Grade 1 winner of $3.3 million Effinex retires to Questroyal North
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Grade 1 Clark Handicap (Churchill Downs/Reed Palmer Photography)
(Edited press release)
Effinex, the Grade 1-winning multi-millionaire son of Horse of the Year Mineshaft, has been retired from racing and will stand his first season in 2017 at Questroyal Stud in Stillwater for $10,000 stands and nurses.
The 5-year-old Effinex won nine races and earned more than $3.3 million while competing against the best handicap horses in North America. In multiple graded events he defeated Grade I winners Honor Code, Frosted, Tonalist, Hoppertunity, Wicked Strong, Keen Ice, Melatonin, etc. In the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Classic, he finished second to Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, recording a Beyer speed figure of 112. It was one of 11 triple digit Beyers he earned in his career.
Effinex competed in 20 stakes and his final 14 races came in graded company, including nine Grade 1 events. He won the Grade 1 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs, the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap, the Grade 2 Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park, twice, and the Grade 3 Excelsior at Belmont.
Effinex is by Horse of the Year Mineshaft, sire of winners of more than $47 million including North America’s Leading Freshman Sire Dialed In. Effinex is the first foal out of the multiple stakes winner What a Pear from the female family of champion 2-year-old in Ireland, Malinowski and the great Redoute’s Choice.
Russell Cohen of Tri- Bone Stables said, “I am very excited to stand our Grade 1 winner and New York Horse of the Year in New York. Effinex has given us such joy the last few seasons and we have compiled a great team to promote Effinex for the 2017 season in my long time friend Gus Schoenborn, Chris Bernhard of Hidden Lake Farm and Barry Ostrager of Questroyal North. This team has been responsible for the two biggest success stories to come out of New York in City Zip and Belong to Me.”
Barry Ostrager commented, “Effinex is the most accomplished Freshman sire in the history of the New York breeding program and represents extraordinary value to breeders from any state at $10,000, live foal.”
Effinex will be available for inspection at Questroyal North in Stillwater, NY on Friday, December 2 and Saturday, December 3. For more information go to www.questroyalnorth.com[2] or contact Midge Hawver (518) 828-0777 Email: qrstud@mhcable.com[3]; Michael Brown, Farm Manager 518-774-2730; or Kelly McCombs, Office Manager (518) 541-3280 Email: questroyalnorth@gmail.com.[4]
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Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Effinex-Wins-Clark-Handicap-under-rail.jpg
- www.questroyalnorth.com: http://www.questroyalnorth.com
- qrstud@mhcable.com: mailto:qrstud@mhcable.com
- questroyalnorth@gmail.com.: mailto:questroyalnorth@gmail.com
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2016/11/29/effinex-to-questroyal-n/
Lubash promoted to first in Grade 3 Tropical Turf Handicap
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Photo: Lauren King
By Sarah Mace
Making his fifty-first lifetime start Saturday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Tropical Turf Handicap at Gulfstream Park West, Aliyu Ben J Stable’s Lubash (Freud), a 9-year-old homebred and the reigning New York-bred male turf champion, was able to put one more in the win column.
The outright winner of the Tropical Turf Handicap in 2014, Lubash was second across the line this year, but his number was justifiably put up by the stewards.
In the early stages of the 1 1/6-mile turf contest, Lubash sat off the pace with only one horse beaten of eight, but picked things up rounding the far turn and began to circle the field. Angling out five wide at the head of the lane, in midstretch he only had Rose Briar left to pass.
Rose Briar ducked out abruptly multiple paths in the final sixteenth, and Lubash, who was in an active drive and closing, had to check hard and lost momentum. He finished 1 1/4 lengths behind the erratic horse before being promoted to first.
Jockey Joe Bravo said after the race, “It’s a shame, I don’t know if Trevor’s horse [Rose Briar] spooked from the inside or what, but he came out a long way and we were impeded.”
Continued Bravo, “I’m glad everything worked out OK today. Lubash is a classy old warrior. He’s a New York-bred but he wins anywhere.”
Lubash now has eighteen career victories, topped by 12 stakes scores, nine seconds and five thirds. He has bankrolled $1,488,139.
Although trainer Christophe Clement also had mixed feelings about getting the win via a DQ, ultimately, he came down on the side of the notion that “a win is a win.”
