Pollard’s Vision to Waldorf Farm in North Chatham

Millionaire Pollard’s Vision, sire of champion 3-year-old filly Blind Luck, is being relocated to Dr. Jerry Bilinski’s Waldorf Farm in North Chatham for 2013.

A 12-year-old son of Carson City out of Etats Unis (Dixieland Band), Pollard’s Vision will remain the property of a syndicate and stand for $5,000. He will continue to shuttle to La Mission in Argentina where he has averaged 130 mares a year for the past three years.

A winner of four graded stakes and earner of $1,430,311, Pollard’s Vision was bred in Kentucky by Charles A. Smith and foaled at Wintergreen Stallion Station, where he retired to stud in 2006. The stallion, who is blind in his right eye, was named for Red Pollard, Seabiscuit’s jockey, also blind in one eye.

Pollard’s Vision was the number three first crop sire in 2009 with 20 winners, four stakes winners and one Grade 1 winner – namely Blind Luck who would go on to earn $3.2 million and be named champion three-year-old filly in 2010. He has sired 12 other stakes winners.

Dr. Jerry Bilinski said, “We are very excited to bring Pollard’s Vision to New York breeders.  He relocates as a successful stallion that has the proven ability to throw a champion. He is by Carson City, just like the hugely successful, formerly New York based sire, City Zip. It is a line that really works well here.”

Bilinski added, “Having bred 165 mares in 2010, foals from his biggest and best book of mares are on their way to the starting gate this year. This gives breeders a lot of upside potential.  His ability to get a sound, fast, versatile runner with a high AEI makes him a perfect fit for New York.”

John J. Greely IV, who owns Wintergreen Stallion Station with his brother Beau, said, “I have been involved with Pollard since he was foaled right here at Wintergreen and then returned to stand here at stud.  He is a great looking, smart horse who has been incredible to be around. I am certain that there are great things still to come and I will continue to follow his stallion career very closely.”

Inquiries may be made to Dr. Jerry Bilinski at (518) 766-4600.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2013/02/28/pollards-vision-to-waldorf-farm/

Alex’s Pal relocates to Centennial Farm

Alex’s Pal, sire of multiple Grade 2 winner C C’s Pal, will stand the 2013 breeding season at Albert Geldmacher’s Centennial Farm near Gilbertsville. His fee is $3,500 live foal or complimentary to the first 10 mares with an A nick or better.

A half brother to Grade 2 winner and sire Successful Appeal, 14-year-old Alex’s Pal (Valid Expectations/Successful Dancer, by Fortunate Prospect) formerly stood at Birch Creek Farm in New Jersey.

Last year C C’s Pal won the Grade 2 Honorable Miss Handicap at Saratoga, Grade 2 Vagrancy Handicap at Belmont Park, and the Ladies Handicap at Aqueduct. Having won or placed in 19 stakes, 6-year-old C C’s Pal has earned $799,420.

Alex’s Pal also is also the sire of My Pal Chrisy, winner of the Elmer Heubeck Distaff Handicap at Calder Race Course in 2012 for the second consecutive year. A three-time stakes winner, My Pal Chrisy has earned $418,068.

From his first five crops of racing age, Alex’s Pal has 45 winners from 57 starters with earnings of $3,025,513. His runners average $53,079 per starter.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2013/02/27/alexs-pal-to-centennial-farm/

Frost Giant to Shuttle to Yarradale Stud in Australia

(Edited press release) 

New York’s 2012 leading freshman sire Frost Giant will be headed from his base at Keane Stud[1] in Amenia to stand at Yarradale Stud in Western Australia for the Southern Hemisphere season that begins in August.

Sunset Stables, which owns Frost Giant and is managed by Andrew Cohen, announced the shuttle plans in conjunction with Yarradale owner Ron Sayers. Yarradale will stand Frost Giant for a minimum of three years in an arrangement with Sayers and his partner, Eddie Rigg of Geisel Park Stud.

“After talking with Yarradale and learning about the high-quality mares they will breed to Frost Giant, we are really looking forward to seeing how he will do in Australia,” Cohen said. “We expect that this shuttle agreement will solidify Frost Giant as the ‘real deal’ on an international stage.”

“What Frost Giant has done in America is highly exciting, and we’re hoping he can do that down here,” Sayers said. “We have a huge emphasis on two-year-old racing in Australia, and the performance of his two-year-olds last year was impressive. We also believe the Storm Cat sire line works well in Western Australia.”

