McMahon of Saratoga Holiday Stallion show Today!

 

 

McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds will hold its annual holiday stallion show from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, December 14.

All stallions including multiple New York leading sire Central Banker, national ranked second-crop sire Solomini, and multiple stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Provocateur will be available for inspection.

By the record-setting sire of the 21st century Into Mischief, Provocatuer is from the sire producing family of Daredevil, Albertus Maximus, King Charlemagne, Meshaheer and others. A $600,000 purchase out of the 2020 Keeneland September yearling sale, Provocateur is out of the winning Cherokee Run mare Cayala.

Provocateur was a multiple stakes winner at 3, taking Gulfstream Park’s $100,000 Hutcheson Stakes in 1:09.60 for 6 furlongs and Monmouth Park’s $104,000 Jersey Shore Stakes in 1:09.81. He also finished second in the Pasco Stakes at Tampa, Gold Fever Stakes at Belmont Park and the Grade 1, $400,000 Woody Stephens Stakes on the Belmont Stakes Day undercard.

He joins multiple New York leading sire and New York’s leading sire of 2024 stakes winners, Central Banker, and national ranked second-crop sire Solomini.

The farm will hold its annual holiday stallion show from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, December 14. All three stallions will be available for inspection.

The McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds stud fees for 2025:

Central Banker $7,500
Provocateur $5,000
Solomini $7,500

All fees are live foal, stands and nurses.

For more information on the stallions or details on the holiday stallion show, please call the McMahon of Saratoga farm office at (518) 587-3426.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2024/12/14/mcmahon-of-saratoga-adds-provocateur-announces-2025-stud-fees/

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Peace And Justice to stand at Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions for 2025

Peace and Justice, a brilliant miler by War Front and sire of multiple stakes winners, will relocate from Pennsylvania to stand the 2025 season at Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions in Stillwater.

The 14-year-old out of the winning Smart Strike mare Strike the Sky will stand for an advertised fee of $7,500 S&N.

“We are very excited to bring a proven stallion like Peace and Justice with his credentials and numbers to New York,” said Steven W. Young. “With the advent of a third racing surface, combined with the purse parity coming to the state, Peace and Justice should do very well.”

Peace and Justice ran three 95+ Beyer Speed Figures. He captured a Santa Anita Park allowance contest in dominant fashion by 5 1/4 lengths, and another 1-mile contest going wire-to-wire in a swift 1:32.36. Throughout his career, Peace and Justice defeated multiple graded stakes winners, including Grade 1 winner Drill. He earned “TDN Rising Star” status and ran 3/5 seconds off Horse of the Year Wise Dan’s course record at Santa Anita with a wire-to-wire mile victory in 1:32.36 (22.47, 44.55, 1:08.05, 1:20.20).

Peace and Justice is a half-brother to Grade 2 winner Hudson Steele and the dam of Grade 1-placed dirt runner My Man Sam. He is bred on the same proven Grade 1 cross as Peace and War, winner of the Grade 1 Darley Alcibiades and third in the Grade 1 Cotillion Stakes.

Like his sire War Front, Peace and Justice has proven himself as a sire with a high strike rate, evidenced by nearly 70% winners from starters lifetime. Among his last 100 starters, 47% finished in-the-money, with 18% winners and $8,250 average earnings per start.

Peace and Justice’s top runners include Dontlookbackatall, winner of the Grade 3 Caress Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, Power by Far Stakes at Parx Racing and the License Fee Stakes at the Belmont at the Big A meeting this year.

He has also sired Like a Saltshaker, winner of the 202 Fitz Dixon Jr. Memorial Stakes at Presque Isle Downs; and Capo, winner of the 2023 Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes at Parx.

Peace and Justice’s 2024 stakes horses also include Calabrian Queen, placed in the Orleans Stakes at Delta Downs; and 2-year-old Beyondexpectations, who placed in the Whistle Pig Stakes at Parx.

For breeding inquiries, contact Moe Scavullo (518) 398-5666, Steven W. Young (323) 646-5663 or Rick Burke and Bill Leak (518) 584-1515.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2024/12/03/peace-and-justice-to-stand-at-irish-hill-dutchess-views-stallions-for-2025/

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Rockridge Stud announces 2025 fees, stallion shows

Rockridge Stud in Hudson has announced its stud fees for 2025 and unveiled a pair of opportunities to see stallions in advance of the breeding season.

