Grade 1 winner Americanrevolution to stand at Rockridge Stud in 2024

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Americanrevolution, winner of the Grade 1 Cigar Mile in 2021, will stand his first season in 2024 at Rockridge Stud in Hudson. NYRA Photo.

New York-bred Horse of the Year and Grade 1 winner Americanrevolution has been retired and will stand his first season in 2024 at Rockridge Stud in Hudson.

The 5-year-old son of Constitution will stand his initial season for $12,500 S&N. Americanrevolution will stand as a partnership between WinStar Farm, CHC Inc., Rockridge Stud, Taylor Made Stallions, Mill Creek Farm and Fortune Farm through a deal brokered by Matt Bowling of Bowling Bloodstock.

“This is the best horse to retire in New York in a very long time,” said Rockridge Stud’s Lere Visagie. “We all know we need top-class horses standing in New York to keep mares home. The winner of one of New York’s most historic Grade 1s for older horses is the way to do it. We can’t wait to get started.”

Campaigned by WinStar and CHC Inc. and trained by Todd Pletcher, Americanrevolution won five of 12 starts with two seconds and a third for $1,286,810 in earnings. He earned New York-bred Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male honors in 2021 after victories in the New York Derby at Finger Lakes, Albany Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, Empire Classic Handicap at Belmont Park and Grade 1 Cigar Mile Handicap at Aqueduct.

Americanrevolution, who was bred by Fred Hertrich III and John Fielding and foaled at Irish Hill Century Farm in Stillwater, also earned New York-bred champion older dirt male honors in 2022. He placed in two major stakes that season – the Grade 2 Stephen Foster at Churchill Downs and the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga.

“With Belmont being renovated, we feel it is time to re-enter the New York market,” said Elliott Walden, WinStar Farm’s president, CEO and racing manager. “WinStar Farm and CHC Inc. are staying in and committing 10 good mares to Americanrevolution to help launch his career in New York. We hope to breed another Funny Cide, one of the best New York-breds of all time.”

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Americanrevolution scored his first stakes victory in the 2021 New York Derby, on the way to a New York-bred Horse of the Year title. SV Photography.

A son of Constitution – the sire of Belmont Stakes winner Tiz the Law from his first crop and the leading sire of 2-year-olds in 2023 – Americanrevolution is produced from the winning Super Saver mare Polly Freeze and hails from an active black-type family that includes Grade 1 winners Cross Traffic, Stop Traffic and multiple Graded stakes winners Gouldings Green and Silver Dust, as well as Grade 3 winner Forza Di Oro.

The partners are excited for the opportunity to stand Americanrevolution in New York at Rockridge.

“Collaboration, we have found, is the key to getting these stallions off the ground running,” Visagie said. “We have a strong group of breeders already in place, and that support should no doubt propel him straight to the top of that foal crop. He should absolutely be competitive with any first-year stallion in Kentucky as well.”

“We are thrilled to be a part of this exciting stallion prospect—probably the most exciting stallion to retire to New York in several decades,” said Ben Taylor of Taylor Made Stallions.

Americanrevolution was a $275,000 acquisition by CHC Inc. and Maverick Racing out of the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale.

“I’m thrilled to see a Grade 1 winner sired by one of Kentucky’s finest stallions retiring to New York,” said Fasig-Tipton President and CEO Boyd Browning Jr. “This highlights the growing significance of the racing and breeding industry in the state. I’m eagerly anticipating the opportunity to sell his New York offspring at our Saratoga sales.”

Americanrevolution will be available for viewing at WinStar Farm in Kentucky throughout the Kentucky November sales season and during the farm’s stallion shows.

For seasons, contact Erin Robinson at (859) 421-7531, or visit www.rockridgestud.com[3]. For more information on Americanrevolution, contact Liam O’Rourke, Olivia Desch or Ben Hanley at (859) 873-1717, or visit www.WinStarFarm.com[4].

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Americanrevolution-CigarMile.jpg
  2. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Americanrevolution1.jpg
  3. www.rockridgestud.com: http://www.rockridgestud.com
  4. www.WinStarFarm.com: http://www.WinStarFarm.com

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Half-sister to Caldwell Luvs Gold highlights OBS sale

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Hip 687, a half-sister to stakes winner Caldwell Luvs Gold, sold for $125,000 at the OBS October yearling sale. Photo courtesy of Afleet Equine Services.

A filly from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Vekoma – and half-sister to stakes winner Caldwell Luvs Gold – sold for $125,000 and finished as one of the top sellers at the two-day Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s October yearling sale that wrapped up Wednesday.

Bred by Jeremiah Desmond and Drumkenny Farm LLC, foaled at Desmond Farm in Center Moriches and offered as Hip 687[2], the filly was purchased by de Meric Sales, agent. A $50,000 weanling purchase at last year’s Keeneland November breeding stock sale, the filly out of the Quality Road mare Snow was also reported sold for $60,000 at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale.

