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Visiting studs and racecourses has been largely out of bounds since the coronavirus took root in the spring, but we have put together videos of the stallions for you to watch and enjoy from the comforts of home, many of whom represent the growing turf influences in the United States, Braxton Lynch, who with husband Damian runs Royal Oak Farm in Paris, Kentucky, and who is president of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association (KTA) and Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders (KTOB), highlights the recent growth of turf racing in the nation in a fascinating interview with Martin Stevens, which concludes with the thought that, for European horsemen, explanations for not buying in the US or breeding to US stallions are beginning to wear thin.
Welcome to the Racing Post US stallions showcase, put together in conjunction with the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Inc. and Keeneland Association, stakeholders of the US-Bred campaign, and designed primarily to offer an exclusive window to some of the top turf sires based in Kentucky—and one in California
We have also picked the brains of Mark Taylor of Taylor Made Farms, and Marc McLean of Crestwood Farm, along with agent Liz Crow, whose purchase of Aunt Pearl at last year’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 culminated in her lifting last month’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, and trainer-turned-bloodstock adviser David Lanigan, who moved lock, stock and barrel to the US this year after winding down his successful Newmarket operation, and who has teamed up with leading consignor Four Star Sales. The quartet tackle our Jury questions, a mix of looking back on this extraordinary year and the impacts of Covid-19, and forward to hopefully better to come in 2021. We are no doubt all rather tired of face coverings, hand sanitiser and keeping our distance, but hopefully watching stallion videos will never get old. So get clicking! Andrew Scutts, bloodstock managing editor
There has always been a mutually beneficial exchange of bloodlines across the Atlantic, as typified by the pedigree and progeny of Northern Dancer. EP Taylor’s Canadian-bred champion racehorse and game-changing stallion was by Nearctic, the product of Italian-bred Nearco and British-bred Lady Angela, out of Natalma, whose maternal grandsire was the French-bred Derby winner Mahmoud. During a stallion career based first in Ontario and then in Maryland, he supplied one top-class racehorse after another and in the 1980s his stock drew European owners to US sales like a magnet, with competition between the burgeoning empires of Coolmore and the Maktoums driving prices for his yearlings to dizzying new highs. The result was that Northern Dancer changed the course of European breeding. Nearly all our leading sires descend from him in the male line at least, chiefly through sons Sadler’s Wells and Danzig but also Nureyev and Try My Best. But in spite of seeing evidence of the reinvigorating effects of North American blood in their own ledgers of purchases or strings of horses, European agents and trainers have been disinclined to participate in US sales en masse in the last decade or so. Honourable exceptions are the intrepid band of pinhookers who descend on Kentucky every autumn, and those with an especially global outlook such as David Redvers - who has been rewarded by purchasing the outstanding Kitten’s Joy colts Roaring Lion and Kameko at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Admittedly, medication concerns in the US might once have been a justifiable reason for that reluctance, but it is nearly 12 years now since Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton first banned the use of anabolic steroids in sales horses, while another step forward was taken by the two auction houses in April when they introduced restrictions on the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), corticosteroids and bronchodilators, including Clenbuterol. There has also been renewed interest and increased competition in turf racing in the US in recent years, which promises to have a knock-on effect on breeding. One woman who is keen to spread the word on those new turf opportunities, while also taking advantage of them herself, is Braxton Lynch, owner of Royal Oak Farm and president of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association [KTA] and Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders [KTOB]. Lynch is equipped with key statistics that show how the grass is growing in America. >>
AMERICA has long been known as the land of opportunity but in recent years it seems many European horsemen have either forgotten or chosen to ignore that.
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Braxton Lynch
There has always been a mutually beneficial exchange of bloodlines across the Atlantic, as typified by the pedigree and progeny of Northern Dancer. EP Taylor’s Canadian-bred champion racehorse and game-changing stallion was by Nearctic, the product of Italian-bred Nearco and British-bred Lady Angela, out of Natalma, whose maternal grandsire was the French-bred Derby winner Mahmoud.
Braxton Lynch (right), pictured here presenting Barbara Banke of Stonestreet Farms with an award following the exploits of Royal Ascot-winning sprinter Lady Aurelia
<< “In 2019, turf racing made up 17 per cent of all races,” she reports. “Turf purses made up 26 per cent of all purses. That’s an increase from 2010, when turf was 12 per cent of all races and 20 per cent of all purses. “Moreover, 21.7 per cent of maiden special weights [maiden races with no claim ties] were held on turf in 2019 with 26.7 per cent of purses, from corresponding figures in 2010 of 18 per cent and 21.25 per cent in purses. “But the stat that sticks out to me is that of all Graded stakes races in 2019, 42 per cent were on turf - up from 37 per cent in 2010 - for 37 per cent of purses, up from 32 per cent. That sums up best how more emphasis is being placed on turf racing.” There is further proof of the trend towards turf racing beyond those cold, hard facts, too. “US racing is investing heavily in turf races,” Lynch continues. “Not only are the number of races on the increase, but in the last five years the turf stakes landscape has grown immensely, particularly for three-year-olds. New York has a relatively new Turf Triple Crown for colts and for fillies - most of those races are Grade 1s now and many have $1 million purses. “In Kentucky, we have Kentucky Downs which runs exclusively on the grass. The purse money they have is incredible - maidens and allowance races with purses over $100,000 and plenty of stakes races that are worth $500,000 or more. “Churchill Downs are reconstructing their turf course next year to make it better and wider to allow for an increase in the number of turf races they can run throughout the year, and Turfway Park have just installed the Tapeta surface and that will allow turf horses to stay in Kentucky over the winter. “This is all important because the sales and breeding choices will follow the purse money. In fact, we are seeing more and more versatile stallions retire to stud that have run on dirt and turf. The reality is that a good athlete should be able to run on any surface.” Lynch has first-hand experience of the more lucrative opportunities being afforded to turf horses as the BBN Racing syndicate, which she runs with her British-born husband Damian, were part-owners of the Rusty Arnold-trained Twirling Candy filly Concrete Rose, who saw off Ballydoyle raider Just Wonderful to win the Belmont Oaks Invitational in 2019. “We were fortunate to be able to buy into Concrete Rose, who won two legs of the Turf Triple Crown last year and was the sales-topper at the recent Keeneland November sale when selling for $1,950,000,” she says. “James Delahooke was the underbidder, but she was ultimately purchased by US-based OXO Equine.” But it doesn’t take a seven-figure sum to find a breeding prospect or untried horse in Kentucky who could develop into a star, of course. “There are bargains out there,” says Lynch. “Like other sales around the world, the US sales can be very trendy. People are either on the train or off the train with stallions and nothing in between, so there are certainly pockets, especially with grass horses, where good horses can be found for not much money. “Joss Collins was a master of working his way through the entire sale and today you see people like Robert Cowell working the backend