Croquembouche gets a shot with a proven stallion in ’26, and one that has already worked with her female family.

For her second mating, Cabra Chica will take a shot with a leading freshman sire who we think offers a ton of value for ’26 in Essential Quality.

Thank you to Joe Nevills at the Paulick Report for asking us to contribute to his yearly feature on value sires.  You can read our thoughts here: https://paulickreport.com/news/bloodstock/the-2025-26-all-value-sire-team-bloodstock-experts-george-adams-and-jessica-tugwell-make-their-picks

With several close relatives by Giant’s Causeway that excelled on the track, Aquatic Approach will head to a son of Not This Time for the second time in three years in 2026, when she visits Arzak.

Inbreeding to the broodmare sire of the sire is a tried-and-true pattern, and Why Not Tonight will visit Johannes in ’26 on a slight variation of that theme.

We’ll stick with another Speightstown-line stallion for the young Godolphin-bred Giving Spirit in ’26, this time the exciting first-year sire Straight No Chaser.

We’ll finally give Faze the Nation a shot with a Storm Cat-line stallion in ’26 after thinking about going that direction for several years.

This recommendation will cause long-time readers flashbacks to 2019, when Munnings was the most heavily-recommended horse to feature in our write-ups.

Having produced a BTW by a son of Tapit earlier in her breeding career, that’s an obvious direction to take with Wild For Love again in ’26, this time with first-year stallion Arthur’s Ride.

For a breeder hoping to breed-to-race, but one not looking to give up on commerciality completely, Darley’s proven and precocious Midshipman is the perfect pick.

Thousand Words is off to a very strong start with Tiznow-line mares, which is just one of the reasons we’ll send C’est Mardi his way in 2026.

We remain very high on Army Mule heading into ’26, and he’ll be an excellent choice for the young Godolphin-bred mare Sharma.

Tickle the Ivories was selected specifically to be a member of the first book of mares for MG1W Maryland-bred Mindframe.

Godolphin’s most recent US graded winner demonstrates several characteristics that have led to their amazing run as the country’s best owner/breeder

We won’t reinvent the wheel with Wand Work in ’26 — she’ll visit another Distorted Humor-line stallion in proven value sire Jimmy Creed.

We’re sticking with a pattern that just worked very well by sending Itgetsgreaterlater to exciting first-year stallion Locked.

Our first mare expected to foal in 2026 is also the first to get a write-up for her next match.

The first of our 2026 Housatonic Recommended Matings will be published tomorrow, so what better time to highlight some successes achieved by past products at last week’s KeeNov sale!

The last 30 days have seen 10 winners from Housatonic Recommended Matings!

Aidan O’Brien is on pace to match his own single-season record of G1 victories, and it makes us wonder: why don’t Coolmore’s American-based runners have similar success?