It’s rare when the same immediate family accounts for two Grade or Group 1 winners over a weekend, but Saratoga saw such a double over the Labor Day holiday weekend. On Saturday, September 2, Bright Future lived up to his name by scoring a gutsy nose victory in the Jockey Club Gold Cup (USA-G1). On Monday, September 4, Nutella Fella upset the Hopeful Stakes (USA-G1) for comebacking trainer Gary Contessa with a strong closing run. The connecting link between them? The mare Dreamscape, who is the maternal granddam of Bright Future and the female-line great-granddam of Nutella Fella.
Sired by the good Blushing Groom horse Mt. Livermore from Big Dreams (by Great Above), Dreamscape is a full sister to two-time American champion sprinter Housebuster and a half sister to 2003 Honeymoon Breeders’ Cup Handicap (USA-G2) winner Quero Quero (by Royal Academy). Bred by Muirfield Ventures and Gainesway Thoroughbreds, she did not race, was bred as a 3-year-old, and produced her first foal, a daughter of Quiet American that was never named, in 1999.
Dreamscape produced four more foals for her breeders before being consigned to the 2004 Keeneland January mixed sale. The timing could not have been better, as her 2001 daughter Unbridled Beauty had shown marked ability as a juvenile, running second in the Adirondack Stakes (USA-G2) and the Astoria Stakes (USA-L). Sold in foal to Mr. Greeley, Dreamscape went for US$635,000, but this was apparently a buy-back as the mare’s 2004 foal, Aquarela do Brasil, was bred by Muirfield Ventures, Gainesway Thoroughbreds, and JMJ Racing Stable.
Dreamscape went back through the ring at the 2008 Fasig-Tipton November sale, in foal to 2007 Metropolitan Handicap (USA-G1) and Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (USA-L) winner Corinthian, but failed to meet her reserve on a final bid of US$200,000. In between her two trips to auction, her 2002 daughter Tax Refund had become a stakes winner at ages 4 and 5, but Unbridled Beauty had been forced into retirement by physical issues and did not race after her juvenile season. Of the mare’s four foals produced in 2003-2006, only one had won, and none sold particularly well as yearlings. Her 2007 foal, Dream Alley, never got to the races at all, and when Dreamscape went back to Fasig-Tipton in November 2009, her owners were willing to let her go for what the market would bear, which was US$62,000, in foal to Corinthian. For the remainder of her life, she was owned by Lemons Mill Farm, which bred four foals from her in partnership with Foxtale Farm and another two in partnership with Gabriel Duignan.
Sophia’s Song, the last of the four foals bred by Lemons Mill Farm and Foxtale Farm, proved the best of the group. A daughter of 2005 Wood Memorial Stakes (USA-G1) winner Bellamy Road, she won the 2016 Caesar’s Wish Stakes at Laurel and ran third in that year’s Charles Town Oaks (USA-G3), earning US$155,892 after selling for US$30,000 through the 2015 Ocala Breeders’ Sales June sale of 2-year-olds in training. Sold for US$225,000 at the 2017 Keeneland November sale, in foal to 2010 Kentucky Derby (USA-G1) winner Super Saver, she tipped into the profit column for new owner Clearsky Farms when her second foal, a handsome son of Curlin, went for US$350,000 at the 2020 Keeneland September sale. Three years later, he is now Grade 1 winner Bright Future and has probably added significant value to his 3-year-old half sister by Into Mischief, Musical Mischief, a US$300,000 Keeneland September graduate who has been unplaced in two starts this year. Sophia’s Song has since produced the unraced Mitole 2-year-old Booth, a US$225,000 purchase for Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt and Jackpot Farm from this year’s OBS March sale of 2-year-olds in training, a yearling colt by Tiz the Law, and a weanling colt by Maxfield before being sent to visit Jackie’s Warrior.
Three of Dreamscape’s other daughters have become stakes producers as well, including Unbridled Beauty’s winning full sister Casey’s Dreamin’. The dam of 2022 Quebec Derby (CAN-G3) winner Ironstone (by Mr Speaker) and three other winners from seven starters, Casey’s Dreamin’ has most recently produced A. A. Fuyoshi, an unraced 2-year-old daughter of Yoshida, and a weanling filly by Candy Ride. Denali Dreamscape, the Corinthian filly that Dreamscape was carrying when sold in 2009, has produced three winners from three named foals of racing age, headed by 2021 Allen Black Cat La Combe Memorial Stakes winner New Boss (by Street Boss) and Grade 3-placed Daydreaming Boy (by Goldencents); her most recent foal is a 2022 filly by Mastery. As for Unbridled Beauty, she produced 2008 Arlington Classic Stakes (USA-L) winner Meal Penalty (by Tale of the Cat) as her first foal. She had only two other winners from her other eight named foals, but her last foal to live, the 2014 Candy Ride mare Krissy’s Candy, atoned for her failure to win by producing Nutella Fella (a son of 2015 American champion male sprinter Runhappy) as her second foal. Krissy’s Candy has since produced a 2022 colt by War of Will and a 2023 colt by Yaupon.
