Irish Hill & Dutchess Views sets 2023 stud fees, stallion show date

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Multiple graded stakes winner and millionaire Warrior’s Charge will stand his first season in 2023 at Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC. Barbara Livingston Photo.

Edited press release

Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC have announced stud fees for the 2023 season.

An addition to this season’s roster is multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire Warrior’s Charge. He will give New York breeders access to the speedy Munnings sire line in the form of a proven two-turn horse. From a physical perspective, Brad Cox calls Warrior’s Charge “a very well-built horse, with great bone and very sound throughout his entire career.”

On the track, Cox reported “Warrior’s Charge was a very good horse from Day 1. He had speed, he could carry around two turns, and was competitive at the top level.”

As of this release, two stallions on the roster are ranked among the top three stallions in New York. With just three crops to race, War Dancer is currently ranked second and sired 2022 graded stakes winner Dancing Buck to boost his already impressive resume. Perennial top New York sire Big Brown is currently ranked third on the state’s general sire list. He is represented by Somelikeithotbrown, who notched another graded stakes win in 2022 and is the leading money earner amongst New York-sired runners.

King for a Day, who sired the top-selling $130,000 New York-sired weanling at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga October fall mixed sale, will stand his third season after covering 147 mares in his first two seasons.

Multiple Grade 1-placed millionaire and Kentucky Derby runner-up Lookin At Lee will return for his third year at stud representing the Lookin At Lucky sire line. Waiting, the only son of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah standing in the Eastern part of the U.S., returns for his second year. Waiting comes from a powerful female family, including his second dam, Eclipse Award winner Wait a While.

The 2023 Irish Hill & Dutchess Views stud fees:

• War Dancer $7,500 LFSN

• Big Brown $5,000 LFSN

• King for a Day $5,000 LFSN

• Warrior’s Charge (NEW) $5,000 $5,000 LFSN (Please inquire about Lifetime Breeding Rights)

• Lookin At Lee $2,500 LFSN

• Waiting $2,500 LFSN

Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC will continue to work closely with breeders by offering incentives for qualifying mares and multiple mare discounts across the entire roster.

Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC will hold its stallion show Saturday, December 10 to coincide with the NYTB Holiday Party later that evening. Please follow us on Facebook (@IrishHillandDutchessViewsStallionsLLC) and Twitter (@IHDVStallions) for further details.

The farm will be holding the annual stallion show raffle for a free season to each stallion as well as offering special stallion show pricing. The stallions are available for inspection by potential breeders on request.

For further information, contact:

Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC

Moe Scavullo and Anya Sheckley, info@IHDVStallions.com. Phone (518)398-5666

Rick Burke and Bill Leak, info@IrishHillCenturyFarm.com. Phone (518)584-1515

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/WarriorsCharge-Conformation.jpg

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Topic Changer romps in Charleston finale

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Topic Changer, winning here at the Aiken Fall Steeplechase, added a second victory Sunday in Charleston. Tod Marks Photo.

Topic Changer closed the book – quite literally – on the 2022 National Steeplechase Association season with an emphatic victory Sunday at the Steeplechase of Charleston in Hollywood, South Carolina.

The New York-bred Flintshire colt romped to a 13 1/2-length victory in the $27,300 Alston Cup 3-year-old hurdle stakes going 2 1/16 miles. The Alston Cup was the fifth race on the Charleston card and the final event of the 2022 NSA season.

Keri Brion, who finished the season atop the NSA list of leading trainers by earnings, conditions Topic Changer for owners Jordan Wycoff and Frank Mullins. Brion ended the season with purse earnings of $1,106,950, and she also ranked second on the NSA list of leading trainers by wins with 33.

Bred by Alan Quartucci, foaled at Berkshire Stud in Pine Plains and out of the winning Gio Ponti mare Blank Slate, Topic Changer improved to 4-for-7 in his career and 2-for-2 over jumps in the Alston Cup.

