We're only days away from the official start of spring, a time when daffodils, crocuses, and early 3-year-old stars begin to rise. Naturally, most of the interest in the 3-year-old division at this point is particularly focused on the classic trials. On the most recent weekend, the two classic trials were the Virginia Derby and Virginia Oaks, but since we've already taken a deep dive into the pedigrees of the respective winners Incredibolt and Bottle of Rouge, we'll take this opportunity to study the background of Goodall, who became a rising star in the 3-year-old sprint filly division after streaking home 4 1/2 lengths clear in the Purple Martin Stakes and setting a stakes record time of 1:08.78.
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The Purple Martin was only the third start of Goodall's career, with a debut second in a Jan. 17 Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots maiden special weight followed by a wire-to-wire score at the same venue Feb. 14.
In taking the March 14 Oaklawn Park event, Goodall became the ninth stakes winner for Yaupon , the leading freshman sire of 2025. Eight of those stakes winners captured black-type races as juveniles, and two have already added to their black-type laurels this year. Arctic Beast capturing the Damon Runyon Stakes by 9 3/4 lengths and Solitude Dude—who will revert to sprinting after a third in the Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2)—adding the Swale Stakes this term.
A $350,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase who resold for $255,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales June 2-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age Sale, Yaupon was unraced as a juvenile, but made a tremendous start to his career at 3 taking in succession a 6-furlong Churchill Downs maiden special weight, a Saratoga Race Course allowance (by 3 3/4 lengths), the Amsterdam Stakes (G2) by 2 lengths, and the Chick Lang Stakes (G3) by 4 lengths at Pimlico Race Course. Other than his maiden where it took until the half for him to hit the front, Yaupon led at every point of call in each of these races, but, in his next start, the 2020 Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1), for which he started as the favorite, he was squeezed early and, after passing the half-mile pole in fourth, he gradually faded to finish eighth, beaten 6 1/4 lengths.
Sent to Dubai to make his 4-year-old debut in the Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1), Yaupon made another poor start and was never in the race, eventually finishing eighth. A return to the United States brought a return to form, and in his first outing back on home soil, Yaupon captured the Lite the Fuse Stakes at Pimlico. At Saratoga, seeking his first grade 1 triumph in the Forego Stakes (G1), Yaupon again set the pace while under pressure from Firenze Fire. The race-long duel continued into the final sixteenth, where Firenze Fire twice attempted to savage Yaupon, who nonetheless dug in gamely to prevail by a head. That proved to be Yaupon's final outing, and he subsequently retired to Spendthrift Farm, commencing his stud career at a fee of $30,000, which has doubled to $60,000 for this year.
A $62,000 purchase at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Select Yearling Sale and $525,000 at the 2025 Ocala Breeders' Sale Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training, Goodall is the second foal and second winner for her dam, Moon Over Mag Bay. A daughter of Malibu Moon, Moon Over Mag Bay managed just a solitary third in eight starts, but her dam, the Indian Charlie mare Believe in Charlie, was quite a smart performer winning the 2014 Ladies Turf Sprint Stakes at Gulfstream Park and taking second in the 2014 Intercontinental Stakes at Belmont Park. Believe in Charlie has never produced a black-type performer, but her 2023 foal, a colt by Not This Time , realized $1.15 million at the 2024 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Now named Cherokee Nation, that colt took six starts to win his first race, but when he finally did so, it was in a Santa Anita Park maiden special weight that he took by 10 lengths while earning a 103 Equibase Speed Figure. He now looms as a leading contender for the April 4 Santa Anita Derby (G1)
Believe in Charlie is half sister to Shamrocket, a two-time stakes winner who also was graded-placed. Her dam Zehoorr was unraced but was by Storm Cat out of the 2001 Santa Monica Handicap (G1) heroine Nany's Sweep. She is half sister to the 2007 Seaway Stakes (G3) victress She's Indy Money. Nany's Sweep is out of Nany's Appeal, winner of the 1991 Doll Ina Stakes and 1990 Florida Stallion Desert Vixen Stakes, and a mare with a rather interesting pedigree as she was by Valid Appeal, a son of In Reality (by Intentionally out of a Rough'n Tumble mare) and out of Nany, winner of eight black-type events, including the 1985 Vagrancy Handicap (G3) and Bed o' Roses Handicap (G3), and a daughter of Great Above (by a son of Rough'n Tumble out of an Intentionally mare).
Goodall is the second of two stakes winners for Yaupon out of A.P. Indy-line mares, but his sire, Uncle Mo, has four stakes winners, three graded, out of Malibu Moon mares, and there are three stakes winners, besides Goodall, by sons of Uncle Mo out of Malibu Moon mares, including grade 1 winner Brightwork, and grade 2 winner and current classic hopeful, Litmus Test.
Goodall's pedigree is also notable for one that features some interestingly arranged close inbreeding. Yaupon is by a son of Indian Charlie, and his dam is by a son of Seattle Slew out of a mare by a son of Mr. Prospector. Looking at the pedigree of Goodall's dam, we see that she is virtually a mirror image of Yaupon, as she is by Malibu Moon, a grandson of Seattle Slew out of a Mr. Prospector mare, and her dam is by Indian Charlie (giving Indian Charlie 3x3, Seattle Slew 4x4, and Mr. Prospector 5x4).
Seattle Slew and Mr. Prospector both trace in tail-female line to the famous foundation mare Frizette (and Seattle Slew's granddam is inbred to that mare). Looking at the pedigree of the other horse to feature in close inbreeding scheme found in Goodall's pedigree, Indian Charlie, we find that his grandsire, Siberian Express, also goes back to Frizette, as does Sing Sing (grandsire of the dam of Indian Charlie's sire, In Excess). In addition, both In Excess and Indian Charlie's broodmare sire, Leo Castelli, are from the same mitochondrial haplogroup as Frizette.
