OBS March ’21: Chitu colt hip #196 sells for $190,000 – 54X stud fee. OBS June ’21: colt #491 sells for $175,000 – 50X stud fee. Past sales include $72,000 – 20X fee, $55,000 – 15X fee, etc.
Led by 2018 horses: Stakes Winner FOREMAN, Stakes Placed LUGAMO and WINDY CITY RED, plus FOOLISH HEART, EXHALTING, etc.
2018 filly BEAUTIFUL GIFT (Medaglia d’Oro – Sea Gift) GIII winner of the 2021 Santa Ysabel Stakes, is a half sister to CHITU. Sea Gift is the dam of seven winners and Baoma Corp stallion, Tunwoo.
Henny Hughes – Sea Gift, by A. P. Indy
2011, Chestnut, entered stud 2016 – Nominated Breeders’ Cup, Florida Sire Stakes
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Chitu is well represented by runners such as Stakes Winner FOREMAN, (OBS Sophomore Stakes, Tampa Bay), SP LUGAMO, (James F. Lewis III Stakes, Laurel Park) and SP WINDY CITY RED, (Speakeasy Stakes, Santa Anita). Also, FIREWATER TU, LA CHICA LATERAL, and $83,000+ earner, FOOLISH HEART.
At OBS June 2023 Two Year Old sale Hip 347 tied the breeze record at 20.1 and sold for $165,000.00.
At the OBS March 2021 Two Year Old sale, Chitu ranked #1 Florida sire by individual sale with hip #196 at $190,000. At OBS June 2021, Chitu also ranked #1 Florida sire by individual sale with hip #491 at $175,000.
Chitu’s dam, multiple-graded stakes producer Sea Gift, is by leading broodmare sire A. P. Indy. Sea Gift is the dam of seven winners, including 2018 filly Beautiful Gift (Medaglia d’Oro – Sea Gift), GIII winner, Santa Ysabel Stakes trained by Bob Baffert, and a half sister to Chitu.
Chitu raced twice at two, winning both. He went wire-to-wire in a six furlong MSW at Hollywood Park, in 1:09.94, then moved up to allowance company at Santa Anita, completing six furlongs in 1:08.
At three, Chitu captured the $800,000, Gr. III Sunland Derby by 2 1/4 lengths in 1:47.88 at 1 1/8 miles, .38 hundredths of a second off the track record. He set all the fractions in the $300,000, GI Malibu at Santa Anita, going six furlongs in 1:08.59. And, Chitu was the wire-to-wire winner of the $100,000 Damascus Stakes on the Breeders’ Cup undercard, defeating a strong field of twelve.
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