By Storm Cat’s son Giant’s Causeway, North America’s leading sire in 2009, 2010 and 2012, 10-year-old Frost Giant is out of the Gone West mare Takesmybreathaway, a half sister to Mutakddim, sire of 100 stakes winners. This also is the prolific female family of Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver, champion juvenile and international sire Rhythm, Grade 1 winner and sire Bluegrass Cat, Grade 1 winner Girolamo and many others.

Sayers said he will commit approximately 50 mares from his own band of 150 to Frost Giant during his initial Australian season, as well as make the stallion available to outside breeders.

Some of Sayers’ mares intended for Frost Giant are Adalia, a half sister by Silver Charm to Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap winner Seek Gold; South African champion Arabian Lass, by Al Mufti; the Elusive Quality mare Colleges, whose second dam is a sister to Breeders’ Cup Turf winner and sire In the Wings; Forest Flight, a Forestry half sister to Horse of the Year Skip Away; Let’s Get Even, a half sister to Grade 1 winner and sire Stephen Got Even, and Group 2 winners Born Priceless, Brava Fortune and Clueless Angel.

Frost Giant set a new record for first-crop earnings by a New York-based freshman sire when his progeny amassed $840,633 in 2012. Even with fewer foals in his debut crop than any other sire in the top 30, he led all North American freshmen with 80% winners from runners (12 of 15, with champion Big Brown next at 48.5%, 16 of 33) and by percentage of stakes horses from runners (26.6%, with Spring At Last next at 18.8%).

Two of Frost Giant’s offspring, stakes winners Kelli Got Frosty and West Hills Giant, are finalists for New York-bred juvenile champions[2] in the respective categories for fillies and for males.

Frost Giant, who previously shuttled to Chile for the 2009 and 2010 seasons, currently stands for $7,500. His Australian fee will be announced at a later date. Yarradale also stands shuttler War Chant under an agreement with Three Chimneys Farm of Kentucky.

Endnotes:
  1. Keane Stud: http://www.keanestud.com/
  2. finalists for New York-bred juvenile champions: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2013/01/21/nominations-2012-ny-bred-champions/

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2013/02/22/frost-giant-shuttle-yarradale/

A determined Saginaw resumes winning ways in Hollie Hughes

saginaw the hollie hughes1[1]

Adam Coglianese

by Sarah Mace

Drawing Away Stable and David Jacobson’s Saginaw, winner of 10 of 14 starts in 2012 including six stakes races, returned a determined winner in his 2013 debut, making up several lengths in the final furlong to collar speedy stakes debuter Readytodefer in Monday’s $75,000 Hollie Hughes Stakes at the Big A.

Finishing third in his final race last year, the two-turn Alex M. Robb on December 26, Saginaw fell short in his bid for an 11th victory on the year and sole possession of the title for the most victories in North America in 2012. The 7-year-old Peruvian gelding closed out the year instead in a three-way tie for the most wins, enjoyed a brief freshening and, sporting only a modest worktab of two 3-furlong moves, turned back in distance to six furlongs for his return to the races on Monday.

Readytodefer (Defer), winner of four of his last seven starts, was the first to strike the front after a good start for all. Tracked by 3-5 favorite Saginaw, Readytodefer extended his lead to 1 1/2 lengths going into the far turn and 3 lengths in upper stretch through a crisp quarter mile in 23.12 and even faster half in 45.77.

Saginaw dug in with determination, eroded the lead in the final furlong, and got up in the final strides to win by a head in 1:10.51. Be Bullish came home willingly to take the third spot a length behind Readytodefer, while Uncle T Seven and Sportswriter completed the order of finish.

“He still has it, and I think, hopefully, this is the beginning of a long campaign for 2013,” said winning trainer David Jacobson. “[We’ll take it] race by race. He might need another two months off, or we might get him back in next week, but that’s totally up to him.” Jacobson added, “You always wonder if you give them a layoff how they’re going to come back. Today, he showed a lot of heart. Hopefully, he’ll only improve off this. He’s not the fastest horse I’ve ever had, but he has the biggest heart.”

Winning jockey Junior Alvarado commented, “He broke good and I tried to just put him in a good spot where he could be comfortable. Turning for home, I just asked him to go and he started giving me the kick. He’s a game, good horse and he knows what he’s doing. He just got there right at the wire.”