of the sale and he’s come up with a few Royal Ascot runners with that strategy. It’s the same with the European two-year-old pinhookers, and War Of Will is a prime example of their success story.” Lynch admits to being a little frustrated that more European buyers have not taken advantage of the wealth of talent available to purchase in the US, but she is keen to accentuate the positives. “It can be frustrating, but it’s understandable when the European stallion market is so strong at the moment and it makes it all the more rewarding when we see David Redvers come over here and pluck out a horse like Kameko or Roaring Lion,” she says. “And he’s certainly not the only one having success with American-bought horses year after year. “I’d love to see more European owners consider leaving the horses they buy over here for their two-year-old campaign. With turf purses the way they are they could easily get their purchase price back and return to Europe later to contest stakes races there.” Another progressive measure taken by the racing authorities in America was the Jockey Club’s announcement in 2020 that it would adopt a rule that stallions could cover a maximum of 140 mares per calendar year in future. “Time will tell whether it’s a good idea - there are obviously pros and cons,” says Lynch. “Hopefully the wealth will be spread out a little more and some of the less popular stallions will fill their books a little better. “I’m not sure how we fix the issue of filling books in years two, three and four until you encourage the buyers to buy horses out of those crops. Hopefully the mare quality in those crops will be better and that should help. “Something needed to be done to stop the imbalance at the very top and hopefully this will help make it more evenly weighted across more stallions and give newer stallions a larger window in which to succeed.” So the US now has increased turf opportunities, a stricter stance on medication and a new rule on stallion coverings that goes further than any step European breeding associations have taken to protect genetic diversity. With all that in mind, those excuses not to buy or breed in America are wearing thin indeed. Martin Stevens
Concrete Rose, seen here winning the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational last year, was part-owned by the BBN Racing syndicate run by Braxton Lynch and husband Damian
Founded in 1972 by Kentucky governor Brereton Jones and his wife Libby on the latter’s family estate in Woodford County, Airdrie Stud consists of more than 2,500 acres, mainly on the southern side of Old Frankfort Pike near Midway, Kentucky. Much of the Airdrie land is historic indeed in bloodstock terms, having been part of the celebrated Woodburn Stud, home to the immortal Lexington, America’s leading sire for 16 years in the 19th century. The stud, also a leading light in the standardbred industry of the time, fell into decline soon at the turn of the century and was used as cattle land before its 1970s revival as Airdrie, named for the Scottish estate of Mrs Jones’s ancestors. Airdrie is now home to a large broodmare band and an exciting 11 strong roster, headed by leading sire of two year old winners in America Cairo Prince, Grade 1 winning son of City Zip, Collected, and Champagne Stakes winner Complexity. Airdrie's young roster is rounded out by the Grade 1-winning duo of Preservationist and Divisidero, as well as the talented and precocious McCracken, and a mixture of proven and ascending sires in Upstart, Include, Summer Front, Creative Cause and American Freedom.
US STALLION trail 2021
American Freedom Pulpit - Gottcha Last (Pleasant Tap) 2021 fee $6,000 S&N Cairo Prince Pioneerof The Nile - Holy Bubbette (Holy Bull) 2021 fee $15,000 S&N Collected City Zip - Helena Bay (GB) (Johannesburg) 2021 fee $17,500 S&N Complexity Maclean’s Music - Goldfield (Yes It’s True) 2021 fee $12,500 S&N Creative Cause Giant’s Causeway - Dream Of Summer (Siberian Summer) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N Divisidero Kitten’s Joy - Madame Du Lac (Lemon Drop Kid) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N
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Include Broad Brush - Illeria (Stop The Music) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N McCraken Ghostzapper - Ivory Empress (Seeking The Gold) 2021 fee $6,000 S&N Preservationist Arch - Flying Dixie (Dixieland Band) 2021 fee $10,000 S&N Summer Front War Front - Rose Of Summer (El Prado (IRE)) 2021 fee $10,000 S&N Upstart Flatter - Party Silks (Touch Gold) 2021 fee $10,000 S&N
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Collected City Zip - Helena Bay (GB) (Johannesburg) 2021 fee $17,500 S&N
Preservationist Arch - Flying Dixie (Dixieland Band) 2021 fee $10,000 S&N
There is no more iconic name in American racing and breeding than the storied Calumet Farm, located next door to Keeneland racecourse in Lexington. Established in 1924 by William Monroe Wright, founder of the Calumet Baking Powder Company, Calumet’s Thoroughbred dynasty was developed by the founder’s son Warren Wright Sr (and continued by his widow Lucille Markey) to the extent that the farm’s horses were leading money earners for 12 straight seasons; the Hall of Fame includes no fewer than 11 Calumet horses. After a notorious decline into bankruptcy, Calumet’s name has been reborn in the last two decades, mainly under the stewardship of the Calumet Investment Group, who leased the farm to tobacco magnate Brad Kelley. The operation’s racetrack representatives now carry Kelley’s black and gold silks, while the stallion roster is headed by Travers Stakes winner Keen Ice, Man O’War Stakes winner Channel Cat, Cigar Mile winner True Timber, and Oxbow, whose Preakness victory in 2013 was the first in a Triple Crown race for a Calumet-owned horse since Forward Pass was awarded the Kentucky Derby in 1968.
Bal A Bali Put It Back - In My Side (BRZ) (Clackson (BRZ)) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN Big Blue Kitten Kitten’s Joy - Spent Gold (Unaccounted For) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN Bravazo Awesome Again - Tiz O’ Gold (Cee’s Tizzy) 2021 fee $6,000 LFSN English Channel Smart Strike - Belva (Theatrical (IRE)) 2021 fee $27,500 LFSN Hightail Mineshaft - Stormy Renee (Storm Cat) 2021 fee $4,000 LFSN Keen Ice Curlin - Medomak (Awesome Again) 2021 fee $12,500 LFSN Mr Z Malibu Moon - Stormy Bear (Storm Cat) 2021 fee $2,500 LFSN Optimizer English Channel - Indy Pick (A.P. Indy) 2021 fee $2,500 LFSN Oxbow Awesome Again - Tizamazing (Cee’s Tizzy) 2021 fee $7,500 LFSN
Producer (GB) Dutch Art (GB) - River Saint (Irish River (FR)) 2021 fee $2,500 LFSN Rison D’Etat A.P. Indy - Sightseek (Distant View) 2021 fee $2,500 LFSN Ransom The Moon Malibu Moon - Count To Three (Red Ransom) 2021 fee $7,500 LFSN Real Solution Kitten’s Joy - Reachfortheheavens (Pulpit) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN War Correspondent War Front - Tempo West (Rahy) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN Regional stallions Eye Of The Leopard A.P. Indy - Eye Of The Sphinx (Smart Strike) 2021 fee $2,500 LFSN Ready’s Image More Than Ready - Clever Phrases (Clever Trick) 2021 fee $2,000 LFSN Vertiformer Dynaformer - Tempo West (Rahy) 2021 fee $2,000 LFSN Also listed as ‘private’: Aikenite, Behesht, Grey Swallow, Lentenor, Musketier, Snapy Halo
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Having opened its doors in 1982 with a stallion roster headed by Storm Bird, Ashford Stud is the American arm of the Irish-based bloodstock colossus Coolmore. The land on which Ashford stands in the heart of the Bluegrass was cattle land until the late 1970s, when Dr Bill Lockridge began to transform it into a state-of-the-art stud; Terlingua, a resident mare in 1982, was bred to Storm Bird to produce breed-shaping sire Storm Cat. After becoming part of John Magnier’s Coolmore operation in the mid-1980s, Ashford’s reputation grew on an international scale via high-profile inmates such as El Gran Senor and Woodman. Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch was champion sire in 2001, a distinction achieved three times by Giant’s Causeway; several Ashford sires have led the way with juveniles. The Elite stallion band at Ashford features Saudi Cup winner Maximum Security, European star Caravaggio, Munnings, UAE Derby winner Mendelssohn, Belmont and Travers Stakes winner Tiz The Law, three-time Grade 1 winner Practical Joke, and also has the distinction of two Triple Crown winners in American Pharoah and Justify plus record-breaking Uncle Mo.
