Stakes Winner, Blue Hen Mare Miss Macy Sue Dies at 22

Multiple stakes winner and important broodmare Miss Macy Sue, the dam of prominent sires Not This Time and Liam's Map, has died at 22, according to Taylor Made Farm where she was boarded by the Albaugh family. The daughter of Trippi inherited and passed along the best of her family, extending a shining thread of quality that traces tail-female back to Ta Wee, the United States' champion sprinter 1969-70 and half sister to 1968 Horse of the Year and leading sire Dr. Fager. "We would like to express our condolences to the Albaugh family on the passing of Miss Macy Sue," said Mark Taylor, Taylor Made's president and CEO. "Many great mares have spent their careers with us here at Taylor Made, but none have left a legacy like this incredible mare. There is no doubt she will continue to shape the breed through her sons, Liam's Map and Not This Time. Mares like Miss Macy Sue are truly once-in-a-lifetime horses." Miss Macy Sue was bred in Florida by Bryan Howlett, the former general manager of Tartan Farms. She was initially offered at auction during the 2004 Ocala Breeders' Sales August Yearling Sale, where she was bought back on a final bid of $14,000. She sold the following year during the OBS June 2-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age Sale for $42,000 to agent Tom McCrocklin out of the New Episode Training Center consignment. She was raced by Roll Reroll Stables, a partnership of Iowans Leroy Gessman and Dennis Albaugh, and trained primarily by Kelly Von Hemel. Miss Macy Sue became a winner at 2 and proved competitive in multiple stakes at 3. She would do her best running at 4 when she strung together four consecutive stakes wins in Carousel Stakes, Prairie Rose Stakes, Winning Colors Stakes (G3), and Saylorville Stakes in 2007. She later added a win in the 2007 Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes before finishing third in the inaugural running of the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, the first year the World Championships was run on two days. At 5, she won another edition of the Saylorville and placed in three other stakes. Miss Macy Sue retired with an 11-5-3 record from 25 starts and earned $880,915. Miss Macy Sue proved even more potent as a broodmare. Her second foal was Liam's Map, a gray/roan son of Unbridled's Song who won the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) and Woodward Stakes (G1) and ran second in the Whitney Stakes (G1) in 2015. Her next two foals after Liam's Map were Taylor S (Medaglia d'Oro), a grade 2-placed stakes winner and the dam of Albaugh family homebred winner Four Grands (Honor Code); and, Not This Time, a son of Giant's Causeway, who had a brilliant racing career curtailed by injury. He won the 2016 Iroquois Stakes (G3) and ran second in that year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1), a neck behind eventual champion 2-year-old male Classic Empire. Miss Macy Sue would produce one more black-type performer in grade 3-placed, dual stakes winner Matera (Tapit). Both Liam's Map, who stands at Lane's End, and Not This Time, standing at Taylor Made Stallions, ranked third by progeny earnings at the end of their freshman sire years in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Liam's Map has remained a fixture among the top five of his sire class, while Not This Time rose to the top of his sire class's standings during its second-crop year and stayed there. As of Jan. 31, Liam's Map has sired 26 black-type winners, which include 11 graded stakes winners. His top performer is three-time grade 1 winner and millionaire Colonel Liam, who won consecutive editions of the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational Stakes (G1T) in 2021-22. Colonel Liam stands at Ocala Stud and sired his first crop last year. Not This Time has sired 42 black-type stakes winners to date including 20 graded stakes winners and three champions—2022 champion 3-year-old male Epicenter, 2023 champion turf male Up to the Mark, and two-time Turkish champion Aegean Finale. Epicenter is standing at Ashford Stud, while Up to the Mark entered stud last year at Lane's End. "Miss Macy Sue was one of the first horses we ever owned. She was our first graded stakes winner and took us to Saratoga and to the Breeders' Cup," said Albaugh Family Stables' managing partner Jason Loutsch. "Without 'Macy,' there would be no Albaugh Family Stables. She was remarkable both on and off the track and has changed all of our lives. She meant so much to the entire Albaugh family and we will miss feeding her peppermints on our visits to Taylor Made."