Breeding
He was bred by Anna Marie Barnhart and foaled and reared at Hilmer Schmidt’s Indian Hill Farm in Florida, the son of Skip Trial, out of the Diplomat's Way mare Ingot Way. Skip Away was purchased for the modest sum of $30,000 at a two-year-olds in training sale in Ocala by Hall of Fame trainer Hubert "Sonny" Hine for his wife Carolyn, who had particularly wanted a gray horse because vision problems made it difficult for her to see any other kind on the race track.
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