coolmore
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Classic Empire Pioeerof The Nile - Sambuca Classica (Cat Thief) 2021 fee $17,500 LFSN Cupid Tapit - Pretty ’N Smart (Beau Genius) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN Echo Town Speightstown - Letgomyecho (Menifee) 2021 fee $10,000 LFSN Lookin At Lucky Smart Strike - Private Feeling (Belong To Me) 2021 fee $20,000 LFSN
American Pharoah Pioneerof The Nile - Littleprincessemma (Yankee Gentleman) 2021 fee $100,000 LFSN
Mendelssohn Scat Daddy - Leslie’s Lady (Tricky Creek) 2021 fee $35,000 LFSN
Maximum Security New Year’s Day - Lil Indy (Anasheed) 2021 fee $20,000 LFSN Munnings Speightstown - La Comete (Holy Bull) 2021 fee $60,000 LFSN Practical Joke Into Mischief - Halo Humor (Distorted Humor) 2021 fee $22,500 LFSN Tale Of The Cat Storm Cat - Yarn (Mr. Prospector) 2021 fee $12,500 LFSN
Justify Scat Daddy - Stage Magic (Ghostzapper) 2021 fee $125,000 LFSN
Mo Town Uncle Mo - Grazia Mille (Bernardini) 2021 fee $7,500 LFSN
Air Force Blue War Front - Chatham (Maria’s Mon) 2021 fee $10,000 LFSN
Caravaggio Scat Daddy - Mekko Hokte (Holy Bull) 2021 fee $25,000 LFSN
Uncle Mo Indian Charlie - Playa Maya (Arch) 2021 fee $175,000 LFSN
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For more than a century one of the world’s most renowned stud farms, historic Claiborne has lived up to its motto of “doing the usual, unusually well” through generations of the Hancock family. Established in 1910 near Paris, Kentucky, by Arthur B Hancock, Claiborne has a justified reputation as the ‘Birthplace of Champions’. The farm was central to the import of hugely influential breeding stock from Europe to become an international leader, all the time maintaining the values and traditions on which it was founded. Ten Kentucky Derby winners have been bred at Claiborne, while six of the 13 Triple Crown winners were sired by Claiborne stallions. Indeed, from Sir Gallahad III and Blenheim to Danzig, Mr Prospector and Seeking The Gold, a list of Claiborne stallions reads like a who’s who of the breeding greats. A total of 11 different Claiborne sires have been champions, and more than 300 horses sired by their stallions have been champions. Internationally acclaimed sire War Front once again heads the Claiborne Farm stallion roster, alongside his dual-surface Grade 1 winner son War Of Will, sire of multiple champions Flatter, champion racehorse Blame, Catholic Boy, regally-bred Graded winner Demarchelier, champion sprinter Runhappy, as well as new recruits Performer and Silver State.
Claiborne Farm
www.claibornefarm.com/
Algorithms Bernardini - Ava Knowsthecode (Cryptoclearance) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN Flatter A.P. Indy - Praise (Mr Prospector) 2021 fee $35,000 LFSN
Orb Malibu Moon - Lady Liberty (Unbridled) 2021 fee private Runhappy Super Saver - Bella Jolie (Broken Vow) 2021 fee $10,000 LFSN
Blame Arch - Liable (Seeking The Gold) 2021 fee $30,000 LFSN
Ironicus Distorted Humor - Meghan’s Joy (A.P. Indy) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN
Catholic Boy More Than Ready - Song Of Bernadette (Bernardini) 2021 fee $25,000 LFS
Lea First Samurai - Greenery (Galileo (IRE)) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN
Demarchelier (GB) Dubawi (IRE) - Loveisallyouneed (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN
Mastery Candy Ride (ARG) - Steady Course (Old Trieste) 2021 fee $25,000 LFSN
First Samurai Giant’s Causeway - Freddie Frisson (Dixieland Band) 2021 fee $15,000 LFSN
War Front Danzig - Starry Dreamer (Rubiano) 2021 fee $150,000 LFSN
War Of Will War Front - Visions Of Clarity (IRE) (Sadler's Wells) 2021 fee $25,000 LFSN
For 50 years since its inception in 1970, Pope McLean’s 1,000-acre Crestwood Farm has been home to a successful full-service breeding operation. “We raise runners” is the motto of the Lexington-based team, which prides itself on its strong work ethic and developing long-term relationship with clients. The McLean family’s operation has been responsible for over 250 stakes horses to date, among them multiple Hall of Fame inductees, and it remains the only farm in North America to raise three fillies who earned in excess of $2 million, namely the 11-time Grade 1 winner Serena’s Song, Xtra Heat and Island Fashion. In 2022, Crestwood stands the likes of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile hero Texas Red, Grade 1 turf winners Get Stormy, Heart To Heart and Jack Milton, Kentucky Derby runner up Firing Line, as well as Caracaro, a Grade 1-placed son of Uncle Mo, and multiple Graded winner Yorkton.
Crestwood Farm
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Caracaro Uncle Mo - Peace Time (War Front) 2021 fee $6,500 LFSN Firing Line Line Of David - Sister Girl Blues (Hold For Gold) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN
Texas Red Afleet Alex - Ramatuelle (CHI) (Jeune Homme) 2021 fee $10,000 LFSN
Get Stormy Stormy Atlantic - Foolish Gal (Kiri’s Clown) 2021 fee $7,500 LFSN
Heart To Heart English Channel - Ask The Question (Silver Deputy) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN
Jack Milton War Front - Preserver (Forty Niner) 2021 fee $6,500 LFSN
Yorkton (CAN) Speightstown - Sunday Affair (A.P. Indy) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN
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Darby Dan’s founder John W Galbreath was the first winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder in 1974, a tribute to the farm’s champion-producing tradition. Originally established under the Darby Dan banner (named for Galbreath’s son Daniel) on an 85-acre estate near the Darby Creek in Ohio, the Kentucky base was formed from the core of E.R. Bradley’s celebrated Idle Hour Stock Farm in Lexington. Galbreath imported the great Ribot from Europe in 1961 and four years later brought Sea-Bird II to Darby Dan on a leasing basis; Galbreath was also part of the Sword Dancer syndicate. The operation’s rich history of raising top thoroughbreds features six Kentucky Derby winners; the 2019 winner Country House is part of the current stallion roster, alongside leading sire of his freshman class Dialed In, Pacific Classic Stakes winner Higher Power, Jockey Club Stakes winner Tapiture, and Excelsior Stakes winning new addition Modernist. Darby Dan owns the distinction of having bred, raised and campaigned winners of both the Kentucky Derby and the Derby at Epsom (Roberto). Having done remarkably well in recent years with mid-level stallions, owner John Phillips is proud of the farm’s traditions, saying: “Darby Dan has been around for 100 years, and we intend to be caring for thoroughbreds for another 100 years.”