Rockridge will give breeders the opportunity to see the two new stallions, Chewing Gum and Messier, at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, December 14. Light refreshments will be served.

The annual Rockridge Stud stallion show will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, January 25. A full lunch buffet will be served, and drawings for free seasons to each stallion will be held at the show.

The 2025 Rockridge stud fees:

Americanrevolution* – $12,500 LFSN
Chewing Gum – Private
Disco Partner – Private
Messier – $5,000 LFSN
Mind Control** – $8,000 LFSN
Slumber – $7,500 LFSN
War Dancer – $7,500 LFSN

*partnership with WinStar Farm, Taylor Made Stallions, Fortune Farm and Mill Creek Farm
**partnership with Irish Hill/Dutchess View Stallions, Waldorf Farm and Hidden Lake Farm

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2024/12/03/rockridge-stud-announces-2025-fees-stallion-shows/

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Messier to stand at Rockridge Stud in 2025

Multiple graded stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Messier will take up stud duties in 2025 at Rockridge Stud in Hudson through a deal brokered by Matt Bowling of Bowling Bloodstock.

The 5-year-old son of Empire Maker out of the Smart Strike mare Checkered Past will stand for $5,000 LFSN and a limited number of shares are available.

The Sam-Son Farm homebred was purchased at the Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearling Showcase by Donato Lanni on behalf of SF Bloodstock, Madaket Stables and Starlight Racing for $470,000 – the highest-priced Empire Maker sold that year.

Second in his debut at 2, he broke his maiden in his second start in a maiden special weight, winning by 6 1/2 lengths. Messier’s next start was the Grade 3 Bob Hope, where he bested Forbidden Kingdom by 3 1/2 lengths, followed by a second-place finish in the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity

Messier’s best race came in his 3-year-old debut – a resounding victory in the Grade 3 Robert B. Lewis by 15 lengths to earn a 103 Beyer. He secured his place in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby with a second-place finish behind Taiba in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby. Messier returned to top form with a runner-up finish in this year’s Excelsior Stakes at Aqueduct in March, followed up a few weeks later with a win in the Grade 3 Westchester at the Belmont at the Big A meeting.

Messier retired with a record of 4-5-1 in 15 starts and earnings of $593,690.

“Messier was an exceptionally athletic colt with a very high cruising speed,” said SF Racing’s Tom Ryan. “He won graded stakes races at ages 2 and 3 and again at age 5. His performance in the Bob Lewis was outstanding, stopping the clock at 1:42.4 and winning by 15 lengths with a 103 Beyer. He is an exciting addition to the stallion ranks in New York.”

Messier joins Americanrevolution, Chewing Gum, Disco Partner, Mind Control, Slumber and War Dancer for the 2025 season at Rockridge Stud.

For more information, contact Erin Robinson (859) 421-7531.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2024/11/22/messier-to-stand-at-rockridge-stud-in-2025/

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Tourist sold to stand in Turkey

Multiple Grade 1 and Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Tourist has been sold to Fazli Yurdabak of Turkey in a deal brokered by Matt Bowling of Bowling Bloodstock and Murat Sancal.

The 13-year-old son of Tiznow will stand at Izmit Stallion Complex in Turkey in 2025, once he completes quarantine at Sancal Racing at Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.

Tourist started his stud career at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, before he relocated to New York to stand at Rockridge Stud in Hudson for the 2023 season.

Tourist is the sire of 190 winners, including nine black-type winners, according to BloodHorse statistics. He’s the sire of Grade 3 winner Wentru, American Derby winner Tango Tango Tango and Grade 3-placed stakes winner Carpenters Call. Tourist is the sire of the earners of nearly $12 million through Monday.

Campaigned by WinStar, Wachtel Stable and Gary Barber, Tourist won six of 18 starts and earned $2,170,340 over three seasons. A stakes winner at 3, 4 and 5, Tourist ran in three consecutive editions of the Breeders’ Cup Mile and won the $2 million event in his final start in 2016 at Santa Anita Park.

