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05-06-2022, 05:21 PM
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💗 Secret 🤫 Oath ❤️
💗 SECRET 🤫 OATH 🐎
😱 MEOWZA 😲 WHAT A STORY WITH THIS FILLY 👑 Owners NEVER had a RaceHorse 🐎 Never considered having one ! Bought a BroodMare for $1 😱 Only had BroodMares 🐎 Now Have Kentucky Oaks Champion 👑 A Story Worthy Of Ripley Believe It Or Not 🤗 
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05-06-2022, 06:21 PM
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That was quite an impressive win by Secret Oath.
When I saw the title of your post, I thought you were going to comment on the trainer win by 86 year old D. Wayne Lukas, his 5th Oaks win and on a date that was exactly 40 years after his first. I hadn't realized that Stacy and Rob Mitchell had never had a racehorse before. They race under the colors of Briland Farm, and Equibase lists Briland as as having 364 starts with 51 firsts and earnings of around $3.2 million. Briland owns and raced Secret Oath's broodmare Ansinthe Minded who had career earnings of over $600,000 in her own right. I think that Mr. Lukas trained her during her racing days. Perhaps you were thinking of Kathleen O., whose owners purchased her as their first horse after his retirement.
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05-06-2022, 06:36 PM
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“ Perhaps you were thinking of Kathleen O., whose owners purchased her as their first horse after his retirement.“ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= NO! The Owners Of SECRET OATH Interview After She Won 🥇 He said in the beginning they had never considered Race Horses They bought broodmares Then they got into racing afterwards If you watch the post race interview You will hear the entire story
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05-06-2022, 07:00 PM
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SECRET �� OATH
OWNER INTERVIEW Robert and Stacy Mitchell own and operate Briland Farm, a 90-acre nursery located in Lexington that they purchased in 2000. An early purchase as a companion horse for their riding horse turned into a profitable broodmare that gave them a fast introduction into the world of Thoroughbred breeding and racing. The Mitchells spoke with BloodHorse MarketWatch to discuss their business, breeding, and recent homebred winner Secret Oath , who captured the Jan. 29 Martha Washington Stakes on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks at Oaklawn Park. MarketWatch: How did you both get into horses? Robert Mitchell: We are not lifelong horse people. We bought a farm in Lexington. We got an old Quarter Horse to ride and our friend and realtor explained to us how horses were social animals and recommended we get him a buddy in the field. My wife and I bought a mare for $1.00. She had a pretty good pedigree but never raced and had a little bit of a clubbed foot. Her name was Chao Praya (Gold Legend—Casting a Spell), and we bred her to a low-level stallion (Level Sands) for $1,500, and that first foal ended up being a graded stakes winner, multiple stakes winner, and track-record setter. His name was Level Playingfield, and he was sold at the 2003 (Ocala Breeders' Sales) April Sale for $15,000 to North American Bloodstock. He was later campaigned by Fly Racing with trainer Robert 'Bob' Holthus. Stacy Mitchell: And then we got a few more mares from the Fasig-Tipton Adena Springs Broodmare Sales, back when they used to offer stock at public auction. MW: So Chao Praya got you early success and you were hooked from the beginning? RM: We bought the mare for $1.00, sold that foal (Level Playingfield). Then we ended up breeding her to Empire Maker, producing another grade 3 winner, Imposing Grace . We sold her at the 2010 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale for $75,000 to Pike Racing. Imposing Grace was campaigned by Coffeepot Stables. Chao Praya produced two grade 3 winners, and that is what got us in the business in 2002. Photo: Courtesy Briland Farm Briland Farm OBS Sales MW: Tell us about Briland Farm and what stock you have on the farm. RM: Us as a farm, we have never raced a horse that wasn't a homebred. We only race horses born on our farm. We sell about three-fourths of our foals every year and generally never have more than two to three foals a year on the farm. SM: The farm is my full-time job. I run the farm, meet the vets, hold horses for the blacksmith, I foal out all the mares, and even pick up a weed eater when I need to. I try to handle the horses as much as I can. We don't bring them in unless we have to. They will be out in the snow and rain. The fillies get toughened. The namesake, Briland, comes from Harbour Island in the Bahamas, a getaway known for its pink sand beaches and what the locals call Briland. MW: Robert, being a pedigree connoisseur, what do you strive