Drakenstein Stud’s champion sire Trippi (End Sweep) is rapidly establishing himself as a high-class broodmare sire.
His broodmare daughters have enjoyed success at Gr1 level in both South Africa and North America, and they look poised for greater success in seasons to come.
Trippi (photo: hamishNIVENPhotography)
It is also a notable tribute to Trippi as a broodmare sire that his each of his daughters’ graded stakes winners thus far have been sired by different stallions.
Trippi already rates as the broodmare sire of graded stakes winners Multiplier (Gr3 Illinois Derby), Miss Sunset (Gr2 Raven Run Stakes), Signalman (Gr2 Jockey Club Stakes), Miss Florida (Gr1 Allan Robertson Championship), Not This Time (Gr3 Iroquois Stakes) and Liam’s Map (Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile/Gr1 Woodward Stakes), with the latter pair produced by Trippi’s high-class daughter Miss Macy Sue.
The latter, one of 75 stakes winners for her sire thus far, was a high-class racemare whose 11 career victories, which netted Miss Macy Sue more than $880 000 in prize money, included six black type scores.
She scored the biggest win of her career, which also saw Miss Macy Sue finish third (beaten two lengths) in the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf, in the 2007 Gr3 Winning Colors Stakes.
On that occasions, Miss Macy Sue (winning her third consecutive stakes race) romped home to record a two and a quarter length win in the six furlong race-she would go on to finish second in the 2008 renewal of the Winning Colors as well.
The intriguingly bred Miss Macy Sue – she is closely inbred to champion sprinter Ta Wee through her own broodmare sire Great Above (a son of Ta Wee) and her third dam Tweak (a daughter of Ta Wee) – has carrried over the success she enjoyed on the racetrack to the breeding barn.
To date, Miss Macy Sue has produced four winners, with her three black type winners, Liam’s Map, Not This Time, and Taylor S, sired by different stallions.Her once raced daughter Minnie Macy (A.P. Indy) is dam of G2 Adirondack Stakes runner up Virginia Eloise (Curlin).
Liam’s Map
One of the very best sons of deceased top US sire Unbridled’s Song (Unbridled), Liam’s Map raced just eight times but won six, and recorded blistering wins in both the Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (winning by two and a half lengths) and Woodward Stakes (he won that by four and three-quarter lengths).
Liam’s Map, who also won the Harlan’s Holiday Stakes and finished second to champion Honor Code (A.P. Indy) in the Gr1 Whitney Stakes, retired to Lane’s End with earnings in excess of $1.358 million.
His half-brother Not This Time (by Giant’s Causeway) made just four starts (he only raced at two) but showed his class when landing the Gr3 Iroquois Stake by nearly nine lengths beating subsequent Kentucky Derby runner up Lookin At Lee (Lookin At Lucky) in the process, and finished a close up second in the 2016 Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.
His half-sister Taylor S (by Medaglia D’Oro), the third of Miss Macy Sue’s stakes winners, stamped herself a very valuable filly when she won the 2015 Any Limit Stakes. Taylor S’s daughter Four Grands (by Honor Code) provided her family with more cheer when making a winning debut earlier this year.
Miss Macy Sue’s two high-profile sons have both made very encouraging starts to their respective stud careers.
Liam’s Map, whose first crop made up to $1 200 000, made a huge impression with his first two-year-olds in 2019 headed by Basin (Gr1 Hopeful Stakes) and Wicked Whisper (Gr1 Frizette Stakes).
Currently the sire of five first crop stakes horses, Liam’s Map ranks at the time of writing as the third leading Second-Crop Sire in North America by stakes money. His runners have banked nearly $1 000 000 in 2020.
His half-brother Not This Time has also made a very smart start this year with his first two-year-olds.
At the time of writing, Not This Time is North America’s Leading First Crop Sire by earnings, with two of his first three runners having both won impressively on debut.
While Not This Time’s first runner Screen Star could only finish eighth on debut, the sire’s second starter, Hopeful Princess, won by three-parts of a length on debut, while his third runner, Swaggy George, scored by four lengths at the first time of asking.
Himself a brilliant two-year-old, and by the same sire as the deceased star sire Shamardal, Not This Time could well be poised for a good career at stud.
Trippi’s ongoing success as a broodmare sire, however, should come as no surprise given the considerable success he has enjoyed as a sire of high-class racefillies.
Live Life has been sold
Four of Trippi’s eight Gr1 winners are female, with Trippi’s other notable daughters including Equus Champion Hammie’s Hooker, Queen Mary Stakes heroine Jealous Again, and millionaires/graded stakes winners Lanner Falcon and Live Life.
No doubt, his broodmare daughters will continue to enhance Trippi’s legacy still further in the seasons to come.