DARBY DAN
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Higher Power Medaglia D’Oro - Alternate (Seattle Slew) 2021 fee $10,000 S&N Klimt Quality Road - Inventive (Dixie Union) 2021 fee $10,000 S&N Sky Kingdom Empire Maker - Sky Beam (Kingmambo) 2021 fee $2,500 S&N Tale Of Ekati Tale Of The Cat - Silence Beauty (JPN) (Sunday Silence) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N Tale Of Verve Tale Of Ekati - Verve (Unbridled) 2021 fee $2,000 S&N Tapiture Tapit - Free Spin (Olympio) 2021 fee $10,000 S&N
Bee Jersey Jersey Town - Bees (Rahy) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N Copper Bullet More Than Ready - Allegory (Unbridled’s Song) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N Country House Lookin At Lucky - Quake Lake (War Chant) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N Dialed In Mineshaft - Miss Doolittle (Storm Cat) 2021 fee $15,000 S&N Dolphus Lookin At Lucky - Lotta Kim (Roar) 2021 fee private Flameaway Scat Daddy - Vulcan Rose (Fusaichi Pegasus) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N
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Currently standing stallions in seven countries across the globe, world-renowned Darley is the bloodstock division of Godolphin, Sheikh Mohammed’s groundbreaking global horseracing operation. US operations are focused on 800 rolling pastures at Jonabell Farm on Bowman Mill Road, founded by John A Bell and his wife Jessica in 1954. Run for nearly 50 years as a family operation, the farm was purchased by Darley in 2001, and four years later the operations of both the Maktoum family’s Gainsborough Farm and Jonabell Farm were consolidated at the location. Jonabell has produced more than 200 stakes winners, and 14 champions, including leading sire Damascus and the Bells' homebred Breeders’ Cup winner Epitome. Other notable former residents include Dubai World Cup hero Street Cry and Unbridled Elaine, and Jonabell is now home to a coterie of North America’s top stallions, headed by leading sire Medaglia D’Oro, Preakness winner Bernardini and Kentucky Derby-winning pair Street Sense and Nyquist, with Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Belmont Stakes winner Essential Quality and fellow homebred Maxfield also joining the roster this year.
Darley
Astern Medaglia D’Oro - Essaouira (AUS) (Exceed And Excel (AUS)) 2021 fee $7,500 Bernardini A.P. Indy - Cara Rafaela (Quiet American) 2021 fee $35,000 Enticed Medaglia D’Oro - It’s Tricky (Mineshaft) 2021 fee $7,500 Frosted Tapit - Fast Cookie (Deputy Minister) 2021 fee $25,000 Hard Spun Danzig - Turkish Tryst (Turkoman) 2021 fee $35,000 Medaglia D’Oro El Prado (IRE) - Cappucino Bay (Balljumper) 2021 fee $150,000 Midshipman Unbridled’s Song - Fleet Lady (Avenue Of Flags) 2021 fee $7,500 Nyquist Uncle Mo - Seeking Gabrielle (Forestry) 2021 fee $75,000 Street Boss Street Cry (IRE) - Bushing Ogygian (Ogygian) 2021 fee $15,000 Street Sense Street Cry (IRE) - Bedazzle (Dixieland Band) 2021 fee $60,000
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With the record-breaking three-time champion sire Tapit at the head of the stallion roster, Gainesway maintains its massive influence in the bloodstock industry, the farm having been instrumental in fostering Kentucky’s reputation as the centre of the equine world. Gainesway was formed by Breeders’ Cup founder John R. Gaines, who moved the 14-strong stallion operation to its current Paris Pike location in 1974; by 1982, there were 52 stallions at a design-award winning stud complex built the previous year. Thanks in part to business partners and syndicates, their number included luminaries such as Bold Bidder, Lyphard, Riverman, Sharpen Up and Vaguely Noble; Blushing Groom and Unbridled came not long after. “Power, passion and performance” is the Gainesway motto under the ownership of South African coal magnate Graham J. Beck, who purchased Gainesway in 1989, since when the acquisition of the former Greentree Stud and Whitney Farm has turned it into a 1,500-acre operation. With Beck’s son Antony now at the helm, a select stallion roster is designed to excel in the sales ring by focusing on a limited number of the highest-quality horses. The Gainesway roster features multiple Grade 1 winner McKinzie, French 2000 Guineas and Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Karakontie, Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Spun To Wrun, Belmont Stakes winner Tapwrit and new addition Raging Bull, the Hollywood Stakes and Makers’ Mark Mile winner.
Gainesway
www.gainesway.com
Spun To Run Hard Spun - Yawkey Way (Grand Slam) 2021 fee $12,500 LFSN Tapit Pulpit - Tap Your Heels (Unbridled) 2021 fee $185,000 LFSN Tapwrit Tapit - Appealing Zophie (Successful Appeal) 2021 fee $10,000 LFSN
Afleet Alex Northern Afleet - Maggy Hawk (Hawkster) 2021 fee $6,500 LFSN Anchor Down Tapit - Successful Outlook (Orientate) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN Karakontie (JPN) Bernstein - Sun Is Up (JPN) (Sunday Silence) 2021 fee $10,000 LFSN McKinzie Street Sense - Runway Model (Petionville) 2021 fee $30,000 LFSN
A new chapter in the ever-burgeoning success story of Hill ’n’ Dale was written in 2020 when a lustrous stallion band moved 33 miles east from their former Fayette County home to Xalapa Farm, south-east of Paris, Kentucky. Originally founded in Canada in 1960 – and still a major force north of the border via its Aurora, Ontario offshoot – Hill ’n’ Dale was incorporated in Kentucky 27 years later on the site of the former North Ridge Farm. The relocation to a 1,400-acre jewel reflects owner and president John G. Sikura’s ambitions to further build a world-class operation to exceed anything achieved by Xalapa in its historic heyday. About ten years’ worth of work was completed in just 18 months before the switch was made in October 2020. Hill 'n' Dale Farm at Xalapa's 2022 roster is headlined by dual Horse of the Year-turned-superstar sire Curlin, fellow Breeders’ Cup Classic hero Ghostzapper and perennial leading turf sire Kitten’s Joy, who has also enjoyed huge success in Europe with his offspring headed by Roaring Lion and Kameko. Also at Hill 'n' Dale is Curlin's champion two-year-old son Good Magic, Grade 1 winner Army Mule, and the newest addition to the roster, multiple Grade 1 winner Charlatan.
