Article originally published in the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders’ Association January, 2020 Monthly Newsletter
Five of the six top- priced PA-Breds sold at the Fasig-Tipton Mid-Alantic December Mixed and Horses of Racing Age held Dec. 10 at the sales pavilion in Timonium, Md., were horses of racing age.In all,44 PA-Breds sold for $703,900.
Stakes winner Fielder topped the offerings when Ron Paolucci Racing bid $100,000 for the gelded son of Sidney’s Candy. Consigned by agent Bill Reightler, Fielder campaigned for the majority of his 27-start career for Waldorf Racing Stables LLC, who purchased the gelding for $70,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Horses of Racing age sale in July 2017.
Bred by Hank Nothhaft’s HnR Nothhaft Horseracing out of stakes- placed Karakorum Fugitive (by Ten Most Wanted), Fielder had been a $47,000 RNA as a weanling, and was sold as a yearling at the 2015 Keeneland September sale for $180,000 to Juddmonte Farms, who sent him to California to Bob Baffert. He made his career debut at Del Mar in a six and a half-furlong maiden special weight in November 2016, finished fifth, and was sold after that only start the following summer.
It took five months, and five attempts, for Fielder to break his maiden for his new owner, which came at Parx Racing. Trained by Marya K. Montoya, Fielder was a solid allowance horse sprinting on the main track, but became a stakes performer when put on the turf. In his grass debut, July 21, 2018, at Parx, he won the Marshall Jenney. Other stakes performances were two placings in the Laurel Dash in Maryland, both on the turf. In his five most recent starts he was second or third four times (including a second in the Laurel Dash beaten less than a length),and fourth in the Grade3 Turf Monster Stakes. With a career mark of eight wins, five seconds and six thirds, Fielder has amassed $351,225.
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