Tourist also won the Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap in 2016 at Saratoga Race Course, More Than Ready Mile Stakes in 2015 at Kentucky Downs and Sir Cat Stakes in 2014 at Saratoga.

Tourist is out of the winning Unbridled’s Song mare Unbridled Melody, the dam of New York-bred stakes winner Mountain Music Man (by Bluegrass Cat) and New York-bred winner Tether to Reality (by Harlan’s Holiday), along with stakes winner Harlan’s Harmony (by Spring At Last) and Grade 3-placed $198,118-earner Michael With Us.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2024/11/18/tourist-sold-to-stand-in-turkey/

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Graded stakes winner Petulante, by Arrogate, joins the roster at Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC

PETULANTE (2019 Arrogate o/o Auntjenn by Uncle Mo), a Graded Stakes winning and Black Type-placed runner has been retired and will enter stud in 2025 under the management of Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC in Saratoga, New York.

Racing for Lugamo Racing Stable LLC, the ultra-consistent PETULANTE broke his maiden at first asking and would never finish off the board. His foray into Graded Stakes company would result in a win at the important stallion making distance of one mile in the Grade 3 Salvator Mile at Monmouth beating the likes of Wood Memorial (G2) winner Bourbonic and millionaire Clark Stakes (G2) winner, Trademark. Lugamo Racing Stable LLC retains interest in the stallion and will insure that the stallion is very well supported during his early years at stud.

The son of leading national sire Arrogate, will stand his initial season for $5,000 LFSN. The brilliant Arrogate had his coming out party in the 2016 Travers Stakes (G1) at nearby Saratoga Racecourse and went on to reel off consecutive wins in three of the world’s richest races, The Breeders’ Cup Classic, The Pegasus World Cup Invitational and then the Dubai World Cup. Arrogate, now deceased, is the sire of classic winners Arcangelo (Belmont Stakes) and Seize the Grey (Preakness Stakes). Petulante is out of Auntjenn, a three-time winner and multiple black type placed mare by Uncle Mo. Petulante is also the half brother to stakes winner, The Donegal Clan.

For more information on Petulante, including special incentives for breeders, life-time breeding right purchases or to book your mare please contact:

Rick Burke email: rick@IrishHillCenturyFarm.com

Moe Scavullo email: info@IHDVstallions.com

 

 

 

 

 

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2024/10/30/graded-stakes-winner-petulante-by-arrogate-joins-the-roster-at-irish-hill-dutchess-views-stallions-llc/

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Bucchero to stand 2025 at Ironhorse Stallions

Coming off a breakout year that saw his son, Grade 1 winner Book’em Danno, stamp his sire as New York’s leading stallion, Bucchero will stand the 2025 season for Ironhorse Stallions at Questroyal North the former Sez Who Farm in Stillwater.

After five successful seasons in Florida, where he covered 471 mares, Bucchero stood the 2024 season at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs under a one-year agreement.

“We have tremendous respect for the McMahon family and their history in New York and both parties wanted to see how Bucchero would fit with McMahon’s in-house stallions,” said Bucchero’s managing partner, Harlan Malter. “With Bucchero, Central Banker and Solomini, the top three stallions in New York in 2024, it made sense to let the McMahons focus on their homegrown stallions and our group focus exclusively on Bucchero.”

Bucchero will be the first stallion to stand under the Ironhorse Stallions banner, a fitting full-circle moment, as it was the syndicate of Ironhorse Racing Stable who purchased him as a 2-year-old. Ironhorse campaigned Bucchero through his 31-race career and ultimately was the driving force to stand him at stud upon his retirement.

“All of the partners involved in Bucchero have been his biggest supporters from Day 1 and it has been a privilege to be so heavily involved in both his racing and stallion career,” Malter said. “It is the logical next step to see where Bucchero can take us. As I said when he ran at Royal Ascot, ‘every time we have asked him to step up to the next level, he has delivered,’ and now he has done it in the breeding shed.”

Ironhorse Racing Stable and the stallion’s co-owners have actively supported Bucchero in both the auction ring and breeding shed. Ironhorse purchased multiple stakes winner and recent graded-placed Beauty of the Sea and stakes winner Mattingly at the OBS 2-year-ilds in training sales and co-owner Greg Kilka was the breeder of Book’em Danno.

