2012 by Ken and Sarah Ramsey from consignor Cara Bloodstock.
The son of Artie Schiller - Athena’s Gift, by Fusaichi Pegasus broke his maiden at Saratoga in his second start and won the G1 Dixiana Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland in his two year old year in 2013. He was the winner of the G3 Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park before shipping to Woodbine to win the Canadian-bred Plate Trail Stakes on his way to nishing fourth in the Queen’s Plate, which would be his last career race.
Kitten’s Joy - Crimson Ore colt born at Colebrook Farms Breeding Division, February 26, 2016
for owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey.