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starts with 18 wins, nine seconds and nine thirds earning $796,077. He raced in 24 stakes races winning 11 of them. He won four stakes at two, including the Lafayette Stakes at 4-fur- longs and 152 feet, the Pimlico Futurity and the Garden State Stakes and the Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap. These last three races were at 8.5-furlongs. As a sire, Crimson Satan is best known as the sire of Crimson Saint, the dam of Terlinqua, the dam of the leading Thoroughbred sire Storm Cat.
Some of Spy Song’s other stakes horses include Royal Note, winner of a number
of stakes including the Lafayette Stakes in 1954 in a time of :49 2/5 for 4.5-furlongs. He also established a track record at Oaklawn Park going 3-furlongs in :34 flat. His stakes wins include the Arlington Futurity and
the Bashford Manor Stakes. Multiple stakes winner Sari’s Song and Sly Pola, who raced in France winning races like the Prix De L’abbaye De Longchamp-G1, a 5-furlong race, are other notable runners by Spy Song.
Spy Song is by Balladier and he is out
of Mata Hari by Peter Hastings. A look at his pedigree gives us an interesting look at some familiar names. Balladier was bred and owned by Colonel Edward Bradley’s Idle Hour Stock Farm. The colt made just five starts winning three and placing second once. He earned $18,320. Balladier showed his speed winning the United States Hotel Stake at 6-furlongs, the Champagne Stakes at 6.5-furlongs and he was second in the Futurity Stakes at 6.5-furlongs. He wasn’t sound and was retired to stand at stud.
The sire record for Balladier shows that he sired 278 foals with 208 winners and
16 stakes winners. His foals include 1946 Champion 2-Year-Old Colt Double Jay, who won 10 stakes races including the Kentucky Jockey Club, the Garden State Stakes and the Jersey Handicap, making 48 starts in his career with 17 wins, nine seconds and nine thirds. He earned $299,005.
Double Jay was a successful sire, but he left his mark as a broodmare sire. He was never
out of the top five Leading Broodmare Sires List from 1969 to 1981, and he led the lists
in 1971, 1975, 1977 and 1981. For Quarter Horse breeders, he is the broodmare sire of Heisanative, a stakes winner and sire of stakes winners and horses that have won $1.9 million. Heisanative’s leading money earner is Classy Native, who had earnings of $257,414. Classy Native won the Dash For Cash Maturity and was third in the 1981 All American Futurity. Heisanative is the broodmare sire of 2-time World Champion Refrigerator.
Black Toney is the sire of Balladier and he was bred by James R. Keene at his Castleton Stud, the home of Domino and Ben Brush. He was purchased by William R. Prime in a group of yearlings, but was later sold to Bradley’s Idle Hour Stud. He became a foundation sire for Idle Hour Farms and lived his life there.
Black Toney made 40 starts with 13 wins, 11 seconds and seven thirds earn-
ing $13,565. He won two stakes races in
the Valuation Stakes at 5.5-furlongs as his stakes win at two. He won the Independence Handicap at three, and set a track record for 9-furlongs in a time of 1:50 1/5 at Latonia that year. He was second in the Latonia Inaugural Handicap and the Latonia Autumn Handicap at three.
Black Toney sired 221 registered foals with 161 winners and 40 stakes winners. Some of his noteworthy foals include: Selima Stakes winner Big Hurry, the dam of five stakes winners including Hall of Fame mare Searching and Champion Bridal Flower; 1935 Champion 3-Year-Old Filly Black Helen, stakes winner of races like
the Florida Derby and the Coaching Club American Oaks; and 2-Time Champion Bimelech, winner of two of the three Triple Crown wins in the Preakness and Belmont with a second in the Kentucky Derby.
Black Gold, sired by Black Toney, was a Kentucky Derby winner. He was also a full brother to Beggar Boy, and it is through Beggar Boy that we get a direct link to
the American Quarter Horse. Beggar Boy was used by Ronald Mason along with Oklahoma Star P-6. Beggar Boy is the sire of Black Wider, the sixth dam in the tail female line of leading sire FDD Dynasty and the seventh dam in the tail female line of Apollitical Blood, another leading sire.
Black Toney is by Peter Pan by Command by Domino, who is by Himyar by Alarm. The dam of Black Toney is Belgravia by Ben Brush by Bramble by Bonnie Scotland. The dam of Ben Brush is Roseville by Reform. The dam of Roseville is Albia by Alarm. This gives Black Toney a 5x5 breeding pattern to Alarm.
Mata Hari is the dam of Spy Song. The 1933 Champion 2-Year-Old Filly and 1934 Champion 3-Year-Old Filly, Mata Hari
was raced just 16 times, winning seven.
She won the Breeder’s Futurity at Latonia, setting a New Track Record of 1:09 3/5 for the six furlongs. She also won the Illinois Derby with a New Track Record time of 1:49 3/5 for the 1 1/8 mile race against colts and geldings. She was also fourth in the Kentucky Derby.
The produce record for Mata Hari shows 10 foals with six starters and two stakes win- ners and one stakes placed runner. The other stakes winner is Roman Spy, winner of 45 of his 229 starts with his stakes win coming in the Motor City Handicap. The stakes placed runner is Spy Defense, who was second in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes.
Peter Hastings is the sire of Mata Hari. He was unraced, but sired 175 foals with
129 starters and four stakes horses. Peter Hastings is by Peter Pan. This gives Spy Song a breeding pattern of 3x3 to Peter Pan. The dam of Peter Hastings is Nettie Hastings
by Hastings. The dam of Mata Hari is War Woman by Man O’ War by Fair Play by Hastings. This gives Mata Hari a breeding pattern of 3x4 to Hastings. It has to be noted that Peter Pan was out of Belgravia by Ben Brush. So, Mata Hari carries the Domino, Ben Brush and Hastings cross.
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Spy Song (pictured) has had an influence on Quarter Horse racing as the broodmare sire of Hempen.