After visiting A.P. Indy-line stallions in her first two trips to the breeding shed, we’ll switch things up with Ebb Tide this year, and send her to War Front’s gorgeous and exciting son Annapolis.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2025 — Twelveo’clockrock
Regular readers of this blog have likely wondered why we hadn’t mentioned Blofeld yet this season, but fear not! He’s still the best young stallion in the Mid-Atlantic.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2025 — Wild For Love
Wild For Love has already produced a BTW by a Tapit son, and will visit a very exciting first-year horse by that leading sire in 2025.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2025 — Unrequited Love
Honest Mischief is off to an excellent start at Sequel NY, and makes a perfect pairing for the hard-knocking Unrequited Love.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2025 — Why Not Tonight
Prince of Monaco is among our favorites of the first-year stallions for 2025, and we’re excited to send Wasabi’s first BTW his way.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2025 — C’est Mardi
The stallion that we believe offers the best value in Kentucky for 2025 is a horse that we have recommended previously — but we are even more bullish about Army Mule now than ever before.
The First Housatonic Recommended Mating for 2025!
Brazen Persuasion was a G3W 2YO and is a proven winner producer, and we’re excited to have acquired her for a new client who will send her to Bucchero.
A Vintage Villain Takes a Leading Role
Murmur Farm’s Blofeld has six runners in this year’s Maryland Million stakes races from his first 93 foals of racing age.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Modernism (revised)
For a young, breed-to-race broodmare, it’s hard to find a better choice than Kentucky veteran Jimmy Creed.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Gun Slingin (revised)
As a half-sister to a champion runner by Scat Daddy, Gun Slingin will be a great fit for that horse’s Grade 1-winning grandson Arabian Lion.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Sophie Antoinette
As a nick that produces Rasmussen Factor inbreeding to the legendary Miesque, Karakontie’s success with Lemon Drop Kid mares makes loads of sense.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Areuhavingfunyet
Although Areuhavingfunyet was purchased earlier this year as a racing prospect, things did not work out as planned and she won’t get a chance to improve on the strong 2nd-place finish that she attained in her second start. Luckily, she is a filly with a nice page and should make a great match in the… [Read More]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Mia Rosa
The MG1W turf miler Raging Bull is horse that we have a lot of time for, and are looking forward to sending the big, pretty, well-bred mare Mia Rosa his way in ‘24.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Frame of Mind (revised)
Frame of Mind’s family has had success with Street Cry and A.P. Indy, so she makes perfect sense to send to Speaker’s Corner in 2024, as he’s bred on that cross.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Irish Pharaoh
Tapiture gets a large number of winners and 2YO winners, and as such he continues to be a strong value option for a mare owner looking to race her offspring.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 – Wowwhatabrat
We loved the match of Wowwhatabrat with Blofeld last year, and see no reason not to take her right back to him again in 2024.
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2024 — Misty Sky
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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