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MYSTIC LOVE got her first stakes win in one of racing’s most historic tests for 2-year-old fillies, the 83rd running of the Selima S. at Laurel Park on Saturday, Oct. 27. And she did it in spectacular fashion.
Breaking next to last in the field of 12, the dark bay daughter of Not For Love gradually settled into stride, then accelerated around the far turn and swept past her rivals to get up in time in the race worth $150,000, finishing 5½ furlongs over the firm turf in 1:02.23.
Trained by Frannie Campitelli for John Davison, who purchased the filly from the Dark Hollow Farm consignment for $21,000 at the 2011 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale, MYSTIC LOVE upped her career earnings to $114,760 in three starts. She broke her maiden in her debut in September by 4 lengths on the turf – now with two wins from as many starts on the grass, her trainer notes, “She just loves it.”
MYSTIC LOVE is the second foal bred by Dark Hollow Farm out of Memories of Mystic, a winning daughter of Dixie Union also bred Dark Hollow. Second dam Mystic Dance, a stakes winner of $102,908, produced stakes winners Dance Fee ($336,100, Justakiss S, etc.) and Chancellor M. H. The family traces back Christiana Stables’ famed producer Obeah.

169_Mystic-Love-01MYSTIC LOVE got her first stakes win in one of racing’s most historic tests for 2-year-old fillies, the 83rd running of the Selima S. at Laurel Park on Saturday, Oct. 27. And she did it in spectacular fashion.

Breaking next to last in the field of 12, the dark bay daughter of Not For Love gradually settled into stride, then accelerated around the far turn and swept past her rivals to get up in time in the race worth $150,000, finishing 5½ furlongs over the firm turf in 1:02.23.

Trained by Frannie Campitelli for John Davison, who purchased the filly from the Dark Hollow Farm consignment for $21,000 at the 2011 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale,

MYSTIC LOVE upped her career earnings to $114,760 in three starts. She broke her maiden in her debut in September by 4 lengths on the turf – now with two wins from as many starts on the grass, her trainer notes, “She just loves it.” MYSTIC LOVE is the second foal bred by Dark Hollow Farm out of Memories of Mystic, a winning daughter of Dixie Union also bred Dark Hollow. Second dam Mystic Dance, a stakes winner of $102,908, produced stakes winners Dance Fee ($336,100, Justakiss S, etc.) and Chancellor M. H. The family traces back Christiana Stables’ famed producer Obeah.

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Bayonne_PinkRibbonThe latest star produced by Dark Hollow Farm and Herringswell Stable’s wonderful broodmare Too Fast to Catch is Bayonne, a 4-year-old daughter of Dance With Ravens, who recorded her first stakes win in Charles Towns’ Pink Ribbon Stakes on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 22.

Running her win streak to three, Bayonne rallied from the back of the field to mow down eight others and take the $70,000 stakes by a length, getting seven furlongs in 1:25.40. It was Bayonne’s seventh win from 17 starts. Also on the board in seven other starts, she has career earnings of $142,790.

Bayonne is the third stakes winner out by Too Fast to Catch, a daughter of Nice Catch who was purchased privately by her owners in the late 1990s. Too Fast to Catch’s richest runner is her son Eighttofasttocatch (by Not For Love). With career earnings of $470,690 to date, the 2011 Maryland Million Classic winner has five stakes wins to his credit, and has won or placed in 18 of his 35 starts.

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Dark Hollow Farm and Hillwood Stable LLC’s MISTY IN MALIBU made an impressive first impression at Laurel Park on Friday, Sept. 7, as she came home a length on top in the one and a sixteenth-mile maiden special weight after leading all the way.
The flashy dark bay 3-year-old filly was eager to go to the front under Travis Dunkelberger after breaking a tad slow, kicked clear to lead by nearly a half-dozen lengths after a half-mile, then got a breather as it appeared the field was going to catch her. But the Rodney Jenkins-prepared filly had much more to give. She blasted through a :22.99 fourth-quarter and got the final sixteenth of a mile in :6.10 to finish in a final time of 1:41.12 over the firm turf.
The Virginia-bred daughter of Malibu Moon is out of the winning Rubiano mare Misty Rain, and was purchased privately ??? by David and JoAnn Hayden and Ellen Charles as a xxxxxxx. She is a full sister to stakes winner Lunar Mist, an earner of $154,601 and descends in direct female line from three-time Canadian champion Eternal Search.

Misty-In-MalibuDark Hollow Farm and Hillwood Stable LLC’s MISTY IN MALIBU made an impressive first impression at Laurel Park on Friday, Sept. 7, as she came home a length on top in the one and a sixteenth-mile maiden special weight after leading all the way. 

The flashy dark bay 3-year-old filly was eager to go to the front under Travis Dunkelberger after breaking a tad slow, kicked clear to lead by nearly a half-dozen lengths after a half-mile, then got a breather as it appeared the field was going to catch her. But the Rodney Jenkins-prepared filly had much more to give. She blasted through a :22.99 fourth-quarter and got the final sixteenth of a mile in :6.10 to finish in a final time of 1:41.12 over the firm turf.

