Love the Chase (Not For Love–Chase It Down, by Polish Numbers), the dam of two-time Horse of the Year and 2016 champion older male California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit), foaled a colt by leading sire Tapit Thursday at Atlas Farm in Nicholasville, Kentucky.
A now 11-year-old Maryland-bred mare, Love the Chase was purchased for $1.95 million by John McCormack Bloodstock from the Taylor Made consignment at last year's Fasig-Tipton November sale on behalf of a client he declined to identify at the time. It later came to light that the mare's new owners were SF Bloodstock.
“It's hard not to love California Chrome, with everything he's accomplished to date,” said SF's Tom Ryan. “Getting the news late last night that his 3/4-brother had arrived safe and sound at Atlas Farm was the best possible way to kick off the Pegasus weekend. I haven't seen him myself, but [Atlas Farm owner] Neal [Clarke] tells me he's very fancy. He has an unusual blaze like a lightning bolt. Love the Chase is a young mare with a bright future.”
The mare produced full-siblings to California Chrome in 2013, 2014 and 2015, and is booked to Pioneerof the Nile for the upcoming breeding season, Ryan said. California Chrome is in Florida preparing for his final career start, a rematch with TDN Rising Star Arrogate (Unbridled's Song) in the $12-million GI Pegasus World Cup Saturday at Gulfstream Park.
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