Hill 'n' Dale Farm
www.hillndalefarms.com
Lost Treasure (IRE) War Front - Wading (IRE) (Montjeu (IRE) 2021 fee $5,000 Maclean’s Music Distorted Humor - Forest Music (Unbridled’s Song) 2021 fee $25,000* fee valid prior to Breeders’ Cup Midnight Lute Real Quiet - Candytuft (Dehere) 2021 fee $15,000 Stormy Atlantic Storm Cat - Hail Atlantis (Seattle Slew) 2021 fee $10,000 Violence Medaglia D’Oro - Violent Beauty (Gone West) 2021 fee $25,000 World Of Trouble Kantharos - Meets Expectations (Valid Expectations) 2021 fee $15,000
Army Mule Friesan Fire - Crafty Toast (Crafty Prospector) 2021 fee $7,500 Bayern Offlee Wild - Alittlebitearly (Thunder Gulch) 2021 fee $7,500 Curlin Smart Strike - Sherriff’s Deputy (Deputy Minister) 2021 fee $175,000 Ghostzapper Awesome Again - Baby Zip (Relaunch) 2021 fee $85,000 Good Magic Curlin - Glinda The Good (Hard Spun) 2021 fee $30,000
Kitten’s Joy El Prado (IRE) - Kitten’s First (Lear Fan) 2021 fee $60,000
Mucho Macho Man Macho Uno - Ponche De Leona (Ponche) 2021 fee $7,500
Flintshire (GB) Dansili (GB) - Dance Routine (GB) (Sadler’s Wells) 2021 fee $10,000
Kantharos Lion Heart - Contessa Halo (Southern Halo) 2021 fee $30,000
How has Covid-19 affected your business this year? Mark Taylor, Taylor Made Farm: Covid has affected our business in many ways. From creating protocols for keeping team members safe to contingency plans in case of an outbreak, it has affected every area of our business. Thankfully we have been able to keep all of our staff intact. The PPP programme here in the US was a massive help for small businesses and will hopefully allow us to get to the other side of Covid in good shape. From a financial perspective, our sales are down approximately 25 per cent versus 2019. What did you make of trade at the sales this year? My view of the market this year is that we once again showed our resilience as an industry. Many of the top agents and buyers from around the world are over 60 years of age. Were they going to be willing to travel? Going into the September Sales I was very concerned. We survived September and from my perspective the market was surprisingly good. Thankfully the pinhookers were able to conduct their two-year-old sales on a delayed schedule, which allowed them to reinvest, albeit in a reduced amount. Sheikh Mohammed has supported Keeneland September like nobody else in its history. In 2020 he was a minor player, but Shadwell stayed involved, which really helped Books 1 and 2. At the end of the day sales are often judged through the lens of expectations. In 2020 that lens was clouded with fear of total disaster. Thankfully the yearling market was better than expected albeit still down significantly. The broodmare market followed the same pattern. The emergence of Spendthrift as the dominant force at Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland Book 1 was a much needed surprise. Japanese buyers saw opportunity and were as aggressive as ever going after top-end fillies and mares off the track. What was most surprising to me was the fact that the clearance rate for middle-market and lower-end mares maintained respectability. Breeders were still in the game, which was perhaps the best blessing of the year. What are you looking forward to most in 2021? In 2021 I’m most looking forward to the widespread vaccination of millions of people for this horrible virus. I have a new appreciation for life as it used to be. What are you most apprehensive about for 2021? For 2021 I’m most apprehensive about the fallout from Covid on the economy. Here in America we printed so much money to help people stay afloat. I am concerned about our currency ultimately being devalued and all the trickle-down effects from that. Who is your pick to be leading first-crop two-year-old sire in 2021? I like Gun Runner and Arrogate but my pick to lead this group is Practical Joke. He seems to be stamping them consistently and I think he will get a nice mix of early winners and horses that can stretch out to a mile-plus. Can you give us a yearling of 2020 to follow next year and beyond? Selecting one yearling for Racing Post readers to follow is the most difficult question. We sold so many high quality horses this year that I have high hopes for. I have decided to select a filly that haunts me because I failed to get her sold. She was hip #1116 at Keeneland. She is by Speightstown out of a Distorted Humor mare named Poof Too. I literally think about this filly daily. She has so much class and handled the sales stress so well. I was shocked that she did not sell. Keep an eye out for her! I believe she is pointing towards an American breeze-up sale. I would love to see her end up in Europe!
Welcome to the Racing Post US stallions showcase, put together in conjunction with the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders, Inc. and Keeneland Association, stakeholders of the US-Bred campaign, and designed primarily to offer an exclusive window to some of the top turf sires based in Kentucky—and one in California
How has Covid-19 affected your business this year? Marc Mclean, Crestwood Farm: The biggest change we saw was that breeders couldn't come to the farm to see their horses. Early April to the Derby is probably the busiest month of the year and people just weren't travelling to see their new foals and yearlings. What did you make of trade at the sales this year? Even though the gross sales were off between 10 per cent and 25 per cent, they held up much better than we expected. The middle market for yearlings was much stronger than expected. The November breeding stock sales were almost as good as 2019. What are you looking forward to most in 2021? The Kentucky Derby being on the first Saturday in May again. What are you most apprehensive about for 2021? I just hope that the Covid vaccines will work as well as the testing has shown. Who is your pick to be leading first-crop two-year-old sire in 2021? Classic Empire. Can you give us a yearling of 2020 to follow next year and beyond? The Gun Runner out of Bayou Tortuga is a classy yearling who is a half-sister to three Graded stakes horses, and she is the best foal I've seen out of the mare.
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How has Covid-19 affected your business this year? Liz Crow, agent: It greatly affected our two-year-old sales season. With US two-year-old sales usually beginning in March, many were cancelled or postponed. Overall the average was down 25 per cent and for pinhookers like myself it negatively affected sales overall. My pinhook venture survived by being very close to break-even - down one per cent - and were thrilled with that result all things considered. Things picked up in September-November and we had a very successful year overall, which I am thankful for. I was also unable to attend Tattersalls this year with the quarantine restrictions, which was a big disappointment. What did you make of trade at the sales this year? Everything across the board was down 25-30 per cent: foals, yearlings, two-year-olds. However, it could have been much worse and I feel like, especially for the top-end horses, it was as competitive as ever. Elite Sales had one of our best nights ever at Fasig-Tipton’s ‘Night of the Stars’ Sale, selling five millionaires ,and for those top-end mares there were plenty of people there. What are you looking forward to most in 2021? Some sort of normalcy hopefully returning with a vaccine in sight for Covid-19. I would love to see the market recover but that could take some time. I am looking forward to hopefully getting back to the races with clients and friends, and everyone getting to enjoy each other and the horses again. Hopefully at some point in 2021 we see the return of fans at the tracks too. What are you most apprehensive about for 2021? The things I am hopeful about are also what I am apprehensive about. While I am hopeful we will see some normalcy at the track, I also realise that could not happen right away. While Covid-19 is currently at its worst in many US states I am fearful of more racetrack shutdowns and sale postponements. Who is your pick to be leading first-crop two-year-old sire in 2021? Probably Classic Empire. He was a champion two-year-old himself and I liked quite a few of his yearlings. Honourable mention also to Lord Nelson; we had a lot of yearlings by him land on our shortlists and he could have a good start to his career in 2021. Can you give us a yearling of 2020 to follow next year and beyond? It’s hard to give one specific yearling, hope springs eternal with a new crop of yearlings. We bought a Tapit colt out of Graeme Six for Peter Brant and it's a family that continuously has two-year-old updates. After we purchased him, Stayin' Out Late, his two-year-old full-brother, broke his maiden impressively at Churchill Downs, and Zainalarab, the two-year-old War Front filly out of his full-sister Delightful Joy, broke her maiden nicely at Belmont. The family seems to throw two-year-old runners and we like how this colt is training at Paul Sharp's farm in Williston, Florida.
