Champion mare Call Me Goo tops mixed sale

Harrisburg, PA – Call Me Goo, in foal to Chapter Seven, sold for $475,000 to Crawford Farms on Thursday (Nov. 5) to top the first session of the Standardbred Horse Sale’s mixed sale at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show Complex.

Call Me Goo was retired in January after finishing in the top three in 38 of 46 career races, with 25 wins and $1.15 million in earnings. The 6-year-old daughter of Googoo Gaagaa-Callmemza was an O’Brien Award winner in 2024 when her victories included the Breeders Crown Mare Trot (G1) and Armbro Flight (G2). She won a total of six graded stakes lifetime. She was consigned by Northwood Bloodstock Agency.

The next three horses on Thursday’s best-sellers list were broodmares Explosionbroline S ($385,000), Wind Chime ($360,000) and Mon Cheval ($350,00) – all purchased by Armitage Farm out of the Spring Station Bloodstock Phase 1 dispersal.

Explosionbroline S, in foal to Captain Corey, is a 4-year-old daughter of Donato Hanover-Celebrity Speedie. She is a half-sister to Jolene Jolene, who is the dam of 2021 Dan Patch and O’Brien awards winner Venerable as well as multiple-stakes-winners Crucial and Voguish. Jolene Jolene also is the grandam of 2024 Dan Patch and O’Brien awards winner Maryland and graded-stakes-winners Inexpressable and Climatic Hanover.

Wind Chime, in foal to Chapter Seven, is a 6-year-old daughter of Father Patrick-Wind Stroll. Her first foal, a Walner-sired filly named Whimsy Station, sold for $150,000 at last month’s Lexington Selected Yearling Sale. Wind Chime was a multiple winner on the Kentucky Sire Stakes circuit during her racing career and is a half-sister to multiple-graded-stakes winner Fast As The Wind as well as to Sound Check, the dam of 2025 Dan Patch Award-winner Warrawee Michelle.

Mon Cheval, in foal to Captain Corey, is a 7-year-old daughter of Father Patrick out of the multiple Dan Patch Award-winner Shake It Cerry. Mon Cheval was a multiple winner on the Pennsylvania stakes circuit during her racing career, and her half-sister Madam Cheval was a New Jersey Sire Stakes champion this year. Last month, Mon Cheval’s Chapter Seven-sired filly Ma Cherie Station sold for $475,000 at the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale.

All three Armitage purchases were consigned by Alliance Bloodstock.

Overall Thursday, a total of 303 horses and stallion shares sold for just shy of $12 million, an average of $39,578.

The second-and-final day of the Standardbred Horse Sale’s mixed sale begins at 11 a.m. (EST) Friday. Find the mixed sale catalog here.

Find the mixed sale catalog here. Mixed sale supplements can be found here.

For the live stream, visit the sale’s company website here, and for complete results, click here. Complete Standardbred Horse Sale details are available at theblackbook.com.

 

by Ken Weingartner, for the USTA