Said Clement, “I really don’t like to win a race that way because I don’t like that. Nevertheless, I’m thrilled for the horse. He’s a wonderful horse. he’s nine years old. He overcame me for many years, which is great. I don’t like to win a race that way, but we’ll take it.”
Clement is uncertain as to what the future holds for the champ. “I’m not sure (what’s next). The idea was to retire him, but it’s hard to retire a horse that just won a Grade 3. It will be up to the owner.”
Lubash was trained at three and four by James Ryerson, for whom he won his first three stakes victories (the NYSS Cab Calloway Division, open Fifth Marine Stakes and open Monarch’s Maze).
Moving to the Clement Barn in 2012, his career has been nothing short of remarkable. Year-in and year-out (with breaks for the winter scheduled in), he has been in the thick of the ultra-competitive New York-bred turf male division, knocking heads with the likes of Kharafa and King Kreesa. His forays into open company have also been successful. Lubash especially relishes firm turf, which is why Clement has brought him twice to Gulfstream Park West this time of year.
Lubash’s 12 stakes victories are topped by the Grade 3 Fort Marcy (2013) and the pair of victories in the Grade 3 Tropical Turf Handicap (2014 and 2016). In the New York-bred ranks he has won, among other stakes, the West Point at Saratoga twice (2012 and 2015) and the Ashley T. Cole twice (2012 and 2014). In 2015 he set a new course record for 1 1/16 miles in 1:39.08.
Foaled at Carapan Farm, Lubash is the most successful offspring of Nasty Cure, a stakes-placed six-figure earner by Cure the Blues ($153,122). who has produced five multiple winners. Her stakes-placed New York-bred Netcong by Meadow Flight started 87 times and banked $327,924. Her most recent reported foal is a yearling full-brother to Lubash.
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Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Lubash-the-Tropical-Turf-Hdcp-credit-Lauren-King-3.jpg
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2016/11/26/lubash-tropical-turf-h-2016/
Filibustin stays perfect with Key Cents score
[1]By Sarah Mace
Once the New York-bred juvenile fillies finally got a chance to face the starter for the 6-furlong $100,000 Key Cents Stakes Friday — rescheduled after last Sunday’s high winds KO’d the Aqueduct card — Alan R. Cook’s Filibustin by Bustin Stones scored a clear-cut victory over 11 rivals to drive her record to a perfect three-for-three.
Drawn in post four the first time around, but migrating out to the 10-hole when the race was redrawn, Filibustin (3-1) broke alertly, and made her way efficiently toward the inside under Jose Lezcano. The filly then settled in the two path, where she hooked up with Ribbonite to her inside – winner of the Lady Finger Stakes in Farmington September, but let go at odds of 64-1.
The pair raced in tandem for a half-mile in 47.39, and Ribbonite had a slight advantage as they reached the quarter pole. Filibustin then began to assert herself in upper stretch, and around the furlong marker launched her drive to the wire in earnest. She ultimately opened up to a decisive 3-length victory in 1:12.50.
Second time starter Overnegotiate (3-1), the lone filly to join the lineup when the race was drawn a second time, closed into second from third, while longshot Ribbonite tired and drifted out, but held on for third. [VIDEO[2]]
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NYRA/Chelsea Durand
Jockey Lezcano, summed things up neatly: “She’s a very nice filly. She broke very good and I let her go and do her thing. I asked her within the last sixteenths, and she really took off and won the race easily.”
Trainer Greg Sacco first talked race tactics, beginning with Filibustin’s outer post in the rescheduled Key Cents. “When we drew the outside post today,” said Sacco, “I just left it up to Jose. We were on the inside going seven-eighths last time [in the Gimma] and we just wanted to get her out in the clear. This time, we had speed on the inside, the filly that won impressively first time out [Kim Royale] and Ribbonite, and I just told Jose, ‘wherever you’re comfortable, you’re comfortable, but she will rate.’”
Sacco continued, “She’s rated kindly in the mornings and it’s much different than a race. I thought she was in a good position the whole race and then sending her for home, it’s just whether you’re good enough. Every time you run, you have to answer the bell.”
Sacco also felt the significance of the victory and filly’s perfect record. “There were some really impressive horses in this race, which made the race a little interesting. There was a little different dynamic than the last race. Three wins at three different tracks, three different surfaces; she’s just a really neat New York-bred filly to have. It’s exciting, and I’m really happy for Mr. Cook. It’s the only horse he has.”
