YEARLING DETAILS
Highlander Training Center
Highlander Training Center is proud to offer these exceptional Yearlings.
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Hip 79 – Unnamed Colt (TX)
Gray or Roan Colt; foaled Feb. 10, 2022
(Competitive Edge x Factor Out, by The Factor)
Accredited Texas-bred.
Ken Carson, Retired General Manager of Valor Farms, is one of the Thoroughbred industry’s foremost pedigree authorities. Highlander Training Center is proud to offer Carson’s notes & analysis on each of the yearlings in our consignment. We hope you find this information of benefit when evaluating these Highlander-consigned yearlings.
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Ken Carson Pedigree Analysis:
TX-BRED (2/10/22) Gray colt by Competitive Edge x Factor Out, by The Factor
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*Competitive Edge gets his best runners out of mares from the Northern Dancer line; he has sired three Grade 3 Stakes winners bred this way.
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*Competitive Edge is the sire of earners of $13,000,000 with average earnings per starter of nearly $74,000. His top performers include Ryvit (A TTA Yearling Sale graduate) that won three straight stakes races in 2023 including the Grade III Chick Lang Stakes at Pimlico.
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*THE FACTOR is by WAR FRONT, the most successful son of DANZIG. Danzig sired over 100 SW's world-wide and the earners of more than $90,000,000 and counting
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*Factor Out has a two-year-old by My Golden Song that should start soon
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*This colt is from the powerful 8-H family which has produced champions Banshee Breeze and Awe Inspiring, Kentucky Derby winner Bubbling Over, Epsom Derby winner Motivator (GB), etc