Uncle Mo’s daughters are producing quality

Arkansas Derby winner Muth and Fantasy winner Thorpedo Anna latest examples

By Sid Fernando

A week after getting his 100th black-type winner (see Frances J. Karon’s post on this here), Coolmore America’s Uncle Mo exhibited another facet of his talents on Saturday at Oaklawn, this time through two daughters. One, Hoppa, a foal of 2016, produced the G1 Arkansas Derby winner Muth (Good Magic), while the other, Sataves, who was born in 2015, is the dam of G2 Fantasy Stakes winner Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna). Those two mares are from Uncle Mo’s third and fourth crops.

Uncle Mo’s first foals arrived in 2013 and he’s already represented by several stakes-siring sons, most notably his first-crop Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, whose advertised stud fee of $85,000 this year was considerably lower than for what his seasons were trading on the open market. Uncle Mo, meanwhile, stands for $150,000, and from the early returns, he’s gaining a burgeoning reputation as a sire of sires.

It now appears that Uncle Mo is also well on his way to making a name for himself as a broodmare sire. His daughters have already produced 18 black-type winners, nine of which are graded winners. Two of them—Muth and Geaux Rocket Ride (Candy Ride)—are Grade 1 winners.

These are the dams of the other graded winners from daughters of Uncle Mo:

• Babcock (2013), dam of Interstatedaydream (Classic Empire)

• Mo d’Amour (2013), dam of Southlawn (Pioneerof the Nile)

• Auntjenn (2014), dam of Petulante (Arrogate)

• Follow No One (2014), dam of Instant Coffee (Bolt d’Oro)

• Beyond Grace (2015), dam of Geaux Rocket Ride (Candy Ride)

• Mo Wicked (2015), dam of West Saratoga (Exaggerator)

• No Mo Lemons (2015), dam of Major General (Constitution)

Note that each of these graded-stakes-producing mares, including the dams of Muth and Thorpedo Anna, were conceived during Uncle Mo’s first four years at stud, when he stood for $35,000, $35,000, $27,500, and $25,000, respectively. In 2016, the year after his first 2-year-olds raced, Uncle Mo’s fee jumped to $75,000, and in 2017 the horse hit the six-figure mark at $150,000 and has stayed above $100,000 since.

As a general rule, a higher fee means better mares for the stallion, and this suggests that Uncle Mo’s daughters conceived in 2017 and later, on the whole, will have much heftier pedigrees than those from his earlier crops. This should only bolster Uncle Mo’s profile as a broodmare sire in the years to come, because he’s already demonstrating that his early daughters have what it takes to produce stakes winners with a wide variety of sire lines.

By logic, then, Uncle Mo has a great chance to become a top-level sire of mares in the future, and he could well become that rare type of stallion whose sons and daughters are as equally in demand at stud.

He’s headed that way for sure after this weekend.