Continued Sacco, “She’s a really easygoing filly to train and just a pleasure to have. We’re fortunate to have a nice filly that can run like this.”
Winner of her debut at Monmouth Park by more than eight lengths on September 4, Filibustin captured the Joseph A. Gimma by nearly five lengths on October 2. She has earned $161,970 from her three wins.
Sacco is thinking about bringing her back from her Parx home base for the NYSS Fifth Avenue on December 19. “That would obviously be her last race of the year and then we’ll see if we’ll give her a little break,” he said. “When they’re going good, you don’t want to stop, and she doesn’t mind getting spaced out. I’d like to space her out and not run her too much over the winter and have her ready for this summer.”
Bred by Luck Be a Lady Racing, Filibustin was foaled at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, home of her sire Bustin Stones[4] who stood for $2,500 in 2016.
Filibustin is one of two winners from two foals to start out of Sweet Aloha, a West-Virginia-bred six-figure earner. The mare has a yearling filly by Take Charge Indy, a weanling colt by Forty Tales and was bred back to the same sire in 2016.
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Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Filibustin-the-Key-Cents-2.jpg
- VIDEO: http://www.nytbreeders.org/includes/video-player.cfm?date=20161125&track=AQD&race=9
- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Filibustin-the-Key-Cents-credit-chelsea-durand.jpg
- Bustin Stones: http://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/nytb/stallion/126394/bustin-stones
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2016/11/25/filibustin-key-cents/
Loki’s Vengeance repeats in NYSS Thunder Rumble off the bench
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NYRA/Chelsea Durand
By Sarah Mace
Blue Bison Stable’s Loki’s Vengeance (Frost Giant), coming off a layoff of more than four months and shooting for his second consecutive victory in Aqueduct’s $125,000 Thunder Rumble division of the New York Stallion Stakes (NYSS), was ready to go on Friday, thanks to trainer Mike Hushion. Last year the handsome 5-year-old won the 7-furlong race for older New York-sired horses with a stalking trip. This time around, the tactics were different.
Sharp out of the gate under jockey Jose Ortiz, Loki’s Vengeance drove to the front from post six and settled on the lead, where he maintained a measured half-length advantage over 8-1 Becker’s Galaxy.
Through a quarter-mile in 23.32 and half in 46.69, the relative positions of the top two remained unchanged. The two-horse merry-go-round lasted until upper stretch, when Loki’s Vengeance found another gear, opened up and eventually romped to a much-the-best 7 1/4-length victory in a final time of 1:23.20.
Becker’s Galaxy held on for second, while, a neck back West Hills Giant (2-1) and favorite Empire Dreams (9-5) checked in noses apart third and fourth. Jet Black, We Did, Bust Another and Cloud Control completed the order of finish. The race, originally carded for last Sunday, was rescheduled to Friday after Thanksgiving after high winds forced NYRA to cancel racing. [VIDEO[2]]
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Winning jockey Jose Ortiz reported, “Mike [Hushion] told me that [Loki’s Vengeance] breaks really good, and don’t be afraid to go to the lead. He did, and when I asked him to go at the three-sixteenths pole he exploded. He gave me a great turn of foot.”
Hushion added, “Sometimes Loki’s Vengeance breaks so hard he stumbles only because he’s so powerful coming out of there like a quarter horse. When I looked at the quarter-pole and I saw everyone moving already and nobody really closing, that was a real help, and when he kicked away from Irad [Ortiz on Becker’s Galaxy] I felt pretty good.”
As to “Loki’s” time on the sidelines, Hushion explained, “His time off was never due to any physical issue, it was just time for a break.”
Bred by Andrew Cohen, whose Sunrise Stables stands Frost Giant at Keane Stud in Amenia, and foaled at Vinery New York in Hudson, Loki’s Vengeance is the first foal out of Subtle Sweetness (During), a multiple winner who was bred in New York by Thomas-Narlinger, LLC and Dennis Repp. Subtle Sweetness has five more foals on the ground and two more winners, all sired by Frost Giant. The mare was bred back to Frost Giant this year.