Winning owner Ed Boden of Drawing Away Stable said, “He wasn’t really 100 percent; he won on his class. Hopefully it will be start of another big year for him. Once he started moving in the stretch, I knew he would catch [Readytodefer] because he doesn’t like to lose. I was more concerned with the horse closing on the outside [Be Bullish].”

Saginaw was claimed by Jacobson for $30,000 out of a 13 1/4-length romp at Aqueduct on March 8, when he was equipped with blinkers for the first time by trainer Rick Dutrow, Jr., who had him for one start.

Wearing blinkers for all subsequent starts, Saginaw has done little wrong, winning 10, including the Carr Heaven and Affirmed Success at Belmont in April and May, Saratoga’s John Morrissey Stakes, the Promenade All in Belmont in September, and Fourstars Allstar at Aqueduct in November and the open Gravesend in December. In the Hudson on Showcase Day, he ran second to the Mind Over Matter after a poor start. Saginaw’s career record now stands at 17-6-3 from 36 starts with earnings of $791,690.

Bred by Ted Taylor and foaled at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds[2], Saginaw is one of three winners out of Devilzene, a Kentucky-bred winner by Devil’s Bag purchased by Ted Taylor for $21,000 as a yearling at the 2000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale. Saginaw’s full brother Sipsey is stakes placed ($97,194). Devilzene currently has a 3-year-old filly by Desert Warrior named Sinclair who has not started, and a 2013 filly by Desert Warrior.

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/saginaw-the-hollie-hughes1.jpg
  2. McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds: http://www.mcmahonthoroughbreds.com/

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2013/02/18/saginaw-hollie-hughes/

McMahons welcome Highcliff Stallions and O’Cains to McMahon Thoroughbreds

(Edited press release)

Joe and Anne McMahon, owners of McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds, announced yesterday the addition of the Highcliff Stallions to the farm for 2013.

On the Highcliff side, C. Lynwood O’Cain, DVM and Suzie O’Cain, Stallion Development, commented, “We could not be more thrilled. We have always dreamed of bringing Saratoga Thoroughbred breeders to the forefront in the state, and with 14 stallions, including the sire of a 2012 Eclipse winner and the sire of a 2012 Grade I stakes winner, we felt now was the time to make the dreams of both families a reality.”

Joe McMahon and Suzie O’Cain have spent many years working together on the boards of several organizations, including the New York Thoroughbred Breeders. Dr. O’Cain adds his vast knowledge of reproductive therapy, while Anne McMahon continues her role in hands on horsemanship and farm management.

Suzie O’Cain added, “Doc and I spent 26 years 45 minutes away from Saratoga, and with the closing of Highcliff Farm after Carl Lizza’s passing, we wanted our friends and clients to know we would always be close and involved with their bloodstock investments. Anne and Joe are not only two of our good friends, their farm is just five minutes down the road, and Doc and I will be there on a regular basis. We all feel this will be the best Thoroughbred stallion station in the Northeast.”

Highcliff stallions Bob and John (Seeking the Gold), Congaree (Arazi), Cosmonaut (Lemon Drop Kid), Maybry’s Boy (Broad Brush), Smart Bid (Smart Strike), and Stonesider (Giant’s Causeway) join McMahon stallions Alphabet Soup (Cozzene), Catienus (Storm Cat), Here Comes Ben (Street Cry {Ire}), Justenuffhumor (Distorted Humor), Mr. Sekiguchi (Storm Cat), Teuflesberg (Johannesburg), Touch Gold (Deputy Minister), and Utopia (Jpn) (Forty Niner) for the 2013 breeding season.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2013/02/15/mcmahons-welcome-highcliff/

Quality Road yearling brings $80,000 at F-T KY Winter Mixed

by Sarah Mace

A New York-bred yearling filly from the first crop of Quality Road brought $80,000 at Monday’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter mixed sale, the last mixed sale of the 2013 auction calendar.

Hip 66[1], bred by James Moloney and Peter Reynolds and foaled at Jack’s Farm on the Hill in Millbrook, was purchased by Nonesuch from the consignment of Paramount Sales, Agent XII.

The bay filly, born last March 17, is the second registered foal produced by Turbulent Air, an unraced daughter of Montbrook, whose first foal, 3-year-old Hailey’s Star (Medaglia d’Oro) is a two-time winner.

Turbulent Air is a half sister to multiple Grade 2 winner and millionaire Smooth Air (Smooth Jazz) and Overdriven (Tale of the Cat), winner of the 2011 Grade 2 Sanford Stakes. Her second dam Twin Propeller is a multiple stakes winner and there is abundant black type under the third dam.

