YEARLING DETAILS
Highlander Training Center
Highlander Training Center is proud to offer these exceptional Yearlings.
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Hip 24 - Unnamed Colt (TX)
Dark Bay or Brown Colt foaled Feb. 16, 2022
(Competitive Edge x Better Than Mo, by Uncle Mo)
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:
Hip #24 - Unnamed Colt (TX)
Dark Bay or Brown Colt foaled Feb. 16, 2022
(Competitive Edge x Better Than Mo, by Uncle Mo)
Accredited Texas-Bred
*By Competitive Edge, winner of the prestigious Hopeful S.-G1 at two, and the Pat Day Mile S.-G3 at three; won 4 of 7 outs at 2 and 3, earning $519,280.
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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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* This colt’s dam is a half-sister to six stakes horses, four of which are stakes winners, three of which have earned more than $250,000.
*This colt is bred in a similar fashion to Instant Coffee, a Grade II winner of $412,815, Bank On Shea (SW of $509,650), and Emmeline (stakes-placed winner of $229,201.
*This colt is from the 20- family, which claims among its members Horse of the Year Alysheba ($6.7 million in earnings), five-time Horse of the Year Kelso, champion three-year-old filly East of the Moon, millionaire Old Persian, French Derby winner Study of Man (Ire), etc.