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Topic Changer, a two-time winner on the flat for his breeder Alan Quartucci, is now a two-time winner over jumps. Photo courtesy of Keri Brion.

Topic Changer made his first four starts for Quartucci and trainer Christophe Clement. Unraced at 2, he won his second start in maiden special weight company going 9 furlongs on the grass in late June at Belmont Park. After a ninth in a starter allowance on the grass at Saratoga he was claimed for $35,000 by Double B Racing Stable and trainer Gregory DiPrima out of a 1 1/2-length win in a 1 1/16-mile turf event Sept. 2 at Saratoga Race Course.

Topic Changer ran once for Double B and DiPrima, finishing well back in another turf starter allowance, before transitioning to the jumps. He won his hurdle debut 22 days later, in a 2 1/8-mile $30,0000 maiden race at the Aiken Fall Steeplechase in late October for Wycoff, Mullins and Brion.

Matched up against five others, including the 1-2 finishers from the Gladstone Hurdle at Far Hills in The Insider and Hoffman, Topic Changer and jockey Barry Foley rated behind those two for the opening lap of the Alston Cup. While making a run toward the lead, Topic Changer was bumped during an incident when Clara Belle stumbled and lost jockey Jamie Bargary over the 10th fence. Clara Belle, also owned by Wycoff and trained by Brion, walked off. The Insider, who also fell at the 10th in his first start for Brion after being campaigned in Ireland with Gordon Elliott, also walked off.

Topic Changer, who earned $21,000 for the win, finished in 3:56.40 over the good ground.

Quartucci purchased Blank Slate, carrying Topic Changer in utero, for $50,000 at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale.

Blank Slate is also the dam of the 2-year-old Blame colt Clear Consience, who finished third in a Nov. 11 maiden race at Aqueduct for Clement and co-owners and co-breeders Quartucci and Sebastian Varney. Quartucci and Varney also bred a New York-bred yearling colt by Palace Malice and a weanling colt by McKinzie born May 22.

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TopicChanger-Aiken-TodM.jpg
  2. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TopicChanger.jpg

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Pair of six-figure weanlings highlight Keeneland Book 4

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Hip 1852, a colt by Liam’s Map, sold for $150,000 during Saturday’s session at the Keeneland November sale. Photo courtesy of Lane’s End.

Weanling colts by Liam’s Map and Tom’s d’Etat commanded six-figure bids to lead the way for New York during Book 4 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale in Lexington.

Both colts, now part of a group of 10 who have brought $100,000 or more since the sale began Nov. 7, sold during Saturday’s sixth session.

Hip 1852[2], a son of Liam’s Map out of the stakes-placed Lemon Drop Kid mare, sold for $150,000 to Reeves Thoroughbred Racing.

Bred by Chesapeake Farm and W. S. Farish, foaled at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham and consigned by Lane’s End, agent, the gray or roan colt is a half-brother to five winners. Bitter Lemon is also the dam of the 2-year-old Army Mule filly Lemon Bomb, who has placed in her two starts this fall.

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Hip 2163, a colt by Tom’s d’Etat, contributed to the six-figure haul at Keeneland when he sold for $130,000 Saturday. Photo courtesy of Taylor Made Sales Agency.

Hip 2163[4], a colt from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Tom’s d’Etat out of the winning Maclean’s Music mare Starry Rose, sold for $130,000 to Always Dreaming.

Bred by Pine Ridge Stables LTD, foaled at Rockridge Stud in Hudson and consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, the colt is the second foal out of the mare and a half-brother to the 2-year-old Malibu Moon filly Moon Rose who has started twice and is in training at Gulfstream Park.

The sale continues with the start of Book 5 at 10 a.m. Monday and runs through Wednesday.

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/KeeNov2022-Hip1852.jpg
  2. Hip 1852: http://apps.keeneland.com/sales/k322/pdfs/1852.pdf
  3. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/KeeNov2022-Hip2163.jpg
  4. Hip 2163: http://apps.keeneland.com/sales/k322/pdfs/2163.pdf

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