The filly – the second highest-priced filly at the sale and fifth most expensive yearling overall – is the third foal out of Snow. She was consigned by Afleet Equine Services, agent.

She’s the dam of the 4-year-old New York-bred Cupid gelding Eminency, a winner and earner of $98,413; and the 2-year-old New York-bred Goldencents filly Caldwell Luvs Gold.

Also bred by Desmond and Drumkenny and a $73,000 purchase at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred sale, Caldwell Luvs Gold won her debut July 27 at Saratoga and followed that with a victory there in the Seeking the Ante Stakes on Saratoga Showcase Day. Caldwell Luvs Gold finished second last time out in the Sept. 24 Joseph A. Gimma Stakes at the Belmont at the Big A meet.

The second most expensive New York-bred at the sale was also a filly, Hip 425[3], a daughter of Mendelssohn named Tralee Girl, who brought $50,000 from Ryston Stables. Bred by David and Christine Stack, the filly is the first foal out of the Pioneerof the Nile mare Kerry Girl. Foaled at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, she was consigned by Lisa McGreevy’s Abbie Road Farm, agent.

The sale also featured a pair of $30,000 yearlings by New York-based sires Solomini and Honest Mischief.

Hip 115[4], a daughter of Solomini out of the unraced Awesome Again mare Awesome Aurora, sold for $30,000 to McMahon and Hill Bloodstock, agent. Bred by America’s Pastime Stable, Jeff Gardella and Spruce Lane Farm and foaled at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, the filly sold as a weanling for $6,500 at this year’s Keeneland January horses of all ages sale. She was consigned at OBS by Sweet River Thoroughbreds. Solomini, an 8-year-old son of Curlin, stands at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds.

Hip 528[5], a colt by Honest Mischief out of the winning Wildcat Heir mare Mochima, sold for $30,000 to Advanced Thoroughbreds LLC. Bred by Larry F. Botting and foaled at Countryside Stables in Martville, the colt sold as a weanling for $15,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale. He was consigned by Jose Munoz. Honest Mischief, a 7-year-old son of Into Mischief, stands at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson.

OBS reported sales on 66 of the 103 New York-breds offered during the two sessions for a total of $805,800, an average price of $12,209.

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/687p.jpeg
  2. Hip 687: http://obscatalog.com/oct/2023/687.PDF
  3. Hip 425: http://obscatalog.com/oct/2023/425.PDF
  4. Hip 115: http://obscatalog.com/oct/2023/115.PDF
  5. Hip 528: http://obscatalog.com/oct/2023/528.PDF

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NYTB compliments NYRA’s purchase of Sugar Maple Farm

[1]The New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc., complimented the New York Racing Association’s purchase of famed Sugar Maple Farm in Dutchess County.

“Sugar Maple Farm has had a storied history in New York breeding as one of the largest breeding and boarding operations in the state,” said Najja Thompson, NYTB executive director. “Standing stallions, caring for mares, foals, yearlings and racehorses on layups.

“The news of NYRA purchasing the farm with plans to modernize the facility for a multitude of purposes with the overall goal and intent of helping to further improve the landscape of New York breeding and racing is exciting and we look forward to working with NYRA toward these goals.”

NYRA’s purchase of the 466-acre property in Poughquag, first reported Wednesday by Daily Racing Form, was through a wholly owned subsidiary for $12.1 million late last year.

The DRF report said the purchase will “allow NYRA to pursue a wide array of uses including an equine health and safety research center, dedicated Thoroughbred aftercare facilities, off-track training, layup boarding and related services for horses rehabilitating injuries, equine hydrotherapy/swimming, and possibly a veterinary education program in partnership with accredited New York State-based colleges of veterinary medicine.”

Previously owned by longtime New York owners and breeders Howard and Susan Kaskel, Sugar Maple Farm campaigned Alabama Stakes winner Maplejinsky and Irish Derby winner Sir Harry Lewis. Sugar Maple also bred 2011 Hall of Fame inductee, champion and multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire Sky Beauty; and champion, multiple Grade 1 winner, $1994,618-earner Itsalgreektome.

Sugar Maple features six barns with a total of 94 stalls and is located about an hour from Belmont Park and Aqueduct and two hours from Saratoga Race Course.

“The acquisition of Sugar Maple Farm will, for the first time, allow NYRA to directly contribute to New York’s breeding industry and strengthen the NY-bred program,” NYRA spokesman Pat McKenna said in a statement to DRF. “NYRA jumped at the opportunity to protect Sugar Maple Farm because it will strengthen the foundation of New York State’s thoroughbred racing ecosystem, create jobs in the Hudson Valley, enhance equine safety and preserve important open space.”

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/NYRA_large-logo-for-enews_HR.jpg

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