First-crop sire Suave (bay horse, 2001, by AP Indy x Urbane, by Citidancer) had his first winner when one of his juvenile colts came home the victor in a maiden at Lone Star Park on May 28.
The 2-year-0ld colt BG Suavecito, out of the Red Ransom mare Cupids Revenge, raced five furlongs in :58.87 to claim victory in the maiden special weight race.
Bred in Kentucky by Westwind Farm, BG Sauvecito won by 2 1/4 lengths and paid $99 on a $2 mutuel ticket. The colt is the fifth foal and fourth winner out of his dam.
Going through the ring at the Keeneland September sale last year, BG Suavecito was an RNA at $14,000. The colt races in the name of Benjamin Gonzalez.
The colt’s dam, Cupids Revenge, won four stakes from 20 starts, earning $215,694. She is out of the Irish Tower mare Gaye’s Valentine. Cupids Revenge was unbeaten in two starts as a 2-year-old in 1996 and progressed to win stakes at 3 and 4.
Suave stands for $12,500 live foal at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington. The stallion has 84 2-year-olds in his first crop. Suave won seven of 27 starts and earned more than $1.3 million. His best victories came at the G2 level in the 2005 Saratoga BC Handicap and the 2006 Washington Park Handicap.
A mediocre racehorse, which doesn’t, of course, mean that he couldn’t be a decent sire.
The best I can say about him is that he didn’t inherit his dam-sire’s distinct influence for unsoundness.
A mediocre racehorse? I’d love to have a barn full of mediocre racehorses that earn $1.3 million on the track.
“His best victories came at the G2 level in the 2005 Saratoga BC Handicap and the 2006 Washington Park Handicap.”
Of course anyone would like to own or train a horse of that caliber, but in the stallion context, those accomplishments are clearly mediocre.
What do you think about his offspring?
Suave was a great race horse I think, We shall see how his runners do…
The ones I’ve seen have been neat and typy, rather more of a miler look to them than the bigger, rangier sorts that some AP Indy sons like Stephen Got Even and Mineshaft can throw.
I have to agree with fmitchell07, his foals are not real big, At least the first winner is not really a tall horse, but has a very athletic look, well balance. we shall see how they do pretty soon.