A graduate of the 2012 Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale, Loki’s Vengeance was purchased by Blue Bison Stable for $35,000. As a sophomore, he won the NYSS Times Square division, the Affirmed Success Stakes the following year and, now, back-to-back runnings of the NYSS Thunder Rumble. His earnings from seven wins, five seconds and a pair of thirds are approaching the half million-dollar mark with $492,201.
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Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lokis-vengeance-credit-chelsea-durand.jpg
- VIDEO: http://www.nytbreeders.org/includes/video-player.cfm?date=20161125&track=AQD&race=4
- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lokis-vengeance3.jpg
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2016/11/25/lokis-vengeance-thunder-rumble-16/
New York-breds trend well at Keeneland November
[1]By Sarah Mace
At the conclusion of Sunday afternoon’s final session of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale (November 8-20), the New York breeding program had reason to celebrate a successful run.
The contingent from the Empire State produced an increase in total sales and average price over their counterparts last year, and saw a concrete demonstration that they are still an ever-hot commodity. This year’s buyback percentage fell significantly compared to last year, while the group’s RNA rate was dramatically lower than the general population of the sale.
Of 126 New York-breds offered this November, 100 sold for $5,268,400. Last year 86 individuals brought $4,309,600. As we have come to expect in the current polarized state of the market, there was plenty of action for the top tier. Seventeen New York-breds brought six figures (up from 12 in 2015); eight horses sold for $200,000 and up, and the topper fetched $300,000.
The New York-bred average for 2016 ended up at $52,684, a couple ticks above last year’s $50,112, and the median of $21,500 was down from $27,500 last year.
Certainly, the brightest spot for breeders and consignors was the New York-bred clearance rate. The buyback percentage ended up at 20.6 percent which not only improved on last year’s 25.2 RNA rate by 18 percent, but significantly outperformed the sale as whole where the closing buyback rate for 2016 was 26.9 percent.
The top-selling New York-bred arrived in Book 1, when 4-year-old open stakes winner Harlan’s Honor (Hip 212[2]) brought $300,000 in foal to Liam’s Map. (Read more[3].)
Book 3 produced the second-highest price and top weanling purchase, a $275,000 New York-bred colt from the second crop of Violence (Hip 1634[4]) out of Kentucky-bred Five Star Momma, who topped the same session. (Read more[5].)
New York-bred fireworks in the latter books of the sale included the top New York-bred racing prospect, Diversify by Bellamy Road out of Rule One (Hip 2927[6]), a two-for-two TDN Rising Star sold to Ralph and Lauren Evans for $210,000 in the concluding session of Book 4. Courageisamajority, a 4-year-old daughter of Medaglia d’Oro in foal to first-year sire Carpe Diem (Hip 4061[7]), topped the 11th session last Friday.
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Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/keeneland-logo3.jpg
- Hip 212: http://apps.keeneland.com/sales/Nov16/pdfs/212.pdf
- Read more: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2016/11/10/nyb-keenov16-book-1/
- Hip 1634: http://apps.keeneland.com/sales/Nov16/pdfs/1634.pdf
- Read more: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2016/11/14/book-3-opener-keenov-16/
- Hip 2927: http://apps.keeneland.com/sales/Nov16/pdfs/2927.pdf
- Hip 4061: http://apps.keeneland.com/sales/Nov16/pdfs/4061.pdf
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2016/11/20/nyb-keenov16-wrap/
Artie Schiller’s Macagone shocks Artie Schiller field at 34-1
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NYRA/Chelsea Durand
By Sarah Mace
Trinity Farm homebred Macagone, a 5-year-old gelded son of Artie Schiller, meted out some very satisfying poetic justice at Aqueduct on Saturday.
Dismissed at odds 34-1, he won his sire’s namesake race, the $150,000 Artie Schiller Stakes, at one mile on the turf after employing (for him) an unorthodox strategy.
On paper, the competing speeds in the Artie Schiller field did not bode well for Macagone’s success, especially the speed of Heart to Heart, who was drawn toward the outside. Macagone’s six prior victories had all come gate-to-wire and he had no history of rating successfully. As it happened, the Bill Mott-trainee did the unthinkable: sat a pocket trip rating under jockey Kendrick Carmouche, and closed with determination to get the win.
Exiting post 3 of 10, Macagone settled in at the rail and raced covered up in fourth. Favorite Heart to Heart set the pace, running the first quarter mile in 23.72 and the half in 47.95, pressed along by New York-bred King Kreesa.