James Moloney purchased Turbulent Air in foal at the 2011 Keeneland November Breeding Stock sale for $55,000.

Endnotes:
  1. Hip 66: http://www.fasigtipton.com/catalogs/2013/0211/66.pdf

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2013/02/12/quality-road-yearling-f-t-ky-winter-mixed/

D’ Funnybone sires first foal

by Sarah Mace

Multiple graded stakes winner D’ Funnybone’s first foal arrived on February 5 at Dr. Bernardo Mongil’s Monhill Farm in Pine Plains. The foal, a filly bred by Mike Schrader, is out of Ballado Hill a winning daughter of Saint Ballado and producer of two multiple winners.

A 6-year-old chestnut son of D’wildcat, D’ Funnybone won a pair of Grade 2 sprints at two, taking the Saratoga Special by more than ten lengths and Belmont’s Futurity by nearly five lengths. He followed up at three with victories in the Grade 2 Hutcheson and Grade 2 Swale, both at Gulfstream Park, and, later in the year, posted a three-length win in Belmont’s Grade 2 Woody Stephens, defeating Grade 1-winner Discreetly Mine and others and earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 100. He retired with a record of 6-3-0 from 15 starts and $686,700 in earnings.

Bred in Florida by Harold J. Plumley, D’ Funnybone is out of the Woodman mare Elbow, also the dam of stakes winner and graded stakes-placed Dr. Kathy. He hails from the female family of Grade 1 Top Flight Handicap-winner Chain Bracelet.

D’ Funnybone[1] stands at Vinery New York[2] at Sugar Maple Farm for a 2013 fee of $3,500, LF stands and nurses.

Endnotes:
  1. D’ Funnybone: http://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/nytb/stallion/137613/d-funnybone
  2. Vinery New York: http://www.vinery.com/indexny.php

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2013/02/11/d-funnybone-sires-first-foal/

Unbridled Command strong third in G1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap

by Sarah Mace

Making his 4-year-old bow on Saturday, Unbridled Command finished a strong third behind two legitimate superstars in Gulfstream Park’s $300,000, Grade 1 Kitten’s Joy Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap.

The grey son of Master Command was last seen on November 25 circling the field to take the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby for a fifth straight victory. In preparation for his 4-year-old debut, the Tom Bush-trainee posted five strong published works at Palm Meadows, including a 5-furlong bullet move (best of 16) in 59 seconds flat on January 24.

Reunited for the Turf Handicap with Javier Castellano, winning pilot for the Hollywood Derby, Unbridled Command (7-2 third choice) lined up in the gate with the stiffest of competition: 5-year-old Point of Entry (Dynaformer), close runner-up in the BC Turf last out and looking for his fourth Grade 1 victory (2-1), and 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom (4-5), second in the BC Mile and making his final start in the United States.

Breaking from post four (of 6), Unbridled Command took the first turn four wide, then raced evenly in third behind Salto, who set pedestrian fractions for the first half mile (25:40, 50:52), and Point of Entry, who tracked a length off the pace. Animal Kingdom was reserved in fifth in the early stages.

The situation changed extremely quickly – and the pace accelerated – when Animal Kingdom moved up boldly at the fence and engaged Salto as the field entered the far turn, while Point of Entry followed suit moving up on the outside.

In upper stretch the top three were still dueling earnest, and Unbridled Command moved up into third when Salto dropped out of it. Point of Entry gained the lead with a furlong to go before edging away to win by 1 1/4 lengths. Unbridled Command fought gamely to the wire, but was unable to make up much ground as the leaders flew home and finished another 1 1/4 lengths back in third. After a mile in 1:35.71, the final time for the 1 1/8 miles over the firm turf was 1:47.00.

A maiden-breaker in his third and final juvenile start in November 2011, Unbridled Command steadily ascended the class ladder last year, winning a pair of state-bred allowance races at Saratoga, before taking the Grade 3 Saranac. Following a 6 3/4-length romp in the Mohawk Stakes, he bested a large deep field in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby. The gray’s record now stands at 6-1-3 from 11 starts and his share of Saturday’s purse brought his earnings to just shy of the half-million dollar mark ($499,040).

If things go according to plan, Unbridled Command will travel to England next, where he will be trained by Ed Dunlop with an eye to Royal Ascot, then the Cox Plate and Hong Kong later in the season.

