Beau Ridge Farm’s freshman sire Redirect , a 7-year-old son of champion sprinter Speightstown , sired his first winner Aug. 10 at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races when his daughter Direct the Cat won her third career start by a remarkable 11 lengths.
A homebred for John and Cyndy McKee, Direct the Cat had been knocking on the door of a breakthrough performance with a third-place finish in her debut July 6 and a second in her following start July 20, both at Charles Town. The filly is trained by Cyndy McKee.
Direct the Cat is homegrown top and bottom. The McKees bred the filly out of their homebred stakes winner Cat Thats Grey, a daughter of their multiple leading West Virginia stallion Fiber Sonde . As a broodmare, Cat Thats Grey has now produced three winners from three to race.
Fiber Sonde is a half brother to Speightstown, which makes Direct the Cat inbred 3×3 to these sires’ dam Silken Cat, a stakes winner by Storm Cat.
The late Josephine Abercromie bred Redirect in the name of Pin Oak Stud out of her multiple graded-placed homebred Alternate (Seattle Slew). He is a half brother to grade 1 winner Higher Power , multiple graded stakes winner Alternation , and graded-placed stakes winner Interrupted . Redirect never raced and was sold for $15,000 as a stallion prospect during the 2019 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale to Borden Farm out of Denali Stud’s consignment.
Redirect stands for $1,000.
