On March 29, Thorpedo Anna turned in what was arguably the most impressive performance so far along the Lily Lane to the Longines Kentucky Oaks (USA-G1). Making her first start of 2024 against a good field in the Fantasy Stakes (USA-G2) at Oaklawn Park, she took command in upper stretch and continued on to win as she pleased while only being shown the whip. Her Equibase figure of 101 for the mile and one-sixteenth event was the highest thus far for any of the potential Oaks contenders.
Bred by Judy Hicks, Thorpedo Anna is from the last crop of 2014 Ketel One King’s Bishop Stakes (USA-G1) runner-up Fast Anna, a son of Medaglia d’Oro out of 2006 American champion 2-year-old filly Dreaming of Anna (by Rahy). To date, Fast Anna has 14 stakes winners to his credit from 279 named foals of racing age and has over $12 million in progeny earnings.
Thorpedo Anna is the second foal and second winner out of the unraced Uncle Mo mare Sataves, who has since produced the 2022 Cloud Computing colt McAtee and the 2024 Known Agenda filly After the Storm. A half sister to four winners, Sataves is out of unraced Pacific Sky, a Stormy Atlantic half sister to 2010 Wood Memorial Invitational Stakes (USA-G1) winner Eskendereya (by Giant’s Causeway) and 2005 Middle Park Stakes (ENG-G1) winner Balmont (by Stravinsky).
Pacific Sky and her siblings were produced from the winning Seattle Slew mare Aldebaran Light, whose half brother Blazonry (by Hennessy) won the 2003 Lazaro Barrera Memorial Stakes (USA-G2). Aldebaran Light, in turn, is out of the unraced Alydar mare Altair, whose dam Stellar Odyssey (by Northern Dancer) is an unraced full sister to listed stakes winner Wassl Touch and a half sister to 1974 Kentucky Derby (USA-G1) winner Cannonade (by Bold Bidder), multiple Grade 3 winner Circle Home (by Bold Bidder) and listed stakes winner Del Sarto (by Bold Bidder). The dam of Stellar Odyssey, Queen Sucree (by Ribot), is an unraced half sister to three-time American champion Tosmah (by Tim Tam) and two-time American champion sire Halo (by Hail to Reason) and is from the immediate female family of Northern Dancer.
Hicks’s decision to stay in on Thorpedo Anna after the filly sold for US$40,000 at the 2022 Keeneland Fall Yearling Sale, is now looking crazy smart; not only will the filly be among the likely favorites at Churchill Downs on May 3, but Hicks still has a piece of a potential broodmare whose extended family is as deep and glittering as any in the American Stud Book. If Thorpedo Anna can come through and win the Kentucky Oaks, those bloodlines will look even better, perhaps helping to revitalize her immediate branch of a great American family.
Bred by Judy Hicks, Thorpedo Anna is from the last crop of 2014 Ketel One King’s Bishop Stakes (USA-G1) runner-up Fast Anna, a son of Medaglia d’Oro out of 2006 American champion 2-year-old filly Dreaming of Anna (by Rahy). To date, Fast Anna has 14 stakes winners to his credit from 279 named foals of racing age and has over $12 million in progeny earnings.
Thorpedo Anna is the second foal and second winner out of the unraced Uncle Mo mare Sataves, who has since produced the 2022 Cloud Computing colt McAtee and the 2024 Known Agenda filly After the Storm. A half sister to four winners, Sataves is out of unraced Pacific Sky, a Stormy Atlantic half sister to 2010 Wood Memorial Invitational Stakes (USA-G1) winner Eskendereya (by Giant’s Causeway) and 2005 Middle Park Stakes (ENG-G1) winner Balmont (by Stravinsky).
Pacific Sky and her siblings were produced from the winning Seattle Slew mare Aldebaran Light, whose half brother Blazonry (by Hennessy) won the 2003 Lazaro Barrera Memorial Stakes (USA-G2). Aldebaran Light, in turn, is out of the unraced Alydar mare Altair, whose dam Stellar Odyssey (by Northern Dancer) is an unraced full sister to listed stakes winner Wassl Touch and a half sister to 1974 Kentucky Derby (USA-G1) winner Cannonade (by Bold Bidder), multiple Grade 3 winner Circle Home (by Bold Bidder) and listed stakes winner Del Sarto (by Bold Bidder). The dam of Stellar Odyssey, Queen Sucree (by Ribot), is an unraced half sister to three-time American champion Tosmah (by Tim Tam) and two-time American champion sire Halo (by Hail to Reason) and is from the immediate female family of Northern Dancer.
Hicks’s decision to stay in on Thorpedo Anna after the filly sold for US$40,000 at the 2022 Keeneland Fall Yearling Sale, is now looking crazy smart; not only will the filly be among the likely favorites at Churchill Downs on May 3, but Hicks still has a piece of a potential broodmare whose extended family is as deep and glittering as any in the American Stud Book. If Thorpedo Anna can come through and win the Kentucky Oaks, those bloodlines will look even better, perhaps helping to revitalize her immediate branch of a great American family.
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