First-Crop Yearling Previews: Catalina Cruiser

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00:00Multiple Graded Stakes winner Catalina Cruiser is a multi-generational homebred for lanes

00:07and farm on both sides of his pedigree.

00:10We caught up with David Ingordo on the Sun of Union Rags and took a look at a few members

00:15of the stallion's first crop of yearlings.

00:19Catalina Cruiser has always been a big, well-grown horse, and when he retired, he just even filled

00:24out more.

00:25He's one of the most magnificent individuals you're going to find that's big and strong

00:31and has the body to go with his race record and his substance.

00:36I mean, he's just impressive.

00:39His win in the True North on the Friday before Belmont, and he set a track record.

00:44So for the horse to come from California to run in that quality of a race, set a track

00:48record at a place like Belmont Park where all the greats have run, that one really stamped

00:55for me what we all knew about Catalina Cruiser.

00:59And I think after that race, it quelled any doubts anybody had.

01:04...together, it is going to be Catalina Cruiser up in time to win it over...

01:10Catalina Cruiser is stamping his offspring to look like himself.

01:15They're flashy, they're big, they're strong, and they have this precocious look to them

01:21that I don't think they'll be limited to sprinting.

01:24I think they'll be able to get two turns and ultimately be a classic horse like Catalina

01:29Cruiser's sire, Union Rags, and his broodmare sire, Mineshaft.

01:37This Catalina Cruiser colt out of She's Trouble, he's always been a mature colt.

01:44He's got a lot of attributes that I like from Union Rags' side, through the Catalina Cruiser,

01:49and he's got a great mind, always been a great colt to deal with.

01:52We're hoping for the best, and believe the Catalina Cruisers are very nice foals, we've

01:56got a couple other ones too.

01:58They have a lot of leg to them, they've got a lot of scope to them, and of course they've

02:02got a lot of flash to them, all of them have a lot of flash.

02:05We have a Catalina Cruiser colt out of a John's Causeway mare named Thatcher that a good friend

02:13of mine and client, Paul Winandy, has bred.

02:16Paul and I raced this colt's half-sister named R-Superfreak.

02:21We don't know yet what we're doing, if we're keeping it or racing it, but he's as good

02:27a yearling as we have on all of Wayne's End, and he's got all the attributes with Catalina Cruisers.

02:33The biggest compliment any stallion can get when they're starting out, and the people

02:38that bred to them, are breeding mares back.

02:41So a lot of people are getting these really, really good foals by Catalina Cruiser, and

02:47they're coming back in subsequent seasons after having a good first foal.

02:51I'm a balanced fanatic, and the Catalina Cruisers as a whole that I've observed have

02:59great balance, and then he's got a tremendous hindquarter and hip and great width behind,

03:06and all his offspring do as well.

03:09And I see these Cruiser babies as a little bit even better versions than him, because

03:14I think they're a little not as maybe growthy as he was.

03:18I can see them running at two, and I can see them having a two-year-old champion.

03:22But I look at every horse, would I buy it?

03:25And I want to buy some Catalina Cruisers, because they're the kind of horses that we

03:29buy that win races and win the big races.

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