At this time, no one would call Dreamscape a great matriarch, but her family has improved itself substantially over the last two years, not to mention over the last two days. The achievements of Bright Future and Nutella Fella will undoubtedly give some of their close female relatives access to better opportunities, and if they are able to take advantage of those opportunities to come up with some more good horses, breeders decades from now may see Dreamscape’s worth to her breed in an entirely different light.
Sired by the good Blushing Groom horse Mt. Livermore from Big Dreams (by Great Above), Dreamscape is a full sister to two-time American champion sprinter Housebuster and a half sister to 2003 Honeymoon Breeders’ Cup Handicap (USA-G2) winner Quero Quero (by Royal Academy). Bred by Muirfield Ventures and Gainesway Thoroughbreds, she did not race, was bred as a 3-year-old, and produced her first foal, a daughter of Quiet American that was never named, in 1999.
Dreamscape produced four more foals for her breeders before being consigned to the 2004 Keeneland January mixed sale. The timing could not have been better, as her 2001 daughter Unbridled Beauty had shown marked ability as a juvenile, running second in the Adirondack Stakes (USA-G2) and the Astoria Stakes (USA-L). Sold in foal to Mr. Greeley, Dreamscape went for US$635,000, but this was apparently a buy-back as the mare’s 2004 foal, Aquarela do Brasil, was bred by Muirfield Ventures, Gainesway Thoroughbreds, and JMJ Racing Stable.
Dreamscape went back through the ring at the 2008 Fasig-Tipton November sale, in foal to 2007 Metropolitan Handicap (USA-G1) and Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (USA-L) winner Corinthian, but failed to meet her reserve on a final bid of US$200,000. In between her two trips to auction, her 2002 daughter Tax Refund had become a stakes winner at ages 4 and 5, but Unbridled Beauty had been forced into retirement by physical issues and did not race after her juvenile season. Of the mare’s four foals produced in 2003-2006, only one had won, and none sold particularly well as yearlings. Her 2007 foal, Dream Alley, never got to the races at all, and when Dreamscape went back to Fasig-Tipton in November 2009, her owners were willing to let her go for what the market would bear, which was US$62,000, in foal to Corinthian. For the remainder of her life, she was owned by Lemons Mill Farm, which bred four foals from her in partnership with Foxtale Farm and another two in partnership with Gabriel Duignan.
Sophia’s Song, the last of the four foals bred by Lemons Mill Farm and Foxtale Farm, proved the best of the group. A daughter of 2005 Wood Memorial Stakes (USA-G1) winner Bellamy Road, she won the 2016 Caesar’s Wish Stakes at Laurel and ran third in that year’s Charles Town Oaks (USA-G3), earning US$155,892 after selling for US$30,000 through the 2015 Ocala Breeders’ Sales June sale of 2-year-olds in training. Sold for US$225,000 at the 2017 Keeneland November sale, in foal to 2010 Kentucky Derby (USA-G1) winner Super Saver, she tipped into the profit column for new owner Clearsky Farms when her second foal, a handsome son of Curlin, went for US$350,000 at the 2020 Keeneland September sale. Three years later, he is now Grade 1 winner Bright Future and has probably added significant value to his 3-year-old half sister by Into Mischief, Musical Mischief, a US$300,000 Keeneland September graduate who has been unplaced in two starts this year. Sophia’s Song has since produced the unraced Mitole 2-year-old Booth, a US$225,000 purchase for Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt and Jackpot Farm from this year’s OBS March sale of 2-year-olds in training, a yearling colt by Tiz the Law, and a weanling colt by Maxfield before being sent to visit Jackie’s Warrior.
Three of Dreamscape’s other daughters have become stakes producers as well, including Unbridled Beauty’s winning full sister Casey’s Dreamin’. The dam of 2022 Quebec Derby (CAN-G3) winner Ironstone (by Mr Speaker) and three other winners from seven starters, Casey’s Dreamin’ has most recently produced A. A. Fuyoshi, an unraced 2-year-old daughter of Yoshida, and a weanling filly by Candy Ride. Denali Dreamscape, the Corinthian filly that Dreamscape was carrying when sold in 2009, has produced three winners from three named foals of racing age, headed by 2021 Allen Black Cat La Combe Memorial Stakes winner New Boss (by Street Boss) and Grade 3-placed Daydreaming Boy (by Goldencents); her most recent foal is a 2022 filly by Mastery. As for Unbridled Beauty, she produced 2008 Arlington Classic Stakes (USA-L) winner Meal Penalty (by Tale of the Cat) as her first foal. She had only two other winners from her other eight named foals, but her last foal to live, the 2014 Candy Ride mare Krissy’s Candy, atoned for her failure to win by producing Nutella Fella (a son of 2015 American champion male sprinter Runhappy) as her second foal. Krissy’s Candy has since produced a 2022 colt by War of Will and a 2023 colt by Yaupon.
At this time, no one would call Dreamscape a great matriarch, but her family has improved itself substantially over the last two years, not to mention over the last two days. The achievements of Bright Future and Nutella Fella will undoubtedly give some of their close female relatives access to better opportunities, and if they are able to take advantage of those opportunities to come up with some more good horses, breeders decades from now may see Dreamscape’s worth to her breed in an entirely different light.
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