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 five-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 other offspring include the winner Golquist (a $310k 2YO in-training), plus ‘22 Gun Runner colt Thought Control (who Saffie Joseph has spoken highly of in print), and a ‘23 colt by Maxfield who was purchased for $400k by Mayberry Farm at Keeneland September. Fee’s 2nd dam is black-type winner and multiple G1-placed All Due Respect.
So Fee is from a highly commercial family, and for her first match-up we’ve recommended one of the most promising of the first-year stallions in multiple G1 winner Muth (who has already been named a TDN Gold Value sire by Chris McGrath).
A beautiful, leggy individual with strength and scope, Muth sold for $2 million as a juvenile in-training to Zedan Racing and went on to win the G1 American Pharoah at 2YO and the G1 Arkansas Derby at 3YO for trainer Bob Baffert. In addition to his good looks and sharp breeze, Muth’s price tag reflected the fact that he was a son of Eclipse Champion 2YO Good Magic, who is off to a superb start at stud thanks to the classic winners Mage and Dornoch in his first two crops, along with additional G1 winners Blazing Sevens and Mixto.
Good Magic so far has nine foals of racing age out of mares by Into Mischief or his sire Harlan’s Holiday. All nine have raced, seven are winners (the other two are placed), and two are black-type winners — which is good for an “A++” on TrueNicks. Good Magic also has a pair of black-type winners from just eight runners out of Gone West-line mares like Fee’s dam In It For the Gold, so this pairing rates very highly on paper for us.
Physically it should work very well, too — Fee is very much an Into Mischief type, as a stout and strongly-made filly, and Muth should contribute that bit of leg and scope that she could use to make her foal the most commercial that it can be!