Hidden Lake Brings Shancelot Contingent to NY Bred Auction

First-time bull Shancellot the fast son of Shanghai Bobby has made a promising start with his first horses. He has three winners from eight young horses that have competed on the racetrack, including the highly regarded Bob Baffert trainee Midland Money And Perfect Shances who took her first win on her debut Keeneland to become her father’s first winner.

Hidden Lake Farm will sell three yearlings by Shancelot at Fasig-Tipton’s New York-Bred Yearlings Sale on August 11 and 12. The yearlings were among the foals of a group of mares that Hidden Lake co-bred with Crawford Farms. Crawford guided the horse to a 3-2-1 record in six starts and backed the stallion early in his breeding career. Shancelot stood at Buck Pond Farm in 2024 for an advertised fee of $5,000, where he has stood since his retirement.

“They (Crawford Farms) saw the value in New York and sent all the mares to New York to foal, and we had some really nice babies. We have three of them (in the sale), all by really nice racemares,” said Chris Bernhard of Hidden Lake Farm. “They’re thrilled. They raised him (Shancelot) and had some fun with him and decided to keep him.”

Bernhard said the yearlings look like they have inherited Shancelot’s brilliant speed, which he demonstrated in his 2019 Amsterdam Stakes (G2) win in third place in 1:14.01, about a fifth of a second behind Quality Road of 1:13.74. He was also second in the Santa Anita Sprint Championship Stakes (G1) and finished second to Mitol in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) in 2019.

Hip 434 has a cheap update from her full brother Ecoro Azulwho was the first-out winner in Japan on July 27. The filly for sale is from the stakes-placed Swirling Candy mare Song of the Cicada the half-sister of a multiple stakes winner The money .

“They look fast, they look like they’re going fast,” Bernhard said, looking at Hip 434.

Bernhard’s other offerings include Hip 323, a mare out of the stakes-producing mare More Than Ready Show Me the Carats. Of eight foals of racing age, she is the dam of four winners, including the New York Stakes winner Expert and $345,238 earning Klickitat

Hip 598 is a mare out of the Class 2 Stakes-placed Flatter Mare Queen of Beas and represents an already successful cross. Midland Money, a debut winner purchased by Bill Childs for $650,000 at the Ocala Breeders’ March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, is out of the winning Flatter daughter Magnolias in Bloom. Hip 598 is the first foal by Queen of Beas, who finished third in the 2019 Eight Belles Stakes (G2) and is a full sister to the multiple stakes winner Flattering Bea and half to the stakes winner Doctor Jeff .

Bernhard is optimistic about sales at the New York Breeders’ Sale after speaking to many people who struggled to buy at Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga Sale, the exclusive yearling auction held Aug. 5-6. He said many 2-year-old pinhookers went home empty-handed.

“We’ve shown 25 to 30 times and the weather is miserable. There are so many New York trainers who go to these 2-year-old sales. They can get a New York-bred horse, whether it’s a Kentucky-sired horse or a New York-sired horse. They have limited company and big purses for New York-bred horses,” Bernhard said. “I’m excited to see how it turns out.”

The sale begins on August 11 at 7:30 p.m. ET at Fasig-Tipton’s Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion with hips 301-400. The second and final session begins on August 12 at noon ET with hips 401-600.