Unbridled Command was bred by Sequel Thoroughbreds LLC in partnership with A. Lakin & Sons Inc., and foaled at Sequel Stallions New York [1]in Hudson. The colt was purchased outright by Lewis Lakin for $28,000 at the 2011 OBS Spring 2-year-old sale. The ownership group was augmented this January by Australian-based Kevin and Colleen Bamford and American owner David Bernsen.

Unbridled Command is one of four winners produced by Unbridled Betty, an unraced daughter of Unbridled’s Song, who sold in foal to Master Command to Top Sale for $75,000 at the 2008 Keeneland November sale. Unbridled Betty is a half-sister to two stakes winners and to Astaire Step, dam of multiple Grade 1 winner Manistique (Unbridled), who earned over $1.3 million.

The mare currently has a 3-year-old colt by Freud named Mr. Panda, who has not started, a 2-year-old colt by Freud and a yearling filly by Read the Footnotes who topped the 2012 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed Sale when purchased by Edition Farm for $100,000[2]. Unbridled Betty was bred last year to Girolamo, who entered at stud at Sequel Stallions New York[3] in 2012.

Endnotes:
  1. Sequel Stallions New York : http://www.sequelnewyork.com/
  2. topped the 2012 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed Sale when purchased by Edition Farm for $100,000: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2012/12/04/weanling-half-sister-to-unbridled-command-tops-f-t-december-mixed/
  3. Sequel Stallions New York: http://www.sequelnewyork.com/

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2013/02/09/unbridled-command-gp-turf-h/

Twin Creeks sends 21 Kentucky mares to Mission Impazible

(Edited press release)

Twin Creeks Farm has announced that 21 of its Kentucky-based mares have been officially booked to multiple Grade 2-winning millionaire Mission Impazible[1] for the 2013 breeding season. The first-year stallion by Unbridled’s Song stands at Becky Thomas’s and Dennis Narlinger’s Sequel Stallions[2] in New York, which will also serve as the new home for the 21 mares, all of which will now be eligible for New York’s lucrative breeding program.

“We have hand selected an outstanding group of mares at Twin Creeks Farm to breed to Mission Impazible in hopes of giving him the best opportunity to become New York’s leading sire,” said Randy Gullatt of Twin Creeks. “New York has the best state-bred program in North America for both breeders and racehorse owners, and we’re excited about the future and being involved in New York.”

Of the 21 mares chosen, 17 have earned black type in their careers, including 13 stakes winners. Notables include Grade 1 performers Queen of Hearts and Unspoken Word, and Graded stakes winners Little Miss Holly and Nashinda. Notable among the top producers is Deputy Reality, the dam of Grade 2 stakes winner Teeth of the Dog who was a leading 3-year-old in 2012 in New York.

Mission Impazible scored his biggest wins on the track in the 2010 Louisiana Derby (G2) and 2011 New Orleans H. (G2), and was runner-up in three Grade 1 races, including the 2012 Donn H. (G1), 2011 Clark H. (G1) and 2011 Stephen Foster H (G1). He was also a TDN Rising Star after breaking his maiden first-time out as a 2-year-old during the 2009 Keeneland Spring Meet. Mission Impazible finished in the money in 13 of 21 starts, which included 17 Graded stakes races – 8 of which were Grade 1s. After accumulating $1,284,949 in earnings over a four-year career, Mission Impazible retired at the end of the 2012 season.

Out of the multiple Graded stakes-producing mare La Paz, Mission Impazible is set to stand his first season in 2013 at Sequel Stallions in Hudson, NY for a fee of $7,500 stands and nurses.

Endnotes:
  1. Mission Impazible: http://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/nytb/stallion/166076/mission-impazible
  2. Sequel Stallions: http://www.sequelnewyork.com/

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2013/02/09/mares-to-mission-impazable/

NYTB seats 2013 Board

by Sarah Mace

The Board of Directors of New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. (NYTB) held its first meeting of 2013 on Monday, February 4. The newly-seated Board unanimously re-elected Thomas J. Gallo, III to serve as Board Vice-President and Vivien Malloy as Secretary/Treasurer. Both will serve two-year-terms. In 2013 Board President Barry R. Ostrager will serve the second year of a two-year term.

Mallory Mort, manager of Gallagher’s Stud in Ghent, NY was newly elected to the Board in the 2012 NYTB Board election to serve a two-year-term from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2014.

The complete NYTB Board for 2013 is:

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2013/02/04/nytb-seats-2013-board/

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