Take Charge Indy<\/p>\n
A.P. Indy \u2013 Take Charge Lady, Dehere<\/p>\n
Enters Stud at Winstar Farm 2014 for a Fee of $20,000<\/p>\n
Take Charge Indy was born to high hopes.\u00a0 A son of legendary sire A.P. Indy out of a multiple grade one winning mare who had sold for over four million dollars at the start of her breeding career there was plenty to like about Take Charge Indy.\u00a0 He began his career at age two winning a maiden special weight and running second in the Arlington-Washington Futurity G3 from in three starts on synthetic surfaces.\u00a0 In his only dirt start that year he finished a solid fifth in the Breeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile behind Hansen and Union Rags.\u00a0 Given some time off over the winter, Take Charge Indy returned to the races in a loaded Gulfstream Park allowance race where he finished second behind the highly regarded El Padrino.\u00a0 He bounced out of that race to upset Union Rags in the Florida Derby G1.\u00a0 Take Charge Indy immediately became one of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby.\u00a0 He suffered an injury before the big dance and was off until the fall when a tough second to Shackleford in the Clark Handicap G1 was his best run.\u00a0 At age four Take Charge Indy won once in five starts, taking the Alysheba Stakes G2 with a 109 Beyer Speed Figure, the top number he would run during his career.\u00a0 He was also second in the Skip Away G3 and third in the Donn Handicap G1.\u00a0 His season and career would end when he broke down in the Monmouth Cup G2.<\/p>\n
In 2011 when Take Charge Indy was just beginning his racing career his sire A.P. Indy was pensioned.\u00a0 At the time, A.P. Indy had sired over 135 stakes winners and multiple champions including Horse of the Year Mineshaft, Bernardini, Rags to Riches and Tempera.\u00a0 Sons of A.P. Indy who have made an impact on the breed include Pulpit, the sire of eleven grade one winners including the flashy young stallion Tapit; Bermardini, the leading third crop sire of 2012; Mineshaft, the sire of over thirty stakes winners; Malibu Moon who has been in the top ten leading stallions for the past five years; and leading freshman sire Congrats among others.\u00a0 All of those sires mentioned, save Bernardini, were produced from daughters of Mr. Prospector (Bernardini was produced from a mare by Mr. Prospector\u2019s grandson Quiet American).\u00a0 Take Charge Indy does have a strain of Mr. Prospector on his damside, his second dam Felicita is by a grandson of the fabled sire.<\/p>\n
Take Charge Indy\u2019s dam Take Charge Lady was a three time grade one winner in her career and earned over two million dollars on the racetrack.\u00a0 As mentioned previously she was an expensive auction purchase while in foal for the first time.\u00a0 That foal, Charming by Seeking the Gold, was considered to have a massive amount of talent but also fragility that limited her to only three starts.\u00a0 Her next two foals were disappointments, winning only three times in twenty one combined starts.\u00a0 Take Charge Indy is her fourth foal and while it is hard to upstage a grade one winning millionaire his younger brother Will Take Charge by Unbridled\u2019s Song has done it \u2013 winning over three million dollars in just two seasons of racing.\u00a0 He is also a top contender for an Eclipse Award this year.\u00a0 Take Charge Lady\u2019s family has been a relatively active one in recent years, her dam produced two other stakes winners and the family has produced Breeders\u2019 Cup winner Chamberlain Bridge and champion Fantasy Lake.\u00a0 Take Charge Indy is inbred 3×4 to Secretariat and 5x4x5 to Bold Ruler.<\/p>\n
A.P. Indy is currently ranked second in the sim sire standings.\u00a0 As previously mentioned he has excelled when crossed with Mr. Prospector mares in real life.\u00a0 While he has had some success with Mr. Prospector and sons in the game he has done far better with mares by Sadler\u2019s Wells and his sons.\u00a0 He has also exceled with mares by Storm Cat or his son Giant\u2019s Causeway and to a lesser extent with the Deputy Minister line (the sire of Take Charge Indy\u2019s broodmare sire Dehere).\u00a0 This leaves many options for breeding to Take Charge Indy as he would do well with the Mr. Prospector or Storm Cat lines.\u00a0 There is always some question crossing the turfier sires like Sadler\u2019s Wells with a runner who did his best on the dirt but it should be noted that Take Charge Indy was graded stakes placed over a synthetic course.\u00a0 If a breeder wanted to play off of Take Charge Indy\u2019s female family then crossing him with daughters of Unbridled\u2019s Song would be intriguing.<\/p>\n
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