(2010 bay mare by Not For Love out of Sticky, by Concern)
An eight-time winner and earner of $187,292, Wild For Love is a daughter of legendary Maryland stallion (and now nationally-recognized broodmare sire) Not For Love.
Wild For Love was a $130,000 2-year-old in-training purchase at OBS, and she went on to win at least one race each year from 2- through 5-years-old, including the 2015 Maryland Million Distaff Starter Handicap going one mile by almost nine lengths. Her other victories came at five-and-one-half and six furlongs, on dirt and all-weather.
Wild For Love is out of the multiple stakes winner Sticky, whose other foals to race include $200k+ earner Fara’s Kid. Wild For Love’s second dam is the Grade 3 winner Hairspray, and her third dam is Miss Legality, who won the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes among her trio of black-type victories.
Wild For Love’s produce record is as follows:
- 2017 Dreaming For Love (colt by Imagining) — a 3x winner at 2 through 5YO with career earnings of $111,111.
- 2018 Unrequited Love (filly by Despite the Odds) — 3rd in her class in the 2019 MHBA Yearling Show (judged by Michael Stidham), she was a maiden special weight winner in her second start as a 2YO and ended up winning a total of 7 races and over $227k before Wasabi acquired her as a broodmare prospect in 2023.
- 2019 Local Motive (gelding by Divining Rod) — purchased in utero with the mare by current connections, he was sold as a weanling to Bird Mobberley and trainer John Salzman, for whom he won three stakes, including the $100,000 Miracle Wood Stakes and James F. Lewis III Stakes, both at Laurel, and Colonial’s $100,000 Hickory Tree Stakes on turf. He also finished 3rd in the Maryland Million Nursery, the Private Terms and the Spectacular Bid Stakes. He earned over $250k.
- 2020 Whatta Notion (filly by Great Notion) — by Maryland’s perennial leading sire (you can read why we picked him for her here), this filly was 2nd in her 2YO debut for Wasabi and trainer Jesse Cruz at Delaware in October ’22, and returned off a year layoff to break her maiden there in October ’23.
- 2021 Mischievousness (filly by Maximus Mischief) — from the first crop of her sire (read why we picked him for her here), and sold to Machmer Hall Farm as agent at the 2021 Keeneland November Sale for $60,000. She resold for $120,000 as a Keeneland September yearling, and finished 4th in her first start at Churchill Downs as a 2YO for trainer Michelle Lovell.
- 2022 Railroad Inn (colt by Lord Nelson) — from the final crop of Lord Nelson (read why we picked him for her here) and sold to Charles Bonuccelli as a weanling.
- 2023 (colt by Tacitus) — from the first crop of Tapit’s blue-blooded son Tacitus (read why we picked him for her here).
- 2024 (filly by Tapiture) — sold for $15,000 at the ’24 Keeneland November Sale (read why we picked him for her here).
Wild for Love was bred to Nashville for her foal of 2025, and is booked back to first-year sire Charge It after that.
You can check out Wild For Love’s full pedigree here and see more photos of her here.
Wild For Love wins the Maryland Million Distaff Starter Handicap
Wild For Love’s third foal, Local Motive, wins his 3rd stakes in the 2022 Miracle Wood Stakes
Wild For Love’s third foal, Local Motive, breaks his maiden at Pimlico first time out at 2YO
Wild For Love’s first foal, Dreaming of Love, breaks his maiden at Laurel