FIRST FOAL A FILLY FOR FORCE THE PASS
Press Release- February 8, 2021
The first foal by Grade 1-winning millionaire Force the Pass arrived on February 4, 2021, at Murmur Farm in Maryland.
The filly is out of Magical Point, a daughter of Point Given out of a stakes-winning and -producing full-sister to Grade 1 winner and sire Include. Magical Point, the dam of three winners, and her filly are both owned by Wasabi Ventures Stables, who also stood Force the Pass at Anchor & Hope Farm in Maryland during the 2020 breeding season.
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Racing as a homebred for Richard Santulli’s Colts Neck Stables, Force the Pass won the Grade 1 Belmont Derby as a 3-year-old, having previously scored in the Grade 3 Penn Mile. He added a victory in Monmouth Park’s Cliff Hanger Stakes as a 6-year-old, and placed in an additional half-dozen graded stakes.
He is out of the multiple Grade 3-winning Dynaformer mare Social Queen. Force the Pass stood a single season for Wasabi prior to his sale to Haif Stud in Saudi Arabia last summer, covering 57 mares at Anchor & Hope.
“This filly has everything you’d hope for in a stallion’s first foal,” according to George Adams, Wasabi’s Director of Stallions & Breeding. “She’s got plenty of leg, lots of substance, and she’s nice and correct. If they all look like this, the breeders are going to be very happy.”
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