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After three-quarters of a mile, Macagone got some extra room to run. Heart to Heart spurted ahead at the head of the stretch and Macagone angled out for the drive and moved into second.
Charging to the wire, the gelding passed Heart to Heart with a furlong to go and dug in to ward off the fast-closing runner up Blacktype to secure the win by 1 3/4 lengths in 1:36.66. Night Prowler finished a length in third. [VIDEO[3]]
Said Leana Willaford, assistant to trainer Bill Mott, “Kendrick [Carmouche] did a great job. He mentioned before about the speed on the outside [Heart to Heart], so he sat in a stalking position and it worked out for him. I thought the horse has been doing awfully well, I was a little surprised to see him at that price actually [34-1, $70 to win]. He has races on his back form that showed if he ran his best races today, he could be competitive. It was a very good race.”
Carmouche, commented, “I had a perfect trip. There were two speed horses that just happened to be on the lead and my horse had tactical speed, but I wanted to sit on my horse and relax. I fell into the right spot, got a real run and angled out at the top of the lane and he excelled from there and held on. I’d like to thank Leana and the whole crew for putting me on the horse.”
Carmouche inherited the mount from Chris DeCarlo after DeCarlo went to the hospital for x-rays following a spill two races earlier on the card. Carmouche said, “I’m sorry that Chris couldn’t ride the horse. That’s a tough deal, but he ran perfect.” The DRF’s David Grening tweeted later that DeCarlo’s x-rays were negative and he would be back in the saddle by Thanksgiving, adding, “DeCarlo’s agent Winston Heslop said DeCarlo ‘is talking. He’s happy. Only thing he’s sad about is Billy Mott’s horse won [the] stake’ without him.
A consistent runner throughout his career, Macagone owns seven wins (led by victories in the open Danger’s Hour earlier this year and the Artie Schiller on Saturday), three seconds and five thirds from 23 lifetime starts. He is closing in on the half-million-dollar mark in earnings with $462,167.
Foaled at Monhil Farm in Pine Plains, Macagone is out of Isabel Away, a winning daughter of Skip Away. Isabel Away is also the dam of successful turf runner Birchwood Road by Pure Prize, a three-time grass winner over $220,000.
The mare currently has a 2-year-old full brother to Birchwood Road named Red Knight, a yearling colt by Colonel John, and a weanling filly by Freud.
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Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Macagone4-credit-chelsea-durand.jpg
- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Macagone2.jpg
- VIDEO: http://www.nytbreeders.org/includes/video-player.cfm?date=20161119&track=AQD&race=8
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2016/11/19/artie-schiller-macagone/
Favorite Gold for the King obliges in Notebook Stakes
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NYRA/Chelsea Durand
By Sarah Mace
Francis Paolangeli’s homebred Gold for the King by Posse[2], third in the slop in the 1-mile Sleepy Hollow Stakes at Belmont on October 22, returned to winning form Saturday at Aqueduct as the 8-5 favorite when he got back on a fast track, cut back to six furlongs and donned blinkers for the $100,000 Notebook for New York-bred 2-year-olds.
Lined up toward the outside of the 7-horse field in post six, Gold for the King was the fastest out of the blocks, but deferred to Sal the Turtle, a game 22-1 longshot, and 9-1 Tribecca, who hooked up with one another to his inside. Instead, he sat a stalking trip in the early stages, a half-length back in third and well off the rail.
Gold for the King moved up into second when Tribecca tailed off after an opening quarter in 22.46, and, catching up with Sal the Turtle, got on even terms with the leader at the top of the lane.
The pair raced stride-for-stride in upper stretch, but inside the final furlong, Gold for the King began to edge away from his grudging rival, eventually opening up in the final sixteenth to a 1 1/4-length victory. After a half-mile in 45.73, Gold for the King stopped the timer at 1:10.70.
Bourbon Empire closed from last to finish third, followed by Eddie’s Gift, Fled, Hamptons Holiday, Caught a Heater and Tribecca. Breeze Burner, La Cat Warrior, Macho Miah Mr. Buff and Three to Thirteen were scratched. [VIDEO[3]]
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Winning trainer Charlton Baker said, “[Gold for the King] broke good, Jose had to use him a little to get involved early as he sat back, but it was a great setup.”
