Paulassilverlining is sold

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The emergence of Arrogate as a toptier dirt horse has prompted his owners, the Juddmonte Farms of Prince Khalid Abdullah, to seek suitable mares for future breeding purposes.

Paulassilverlining apparently fits that bill.

This week, Juddmonte finalized a deal to purchase the graded-stakes-winning mare Paulassilverlining from Vincent Scuderi. The 5-yearold daughter of Ghostzapper will race this year and be bred to Arrogate in 2018, according to Garrett O’Rourke, the U.S. racing and farm manager for Juddmonte.

“She’s the type of mare that you hope could be a really nice addition to the broodmare band, but most especially a good mate for Arrogate,” O’Rourke said. “You’d be salivating at the thought of what a foal by him out of her could accomplish. It’s not that easy, but you got to put yourself in the right position, and that’s as good a position as you could plan.”

Arrogate, the 3-year-old male champion of 2016 and the winner of the inaugural $12 million Pegasus World Cup in January, is in Dubai readying for the $10 million Dubai World Cup on March 25.

Paulassilverlining is in New York. She has been transferred from Michelle Nevin to Chad Brown, the Eclipse Awardwinning trainer of 2016. She will be pointed to the Grade 1 Madison at Keeneland on April 8.

Paulassilverlining, a halfsister to Grade 1 winner Dads Caps, has won 8 of 18 starts and earned $1,008.950. As a 2-yearold in 2014, she won the Grade 2 Matron. In 2016, she won the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom, Grade 3 Vagrancy, and Grade 3 Distaff. She finished third in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint and was a finalist for an Eclipse Award in the female sprint division.

“I had a great time with her,” Nevin said. “I have nothing to complain about. I loved her, I’m going to miss her bad. She’s a nice filly. When they do breed her, she’s going to throw some nice babies. It’s all good for Paula.”

Though she’s lost Paulassilverlining, Nevin still has a couple of nice sprinting fillies and mares in the barn. By the Moon, a Grade 1 winner at 2, most recently finished second in the Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie. Nevin said the Madison or the Grade 3, $150,000 Distaff at Aqueduct on April 9 are options for her next start.

Nevin also has Ultimate Holiday, who is starting in Saturday’s $125,000 Correction Stakes at Aqueduct. Ultimate Holiday has started twice for Nevin, finishing third in January before winning an allowance race by 8 3/4 lengths on Feb. 20.

Indulgent shifts sights

Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin was initially planning to run Indulgent in Saturday’s $125,000 Correction Stakes at Aqueduct but called an audible and entered defending Correction winner Clothes Fall Off in the six-furlong stakes race instead.

Indulgent, a winner of three straight races, will be pointed to the Grade 3, $150,000 Distaff Handicap on April 9 over Aqueduct’s main track.

The Distaff is at seven furlongs, and McLaughlin said he wants to stretch Indulgent out farther in distance, likely in one-turn routes at Belmont Park such as the Ruffian and perhaps the Ogden Phipps if she proves good enough.

Meanwhile, McLaughlin confirmed that Takrees, winner of the Interborough Stakes on New Year’s Day, has been retired by owner Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell Stable and will be bred. Takrees, a daughter of Daaher, finished with a record of 3-4-1 from 12 starts and earnings of $248,740.

In addition to winning the Interborough, Takrees finished third in the Grade 2 Prioress last summer at Saratoga.

Mohaymen cranking up

Mohaymen, a four-time Grade 2 stakes winner who has not raced since last summer, was expected to breeze Friday at the Palm Meadows training center in Florida, his first timed workout since returning to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin last week.

McLaughlin said Mohaymen breezed three times on the farm at Camden, S.C., before shipping to him.

McLaughlin said he is pointing Mohaymen to the Grade 3, $200,000 Westchester at Belmont Park on May 6. The Westchester is a one-turn-mile race and the local prep for the Grade 1, $1.2 million Metropolitan Handicap on June 10.

Mohaymen won his first four starts, including the Holy Bull and Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream last year. After running fourth in the Florida Derby, Kentucky Derby, and Jim Dandy, Mohaymen was shortened up in distance in the Grade 1 King’s Bishop, where he finished 11th. After that, he was sent to the farm for a vacation.

“He’s put on 100 pounds, filled out, matured, looks great,” McLaughlin said. “He was a May foal. It was tough to go through what he went through at a young age. He matured a lot. He’s doing great, moving super.”

McLaughlin said Mohaymen likely will ship to New York sometime in April.