COVFEFE’s win in the Grade 1 Longines Test Stakes at Saratoga continued a fine run of form for progeny of Into Mischief (Harlan’s Holiday). The Spendthrift stallion saw his fee drop to $7,500 for his second and third seasons at stud but this year commanded a career high of $150,000.

This upward curve is due to the success of his stock in the sales ring and on the track and Covfefe is his fifth winner at the highest level, following the earlier success at Grade 1 level by Goldencents (Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile), Audible (Florida Derby), Practical Joke (Champagne Stakes and Hopeful Stakes) and the mare Mia Mischief.

Into Mischief ran first or second in all his six starts, three each at two and three years. He won the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity as a juvenile and was runner-up in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes in his second season. By the sire of Shanghai Bobby, Into Mischief is a half-brother to Beholder (Henny Hughes) and Mendelssohn (Scat Daddy) who between them won four Breeders’ Cup races.

Covfefe is one of six runners and winners out of the unraced Antics (Unbridled) and the best of the rest is her close sibling Albiano (Harlan’s Holiday) who is a Group 2 winner in Japan and twice a Group 1 runner-up, once in the NHK Mile Cup. Antics was certainly deserving of her place at stud as she is a half-sister to a pair of Grade 1 winners in Acoma (Empire Maker) and Arch (Kris S). The latter is a successful sire.

Antics has a yearling filly by Nyquist (Uncle Mo) and a colt foal by Violence (Medaglia D’Oro).

The third dam of Covfefe is the champion US juvenile filly Althea (Alydar) and she won eight of her 15 career starts, including the Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet Stakes and the Grade 1 Santa Susana Stakes. She will also be remembered for equalling the track record and beating the colts when she was successful in the 1984 Grade 1 Arkansas Derby.

In addition to breeding the stakes winner Aurora (Danzig), Covfefe’s grandam, Althea produced that mare’s full-sister Yamanin Parade (Danzig) who was the champion two-year-old filly in Japan and a stakes producer. Another daughter of Althea was the Grade 3 winner Destiny Dance (Nijinsky) and her best runner was the UAE-foaled Balletto (Timber Country), winner of the Grade 1 Frizette Stakes at two and multiple Grade 1 placed.