Grade I winner and $2.8 million earner Simply in Front (Summer Front–Complicated, by Blame) has been cataloged to the 2026 January Horses of All Ages Sale on Monday, Jan. 12. Richard G. Hogan, agent for Colebrook Farms, is consigning the 4-year-old who is cataloged as a broodmare prospect.
Simply in Front is a three-quarter sister to both GISW And One More Time (Omaha Beach) and stakes winner Churchtown (Air Force Blue). She is a half-sister to Grade II winner Honor D Lady (Honor Code).
“Simply in Front is a gorgeous mare who comes from a deep, active family with what could have even more black type on the horizon,” Hogan said. “There is real upside for buyers in 2026 and beyond.”
In Keeneland's GI First Lady on Oct. 4, Simply in Front collared GISW Choisya (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}) inside the sixteenth pole and held off subsequent GI Matriarch winner Segesta (Ghostzapper) to win by a neck.
With the performance, Simply in Front scored her third victory in five starts in 2025. She also won the GII Churchill Downs Distaff Turf Mile and the KY Downs Preview Ladies Turf Mile at Ellis Park in August.
At 3, she won the GII Music City Stakes and during her juvenile season, she was runner-up to five-time GISW She Feels Pretty (Karakontie {Jpn}) in the Natalma.
“Simply in Front gave us one of the highlights of the Fall Meet with her First Lady win,” Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy said. “To offer a Grade I winner this January is truly special, and she is exactly the quality that buyers will be seeking for their broodmare bands.”
Simply in Front's dam, Complicated, is from an established Phipps family of champion Inside Information and Grade I winner Educated Risk.
The online catalog for the January Sale is scheduled to be available Tuesday, Dec. 9.
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