Baker feels, however, that his charge is still a work in progress. “I thought he still kind of played around with [Sal the Turtle] in the stretch, but he’s still a young horse. He’s going to learn as he goes along. I think the blinkers made a difference. Not a big difference but just enough. We used a small cup, maybe we’ll make more of adjustment going forward.”
Victorious jockey Jose Ortiz thought the blinkers were just the right prescription. “Charlie [Baker] did a great job adding the blinkers to cut him back to six [furlongs] today. He [Gold for the King] really liked them. They weren’t too closed, just like cheaters.”
Ortiz also explained his decision to race off the fence. “Last time I rode him, he wasn’t comfortable behind horses so I didn’t want to end up behind horses today. He broke sharp and running, so I got him in the clear, which is what I wanted.”
Continued Ortiz, “He put me in a great position the whole way. The whole time, I was waiting, waiting and I knew when I turned for home, that I had to beat the horse on the inside of me so I tried to keep with him. My horse ran a really good race.”
Never out of the money in five starts, Gold for the King broke his maiden by 3 1/4 lengths at first asking at Saratoga. After finishing third to Syndergaard in his stakes debut in the Funny Cide later in the meet, he returned to the races five weeks later to capture Finger Lakes’ New York Breeders’ Futurity by 2 3/4 lengths. His bankroll stands at $280,568.
Foaled at Keane Stud[5] in Amenia, Gold for the King is the second foal and first winner out of Gold for the Queen, a New York-bred multiple stakes winner bred by Pegasus Farms Inc., campaigned by Paolangeli and trained by Baker. Gold for the Queen currently has a weanling colt by Frost Giant named True Gold, and was bred this spring to Japan.
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Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gold-for-the-king-notebook-credit-chelsea-durand.jpg
- Posse: http://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/nytb/stallion/131185/posse
- VIDEO: http://www.nytbreeders.org/includes/video-player.cfm?date=20161119&track=AQD&race=5
- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gold-for-the-king-notebook-credit-joe-labozzetta2.jpg
- Keane Stud: http://www.keanestud.com/
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2016/11/19/gold-for-the-king-notebook/
War Dancer connections name first “Starlet” for 2017 “Breeding with the Stars” program
(Edited press release)
Saratoga Springs, NY – The connections of millionaire Graded stakes winner and future Rockridge Stud[1] stallion War Dancer kicked off their New York “Breeding with the Stars” program” last week with Sugar Plum Farm.
This week the War Dancer connections confirmed the first ‘Starlet’ in the program will be Holy Smokie, by Holy Bull. The 9-year-old mare has produced three winners from three starters, including Grade 2 Summer S. runner up, 2-year-old Conquest Farenheit, who juvenile sold at Keeneland yesterday for $735,000 to Rockingham Ranch.
Robin Malatino, owner of Sugar Plum Farm near Saratoga and representing the War Dancer “Breeding with the Stars” program” said, “We are thrilled to have such a nice young mare join our program, she will be boarded at Sugar Plum Farm in Saratoga Springs after she is bred to War Dancer early next year.”
Malatino continued, “New York has such a wonderful lucrative breeding program, we could not be more excited by this mating, and the resulting foal will continue the War Front sire line.”
War Dancer is one of three millionaire sons of leading two-year-old sire War Front standing in North America, and the only one in New York. War Dancer won or placed in 11 stakes, nine of them graded stakes and won the Grade 2 Virginia Derby and Grade 3 Louisville H. He is out of Deed I Do, runner-up in the Grade 2 Bonnie Miss and a daughter of Grade 1 Carter H. winner and Grade 1 Preakness runner-up Alydeed.
For more details about the War Dancer Breeding Program please contact Rockridge Stud in Hudson, Lere at (518) 851-6616 or Erin (859) 421-7531.
Endnotes:- Rockridge Stud: http://www.rockridgestud.com/
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2016/11/17/war-dancer-breeding-with-the-star/
NYTB to administer New York Stallion Stakes Series nominations
[1]By Sarah Mace
In 2016 the administration of the New York Stallion Stakes (NYSS) Series was transferred from the New York Racing Association (NYRA) to the New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc (NYTB). Accordingly, Stallion owners should be aware that beginning with the 2017 breeding season, all nomination forms and fees should be directed to NYTB (not to NYRA, as in the past).
