Courtesy of the TDN
-J Martini

Warrendale’s Kitty Taylor was shopping for clients Hargus and Sandra Sexton at last year=s Barretts Janu ary sale and paid $65,000 for the mare Gentlemen’s Crown (Gentlemen {Arg}) in foal to Candy Ride (Arg). That looked like a bargain yesterday when the now seven-year-old mare’s Candy Ride yearling sold for $300,000.

“I bought the mare in January at Barretts for the Sextons and then I actually kept a piece myself,
so everyone is pretty pleased,” Taylor said. “I picked her because she was young. She is very correct. She was a big mare with plenty of bone and that is the kind of mare my clients like.” Taylor was not surprised Gentlemen’s Crown’s first foal was popular in the January sales ring.

“I loved him,” she said. “He had a great walk. He had a great mind. He really wasn’t prepped coming into the sale because the weather has been so bad. People really couldn’ t walk their yearlings getting them ready. So he was just a natural horse. He was what he was, basically. He just moved really well and that’s what people were impressed with. Plus his pedigree–Twirling Candy in the second dam and Chocolate Candy right there too.” Of the final price, Taylor added,”The price was above what we were hoping for, but it was certainly in the range of what we thought.”

Gentlemen’s Crown is currently in foal to Indian Charlie. The mare is one of “just a couple” Taylor owns a piece of and, asked how she came to maintain a share in her, Taylor said, “Because they twisted my arm. They said “If you like the mare so much, you have to stay in. I said ok.”