for in your matings? RM: I look at three things: one, stud fee; two, the genotype and try to get a good sexed, balanced breeding; and three, phenotype. I don't think you breed a short fat horse to a tall thin horse and get something in the middle. You have to look for a phenotype. In the case of Secret Oath, Absinthe Minded and Arrogate were a perfect match. It's a shame we don't have Arrogate anymore. The two stallions that match genotypically are Midnight Lute and Liam's Map because of the Tartan Farm (William McKnight) bloodlines, the Rough'n Tumble, In Reality, Ta Wee, Aspidistra (dam of Ta Wee, Highbinder, and Dr. Fager). We are breeding Absinthe Minded and Sara Sea (the half sister to Secret Oath) to Liam's Map, simply to reproduce the Fappiano/Quiet American cross. MW: Does Briland breed to sell, or do you plan on keeping a few foals each year to race? Haskell RM: Everybody who gets into the business to breed ends up racing by default. You think you are just going to breed, and then suddenly, one of the horses doesn't sell. Then what do you do with it? We sell about 75% of our foals and race about 25%. We try to keep the fillies as they will become broodmares. We haven't bought a horse in over 20 years. We have been breeding from the same families for 20 years. Meg Levy (of Bluewater Sales) sells all of our foals. Had she sold Secret Oath, we wouldn't have her. I pulled her out of the sale the day before she was due to go through the ring (at the 2020 Keeneland September Yearling Sale). No one came to look at her, but that's OK. The problem is that line (In Reality, the Tartan Farm line) tends to be long and thin, with a little shallow hip, and they don't match up physically with the A.P. Indy look that people want. But I knew what her mother and sister did on the track, and she looked the same. She's really big, tall, thin, and has a long stride on her. Since no one was looking at her, we just pulled her. #SecretOath #AbsintheMinded pic.twitter.com/v6noRfU6Pe — Briland Farm (@BrilandFarm) January 29, 2022 MW: With Secret Oath winning the Martha Washington Stakes Jan. 29, having her land early on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks must be exciting? RM: She has a lot of hope, but it's too early to say Secret Oath is our biggest horse. We have been humbled too many times. This is a humbling business. We bred Secret Oath's dam, Absinthe Minded. We have kept the same families going and survived on that. Ultimately, our most accomplished horse that we have kept is Absinthe Minded in the long run. She placed twice in the Apple Blossom (G1), behind Plum Pretty in 2012 and Havre de Grace the year before that. She raced against some of the best fillies and mares of her generation. MW: You mention keeping a humble approach. How has Briland kept going through the years and in the tidal change of the market? RM: When we first began, our foals who hit the track in 2002, ones that we bred (some we kept and some we sold), over 16 years (2002-18) we bred three graded stakes winners, six graded stakes-placed horses, five stakes winners, and 11 stakes-placed horses. Of our 44 foals to race, 11% of them were stakes winners, 6.8% were graded stakes winners, and 13.6% were graded stakes placed. The three graded winners we bred are Majestic River (A.P. Indy—Tempus Fugit), Level Playingfield, and Imposing Grace. Our stakes winners are Tempus Fugit (Alphabet Soup—Delight U. S. A.), Absinthe Minded (Quiet American—Rockford Peach), Majestic River, Level Playingfield, Imposing Grace, and now Secret Oath. Last year was our worst year, probably. I think what I have noticed, as a pedigree guy, is that the market has shifted to the physical of the individual. If you can find a way to combine the two, you generally make out alright at the sale. Absinthe Minded wins the 2012 Bayakoa Stakes. Absinthe Minded wins the 2012 Bayakoa Stakes at Oaklawn Park Secret Oath wins the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs Last edited by RUFFIAN : 05-06-2022 at 07:10 PM.
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05-06-2022, 09:55 PM
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My question is with such a great performance, will she go to the Preakness if she comes out of the race in good shape??? We'd all like to see it but what will it prove? She's already beaten the boys once, right!!!
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05-06-2022, 10:05 PM
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05-06-2022, 10:41 PM
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Although Lukas has a KY Derby winning with the filly Winning Colors, it would be exciting to see his filly, Secret Oath, win with the same path as RA.
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05-07-2022, 01:45 AM
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05-07-2022, 08:16 AM
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