Harris Stallion Cee's Tizzy
Daily Racing Form April 19, 1998

Cee’s Tizzy, owned by Cecilia Straub-Rubens, breeder of Budroyale, has shown promise from the start, when he brought $72,000 at the 1988 Keeneland fall yearling sale. Eric Anderson, a consultant to Straub-Rubens, recalls the son of Relaunch as a yearling a decade ago at Lakeview Thoroughbred Farm, which at the time Anderson managed. “He was an on-the-muscle kind of horse, even as a yearling,” Anderson said. “He went to the track as a late 2-year-old, but he came home again because (trainer) John Russell thought he wasn’t mature enough.”

Cee’s Tizzy set Del Mar afire at 3 in 1990, winning a six-furlong race in 1:07 4/5 and a mile event in 1:33 2/5, both just a tick off the track marks. His connections were contemplating the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, but first sent him to Louisiana for the Super Derby. He came out of the race with a slab fracture, ending his racing career, but managed to finish third to Home At Last and Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled. Straub-Rubens initially stood Cee’s Tizzy at Lakeview and moved him to Harris about three years ago.

“He’s a good horse to be around,” McGlothlin said. “He’s interested in what’s going on. He’s an active horse – keeps himself well-exercised.” McGlothlin said that the stallion gets good-looking foals. “That’s why it’s an enigma that he hasn’t been more popular,” he added. With a stud fee of $2,000 and the recent exploits of Gourmet Girl and Budroyale, that is changing. “We’ve had a lot of calls in the last week,” McGlothlin said.

Cee’s Tizzy’s progeny earnings have topped the $3 million mark, and he gets 75 percent winners from starters lifetime. “The quality of mares bred to the horse in his first few years was not super by any means,” Anderson said. “He got a lot of hard-knocking mares. But I don’t know of any other stallion who has more horses claimed in their first or second out. At $32,000, you don’t make a lot of money, but if you win that first start, you make some money."

Budroyale nearly won his first start, finishing second by a neck in late
1995. Straub-Rubens and her partner, Betty Cruvant, lost him for
$32,000. But Straub-Rubens still owns Budroyale’s dam, the winning Seattle Song mare Cee’s Song, who is boarded at Harris. Anderson said that Cruvant becomes a partner with Straub-Rubens on Cee’s Song’s foals once they reach the racetrack. The mare has produced six foals by the stallion, including a yearling colt, whose looks are drawing accolades from McGlothlin and Anderson, and a filly born March 4. Cee’s Song is being bred back to Cee’s Tizzy, and her only foal by another stallion, 2-year-old Ceebett’s Dancer (by Harris sire Moscow Ballet), recently was sent to the track and will be trained by Jay Robbins.

Given that Budroyale is now a Grade 2 winner of $425,730, it is unlikely
that anyone will be able to claim his siblings for a mere $32,000 any
longer.

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