How has Covid-19 affected your business this year? David Lanigan, bloodstock adviser: It’s been a busy year for us as we closed David Lanigan Racing in England after training in the UK for 14 years. After training there successfully we decided to wind down the operation, largely due to the state of prize-money in England, and move to America. If we hadn’t done it this year, we’d have had to sign a new five-year lease and then we’d have made our bed for life. It seemed the right time to do it and depart on a good note after having Worth Waiting win the Group 2 Dahlia Stakes the year before. We were lucky to have some nice horses in our time, including Meeznah, Main Sequence, Biographer and a Royal Ascot winner with Interception. Starting out on a new period of our life doing the bloodstock side of Four Star Sales and helping them with auctions has been quite a natural fit. I did yearling and bloodstock sales with my parents at Tullamaine Castle Stud up until I finished college, so was going back to something I was very comfortable with. Working every day together with Kerry, Tony and Ashley at the office or at the sales is always full of a lot of laughs. Amy and I have been very lucky in that we’ve been given a wonderful welcome from all the people here. It’s been a bit of a difficult start with the restrictions Covid has placed on us all, but there have been great opportunities as well. Right through the summer it was a case of meeting most all of the Four Star clients and also building up new contacts for our business. Prior to training I worked for Johnny Jones’ Walmac International in Lexington for five years, so I already knew a lot of the farms and people, plus I always returned for the September sales every year. This year has certainly been a building year, but luckily I’ve been given great opportunities by Four Star and their clients, who have let me buy some nice horses to race in America next year and to add a few mares to their broodmare bands. What did you make of trade at the sales this year? First, it was a huge effort from all the sales companies to get sales on. It was an equally significant effort from breeders and vendors to get their stock to the marketplace. I think on the whole people were just happy they were able to trade horses, especially considering how desperate it was looking in early spring. As usual the good horses that jumped through all the hoops sold very well, but the lower level was definitely more difficult. If you set your reserve at a sensible level you got the job done. I think at all the sales the buyers stepped back for the first hour but then, when everyone got acclimatised and realised it was not going to be the end of the earth, they started trading. Did people get huge numbers like the last couple of years? Not as much, but they were able to buy and sell. The mare and foal market was solid and it was, as it usually is, hard to buy value. The only thing that seemed to be common among most consignors was the high number of outs. Mare owners especially were nervous, and they preferred to hold onto a good mare rather than put it through the ring only to buy it back. That said, I was surprised how strong it was, especially considering everything that’s happening in the world right now. What are you looking forward to most in 2021? I’m looking forward to when we’re able to go to live sporting events, and having a great atmosphere at them as well. I’m looking forward to seeing the horses that we’ve bought this year from Europe racing for their clients in the States and hopefully that will lead to us growing that side of the business with Four Star Sales. Ted Durcan and I were lucky to get the opportunity to buy Festive Star for Scott Heider and his family, so it would be nice if she could go on and do something big here in America. What are you most apprehensive about for 2021? It’s encouraging to see how resilient the industry has been to date but I’m apprehensive about how the economy will be once the dust settles after Covid-19. We’re a leisure industry at heart, and if businesses are suffering then you typically see people having fewer horses. For Britain, I’m apprehensive about the prize-money situation. There seems to be an idea within organisers of British racing that Covid is what affected the state of prize-money, when in fact it was just the same before the pandemic. The levy is out of date and not fit for purpose. It needs a massive change in direction and now’s the time to change it. We’ve still got huge contributors to the game, such as Coolmore, Darley, Juddmonte, Shadwell and the Niarchos family, who put an enormous amount in. But we cannot depend on them to float the industry forever. In order to attract new owners, and international owners, prize-money needs to improve dramatically. Who is your pick to be leading first-crop two-year-old sire in 2021? I’m actually going to give you three stallions I’m keen on. The first is Caravaggio. He’s relocated from Ireland to Ashford Stud in Kentucky, which I think will be a great move for him. Although he won’t have a lot of runners in the States in 2021, I think he’ll still be one of the top freshman sires, and a hell of a horse to use over here for the future. His yearlings were very well received in Europe and so were the few offered here. I went to see him at Ashford recently and he’s a gorgeous, well put together horse with a great walk. He’s out of Mekko Hokte, who is in turn by Holy Bull, who was Horse of the Year. As a broodmare sire he’s had Grade 1 winners, including Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo and champion Macho Uno. His daughters have produced the likes of Judy The Beauty and Cairo Princess as well as Coolmore US stallion Munnings. The second is Gun Runner, at Three Chimneys. I went around a lot of farms before the September sales and this horse’s yearlings caught my eye every single time one came out. They all walked incredibly well, they have bone and he really stamps his stock. Gun Runner was an incredible racehorse himself and he is Candy Ride’s leading-earner best son at stud. He’s out of a Grade 2-winning half-sister to Horse of The Year Saint Liam. I think he’ll have plenty of early ones and I think they’ll only get better as the year goes on. I wouldn’t be alone in expecting big things from Gun Runner this year. Lord Nelson at Spendthrift Farm is the third. He was a very fast racehorse by sire of sires Pulpit, and one of three sprinters in the last decade to win three Grade 1s in a single year. His dam is out of champion Miss Linda and his third dam produced two champions and three Graded stakes winners. He put a very solid body on his yearlings and they looked like racehorses. They had a real presence about them, and they look early. The yearlings sold quite well, and it looked like the right people were buying them, so he should have two-year-olds in the right academies to give him the best chance to succeed. Can you give us a yearling of 2020 to follow next year and beyond? I joined Doug Cauthen inspecting yearlings around many of the farms before the September sales and can remember the day I saw a Kitten’s Joy Filly out of Joya Real. She was the nicest Kitten’s Joy I’d ever seen and had a great walk. Tony Lacy and I suggested Scott Heider consider her. When he saw her he loved her and ended up buying her for his family’s stable. She’s in training with Joseph O’Brien and I hope she can be very useful for them.
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In 1979, William S. Farish bought the first 240 acres of land on the former Bosque Bonita Farm – home of Leamington, sire of Aristides, the first Kentucky Derby winner – that would become world-renowned Lane’s End. Having opened its stallion barn for business in 1985, Lane’s End now encompasses more than 2,300 pristine acres in the heart of central Kentucky, plus 1,000 more leased at their Oak Tree division in Fayette County and 300 in Farish’s home state, Texas. Also offering top-calibre matings, boarding and bloodstock services, the farm’s name resonates as an industry leader responsible for developing some of the sport’s most influential sires. Lane’s End has been leading consignor in North America on 26 occasions, selling more than 365 (and counting) stakes winners. Farish, honoured with the Eclipse Award of Merit in 2010 to add to his Outstanding Breeder award (1992), has seen his green and yellow silks carried by three Horses of the Year: A.P. Indy (1992), Charismatic (1999) and Mineshaft (2003). Commercial yearling sale juggernaut Quality Road leads the Lane's End stallion roster for 2022, alongside a plethora of talent including Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winners City Of Light and Liam’s Map, current leading sires Candy Ride and his son Twirling Candy, as well as Belmont and Champagne Stakes winner Union Rags, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Game Winner and new addition Dwyer and Travers Stakes winner Code Of Honor.
