Miss Charlotte is a strapping, strong mare very much in the mold of her Maryland-based sire Two Punch (from her gray/roan color, to her square head and powerful build). She comes from a deep, black-type filled female family that traces back to the Blue Hen mare Rare Perfume, and we recently acquired her for $12,000 at the Fasig-Tipton December Mixed Sale for our friends at Wasabi Ventures Stables. You can see the catalog page from her purchase here.
Miss Charlotte raced exclusively as a 3YO, putting together a record of (10) 2-1-3 that season, for earnings of $51,609. Both of her victories came at 6 furlongs, including a maiden special weight by 5 lengths at Penn National.
Miss Charlotte’s sire, Two Punch, was Maryland’s leading stallion three times in the ’90s, siring a total of 54 stakes winners, which included the Grade 1-winning 2YO and Eclipse Champion Sprinter Smoke Glacken, while his daughters have produced the likes of Grade 1 winner Shine Again, Hall of Fame Steeplechaser Good Night Shirt, recent Black-Eyed Susan-G2 winner Keen Pauline, etc.
Miss Charlotte is a half-sister to three other winners from all of her dam’s foals to race. Her dam is the multiple stakes winner Petunia, who also placed in a pair of Grade 3 races at 2 and 3YO. Petunia is by Kentucky Derby winner Lil E. Tee, and is a half-sister to the multiple stakes winner Somethinaboutbetty (also the dam of two black-type 2YOs, including 2019 stakes-placed winner Something Super), and to winner But For Money (the dam of multiple Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-placed Eskenformoney). Their dam, Here Comes Betty, is by Cox’s Ridge and out of the multiple Grade 3 winner Betty Lobelia, who is inbred 5×4 to the aforementioned Rare Perfume. Betty Lobelia’s other daughters have produced the likes of Grade 1 winners My Trusty Cat and Include Betty, and she is herself a half-sister to the Grade 2 winner and producer Crowned.
Miss Charlotte’s first foal is a 2018 filly by Mosler who will be campaigned locally, while her second foal is a lovely colt by Fed Biz. She delivered a filly in 2020 by the proven veteran Kentucky stallion Include, who has gotten as many as 10 G1 winners among his 50+ career stakes winners (good for 6% of his foals aged 3 and up), and who’s 1.47 AEI is greater than his 1.33 CI, meaning he moves his mares up. Although the “nick rating” for this particular pairing is ‘only’ average, there is actually much more to like about this breeding: firstly, there are 6 foals by Include or his sire Broad Brush and out of mares by Two Punch, 5 of which have run and all of those have won a race, with average earnings of more than $50,000. Taking a step back, all the sons of Broad Brush have produced a total of 22 foals out of mares by Two Punch, 19 of which have run, 18 of which have won, including a black-type winner (good for 4.5% from foals) — and although he doesn’t qualify as a “black-type winner” for these statistics, Champion and Hall of Fame Steeplechaser Good Night Shirt is bred on this specific pattern as well. In addition, Miss Charlotte’s second dam, Herecomesbetty, is very closely related to a mare called Betty’s Solutions (both are out of Betty Lobelia, one by Cox’s Ridge and the other by one of his sons), and Betty’s Solutions is the dam of Include’s Grade 1 winner Include Betty. Betty Lobelia, meanwhile, is a half-sister to the dam of Grade 2 winner Best of Luck, who is by Include’s sire Broad Brush. So this female family has had success already with Include and his sire-line, which we always strive to achieve in our mating plans, and we couldn’t be more excited to have a filly from this mating.
Miss Charlotte is currently pregnant to the Grade 1-winning 2YO and Met Mile victor Mor Spirit in a Housatonic Recommended Mating that you can read about here, and will be bred back to Flameaway in 2021.
Include Betty, from Miss Charlotte’s female family, wins the G1 Mother Goose