Misty Sky will visit Gun Runner’s first-season son Pappacap in a mating that will produce Rasmussen Factor inbreeding to a pair of full-sisters.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Seville’s Princess (revised)
Tacitus is a horse we believe in and have used repeatedly during his early years at stud, and he makes a fascinating mate for Seville’s Princess in 2024.
24 No More Excuses
dark bay/brown filly 3/15/24
By Speaker’s Corner out of No More Excuses, by Not For Love
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Modernism (revised)
Given some recent racetrack developments, we’re going to switch up which son of Into Mischief that Modernism will visit in ‘24 — she’s now slated to head to Airdrie Stud for a date with the second-year stallion Highly Motivated.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 — Floral Hall (revised)
Floral Hall’s immediate family has had repeated successes with the A.P. Indy sire-line, and as such she’ll make a great match for that horse’s upwardly-mobile son Army Mule in 2024.
24 Floral Hall
bay colt 3/5/24
By Greatest Honour out of Floral Hall, by Bodemeister
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Saucily (revised)
It’s always important to be flexible with mating plans, and Saucily is now slated for a different exciting new G1W stallion in 2024 than we’d initially planned – she’ll head to the court of Annapolis.
24 Buff’s In Love
dark bay/brown colt 3/2/24
By Paynter – Buff’s In Love, by Buffum
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Queen Ann
The recently acquired broodmare prospect Queen Ann comes from a deep and active Claiborne Farm family; for her first mating she gets a shot with the exciting up-and-coming Maryland stallion Blofeld
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Zarella
With a potentially stakes-caliber half-brother back to the races in 2024, and a promising freshman sire from that line one that we’re high on, we’re excited to switch Zarella to Instagrand in 2024.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Lime Squash
Lime Squash is a half to a multiple stakes winner by a grandson of Danzig, and will get a visit in 2024 with the exciting first-year stallion Two Phil’s, who is also a Danzig grandson.
24 Mad Grace
bay filly 2/24/24
By Aloha West out of Mad Grace, by English Channel
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – I’m Engaged
I’m Engaged is now up to 5 winners from 5 foals of racing age, and for 2024 she’ll stay local and get an intriguing matchup with our favorite Mid-Atlantic sire, Blofeld.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Cascabella
Blofeld has just one runner so far out of an Afleet Alex mare, but with that foal being a six-figure earner, it makes sense to send Afleet Alex’s black-type placed daughter Cascabella to him in 2024.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Queen Mum
Maclean’s Music is poised for a big couple of seasons, and Queen Mum matches up intriguingly with him for some reasons that we believe should trump a subpar nick rating.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Coffee Pond
After producing pretty foals by a couple of young, unproven stallions, Coffee Pond gets a shot with a thoroughly-proven, veteran turf stallion in 2024
24 Gun Slingin
gray/roan colt 2/17/24
By Liam’s Map out of Gun Slingin, by Gun Runner
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Aquatic Approach
With a successful turf sibling and several close relatives that excelled on the track by Giant’s Causeway, Aquatic Approach made all the sense to send to Up to the Mark in 2024.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Hurryupandcomeback
We believed that Aloha West would make an excellent match for Hurryupandcomeback in 2023, and all that logic still applies so she’ll head for a repeat mating at Mill Ridge in ’24.
24 Giving Spirit
bay filly 2/8/24
By Midshipman out of Giving Spirit, by Ghostzapper
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Wand Work
With a black-type half-brother by Maclean’s Music at the track, and our belief that MM is destined for a big couple of years, Wand Work heads his way for her first mating in 2024.
24 Yesshewill
bay colt 2/5/24
By Rock Your World out of Yesshewill, by Giant’s Causeway
24 Modernism
gray/roan colt 2/3/24
By Blofeld out of Modernism, by Frosted
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Desert Rendezvous
With a female family that’s already had success with Medaglia d’Oro and his sons, Desert Rendezvous will be a solid match for the gorgeous first-year stallion Dr. Schivel in ’24
24 Ebb Tide
chestnut colt 1/30/24
By Dialed In out of Ebb Tide, by Medaglia d’Oro
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Giving Spirit
With her half-brother by Speightstown looking to be stakes quality, Giving Spirit makes perfect sense to send to Speightstown’s wickedly fast son Nashville in 2024.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Mad Grace
Versatility is the byword of the match between Oscar Performance and Mad Grace, who have both had success on multiple surfaces over a range of distances — in addition to pedigrees that blend well.
