Louisville business person Chip Montgomery, owner of Haymarket Farm, saw the family he purchased into in 2016 come cycle April 15 when his 3-year-old homebred Cats Inthe Timber notched her very first stakes win in the 1 1/16 mile Weber City Miss Stakes at Laurel Park.
Cats Inthe Timber, by Honor Code , is a child of the unraced Tale of the Cat mare Wychwood a half sis to grade 1 winner True Timber and Montgomery is profiting of an astute choice he made 3 years ago to buy 2 children of Cats Inthe Timber’s 2nd dam Queen’s Wood based upon the family’s capacity.
“The filly herself is a genuine trier, a genuine rival; she’s not the greatest filly,” said Montgomery. “As Brittany (Russell) said, when she gets in the hunt, she likes to win—she guts it out boiling down the lane. Saturday was interesting for us.”
In the Weber City Miss, Cats Inthe Timber broke from the outdoors, routing in 5th for the very first quarter-mile prior to trying for the lead in the far turn. She sat 3rd at the top of the lane with Jevian Toledo in the tack, behind favorites Crypto Mama and Girl Trouble . Approaching the 8th pole, the filly dropped her head and outfinished Crypto Mama and a rallying Six the Hard Way winning by a driving half-length margin in 1:47.42 for Russell, her fitness instructor.
Montgomery included: “We tend to get included with a family and stick with that. I would state, despite the fact that she’s a little smaller sized, the family has respectable size. We will most likely keep her and ultimately put her in the broodmare band.”
Jevian Toledo heads to the winners circle with Cats Inthe Timber
Montgomery acquired family matriarch Queen’s Wood from the WinMar Farm Dispersal at the 2016 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale in foal to Quality Road for $47,000. The Tiznow mare had actually produced 4 foals with one runner at the time of sale.
The mare produced a To Honor and Serve filly in 2015, consequently called Honor Indy a runner Montgomery acquired as a 4-year-old throughout the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky February Mixed Sale for $30,000 and put in foal to Frosted that very same year, 2019.
True Timber, Queen’s Wood’s 2-year-old of 2016 by Mineshaft , ended up being the family’s increasing star a couple of decline the roadway. He flew onto Montgomery’s radar in January 2020 when Montgomery’s farm supervisor, Kelly Jackson, kept in mind the colt’s half sis, Wychwood was gone into in the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale.
At the time, the colt with conditioner Kiaran McLaughlin had actually struck the board in 7 graded occasions, consisting of the Cigar Mile Handicap two times (2018-19). He would break through with an evasive grade 1 triumph at the end of 2020 under fitness instructor Jack Sisterson’s assistance, when he won the Cigar Mile in his 3rd effort.
At the Keeneland January sale, Montgomery got True Timber’s half sis Wychwood for $70,000 in foal to Honor Code. That resulting very first foal, while little, became a trier, winning her 2nd start at 2 in a 6-furlong maiden unique weight at Delaware Park in October 2022. This year, Cats Inthe Timber has actually progressively advanced with a win in January and 4th in the Beyond the Wire Stakes, her very first stakes look in March. A go back to the Laurel track provided the filly the chance to win April 15.
Seven-year-old Wychwood has a yearling filly by Hard Spun and is due in May with a foal from the last crop of More Than Ready . Second dam Queen’s Wood has an Authentic yearling colt for 2023, and her Omaha Beach juvenile colt will be used as Hip 837 throughout the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training April 26 with consignor Scanlon Training and Sales.
