Good News
"Mocha"
Uncle Mo x Engaged by Malibu Moon
4/12/2017 Bay Mare
Good News is an allowance winner with LTE$44,504.
Sired by Uncle Mo LTE$1,606,000 the son of Indian Charlie out of the stakes-placed winning Arch mare Playa Maya made two appearances in the Keeneland sales ring, first selling from the Denali Stud consignment to Moon Bloodstock for $160,000 as a weanling in the 2008 November Breeding Stock Sale. Ten months later he returned to Keeneland for the September Yearling Sale consigned by Four Star Sales and was purchased by Mike Repole of Repole Stables for $220,000. Winner of the Champagne Stakes (2010), Timely Writer Stakes (2011), Kelso Handicap (2011), and Breeders' Cup Juvenile (2010). He was the favorite for the Kentucky Derby but was scratched due to illness. Through Dec. 18, 2024, Uncle Mo has sired 887 winners from 1,320 starters with progeny earning more than $124 million on the track. The fastest predominantly dirt sire to reach 100 stakes winners, Uncle Mo has sired 109 stakes winners, including 15 grade 1 winners, 16 grade 2 winners, and 25 grade 3 winners. He finished as the leading freshman sire of 2015 behind a then-record $3,670,354 in progeny earnings (since surpassed by Gun Runner ). Uncle Mo would finish as the leading second-crop sire in 2016 when he finished among the leading sires overall for the first of four times, to date: 2016, 2020, 2022 and 2023. Uncle Mo's stallion career got off to a quick start with his first North American crop producing 25 individual black-type winners, 14 graded. That first crop included five-time grade 1 winner, 2015 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner, Eclipse champion 2-year-old male, and 2016 Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist , who retired with earnings of more than $5.1 million. Uncle Mo was represented by his second classic winner in 2022 when Mo Donegal , who was also owned by Repole in partnership with Donegal Racing, won the Belmont Stakes (G1). Uncle Mo was also the sire of two-time Breeders' Cup winner Golden Pal , who took home the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2T) in 2020 and the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) in 2021. Other grade 1 winners sired by Uncle Mo include A Mo Reay , Adare Manor , Arabian Knight , Bast , Dream Tree , Gomo , Kingsbarns , Mo Forza , Mo Town , Outwork , Unbridled Mo , and Yaupon . As an emerging broodmare sire, Uncle Mo is the sire of 320 dams of 641 named foals of racing age. Out of 411 runners, 242 are winners. He is the sire of Sataves , the dam of 2024 Horse of the Year, Thorpedo Anna .
Out of Engaged an unraced daughter of Malibu Moon out of Engaged, a graded stakes placed and Black Type winning mare.
Maternal Grandsire Malibu Moon, has sired 126 black type winners and 51 graded winners – including 17 Grade One winners – to date. His progeny are led by 2013 Kentucky Derby-G1 winner Orb, 2004 Champion Two-Year-Old Declan’s Moon, and Grade One-winning millionaires over the last dozen years that include Gormley, Magnum Moon, Life At Ten, Carina Mia and Come Dancing. Malibu Moon’s 17 Grade One winners all came on dirt, representing the second most by a modern-day sire on that surface only to Tapit. Malibu Moon perhaps made his greatest impact on the Kentucky Derby trail, siring winners of the Kentucky Derby-G1 (Orb), Florida Derby-G1 (Orb), Santa Anita Derby-G1 (Gormley), Arkansas Derby-G1 (Magnum Moon), among other key “prep” races. He has also been a highly influential broodmare sire in recent years, with his daughters producing the likes of champion Stellar Wind, Grade One winners Girvin, By the Moon, Bellafina and recent Preakness-G1 runner-up Midnight Bourbon, among others. He was the most prolific son of the breed-shaping A.P. Indy, who himself was the most prolific son of the legendary sire and 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew. Malibu Moon is the only son of A.P. Indy to sire a Kentucky Derby winner – matching Seattle Slew with one.
