Dollars and Sense

 The old adage, “Breed the best to the best and get the best” is a statement that certainly holds true for the mare Please Sign In, a Stakes-winning/multiple Graded-placed mare who has continued to excel off the track through her offspring, now winning major Stakes events in North America and Europe.

Please Sign In has produced four registered foals, three to race, with two winners – Godolphin’s undefeated 2012 Cartier Champion Certify, by Elusive Quality, and G1 Oak Leaf Stakes winner Cry And Catch Me, by Street Sense's son Street Cry. Demand couldn’t be any higher for her foals, exemplified yesterday by the $1.45 million Street Sense filly which sold at Keeneland’s January Horse of All Ages Sale.

Consigned by Alfred Nuckols’ Hurstland Farm as agent, the filly was a foal share with Nuckols, Darley and William Kartozian. Nuckols, who recalled his father selling offspring out of this filly’s fourth dam, said, "She had a perfect scope report, her X-rays are clean, and she's a beautiful filly for her size and has good conformation. I've had the whole family for four generations, and she's probably the nicest individual to come along so far.

The filly, which represents the second-highest price ever paid for a yearling at Keeneland January, was purchased by Nat Rea, owner of Regis Farm in Canada. Please Sign In will be bred to Bernardini in 2012, again on a foal share with Darley.