A half brother to grade 2 winner Further Ado, who finished second in the Tampa Bay Derby (G3), is being offered as Hip 367 during the March 11 second session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale.
The bay colt by 2018 Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year Justify is consigned by Ciaran Dunne's Wavertree Stables and was sold previously for $150,000 to Nuno Bloodstock out of the Gainesway consignment to the 2025 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. At OBS, the colt worked a furlong in a sharp :10.
Further Ado and Hip 367 are both out of the stakes-placed Sky Mesa mare Sky Dreamer, who won at 2 and 3. Additionally, at 3, she placed in three black-type stakes, including a second in the Arlington Oaks (G3), racing as a homebred for John Oxley. Sky Dreamer has already produced five winners from six foals to race, which also includes grade 2 winner Kimbear (Temple City), who won the 2020 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 1 (G2) and 2018 Burj Nahaar (G3), both at Meydan Racecourse.
By Gun Runner , Further Ado became his dam's second graded stakes winner in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) Nov. 29 at Churchill Downs after breaking his maiden at Keeneland by 20 lengths in his third career start for Spendthrift Farm. The Tampa Bay Derby, run March 7, was Further Ado's first start at 3 for trainer Brad Cox. He finished three-quarters of a length in second behind The Puma at Tampa Bay Downs and was a head in front of favored Canaletto.
Oxley bred Further Ado, whom he sold through Gainesway for $275,000 to George Mellon at the 2024 Keeneland September sale. The colt was next offered through the 2025 OBS Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training, ahead of which he worked a quarter-mile in :21 1/5 during the under-tack show. Spendthrift bought him at OBS for $550,000 out of the Six K's Training and Sales consignment. To date, Further Ado has earned $390,703.
Hip 367 is one of two entered in the March sale by Ashford Stud's Justify. The other also sells during the second session as Hip 527, a filly out of the stakes-placed Bernardini mare Alberobello, who is a full sister to 2010 Frizette Stakes (G1) winner A Z Warrior and half sister to graded stakes winners Jojo Warrior (Pioneerof the Nile) and E Z Warrior (Exploit). A Z Warrior is the dam of two stakes winners that include Justa Warrior, by Justify, who won the 2022 Ellis Park Debutante Stakes. Hip 527 also worked in :10 during the under-tack show for Steven Venosa's S G V Thoroughbreds.