24 Frame of Mind
bay colt 1/27/24
By Highly Motivated out of Frame of Mind, by Hard Spun
24 Itgetsgreaterlater
bay colt 1/23/24
By Practical Joke out of Itgetsgreaterlater, by Justify
24 Paw Prints
chestnut filly 1/22/24
By Midshipman out of Paw Prints, by Kitten’s Joy
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Paw Prints
War Front with Kitten’s Joy has been a successful cross, and Annapolis’s broodmare sire Unbridled’s Song has also worked well with Paw Prints’s female family, making her an ideal mare for his first book
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – No More Excuses
Army Mule is a rapidly ascending son of the MD-based Friesan Fire, and will be a perfect match for No More Excuses, a half-sister to a MD Million Classic winner by that regional stallion.
Housatonic Recommended Purchases – Giving Spirit (IFT Midshipman)
Midshipman is one of our favorite proven Kentucky value stallions — his stats make him a great choice with which to start off a young mare like the well-bred Giving Spirit.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 — Itgetsgreaterlater
We believe that Gunite has a chance to be one of the most commercially successful stallions retiring for 2024, and he makes a great fit for the young Justify mare Itgetsgreaterlater.
24 Why Not Tonight
bay filly 1/8/24
By Nashville out of Why Not Tonight, by Tapiture
Aloha West
By Hard Spun
Stands for $8,500 at Mill Ridge Farm, KY.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Why Not Tonight
One of the strongest crosses for Maclean’s Music has been with A.P. Indy-line mares, and he’ll give the young Tapiture SW Why Not Tonight a big shot with a proven mate in 2024.
Rise Up
We recently helped Lee & Connie Erickson of Oregon acquire the grade 3-winning millionaire Rise Up as a stallion prospect after he had last raced at Remington Park in Oklahoma. Below is the text of the press release relating to Rise Up’s acquisition and retirement: Grade 3-winning 2-year-old and millionaire Rise Up has been retired… [Read More]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Frame of Mind
A great blend of physicals and some inbreeding with strong results highlight our logic behind sending the Hard Spun mare Frame of Mind to Nashville in 2024.
Annapolis
By War Front
Stands for $12,500 LFSN at Claiborne Farm, KY.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 — Prosperity
Juddmonte-bred Prosperity, a half to MGSW/millionaire Fulsome (by Into Mischief) will be a member of the first group of mares to visit MG1W and Storm Cat-line stallion Up to the Mark in 2024.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Raggedy
From a family that has clicked repeatedly with A.P. Indy, Raggedy’s first mating will be to that scion’s brilliant and upwardly-mobile grandson Army Mule in ’24.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – American Thriller
Maclean’s Music is poised to break out commercially in the next couple of years, and should be a perfect complement to the Michael Tabor-bred American Thriller.
Blofeld Breeding Analysis – Prepared by Housatonic Bloodstock
In case you’re considering breeding to Blofeld in ’24, we’ve prepared this Breeding Analysis highlighting the types of mares he’s worked with thus far to achieve his excellent stats (1.44 AEI vs. 1.13 CI, 18.5% BTH/runners, $78,606 avg earnings/starter, etc)
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Modernism
We believe that Instagrand has every chance to be among the leading freshmen sires in ’24, and in Modernism he gets a mate that doubles up on his precocity while taking advantage of an active nick.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – One That Got Away
We recently acquired the young mare One That Got Away with the express intent of breeding her back to Blofeld, who we think is an absolutely perfect fit for her.
Housatonic Recommended Purchases – One That Got Away (IFT True Valour)
We bought One That Got Away with the specific intent of breeding her to Blofeld, but first we’ll get to see her first foal from the first crop of the tough and durable turf sprinter/miler True Valour.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Star of Shanghai
Blofeld continues to put up excellent statistics in Maryland, and he makes an ideal first match for Star of Shanghai, from Larry Johnson’s foundation Ran’s Chick family.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Boogie Baby
Authentic looks as close to a “sure thing” as stallions get, and he’ll be a great fit for the young Speightstown mare Boogie Baby in 2024 on a highly proven cross.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Wild For Love
After several matings similar to that which produced Wild For Love’s stakes-winning son Local Motive (by a son of Tapit), in ’24 she returns to another sire-line with which she’s also succeeded.
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