Fee was bred and initially campaigned by Bob Edwards’ Fifth Avenue Bloodstock and eFive Racing, respectively, and broke her maiden as a 2YO by 4-1/2 lengths for trainer Steve Asmussen in maiden special weight company going 6 furlongs at Horseshoe Indianapolis. For those connections, she added allowance wins at Lone Star going 6-1/2 furlongs and Remington going 6 furlongs as a 3YO, before being purchased as a HORA by our friends at Wasabi Ventures Stables. For Wasabi, she scored a 4-length allowance win at Penn as a 4YO and was 2nd in the Penn Ladies Dash. She won or placed in ten of her 20 starts and earned over $150k in her career.
A daughter of now seven-time reigning Leading Sire Into Mischief, who is already well on his way to a successful broodmare sire career (G1Ws White Abarrio and Alva Starr lead the way for his daughters), Fee is out of the Speightstown mare In It For the Gold, whose three other offspring of racing age are all winners, including TDN Rising Star Englishman.
A $400k yearling by Maxfield, Englishman won his first start for trainer Cherie DeVaux going 7 furlongs at Churchill Downs by a widening seven lengths to earn that moniker — not to mention an astronomical 97 Beyer Speed Figure — and put himself on numerous lists of ‘26 Kentucky Derby contenders. After a late-season vacation, Englishman was back on the worktab at the Fair Grounds as of the end of January, hopefully with enough time to hit the Triple Crown Trail!
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With some potentially exciting updates brewing from her half-brother, Fee gets another shot with a highly-commercial freshman sire in the form of multiple G1 winner Mindframe, standing his first season in 2026 at Claiborne Farm.
We were huge fans of Mindframe before he even had a name (having claimed his half-sister Star of Shanghai as a broodmare prospect in the hopes that the subsequent $600k Constitution colt out of her dam would prove to be worth that price), and in light of what he achieved on the racetrack for Mike Repole/St. Elias and trainer Todd Pletcher, Mindframe is poised to be an important stallion.
Mindframe was highly-touted by Repole on Twitter in advance of his debut at Gulfstream on the Florida Derby undercard, and lived up to the hype that day when scoring by 13-3/4 lengths with a 103 Beyer Speed Figure going 7 furlongs in a TDN Rising Star performance. He returned on the Kentucky Derby undercard to take a 1-1/16 mile allowance by 7-1/2 lengths, and was then thrown right into the deep end: in just his third career start, he looked the winner in the stretch of the classic G1 Belmont Stakes (going just 1-1/4 miles rather than 1-1/2 miles, though) before succumbing by just a half-length to the far more experienced Dornoch (but finishing ahead of the likes of Sierra Leone, Mystic Dan, Seize the Grey, etc). He was 2nd to Dornoch again in the G1 Haskell next time out, which ended up being the final start of his sophomore campaign.
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Mindframe returned as a 4YO to win the G2 Gulfstream Park Mile, the G1 Churchill Downs Stakes going 7 furlongs (over Nysos, Book’em Danno, Mullikin, etc), and then the G1 Stephen Foster at 1-1/8 miles (over Sierra Leone, First Mission, Mystic Dan and Hit Show) in his first three starts that season. Through no fault of his own he lost his rider in the G1 JCGC, and was clearly in need of a race in the G1 Breeders’ Cup Classic off of what amounted to a 4+ month layoff to conclude his career with a record of (9) 5-2-0 and over $2 million in earnings.
A fantastic physical specimen, Mindframe has all of the leg and scope that you’d expect to see in a classic Thoroughbred, making the speed that he’d shown to be a G1 winner at 7 furlongs that much more impressive.
He’ll be a great match for Fee on pedigree (TrueNicks rates the Constitution/Into Mischief cross an “A” thanks to G3 winners Pin Up Betty and Tiz Dashing, plus black-type winner Ellen Jay and five additional black-type placed horses from just 23 runners), proclivities (all that dirt speed), and on physical (his leg and length will act as the perfect compliment to Fee’s more compact, Into Mischief mare physique) — and we can’t wait to see the foal that they produce after Englishman has himself a huge year in 2026!