I’m Engaged was bred by W.T. Young’s Overbrook Farm and is from the immediate female family of Overbrook’s Eclipse Champion Flanders, who is a half-sister to I’m Engaged’s dam, Engaging.
I’m Engaged herself won in maiden special weight and allowance company during her racing career, and she is a half to Grade 2 winner Fiery Pursuit (dam of stakes-placed winner Lawn Party and granddam of 2018 Graded-placed winning 2-year-old Stellar Agent), to stakes winner Stage Trick, and to stakes-placed winner Space Cruise.
Flanders, in addition to her championship racing career, is the dam of Eclipse Award winner Surfside and Grade 2 winner Battle Plan. Other top runners appearing under I’m Engaged’s 2nd dam, Starlet Storm, are three-time 2015 Grade 1 winning 2-year-old Air Force Blue, Grade 2 winner Open Water (the dam of 2017 stakes winner Raucous), plus Grade 3 winners Irish Surf and High Celebrity. Starlet Storm, meanwhile, is a full-sister to Storm Star, a Group 3 winner and the dam of Grade 3 winner Dodge. Storm Star is also the ancestress of four-time Group 1 winner in Chile and 2018 Grade 1 winner Wow Cat.
I’m Engaged’s third dam is the foundation mare Cinegita.
I’m Engaged is by Broken Vow, the sire of 64 stakes winners including 2016 Eclipse Champion 2-year-old filly Champagne Room. Broken Vow is the broodmare sire of Eclipse Champion Sprinter Runhappy, plus Grade 1 winner Big World, and numerous other stakes winners.
The produce record for I’m Engaged is as follows:
- 2014 I’m With Miller (filly by Sky Mesa) – maiden winner at 3YO for Shortleaf Stable & Brad Cox.
- 2017 A Ring Thing (filly by The Factor) – Maryland-bred filly broke her maiden going 7-1/2 furlongs on turf at Parx at 4YO in 2021, and added a win going a mile on the Aqueduct dirt later that year. She’s still active at 7YO and now has earnings over $100,000. Read why we planned the mating that produced this filly here.
- 2018 Postnup (filly by Declaration of War) – Maryland-bred filly sold for $58,000 to De Meric Sales at the Timonium Yearling Sale, then was purchased privately as a 2YO by Cherie DeVaux and David Ingordo. She scored impressively in a maiden special weight going 1-1/8 miles on turf at the Fair Grounds on Feb. 5, 2021, and made it two straight with an allowance victory there on Mar. 28, 2021. She has earned over $100,000 in her career. Read why we planned the mating that produced this filly here.
- 2020 Big Stick (colt by Munnings). Maryland-bred colt was sold at the 2021 Keeneland January Sale for $110,000 to Hideaway Farms, and was pinhooked for $225,000 at Keeneland September to Sapphire Racing. He’s scored three victories so far in his on-going racing career. Read why we planned the mating that produced him here.
- 2021 Doesn’thurttoflirt (filly by Include). Maryland-bred filly was foaled Mar. 8, 2021, she races for a partnership that includes Housatonic and trainer Kelly Rubley. She broke her maiden as a 2YO, won twice at 3YO, and just scored in her first start at 4YO in a MD-bred allowance at Laurel on May 24, 2025, to take her career earnings over $100k. Read why we planned the mating that produced her here.
- 2022 Work For Peace (colt by Collected). Maryland-bred colt was foaled April 7, 2022, the product of a mating that makes him closely related to G2W Fiery Pursuit. He sold for $17,000 as a Timonium yearling, and broke his maiden as an October 2YO in his second start for trainer Phil Capuano.
- 2023 (filly by Code of Honor). Maryland-bred filly was foaled April 6, 2023. You can read about that Housatonic Recommended Mating here. She sold for $12,000 as a weanling at the Keeneland November Sale.
- 2025 Hot Mom Rom Com (filly by Blofeld). Virginia-bred (our first!) filly was foaled February 13, 2025, and the plan is for us to keep her to race in our own colors. You can read the Housatonic Recommended Mating that produced her here.
I’m Engaged will be bred back to Blofeld again in 2025.
You can check out more photos of I’m Engaged here.
I’m Engaged’s half-sister, Fiery Pursuit, wins the G2 Louisville Breeders’ Cup
Flanders, a half-sister to the dam of I’m Engaged, wins the G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies