At the 2007 Keeneland April Two Year-Old in Training sale the Hidden Brook team helped owner Paul Pompa, Jr. purchase a colt by Boundary for $190,000. Just over a year later that colt, named Big Brown, powered his way to victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, en route to an Eclipse Award and a lucrative stallion career.
Big Brown is one of the over 70 blacktype horses, 19 Graded Stakes winners, 4 Grade 1 winners and 6 Champions purchased by the uncommonly astute Hidden Brook team. Hidden Brook purchases have earned over $28 million in purse money alone for their owners and have accrued many times that amount in residual breeding value.
Our most recent black type purchase is Ecstacy, winner of the 2024 $125,000 Ontario Damsel at Woodbine by 1 3/4 lengths.
Other recent Hidden Brook purchases include 5X New York Stakes winner Bank Sting, Graded Stakes winner Hidden Connection, who has also flown the Hidden Brook colors in both the Breeders’ Cup and Kentucky Oaks, and multiple Grade 2 winner & Sovereign Award champion Skywire.
The Hidden Brook team has purchased Stakes winners as weanlings, yearling and 2-year-olds both privately and at public auction.
Purchased as a 2-Year-Old for Bulldog Racing
MGSW & Sovereign Award Champion
Earnings: $838,275
Purchased as a Yearling for Paul Pompa, Jr.
Grade 1 Winner
Earnings: $842,195
Purchased at 2 for Paul Pompa,
Jr.Dual Classic Winner/Eclipse Champion
Earnings: $3,614,500
Purchased as a 2-Year-Old for Jake Ballis & Rashard Lewis
Graded Winner
Earnings: $283,908
Purchased as a Yearling for Paul Pompa Jr,
$2.1 Million Pinhook & Graded Winner
Earnings: $928,467
Purchased as a 2-Year-Old for Mel Paikoff
Graded Winner
Earnings: $559,052
Purchased as a Yearling for Clover IV Stables & Krista Seltzer
Graded Winner & Sovereign Award Champion
Earnings: $277,713
Purchased as a Yearling for Hidden Brook Racing Partnership
Graded Winner
Earnings: $508,700
Purchased as a 2-Year-Old for Tucci Stables
Graded Winner & Sovereign Award Champion
Earnings: $280,410
Purchased as a Yearling for Harold Davis & James Thomas
Classic Winner & Sovereign Award Champion
Earnings: $736,401
Purchased Privately for Goldfarb, Davis, Dubb, Torre
Grade 1 Winner
Earnings: $795,764
Purchased as a 2-Year-Old for Lucio Tucci & Gary Barber
Graded Winner & Sovereign Award Champion
Earnings: $439,647
Purchased as a Yearling for Ike & Dawn Thrash
Grade 1 Winner
Earnings: $274,610
Purchased as a Yearling for Hidden Brook Racing Partnership
Graded Winner
Earnings: $275,900
Purchased as a Yearling for Paul Pompa, Jr.
Graded Winner
Earnings: $317,247
Purchased as a 2-Year-Old for Jake Ballis & Rashard Lewis
Graded Winner
Earnings: $558,973