Lane’s End
www.lanesend.com
Liam’s Map Unbridled’s Song - Miss Macy Sue (Trippi) 2021 fee $30,000 LFSN Quality Road Elusive Quality - Kobla (Strawberry Road (AUS)) 2021 fee $150,000 LFSN Tonalist Tapit - Settling Mist (Pleasant Colony) 2021 fee $12,500 LFSN Unified Candy Ride (ARG) - Union City (Dixie Union) 2021 fee $10,000 LFSN Union Rags Dixie Union - Tempo (Gone West) 2021 fee $30,000 LFSN West Coast Flatter - Caressing (Honour And Glory) 2021 fee $20,000 LFSN
Catalina Cruiser Union Rags - Sea Gull (Mineshaft) 2021 fee $15,000 LFSN Daredevil More Than Ready - Chasethewildwind (Forty Niner) 2021 fee $25,000 LFSN Game Winner Candy Ride (ARG) - Indyan Giving (A.P. Indy) 2021 fee $30,000 LFSN Gift Box Twirling Candy - Special Me (Unbridled’s Song) 2021 fee $10,000 LFSN Lemon Drop Kid Kingmambo - Charming Lassie (Seattle Slew) 2021 fee $15,000 LFSN
City Of Light Quality Road - Paris Notion (Dehere) 2021 fee $40,000 LFSN
Honor Code A.P. Indy - Serena’s Cat (Storm Cat) 2021 fee $20,000 LFSN
Connect Curlin - Bullville Belle (Holy Bull) 2021 fee $15,000 LFSN
Mr Speaker Pulpit - Salute (Unbridled) 2021 fee $5,000 LFSN
Honor A.P. Honor Code - Hollywood Story (Wild Rush) 2021 fee $15,000 LFSN
The Factor War Front - Greyciousness (Miswaki) 2021 fee $17,500 LFSN
Accelerate Lookin At Lucky - Issues (Awesome Again) 2021 fee $17,500 LFSN
Mineshaft A.P. Indy - Prospectors Delite (Mr Prospector) 2021 fee $15,000 LFSN
Candy Ride (ARG) Ride The Rails - Candy Girl (ARG) (Candy Stripes) 2021 fee $75,000 LFSN
Twirling Candy Candy Ride (ARG) - House Of Danzing (Chester House) 2021 fee $40,000 LFSN
Mill Ridge enjoyed early success when the late Alice Headley Chandler, who started the boutique operation in 1962 and in 2020 was inducted into the National Racing Museum Hall of Fame, bred Derby winner Sir Ivor, the first US-bred sold at auction to score at Epsom and a major factor in opening up the American market to clients seeking Classic success in Europe. Taking great pride in its esteemed boarding service, described as “the foundation of the farm”, modern-era Mill Ridge has raised and/or sold 35 Grade 1 winners since 2000. The farm runs in conjunction with full-service bloodstock agency affiliate Nicoma Bloodstock under president Headley Bell, Alice’s son. Successes include two victories in both the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and Kentucky Derby. Standing notable turf performer Oscar Performance, a Breeders’ Cup-winning son of multiple champion grass sire Kitten’s Joy, Mill Ridge continues to fulfil Alice’s life motto: “Take care of the horse, and the horse will take care of you.”
Mill Ridge Farm
www.millridge.com
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Oscar Performance Kitten’s Joy - Devine Actress (Theatrical (IRE)) Fee for 2021: $15,000 LFSN
Named after the great-grandfather of Man o’War and established in Lexington in 1937, Spendthrift Farm is former home to Triple Crown heroes Seattle Slew and Affirmed, plus a multitude of fellow Kentucky Derby winners and leading sires. Moreover, a remarkable resurgence in the 21st century shows no signs of abating with superstar stallion Into Mischief breaking Tapit’s single-season North American prize-money record; the farm’s marquee attraction retained his champion sire title with more than $20 million in progeny earnings. Since Public Storage founder B Wayne Hughes took over in 2004, a once-defunct stallion station has morphed into one of the industry’s most obvious success stories under the supervision of experienced general manager Ned Toffey. Customer-friendly programmes such as Spendthrift’s ‘Share The Upside’ and ‘Safe Bet’ initiatives have played a significant role in this commercially-minded operation’s return to past glories, while notable racetrack successes from a small string have included the efforts of three-time Breeders’ Cup winner Beholder and Authentic, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic. The latter, a son of the farm’s marquee sire Into Mischief, supports his sire on a stellar roster including recent stars Arkansas Derby winner Omaha Beach, Bolt D’Oro, Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Vino Rosso, and Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Mitole – much to the delight of Spendthrift president Eric Gustavson. “To have a son of Into Mischief is the ultimate for us," he said. “Now we have the best son of our best stallion standing on the farm. It really is unbelievable."
Authentic Into Mischief - Flawless (Mr Greeley) 2021 fee $75,000 S&N Bolt D’Oro Medaglia D’Oro - Globe Trot (A.P. Indy) 2021 fee $15,000 S&N Brody’s Cause Giant’s Causeway - Sweet Breanna (Sahm) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N Cinco Charlie Indian Charlie - Ten Halos (Marquetry) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N Cloud Computing Maclean’s Music - Quick Temper (A.P. Indy) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N Coal Front Stay Thirsty - Miner’s Secret (Mineshaft) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N Cross Traffic Unbridled’s Song - Stop Traffic (Cure The Blues) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N Dominus Smart Strike - Cuando (Lord At War) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N Free Drop Billy Union Rags - Trensa (Giant’s Causeway) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N Goldencents Into Mischief - Golden Works (Banker’s Gold) 2021 fee $15,000 S&N Gormley Malibu Moon - Race To Urga (Bernstein) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N
Temple City Dynaformer - Curriculum (Danzig) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N
Into Mischief Harlan’s Holiday - Leslie’s Lady (Tricky Creek) 2021 fee $225,000 S&N
Hit It A Bomb War Front - Liscanna (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N Jimmy Creed Distorted Humor - Hookedonthefeelin (Citidancer) 2021 fee $10,000 S&N Lord Nelson Pulpit - African Jade (Seeking The Gold) 2021 fee $10,000 S&N Malibu Moon A.P. Indy - Macoumba (Mr Prospector) 2021 fee $35,000 S&N Maximus Mischief Into Mischief - Reina Maria (Songandaprayer) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N Mitole Eskendereya - Indian Miss (Indian Charlie) 2021 fee $15,000 S&N Mor Spirit Eskendereya - I’m A Dixie Girl (Dixie Union) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N Omaha Beach War Front - Charming (Seeking The Gold) 2021 fee $35,000 S&N Vekoma Candy Ride (ARG) - Mona De Momma (Speightstown) 2021 fee $20,000 S&N Vino Rosso Curlin - Mythical Bride (Street Cry (IRE)) 2021 fee $25,000 S&N
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Based at Nicholasville, Kentucky, Taylor Made Stallions is the stud arm of the Taylor family’s powerhouse operation, a worldwide industry leader in sales, marketing and horse care. Leading consignor at Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton on numerous occasions, the Taylor Made Sales Agency has consigned the winners of nearly 120 Grade 1 races since being established by Duncan Taylor with business partner Mike Shannon in 1976, originally on land leased from Gainesway, where his late father Joe Taylor was farm manager across four decades. Obvious sale highlights include seven-time Grade 1 winner Ashado, sold for a world record $9 million at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale in 2005 before Havre De Grace took the record to $12m when sold on behalf of Rick Porter’s Fox Hill Farm in 2012. Taylor Made’s select stallion division currently features leading North American second-crop sire Not This Time, a son of Giant’s Causeway, new addition Knicks Go, the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, Instagrand, the Graded-winning son of champion sire Into Mischief, as well as Grade 1 winners Instilled Regard, Midnight Storm and Mshawish.
Taylor Made Farm
www.taylormadestallions.com
Mshawish Medaglia D’Oro - Thunder Bayou (Thunder Gulch) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N Not This Time Giant’s Causeway - Miss Macy Sue (Trippi) 2021 fee $40,000 S&N
Instagrand Into Mischief - Assets Of War (Lawyer Ron) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N Instilled Regard Arch - Enhancing (Forestry) 2021 fee $12,500 S&N Midnight Storm Pioneerof The Nile - My Tina (Bertrando) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N
Three Chimneys Farm has laid its imprint on the racing and breeding industry over the near-50 years since it began life in 1972 as a small boarding operation of nine mares, founded by Robert and Blythe Clay. It has managed the careers of some top-notch stallions, like Seattle Slew, Dynaformer and Rahy, has crossed borders by standing sires such as Epsom Derby hero Shahrastani, and has been involved with the breeding and or racing careers of such stellar mares as Hidden Lake, Pompeii, Gorgeous, Ave and Miss Keller. In 2013 the Borges-Torrealba family acquired a controlling interest in the Midway, Kentucky farm, whose beating heart is teamwork. ‘Nobody does it alone’ is a core philosophy, with Three Chimneys always keen to form partnerships with clients, often for the long haul. Investment in stallions includes 2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner, whose extraordinary progeny have made him the leading North American sire for his freshman sire class and also the leading sire of two-year-olds. With the Three Chimneys roster also including Eclipse champion Will Take Charge, Classic winner Palace Malice, Grade 1 winner Volatile and Sky Mesa, there are numerous chapters yet to be written in the successful story of the famed stud.