The leading sire by earnings in New York in 2024 ($4,539,822 through Sunday), Bucchero has accomplished this feat without a single New York-bred runner. He is the rare regional sire to see his runners have immediate success in open company and on all surfaces.

Along with Grade 1 winner and millionaire Book’em Danno, the Grade 2-placed Buccherino and Grade 3-placed Beauty of the Sea, some 13 of Bucchero’s black-type horses have come in open stakes, with his most recent stakes performer Bucaro running a close second in the Ontario Display at Woodbine on synthetic after becoming a stakes winner in his prior outing.

Bucchero is currently the leading stallion in America on synthetic with more than $1.2 million of his $4.5 million in 2024 earnings coming across the increasingly relevant surface.

While showing his ability to produce top-level horses on turf and dirt in addition to synthetic, Bucchero has also produced incredibly consistent runners. To date, Bucchero starters (1,259) have run in the top three an astounding 49% of the time, tops among all U.S. stallions with more than 1000 starts.

“With the lucrative breeder awards offered in New York, the combination of Bucchero’s ITM stats, surface versatility and ability to produce open-company horses, we firmly believe that breeders will be richly rewarded by breeding to Bucchero,” Malter said. “We are all-in on New York, both breeding and racing.

“Starting Ironhorse Stallions will give us the ability to not only support New York breeders as a partner in producing the best possible New York-bred and -sired runners, but from a selfish side, we will be big buyers of New York-sired Buccheros and expect Ironhorse Racing Stable to focus the majority of its stable in New York. We have put together a great team and will be hitting the ground running working hand in hand with New York breeders as partners in the success of New York-bred racing.”

Lifelong horseman John Dowd will join Ironhorse Stallions as head of operations and bloodstock to go along with a growing team of experienced professionals in New York and Florida.

Malter addressed the question of why Ironhorse Stallions and why now?

“Our mantra is ‘we want to make racehorses to sell, not sales horses to race.’ We feel that Bucchero is a perfect foundation stallion for this philosophy and we hope New York breeders will join us in this goal. My sports background was as a baseball player and the classic Field of Dreams quote comes to mind in this endeavor: ‘If you build it, he will come.’ With the rich breeders program in New York, the huge commitment to a new Belmont and the amazing energy that Saratoga has rekindled, ‘they have built it, and we have come!’ ”

Bucchero will stand for $10,000 in 2025 with a “New York, New York” discount of $2,500 to any mare who will have a 2025 foal in New York or any prior breeder to Bucchero.

A limited amount of lifetime breeding rights will be available along with co-breeds to specifically approved mares. Information about Ironhorse Stallions and Bucchero can be found at ihstallions.com along with Bucchero’s dedicated and continually updated page at BuccheroStallion.com.

For bookings or inspection, contact Harlan Malter at 27B-UCC-HERO (272-822-4376) or info@ihstallions.com[2].

 

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2024/10/28/bucchero-to-stand-2025-at-ironhorse-stallions/

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Grade 2 winner Chewing Gum to stand at Rockridge Stud

Chewing Gum, winner of the Grade 2 Joe Hernandez Stakes in 2022 at Santa Anita Park, will stand his first season in 2025 at Rockridge Stud in Hudson.

The 9-year-old son of Candy Ride out of the stakes-placed Forestry mare Shared Heart will stand privately for a partnership that includes prominent New York owners Wachtel Stable and Pantofel Stable.

Chewing Gum is the only son of successful sire of sires Candy Ride standing in New York. A limited number of shares will be offered to approved breeders and Chewing Gum will be available for inspection in a few weeks.

“We are planning to purchase mares to support Chewing Gum and help him get started,” said Wachtel Stable’s Adam Wachtel. “Chewing Gum is a big, beautiful horse that was able to win sprinting and at middle distances on turf and on dirt against top competition. I think that New York breeders will love him.”

Chewing Gum broke his maiden at Kentucky Downs for his breeders Gerard and Alain Wertheimer. Fourth in the Grade 3 Fred W. Hooper Stakes on dirt at Gulfstream Park early the following year, he followed that up with a second-place finish in the Grade 3 Belmont Invitational Turf Stakes later that fall. The following season, he finished second to Casa Creed in the Grade 1 Jaipur Stakes at Belmont Park, running a career high 99 Beyer Speed Figure. In early 2022, he won the Joe Hernandez Stakes over Beer Can Man.

