Chess Chief

Chess Chief (VA)

Into Mischief / Un Blessed, by Mineshaft
2016 Bay | Entered Stud: 2024 | Fee: $5,000 S&N

Graded Stakes-Winning Son of INTO MISCHIEF
Virginia Horse of the Year
Virginia-Bred Older Horse Champion 2021

• GSW and MGSP son of INTO MISCHIEF – 5x champion general sire with 163 stakes winners and 8 champions – standing for $250,000 fee.* Chess Chief WON the Tenacious Stakes and the $400,000 G2 New Orleans Classic and had earnings of nearly $1 million. He placed in four graded stakes events including the G3 West Virginia Derby, G3 Oklahoma Derby, G3 Mineshaft Stakes, and G2 Alysheba Stakes. He beat G1Ws MUCHO GUSTO ($3,953,800), Long Range Toddy ($1,264,420), and twice he beat ROADSTER ($901,500) – all in graded events.  
• Chess Chief is out of the Mineshaft mare Un Blessed who is 1/2 to stakes producer Bonnie Byerly, dam of MGSW millionaire Diabolical and MGSW WHAT A NAME (IRE). Chess Chief’s second dam, Plenty of Grace, was a G1 and MGSW who is 1/2 to millionaire SOARING SOFTLY – MGSW and Eclipse Award 1999 Champion Grass Mare who won both the G1 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf and G1 Flower Bowl Invitational Handicap. SOARING SOFTLY produced GSWs MANITOULIN and MUCH REJOICING. His third dam, WINGS OF GRACE was also a GSW.

Pedigree

Race Record

Starts	Firsts	Seconds	Thirds	Earnings	Earnings Per Start
39	5	4	5	$931,319	$23,879