The 2025 Breeders’ Cup showcased both top racehorses and top female families, with representatives of the families of Best in Show, South Ocean, Dinner Partner, Nuit de Folies, and Native Street scoring big. Another top family with a Breeders’ Cup-winning scion is that of 1969 Canadian Oaks winner Cool Mood, whose sixth-generation descendant Shisospicy blitzed open company in the Prevagen Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (USA-G1). The first 3-year-old filly to win the race, Shisospicy nailed down her first Grade 1 win with an impressive front-running performance and ran her lifetime record to six wins and two placings from nine starts. The daughter of 2019 American champion male sprinter Mitole also put herself in the driver’s seat for an Eclipse Award in the female sprinter division ahead of Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (USA-G1) winner Splendora, who has two 2025 stakes wins to Shisospicy’s four (three of them graded) and does not have the cachet of a major win over males. The other likely contenders in the division, Grade 1 winners Kopion and Hope Road, both hurt their chances by losing at the Breeders’ Cup.
Cool Mood made a previous appearance in the “Mares on Monday” column on September 23, 2024, when she was profiled in connection with multiple graded stakes winner My Mane Squeeze. A fifth-generation descendant of Cool Mood through her daughter Moody Maiden (by Apalachee), My Mane Squeeze is still in training and has added a win in the Johnstone Stakes for New York-breds and four graded stakes placings to her resume since being profiled.
A tough, sound mare who made 41 starts, Cool Mood was even more productive as a broodmare as a racehorse and was especially noteworthy as a dam of broodmares. Two of her five stakes-producing daughters, Shy Spirit (by Personality) and Passing Mood (by Buckpasser) earned Canadian Broodmare of the Year honors after producing Canadian Triple Crown winners Izvestia (by Icecapade) and With Approval (by Caro), respectively, and the two accounted for six other stakes winners between them including 1997 Belmont Stakes (USA-G1) winner Touch Gold (Deputy Minister x Passing Mood).
Shisospicy descends from another of Cool Mood’s black-type producers, Princess Laika. A daughter of French champion juvenile and excellent sire Blushing Groom, Princess Laika was unable to win in 13 starts and produced only one stakes winner, Cool Gold Mood (by Premier Ministre)—not exactly an inspiring overall record. Her profile looked much better after her 1993 Gone West daughter, Lady Laika, got into production. After producing two stakes-placed runners, Lady Laika dropped Healthy Addiction (by Boston Harbor) as her fourth foal. Healthy Addiction won the 2006 Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap (USA-G1) and three Grade 2 stakes before heading to the paddocks, where she produced 2015 Vanity Stakes (USA-G1) winner My Sweet Addiction (by Tiznow). Through another daughter, Ashlee’s Lady (by Gilded Time), Lady Laika is also the second dam of 2012 Davona Dale Stakes (USA-G2) winner Yara (by Put It Back) and the third dam of 2021 Frank J. DeFrancis Memorial Stakes (USA-G3) winner Jalen Journey (by With Distinction).
Princess Laika had two other daughters who were multiple stakes producers and produced a Grade 3 winner each. The better of the two was Gold Liaka (by Yukon, a Northern Dancer half brother to the great sire Mr. Prospector), who produced multiple Grade 3 winner Maren’s Meadow (by Meadowlake) and listed stakes winners Golden Path (by Slew o’ Gold; dam of 2008 Premio Jose Rodriguez Razzeto, PER-G3, winner Mukhtar, by Grindstone) and Chamul (by Mutakddim). Maren’s Meadow, in turn, produced Maren’s Melody (by Unbridled’s Song), whose winning Into Mischief daughter Mischief Galore produced Shisospicy as her second foal. Mischief Galore has since produced the unraced 2023 colt Yasup and a 2024 filly, both by Yaupon. She was covered for 2026 by Jackie’s Warrior.
Shisospicy is cataloged as Hip 147 for tonight’s Fasig-Tipton “Night of the Stars” sale as a racing or broodmare prospect, and her dam, Mischief Galore, is also in the sale as Hip 160. Both, of course, have just gotten a huge boost to their potential price tags. Interestingly, My Mane Squeeze is also up for sale as Hip 122, selling as a racing or broodmare prospect. With a bit of luck and the right mates, any of these mares could go on keeping the heat turned up for Cool Mood’s family.
Cool Mood made a previous appearance in the “Mares on Monday” column on September 23, 2024, when she was profiled in connection with multiple graded stakes winner My Mane Squeeze. A fifth-generation descendant of Cool Mood through her daughter Moody Maiden (by Apalachee), My Mane Squeeze is still in training and has added a win in the Johnstone Stakes for New York-breds and four graded stakes placings to her resume since being profiled.
A tough, sound mare who made 41 starts, Cool Mood was even more productive as a broodmare as a racehorse and was especially noteworthy as a dam of broodmares. Two of her five stakes-producing daughters, Shy Spirit (by Personality) and Passing Mood (by Buckpasser) earned Canadian Broodmare of the Year honors after producing Canadian Triple Crown winners Izvestia (by Icecapade) and With Approval (by Caro), respectively, and the two accounted for six other stakes winners between them including 1997 Belmont Stakes (USA-G1) winner Touch Gold (Deputy Minister x Passing Mood).
Shisospicy descends from another of Cool Mood’s black-type producers, Princess Laika. A daughter of French champion juvenile and excellent sire Blushing Groom, Princess Laika was unable to win in 13 starts and produced only one stakes winner, Cool Gold Mood (by Premier Ministre)—not exactly an inspiring overall record. Her profile looked much better after her 1993 Gone West daughter, Lady Laika, got into production. After producing two stakes-placed runners, Lady Laika dropped Healthy Addiction (by Boston Harbor) as her fourth foal. Healthy Addiction won the 2006 Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap (USA-G1) and three Grade 2 stakes before heading to the paddocks, where she produced 2015 Vanity Stakes (USA-G1) winner My Sweet Addiction (by Tiznow). Through another daughter, Ashlee’s Lady (by Gilded Time), Lady Laika is also the second dam of 2012 Davona Dale Stakes (USA-G2) winner Yara (by Put It Back) and the third dam of 2021 Frank J. DeFrancis Memorial Stakes (USA-G3) winner Jalen Journey (by With Distinction).
Princess Laika had two other daughters who were multiple stakes producers and produced a Grade 3 winner each. The better of the two was Gold Liaka (by Yukon, a Northern Dancer half brother to the great sire Mr. Prospector), who produced multiple Grade 3 winner Maren’s Meadow (by Meadowlake) and listed stakes winners Golden Path (by Slew o’ Gold; dam of 2008 Premio Jose Rodriguez Razzeto, PER-G3, winner Mukhtar, by Grindstone) and Chamul (by Mutakddim). Maren’s Meadow, in turn, produced Maren’s Melody (by Unbridled’s Song), whose winning Into Mischief daughter Mischief Galore produced Shisospicy as her second foal. Mischief Galore has since produced the unraced 2023 colt Yasup and a 2024 filly, both by Yaupon. She was covered for 2026 by Jackie’s Warrior.
Shisospicy is cataloged as Hip 147 for tonight’s Fasig-Tipton “Night of the Stars” sale as a racing or broodmare prospect, and her dam, Mischief Galore, is also in the sale as Hip 160. Both, of course, have just gotten a huge boost to their potential price tags. Interestingly, My Mane Squeeze is also up for sale as Hip 122, selling as a racing or broodmare prospect. With a bit of luck and the right mates, any of these mares could go on keeping the heat turned up for Cool Mood’s family.
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