Three Chimneys Farm
threechimneys.com
Sky Mesa Pulpit - Caress (Storm Cat) 2021 fee: $12,500 S&N Will Take Charge Unbridled’s Song - Take Charge Lady (Dehere) 2021 fee: $5,000 S&N Volatile Violence - Melody Lady (Unbridled's Song) 2021 fee: $17,500 S&N
Fast Anna Medaglia D’Oro - Dreaming Of Anna (Rahy) 2021 fee: $5,000 S&N Funtastic More Than Ready - Quiet Dance (Quiet American) 2021 fee: $5,000 S&N Sharp Azteca Freud - So Sharp (Saint Liam) 2021 fee: $6,500 S&N
Gun Runner Candy Ride (ARG) - Quiet Giant (Giant’s Causeway) 2021 fee: $50,000 S&N
Palace Malice Curlin - Palace Rumor (Royal Anthem) 2021 fee: $20,000 S&N
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The WinStar motto, ‘Dream big’, is well chosen indeed. From humble beginnings on a 450-acre tract of the former Prestonwood Farm, in two decades the operation founded by Kenny Troutt and Bill Casner has grown into one of the world’s largest stallion farms, in the process winning Eclipse Awards as both Outstanding Owner and Outstanding Breeder. WinStar was the majority owner of Triple Crown winner Justify; their colours were also carried by Kentucky Derby victor Super Saver and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Drosselmeyer. More than 20 stallions now stand at the WinStar base in Versailles, Kentucky, which has grown to encompass over 2,400 acres, where a state-of-the-art stallion barn and breeding shed is augmented by full training track, rehabilitation services and one of the top broodmare bands in North America. Although leading sire Tiznow has been pensioned, a star-studded stallion roster includes stalwart champion sprinter and leading sire Speightstown, leading third-season sire (and sire of Tiz The Law) Constitution, the remarkable More Than Ready (who has had an Eclipse Award winner in each of the last four years), last year’s Eclipse Champion Older Male Improbable and Florida Derby winner Audible. The formidable array of talent also features Paynter, Take Charge Indy, Yoshida, Tom’s D’Etat and Global Campaign.
WinStar Farm
winstarfarm.com
Paynter Awesome Again - Tizso (Cee’s Tizzy) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N Tom’s D’Etat Smart Strike - Julia Tuttle (Giant’s Causeway) 2021 fee $17,500 Regional stallions At Dutchess Views Farm, NY: Bellamy Road Concerto - Hurry Home Hillary (Deputed Testamony) 2021 fee: $5,000 S&N At Blazing Meadows Farm, Ohio: National Flag Speightstown - Date To Remember (Bernardini) 2021 fee: inquiries to lorourke@winstarfarm.com
Distorted Humor Forty Niner - Danzig’s Beauty (Danzig) 2021 fee private Exaggerator Curlin - Dawn Road (Vindication) 2021 fee $15,000 S&N Global Campaign Curlin - Globe Trot (A.P. Indy) 2021 fee $12,500 S&N Good Samaritan Harlan’s Holiday - Pull Dancer (Pulpit) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N Improbable City Zip - Rare Event (A.P. Indy) 2021 fee $40,000 S&N
Always Dreaming Bodemeister - Above Perfection (In Excess (IRE)) 2021 fee $17,500 S&N
Laoban Uncle Mo - Chattertown (Speightstown) 2021 fee $25,000 S&N
Audible Into Mischief - Blue Devil Bel (Gilded Time) 2021 fee $22,500 S&N
More Than Ready Southern Hero - Woodman’s Girl (Woodman) 2021 fee $65,000 S&N
Carpe Diem Giant’s Causeway - Rebridled Dreams (Unbridled’s Song) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N
Promises Fulfilled Shackleford - Marquee Delivery (Marquetry) 2021 fee $10,000 S&N
Congrats A.P. Indy - Praise (Mr Prospector) 2021 fee $7,500 S&N
Speightster Speightstown - Dance Swiftly (Danzig) 2021 fee $10,000 S&N
Constitution Tapit - Baffled (Distorted Humor) 2021 fee $85,000 S&N
Speightstown Gone West - Silken Cat (Storm Cat) 2021 fee $90,000 S&N
Fed Biz Giant’s Causeway - Spunoutofcontrol (Wild Again) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N
Tourist Tiznow - Unbridled Melody (Unbridled’s Song) 2021 fee $5,000 S&N
Yoshida (JPN) Heart’s Cry (JPN) - Hilda’s Passion (Canadian Frontier) 2021 fee $15,000 S&N
Take Charge Indy A.P. Indy - Take Charge Lady (Dehere) 2021 fee $15,000 S&N
Outwork Uncle Mo - Nonna Mia (Empire Maker) 2021 fee $15,000 S&N
One of California’s leading stallion stations, Tom and Nancy Clark’s Rancho San Miguel nestles in 250 acres in the coastal foothills northwest of Paso Robles, a central state location accessible to both northern and southern regions. Bloodstock manager Dennis Yokum brings decades of experience featuring numerous Californian-bred champions to his role as bloodstock manager, supervising a stallion roster led by globetrotting Sir Prancealot. He is standing for his second season in California after a 2020 in which his progeny won stakes races in at least six countries and both Miss Amulet and Grade 1 winner Lady Prancealot made the frame at the Breeders’ Cup; the latter subsequently sold to Shadai for $1.6 million at Keeneland as a broodmare prospect. Winner of the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster in the UK when trained by Richard Hannon snr, Sir Prancealot’s best-known offspring in Europe is multiple Group-race winner Sir Dancealot, while notable US runners from only limited imported runners so far are headed by million-dollar earner Beau Recall. Also standing at Rancho San Miguel is the regally bred Curlin To Mischief, a half-brother to champion sire Into Mischief, three-time Breeders’ Cup winner Beholder and noted top-level performer Mendelssohn, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf and UAE Derby.
RANCHO SAN MIGUEL
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Richard’s Kid Lemon Drop Kid - Tough Broad (Broad Brush) 2021 fee $2,500 live foal Slew’s Tiznow Tiznow - Hepatica (Slewpy) 2021 fee $3,000 live foal Tom’s Tribute Lion Heart - Halloween Fun (El Prado (IRE)) 2021 fee $2,000 live foal
Curlin To Mischief Curlin - Leslie’s Lady (Tricky Lady) 2021 fee $3,500 live foal Danzing Candy Twirling Candy - Talkin And Singing (Songandaprayer) 2021 fee $5,000 live foal Northern Causeway Giant’s Causeway - Getaway Girl (Silver Deputy) 2021 fee $2,000 live foal
Sir Prancealot (IRE) Tamayuz - Mona Em (Tiznow) 2021 fee $15,000 live foal