Sired by Uncle Mo LTE$1,606,000 the son of Indian Charlie out of the stakes-placed winning Arch mare Playa Maya made two appearances in the Keeneland sales ring, first selling from the Denali Stud consignment to Moon Bloodstock for $160,000 as a weanling in the 2008 November Breeding Stock Sale. Ten months later he returned to Keeneland for the September Yearling Sale consigned by Four Star Sales and was purchased by Mike Repole of Repole Stables for $220,000. Winner of the Champagne Stakes (2010), Timely Writer Stakes (2011), Kelso Handicap (2011), and Breeders' Cup Juvenile (2010). He was the favorite for the Kentucky Derby but was scratched due to illness. Through Dec. 18, 2024, Uncle Mo has sired 887 winners from 1,320 starters with progeny earning more than $124 million on the track. The fastest predominantly dirt sire to reach 100 stakes winners, Uncle Mo has sired 109 stakes winners, including 15 grade 1 winners, 16 grade 2 winners, and 25 grade 3 winners. He finished as the leading freshman sire of 2015 behind a then-record $3,670,354 in progeny earnings (since surpassed by Gun Runner ). Uncle Mo would finish as the leading second-crop sire in 2016 when he finished among the leading sires overall for the first of four times, to date: 2016, 2020, 2022 and 2023. Uncle Mo's stallion career got off to a quick start with his first North American crop producing 25 individual black-type winners, 14 graded. That first crop included five-time grade 1 winner, 2015 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner, Eclipse champion 2-year-old male, and 2016 Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist , who retired with earnings of more than $5.1 million. Uncle Mo was represented by his second classic winner in 2022 when Mo Donegal , who was also owned by Repole in partnership with Donegal Racing, won the Belmont Stakes (G1). Uncle Mo was also the sire of two-time Breeders' Cup winner Golden Pal , who took home the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2T) in 2020 and the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) in 2021. Other grade 1 winners sired by Uncle Mo include A Mo Reay , Adare Manor , Arabian Knight , Bast , Dream Tree , Gomo , Kingsbarns , Mo Forza , Mo Town , Outwork , Unbridled Mo , and Yaupon . As an emerging broodmare sire, Uncle Mo is the sire of 320 dams of 641 named foals of racing age. Out of 411 runners, 242 are winners. He is the sire of Sataves , the dam of 2024 Horse of the Year, Thorpedo Anna .
Out of Engaged an unraced daughter of Malibu Moon out of Engaged, a graded stakes placed and Black Type winning mare.
Maternal Grandsire Malibu Moon, has sired 126 black type winners and 51 graded winners – including 17 Grade One winners – to date. His progeny are led by 2013 Kentucky Derby-G1 winner Orb, 2004 Champion Two-Year-Old Declan’s Moon, and Grade One-winning millionaires over the last dozen years that include Gormley, Magnum Moon, Life At Ten, Carina Mia and Come Dancing. Malibu Moon’s 17 Grade One winners all came on dirt, representing the second most by a modern-day sire on that surface only to Tapit. Malibu Moon perhaps made his greatest impact on the Kentucky Derby trail, siring winners of the Kentucky Derby-G1 (Orb), Florida Derby-G1 (Orb), Santa Anita Derby-G1 (Gormley), Arkansas Derby-G1 (Magnum Moon), among other key “prep” races. He has also been a highly influential broodmare sire in recent years, with his daughters producing the likes of champion Stellar Wind, Grade One winners Girvin, By the Moon, Bellafina and recent Preakness-G1 runner-up Midnight Bourbon, among others. He was the most prolific son of the breed-shaping A.P. Indy, who himself was the most prolific son of the legendary sire and 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew. Malibu Moon is the only son of A.P. Indy to sire a Kentucky Derby winner – matching Seattle Slew with one.
STATS:
- ALLOWANCE WINNER
- LTE $44,504
- Starts: 9
- 1st: 2
- 2nd: 2
- 3rd: 2
- 2022 - Newsman colt by Neolithic - in training
- 2023 - unnamed colt by Beau Liam
- 2024 - no report
- 2025 - no report