For a stallion’s progeny to be eligible for the Series, which consists of 10 stakes races worth over $1 million, the stallion must be fully nominated in the year of the foal’s conception. For the 2017 breeding season, the stallion owner should complete the NYSS Series Nomination Form for Series 2020 (Foals of 2018)[2] and send the nomination fee (payable to “NYTB”) to:
NYTB
57 Phila Street
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
A stallion’s nomination fee is $2,500, or advertised stud fee (whichever is higher). Fifty percent of the nomination fee is due February 15; the remaining fifty percent is due July 1.
Additionally, for the convenience of stallion owners, breeders, owners and trainers, NYTB (http://www.nytbreeders.org[3]) will maintain a NYSS webpage[4] with nomination forms and other useful material. The page, which may be accessed from the “Racing” dropdown menu, includes:
- a link to the stallion nomination form for the 2017 breeding season (Series 2020, Foals of 2018)
- lists of nominated stallions by year, beginning with Series 2012 (Foals of 2010) through Series 2019 (Foals of 2017).
- a list of NYSS Series-eligible horses[5] through Series 2016 (Foals of 2014), which was the last year foals were nominated individually. From Series 2017 (Foals of 2015) forward, foals sired by nominated stallions became automatically eligible for all NYSS races without a nomination fee.
- dates, conditions and purses of the races as soon as they are announced.
For further information contact NYTB Executive Director Jeff Cannizzo at 518-587-0777 or info@nytbreeders.org[6].
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- NYSS Series Nomination Form for Series 2020 (Foals of 2018): https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2017-FO2018-2020-Stallion-Series-Nomination-Form-.pdf
- http://www.nytbreeders.org: http://www.nytbreeders.org
- NYSS webpage: http://www.nytbreeders.org/racing/stallion-stakes-series.cfm
- NYSS Series-eligible horses: http://www.nytbreeders.org/pdf/NYStallionSeriesEligibleHorses_000.pdf
- info@nytbreeders.org: mailto:info@nytbreeders.org
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2016/11/16/nytb-nyss-series-nominations/
Sunrise Stallions Sets 2017 Fees
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Big Brown (Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt)
(Press Release)
Sunrise Stallions released its stud fees for 2017 this week. Big Brown will stand for $7,500 and Frost Giant will stand for $5,000. Sunrise will offer Frost Giant’s full brother, Heavy Breathing (by Giant’s Causeway, out of Takesmybreathaway, by Gone West), for a fee of $2,500. Heavy Breathing’s first crop hits the track next year.
Heavy Breathing stands alongside Big Brown at Dutchess Views[2] Farm near Pine Plains, while Frost Giant stands at Keane Stud[3] near Amenia.
Big Brown (by Boundary, out of Mein, by Nureyev) is coming off a strong season in which his Grade 1-placed daughter Kiss to Remember won Churchill Downs’ Grade 2 Chilukki Stakes Nov. 5 prior to selling at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November sale for $500,000. Big Brown’s multiple Grade 1-winning son Dortmund ran second to California Chrome in Del Mar’s Grade 2 San Diego Handicap this summer.
The progeny of Big Brown—the only Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and Preakness Stakes winner to stand in New York other than Spectacular Bid in the twilight of his career—have earned more than $3.28 million in 2016. Ranked fourth for the season among New York-based sires after ranking as the state’s top sire in 2015, Big Brown has sired 16 black-type winners.
Frost Giant is the state’s leading sire of 2-year-olds, with more than $575,000 in earnings. Among his 13 winners is black-type winner Bobby On Fleek. Frost Giant’s number of 2-year-old winners this season is almost twice as many as second-ranked Bellamy Road, who moved to New York from Kentucky this year.
“Both Big Brown and Frost Giant have proved they can sire top runners who can earn New York breeders substantial returns on their investment through New York’s nationally leading breeding incentive program,” said Sunrise Stallions business manager Eric Bishop. “We want to encourage breeders to take part in New York’s extremely attractive program by offering our stallions at exceptionally competitive fees.”
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Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Big-Brown-headshot_Anne-M-Eberhardt.jpg
- Dutchess Views: http://www.dutchessviewsfarm.com/
- Keane Stud: http://www.keanestud.com/
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2016/11/16/sunrise-stallions-2017-fees/
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