Chewing Gum posted a record of 5-5-9 in 35 starts with earnings of $662,426.

Chewing Gum joins the Rockridge stallion roster for 2025 that also includes Americanrevolution, Disco Partner, Mind Control, Slumber, Tourist and War Dancer.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2024/10/12/grade-2-winner-chewing-gum-to-stand-at-rockridge-stud/

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Six-time leading NY sire Freud retired from breeding shed

By Evan Hammonds

A lot has changed in the breeding and racing landscape in New York since the turn of the century. One constant, however, has been the long shadow of Freud, a full brother to three-time national leading sire Giant’s Causeway, who has stood at Sequel Stallions since 2002.

His reign among the New York leading sires will continue for a few seasons yet, but the grand old man has covered his last mare. The 26-year-old son of Storm Cat has earned his retirement.

“As the years have gone by, he’s bred fewer and fewer mares, but he still thinks every horse that comes into the breeding shed is for him,” said Sequel Stallions’ Becky Thomas. “He bred a dozen mares (in 2024) and I think all but one is in foal. His fertility is great—he is a consummate professional in the breeding shed—but he’s old.

“He’s been great,” Thomas continued. “I call our farm ‘the farm that Freud built.’ He continues to be that horse. So many stallions are euthanized before his age, but knock wood, he’s in great health.”

Represented as recently as Aug. 25 with Showcase Day stakes winner Dakota Gold (out of Dakota Kid, by Lemon Drop Kid), Freud is the sire of 74 black-type stakes winners, 18 of which stepped out to win at the graded stakes level. He has sired 1,495 foals from 21 crops, and his runners have earned more than $73 million. That’s quite an accomplishment for a “regional sire.”

Freud earned his first title as leading sire in New York by progeny earnings in 2008. Subsequent titles arrived in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Freud, along with Giant’s Causeway, is out of the Rahy mare Mariah’s Storm. Bred by Orpendale (an arm of the Coolmore operation), Freud arrived Feb. 22, 1998, a year behind Giant’s Causeway. Giant’s Causeway, a group 1 winner at 2, became the legendary “Iron Horse” at 3 with a run of five group 1 victories from June 20 to Sept. 9, 2000. After a runner-up effort in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1), he shipped to Churchill Downs and battled Tiznow, dropping a neck decision in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1). An international success as a sire, and sire of sires, while standing in both Ireland (his first season) and the U.S., he died in April 2018 at the age of 21. At the time of his passing, Giant’s Causeway was the sire of 178 stakes winners (104 graded/group winners). By September 2024, that number swelled to 196 stakes winners.

“Little Brother” Freud, racing for Susan Magnier and Michael Tabor and trainer Aidan O’Brien, was given the same opportunities as Giant’s Causeway but was less effective on the track. He ran in a pair of group 1 races at 2, finishing fifth both times, and at 3 won once and placed third at Royal Ascot in the Cork & Orrery Stakes (G2).

By Coolmore’s standards, Freud wasn’t cut out to stand at Ireland or at Ashford Stud, their Kentucky facility. Thomas was able to negotiate with Coolmore’s Paul Shanahan to stand Freud. “The New York breeding program was ‘something new and interesting for Coolmore to try,” according to Thomas.

Standing for $5,000, Freud got 32 foals in his first crop, 2003, and they proved they could run from the get-go. He had nine juvenile winners and from the first crop, 19 of 27 starters would earn at least one victory, and three would become stakes winners. He had five stakes winners in his second crop that comprised 55 named foals.

“New York was just getting ‘operational’ at that time,” Thomas said. “Freud becoming Freud was great fun. There were not near as many stallions in New York back then and he had his pick of the litter.

“Most of the people at the time did not go to Kentucky. They bred to New York stallions and did everything in New York.”

To read the rest of this feature, click here to access the October digital edition of New York Breeder magazine[2].

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2024/10/11/six-time-leading-ny-sire-freud-retired-from-breeding-shed/

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