Another Winner For Cat Dreams

Very pleased to announce another winner for freshman sire Cat Dreams.

Po's Dream Kitty, a dark bay/brown filly out of Po, a decent race mare by Well Decorated.

She went to the start for the first time yesterday in race 7 at Arapahoe Park. She met six opponents over a 4 1/2 furlong trip on a fast dirt track.

The race chart reads: close up from the start, moved willing entering stretch, took over mid stretch, won handily while increasing margin.

She won by 6 1/4 lengths as the 1.90 favourite. Hopefully she will progress nicely from here.

Ancient Future Wins For Cat Dreams

Cat Dreams is doing well so far as a sire. He has had 3 2yos to run, 2 of them are winners.

Ancient Future broke her maiden first time out. She is out of a stakes placed full sister to multiple graded stakes winner Mighty. To me Ancient Future is the most promising on paper from Cat Dreams' first crop.

She went to the post for the first time yesterday in race 1 at Delaware Park, a $40k maiden. She went off at 4.60, the 2nd favourite. She took a little time to settle and came four wide into the stretch at the back of the pack before closing well late to nail the leader close home.

She is owned by Frank Henson and trained by Timothy Salzman.

I know one of Cat Dreams' fillies (Grey Girl Cat) is running in Mexico, but it is hard to follow horses there. All I know is that she ran 4 times and placed once.

From the Bloodhorse sire lists, his stats are as follows: 39 2yos, 4 runners/2 winners, combined earnings of $45,719.

First Winner for Cat Dreams: Cat Dreamer

Cat Dreamer recorded the first win for his sire Cat Dreams yesterday in the 2nd at Hollywood Park. The maiden claiming race over four and a half furlongs was right up his street and he won it a shade easily by 3 3/4 lengths over Swiss Alpine and Fil's Regent.

The chart reads: had good early speed a bit off rail then dueled between horses into the turn, came in a bit midway on the bend, inched away nearing the stretch, found the rail in the drive and won clear under some left handed urging and good handling.

Cat Glitter was back in 6th and failed to menace.

Cat Dreams vs Cat Dreams

Cat Dreamer and Cat Glitter will go head to head in race 2 at Hollywood Park today, each hoping to be their sire's first winner. They will compete in a maiden claiming race over 4 1/2 furlongs. So far they are the only two of their sire's first crop to race, though many are busy working.

Cat Dreamer and Cat Glitter met before in their last race, a maiden special weight over 2 furlongs at Santa Anita, in which Cat Dreamer finished 5th and Cat Glitter came in last of 10. Whether it will be a different story over 4 1/2 furlongs we will have to wait and see. I'd give Cat Glitter a slight edge in this one as he has been training better, but how much you can tell from that is hard to say.

Good luck boys!

Cat Dreamer Second

Cat Dreamer, Cat Dreams' first starter as a sire, finished 2nd in his debut outing yesterday. according to the chart he had good early speed and pressed the pace on the outside, he drifted in some past midstretch and continued willingly to the wire. Turbo Call clinched the race.

I am pleased. Second is a good start and Cat Dreamer earned $7,200 in the process.

(Cat Dreams (USA) - 2002 bay horse - Storm Cat x J J'sdream, by Glitterman)

First Starter For Cat Dreams

Cat Dreams will have his first progeny in the starting gate this afternoon in one of the earliest two-year-old races of the season.

Cat Dreamer, a chestnut colt out of Silent Alarm, by Boundary, was an early foal, born on 14 January. He sold at the Barretts Yearling Sale for $18,000 to Michael Shustek, the top price paid for a Cat Dreams.

He will enter the gate for the first race at Santa Anita this afternoon, a two furlong contest for California-bred maidens together with eight other precocious youngsters.

He is owned by Kentucky D Stables LLC & Stanley & Firsthome Thoroughbreds and trained by Adam Kitchingman. Martin Pedroza will be the man on his back.

I hope he will do well, but it is debatable how much can be read from a two-furlong race. Even though I am not a fan of racing two-year-olds this early, I cannot help feeling excited about Cat Dreams having his first starter. Here begins another road for Cat Dreams. May he do well as a sire and have plenty of winners.

(Cat Dreams (USA) - 2002 bay horse - Storm Cat x J J'sdream, by Glitterman)

Two ToF Offspring in Keeneland Breeze-Up

Two youngsters from my ToF crop horses are in the Keeneland Two-Year-Olds In Training Sale on 8/9 April 2008:

Hip 41: chestnut colt (2006), Storm Cat x Paiota Falls
and
Hip 163: dark bay or brown filly (2006), Cat Dreams x Siphonophora

In the Keeneland September Yearling Sale the Paiota Falls colt, who is her first foal, went unsold for $425,000. I am very interested to see what he will bring in this sale. It should be around the half million mark in my opinion.

The Cat Dreams x Siphonophora filly is quite experienced at this whole sales thing by now. This will be third time she is led through the Keeneland sales ring. She was first sold at the January Of All Ages Sales in 2007 for $16,000, then she fetched $10,000 in September of the same year. In feel she is well bred and I would hazard a guess that she will bring between $20,000 and $25,000.

They will gallop under tack on Monday 7 April.

All About Cat Dreams

2008 is going to be an exciting year, not least because two of my first crop (2001) boys have their first two-year-olds this year, Certain Storm and Cat Dreams, both sons of the big man Storm Cat.

I actually have very high hopes for Cat Dreams. He is beautifully bred, being out of J J'sdream, a multiple stakes winning Glitterman mare. He only made one start, which he won. Unfortunately, he sustained a career ending injury in that race, though I am not sure what that injury is/was. He started his career at Pepper Oaks Farm in California for a $4,000 fee. He was well supported in his first year with 64 mares. I have 44 live foals listed for him, which I will of course be keeping an eye on. I will report on them as the season progresses. He was also supported by B Wayne Hughes, who was his owner during his short racing career, and he sent some decent mares to Cat Dreams, including Siphonophora, a Siphon half sister to Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos, and Ma Guerre, a graded-placed half sister to Louisiana Derby winner Mighty. Hopefully he should get some decent runners.

So far I have added two of them to my Crop of 2006 to follow closely: Marleau, a grey colt out of Ascalon (Two Punch) , and Ancient Future, the chestnut filly out of Ma Guerre. I will probably add one more, maybe the Siphonophora filly, which has not been named yet.

Bigger name freshman sires this year include Derby and Preakness winner Smarty Jones, Belmont winner Birdstone, Travers winner Ten Most Wanted, Subarban H winner Peace Rules and Florida Derby winner Friends Lake. But yet, I think Cat Dreams can compete with any of them. He is by a sire of sires out of a multiple stakes winning mare and showed brilliance in his only outing. When looking at his conformation photo, you can see he is a son of Storm Cat.

Can he beat the odds and become a great sire? I sure hope so - I think he has the genes to do it.

I already said it, but I will say it again, this year is all about Cat Dreams!

(Cat Dreams - 2001 bay horse - Storm Cat x J J'sdream, by Glitterman)