(Edited press release)
Saratoga Springs, NY – The connections of millionaire Graded stakes winner and future Rockridge Stud 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.
