Roger’s Dream (SV Photography)
By Eric Mitchell, Courtesy Bloodhorse.com
New York freshman sire Encaustic had a solid start Sept. 27 when the stallion’s first starter also became his first winner.
The second-highest price in a seven-horse field at nearly 16-1, Rogers Dream won a 5 1/2-furlong maiden claimer at Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack gate to wire under Rodolfo Ignacio. He crossed the wire one length the best in a final time of 1:07.96. The juvenile gelding is raced by owner/trainer Jeffrey Englehart and William Molloy.
Bred in New York by Banahan Farms, Rogers Dream is out of the winning Yonaguska daughter Shesadreamcatcher.
Encaustic is the only stakes winner from the next-to-last crop of leading sire Broad Brush. He is also one of five stakes winners produced by the blue hen mare Illeria, who is the dam of grade I winner and sire Include and graded stakes winner Magic Broad—both full siblings to Encaustic. All of Illeria’s foals were bred by Robert Meyerhoff or under the name of his Fitzhugh Farm. Meyerhoff raced Broad Brush.
As a racehorse, Encaustic won five of his 14 starts in black-type stakes. He retired with a 12-11-6 record in 46 starts and now stands at Foggy Bottom Farm near Geneseo, N.Y., for $2,000.
