John Stuart Talks Half-Bro to Forte

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00:00To a consigner, there's no better news than a Grade 1 update, and John Stewart of Bluegrass

00:05Thoroughbred Services got just that last week with Forte's win in the Grade 1 Hopeful.

00:10We caught up with John about the half-brother to the TDN Rising Star, who's by Uncle Mo

00:15and sells this week here at Keeneland September on Monday as HIP 11.

00:19Well, I'm from the smallest county in the state of Virginia, Clark County, and this

00:24lady bought a farm in Clark County when she retired from being a Washington lawyer.

00:31So I've gotten to know her pretty well, and this mare, Queen Caroline, was her first yearling

00:38purchase.

00:39She raced it.

00:40Michael Matz trained the mare.

00:43She won stakes, and she gave a lot of thought to the breeding, and bang, she comes with

00:49a Grade 1 two-year-old winner, first foal.

00:54This Hopeful win impressed me because the horse looked like he would go two turns.

01:01This HIP 11 is a medium-sized, typical, what I would say, blame arch type.

01:13He's very correct.

01:14A really nice horse.

01:17Forte we sold as a weanling.

01:22He was a pretty tall, athletic colt, flashy, like a violence would be.

01:29Because this is out of a blame mare, you don't have the flash.

01:32But they're similar types.

01:34They're athletic, good, correct horses.

01:38Everybody's seen the horse.

01:39Now that we're within a day of the sale, the vetting starts, and you see who may really

01:46be interested in them.

01:48I'm not going to sleep well tonight.

01:53Well, it's pretty exciting.

01:55Not many people get a chance to breed a two-year-old Grade 1 winner and sell them.

02:01What I thought was interesting was the people that bought them bought a lot of colts that

02:06year.

02:07And this was the least expensive colt they bought.

02:11And bang, he's the best one they got.

02:13Reminds me of the story at Saratoga, I sold the sales top for one year.

02:18Only time I ever did it.

02:20And in the stall next to her, I sold the lowest priced horse in the sale for $40,000.

02:27And stellar wind turned into $9.5 million.

02:30The other filly broke her maiden.

02:32The question is, how long has Bluegrass Thoroughbred Services been around and what does it do?

02:39And my mother founded the first bloodstock agency in America with Tyson Gilpin in 1958.

02:47So I may unfortunately be the oldest second generation.

02:52And now the third generation, my son Sandy's taking over our little agency.

02:57We basically have a half dozen really good clients that we sell for and manage their

03:01horses.