(2020 chestnut mare by Union Rags out of Hessonite, by Freud)
Starship Reality brings a classy and deep pedigree to her broodmare career, which will begin with a 2026 visit to leading Maryland sire Blofeld, whom she fits to a “T” (and which is why we purchased her).
Starship Reality is a daughter of the G1 Belmont and G1 Champagne Stakes winner Union Rags, who has sired G1 winners like Paradise Woods, Power Squeeze, Union Strike, Dancing Rags, Express Train, Free Drop Billy, etc. Paradise Woods, Dancing Rags and Free Drop Billy are all out of Storm Cat-line mares like Starship Reality is, and this cross has produced additional graded winner Ragtime, while Express Train plus G2 winners Dynamic One and Spielberg both have second dams by Storm Cat.
Union Rags is already the broodmare sire of G3 winners Nooni and Frost Free among a half-dozen black-type winners out of his daughters.
The Storm Cat-line mare responsible for Starship Reality is the G3 multiple stakes winner Hessonite (a daughter of longtime leading NY stallion Freud, a full-brother to Giant’s Causeway), who won 11 of her 22 career starts, including the G3 Beaugay Stakes and eight additional black-type events. She earned $879,644, and has produced a pair of winners so far in her broodmare career, with her ’22 and ’23 geldings both still active, and a ’25 Vekoma colt in the pipeline.
Hessonite is a half-sister to the black-type winners Roanoke and European Rose, while three of her sisters are graded/group producers (two of them having produced G1 winners). Hessonite’s dam is, in turn, a half to a trio of graded/group winners, including G3 winner Run Softly. This family traces in tail-female to the “Reine-de-course” Alablue.
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