For Royalty (Not For Love-Taft Lil Queen, by Irish Open), a multiple stakes producer and dam of 2016 GI La Brea S. winner and TDN Rising Star Constellation (Bellamy Road), will be offered at the upcoming Keelenand November Sale. Consigned by Craig and Holly Bandoroff's Denali Stud on behalf of WinStar Farm, the 10-year-old mare sells in foal to Bernardini.
“We are incredibly excited to be offering a mare the caliber of For Royalty, who at only 10 years of age has already produced three stakes horses from her first three foals, including Grade I winner Constellation,” said Craig Bandoroff.
For Royalty's fourth foal, Queen Mum (Paynter), graduated by 1 ½ lengths at first asking at Churchill Downs Sept. 21. Constellation, an $800,000 OBS juvenile purchase, finished runner up last out in Del Mar's GIII Rancho Bernardo H. Aug. 13. Trained by Jerry Hollendorfer for owner LNJ Foxwoods, Constellation is targeting the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint Nov. 4th at Del Mar.
“For Royalty was a stakes winner herself and hails from a great producing family,” added Bandoroff. “Constellation continues to be ultra-consistent on the track, having never finished worse than fourth in 12 starts while running against the best, and she figures to be a strong Breeders' Cup contender. There's a lot going on with the family.”
A stakes winner at two, For Royalty is a half to Puerto Rican Grade I winner El Viento (El Corredor) and Grade II winner Kiss to Remember (Big Brown), and her stakes-winning dam, Taft Lil Queen, is a full sister to stakes winner Irish Cherry, the dam of Grade I winners Spun Sugar and Daaher.
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