Hello Now

KETTLE WON created quite a stir in his 2-year-old debut during the 1998 Saratoga meet as the Todd Pletcher-trainee blew away the opposition with a ten and a half-length romp in maiden special company. He has since competed successfully on dirt and turf, going short and long, and fiinished second in the Fort Lauderdale Handicap-G3 over Gulfstream Park's turf course in March of 2000. A half-brother to the durable allowance horse GLIDE HOME, KETTLE WON is out of championSAFELY KEPT's half-sister SAFE AT THE PLATE, a stakes-placed winner of $114,923.

Ch.c. 1996, Colonial Affair–Safe At the Plate, by Double Zeus. Bred and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $120,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale. Purchased by Anstu Stables for $370,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Currently standing stud in New York.

HELLO NOW, a winning daughter of Horse of the Year TIZNOW out of graded stakes winner and Gr. 1-placed HELLO LIBERTY, sold as a yearling for $100,000 at the Keeneland September sale. A winner at 2, the bay filly broke her maiden at Laurel Park by a widening four lengths over a field that included eventual stakes performers Hot Fun and Ek Haseena.

HELLO NOW's dam HELLO LIBERTY (by Forest Camp) won or placed in eight of her 10 starts, among the highlights a score in Belmont Park's Nassau County Breeders' Cup S-G2, one of her two stakes wins, and second, by a neck, in the Gr. 1 Acorn S. HELLO LIBERTY is a half-sister is stakes winner/graded stakes-placed PIOUS ASHLEY as well as winner BUNEYA, who sold as a yearling at Keeneland in September 2012 for $625,000. The family includes Gr.1 stakes winner SET PLAY.

Produce History

2018 bred to MOSLER for 2018
2017 f. by GOLDEN LAD
2016 HELLO AMIGO, dk.b./br.c. by BANDBOX

HELLO NOW
2010 Dark Bay Mare
Tiznow—Hello Liberty, by Forest Camp
Owned by Ellen Charles' Hillwood Stable