The Virginia-bred daughter of Malibu Moon is out of the winning Rubiano mare Misty Rain, and was purchased privately by David and JoAnn Hayden and Ellen Charles. She is a full sister to stakes winner Lunar Mist, an earner of $154,601, and descends in direct female line from three-time Canadian champion Eternal Search.

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MYSTIC LOVE (dk.b./br.f., 2010, Not For Love—Memories of Mystic, by Dixie Union). Owned by John Davison; trained by Francis P. Campitelli; bred by Dark Hollow Farm.
Mystic Love, a 2-year-old daughter of Not For Love, made her career debut on Friday, Sept. 14 in a five and a half-furlong maiden special weight on the Laurel Park turf. The well-connected filly, with Elvis Trujillo aboard, was sent off as the 5-2 second choice in the field of 10. She ran even better than her odds.
Settled off solid early fractions of :21.94 and :44.93, the dark bay filly trained by Frannie Campitelli eagerly moved up from seventh between horses, went four- wide to join the leaders at the top of stretch, then drew off to score by four lengths in 1:02.46 over the firm turf. Mystic Love earned $21,660 for her owner, John Davison, who purchased the filly out of 2011 Fasig- Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale for $21,000.
Mystic Love is the second foal out of Memories of Mystic, a winning daughter of Dixie Union. David and JoAnn Hayden bred Memories of Mystic out of Mystic Dance, a stakes-winning daughter of Nepal the couple claimed in the name of their Dark Hollow Farm for $25,000 in October 1995.
The claim came late in Mystic Dance’s career, and she raced just three more times, twice in allowance company and once risked again for $25,000, before retiring to the Dark Hollow Farm broodmare band. From 24 career starts, Mystic Dance won six, including the Sham Say Stakes in mid-May in 1995, was second five times and third once, and earned $102,908.
Mystic Dance was an attractive claim for many reasons, especially as she was bred by Christiana Stables and descended from one of the finest families developed in the region. Her great-granddam was Christiana’s stellar mare Obeah, two-time winner of the Delaware Handicap and the dam of four stakes winners, including multiple champion Go for Wand. Mystic Love’s branch of the family is that of Go for Wand’s graded stakes- winning half-sister Discorama (by Northern Dancer, thus a full sister to graded stakes winner Dance Spell), who produced Chain Dance, who in turn produced Mystic Dance.
The first foal out of Mystic Dance was a Mt. Livermore colt named Chancellor M. H., whom the Haydens sold for $110,000 as a weanling at the Keeneland November sale. He became a stakes winner of $192,624. Mystic Dance also produced Dance Fee, a stakes-winning daughter of Menifee who earned $336,100 during her career.

Mystic-LoveMYSTIC LOVE, a 2-year-old daughter of Not For Love, made her career debut on Friday, Sept. 14 in a five and a half-furlong maiden special weight on the Laurel Park turf. The well-connected filly, with Elvis Trujillo aboard, was sent off as the 5-2 second choice in the field of 10. She ran even better than her odds.

Settled off solid early fractions of :21.94 and :44.93, the dark bay filly trained by Frannie Campitelli eagerly moved up from seventh between horses, went four- wide to join the leaders at the top of stretch, then drew off to score by four lengths in 1:02.46 over the firm turf. Mystic Love earned $21,660 for her owner, John Davison, who purchased the filly out of 2011 Fasig- Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale for $21,000.

MYSTIC LOVE (dk.b./br.f., 2010, Not For Love—MEMORIES OF MYSTIC, by Dixie Union). Owned by John Davison; trained by Francis P. Campitelli; bred by Dark Hollow Farm. is the second foal out of MEMORIES OF MYSTIC, a winning daughter of Dixie Union. David and JoAnn Hayden bred MEMORIES OF MYSTIC out of Mystic Dance, a stakes-winning daughter of Nepal the couple claimed in the name of their Dark Hollow Farm for $25,000 in October 1995.

The claim came late in Mystic Dance’s career, and she raced just three more times, twice in allowance company and once risked again for $25,000, before retiring to the Dark Hollow Farm broodmare band. From 24 career starts, Mystic Dance won six, including the Sham Say Stakes in mid-May in 1995, was second five times and third once, and earned $102,908.

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poseidons-warrior-1POSEIDON'S WARRIOR, one of the best 3-year-old sprinters in the nation in 2011, got his first stakes win of 2012 in stunning fashion, charging through the stretch to capture the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap by a neck at Saratoga on Sunday, Aug. 5. Totally overlooked at 36-1 odds, the Swilcan Stable LLC runner paid $74.50 to win to his lucky backers.

Unlucky in his first two starts of the year, POSEIDON'S WARRIOR showed tremendous back-class with triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures and fast times during his 3-year-old season, when he won three stakes and earned nearly $250,000. The son of Speightstown and final foal out of Dark Hollow's retired matron Poised to Pounce (by Smarten) was named Maryland-bred champion 3-year-old.

With the victory in the $400,000 6 fur. sprint, which the Butch Reid trainee completed over a muddy track in 1:09.40 while defeating the likes of Preakness Stakes-G1 winner Shackleford, POSEIDON'S WARRIOR now has career earnings of $634,337 with seven wins from 17 starts.

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