(2020 dark bay/brown mare by Imagining out of Taketheodds, by Street Sense)
Imaginetheodds comes from the immediate family of Maryland-bred G1 Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia, and is sired by one of our all-time favorites in the G1 winner Imagining. We think this combination makes her an exciting prospect for our Mid-Atlantic based broodmare band. We acquired Imaginetheodds at the conclusion of her racing career, and she’ll be bred for the first time in 2026.
Imaginetheodds broke her maiden for trainer Katy Voss (widow of Imaginetheodds’s breeder Bob Manfuso) at 4YO going 1-1/8 miles over the Laurel turf course in extremely gutsy fashion, defeating the $200k Gun Runner daughter Active and a $115k Collected filly named Dark Pool. She placed in an additional six races, including on fast and good dirt tracks, and going as short as six furlongs as a 2YO. Imaginetheodds earned a total of $69,550 in her thirteen-race career.
She is a half-sister to the twelve-time winner Damn the Torpedoes, out of black-type winner Taketheodds (by Street Sense). A winner of Charles Town’s open company Sugar Maple Stakes, Taketheodds was also black-type placed at Saratoga. Taketheodds is a half-sister to the multiple black-type placed Mine Not Mine, and to the black-type producers Elasticity (dam of Ice) and Sister Dyer (dam of Bullheaded Boy), as well as to Sheave (dam of the aforementioned Cathryn Sophia, plus G3-placed Shonan Addeybb. Cathryn Sophia, in turn, is the dam of ’25 2YO debut winner With a Kiss (by Gun Runner), who looks a future stakes filly for trainer Todd Pletcher and owner Michael Tabor).
Imaginetheodds’s second dam is the G2 winner and G1-placed Belterra (by Unbridled), who is herself a half-sister to multiple Graded stakes winner Royal Haven.
Imaginetheodds’s sire, Imagining, was a homebred G1 winner for the Phipps family and trainer Shug McGaughey. A son of Giant’s Causeway, he is out of the G2 winner Daydreaming, a full-sister to the dams of G1 Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver and G1 winner Bluegrass Cat. This is the direct family of Blue Hen and champion racemare Numberered Account and her G1-winning daughter Dance Number, whose other descendants include the legendary Maryland stallion Not For Love.
Imaginetheodds’s first breeding will be to leading Maryland sire Blofeld.
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Imaginetheodds breaks her maiden at Laurel over the Gun Runner filly Active