Participate will get an injection of speed in 2023 when she visits Instagrand at Taylor Made, from a sire-line that has worked with her female family and which will hopefully help produce a precocious foal in 2024

Young Godolphin-bred Ghostzapper mare Zarella will be part of the first book for the wickedly fast Speaker’s Corner at Darley in 2023 in a mating that will produce Rasmussen Factor inbreeding to Broodmare of the Year Cara Rafaela

As we approach the opening of the 2023 breeding season, the TDN staff is once again sitting down with leading breeders to find out what stallions they have chosen for their mares, and why. Today, we catch up with George Adams at Housatonic Bloodstock, who serves as the Director of Stallions and Breeding for Wasabi Ventures Stables.

Pretty young mare Mia Rosa heads to the court of the 2YO turf G1 winner Fog of War in NY for 2023

Having already produced one smashing foal by a son of Into Mischief, Animalistic will be matched with another in 2023 when she heads to NY to visit Honest Mischief

Into Mischief over Sadler’s Wells-line stallions has been a productive cross, and sending Seville’s Princess to exciting first-year sire Highly Motivated will double up on that legendary Euro sire.

Nashi has already produced a stakes winner by a grandson of Gone West, and should be an excellent fit for the promising Maryland stallion Blofeld from that sire-line

Impressive debut winner Centsational, who traces tail female to the Blue Hen Missy Baba, will head to Juddmonte Farm and a visit with first-crop sire Mandaloun for her first mating in 2023.

For the owner of the proven, stakes-producing mare Darting, who is looking to maximize the commercial value of her next foal, the gorgeously-bred first-year sire Greatest Honour at Spendthrift offers great commercial upside at a reasonable price point

Boogie Baby comes from an active female family, and the daughter of Speightstown gets a shot with the eminently proven Hard Spun in 2023 for her first mating.

Frosted’s 2023 stud fee offers incredible value given how well his 2022 2YOs ran, and we love him as a mate for No More Excuses this spring.

Luna’s family has had multiple successes with Candy Ride, making her a perfect fit for that one’s G1W son Rock Your World for 2023

The A.P. Indy sire-line has worked repeatedly with Yesshewill and her immediate female family, and she’ll go to another member of that tribe in 2023 when she visits the exciting Independence Hall at WinStar.

The well-bred maiden mare Lime Squash will be a member of the first book of mares to visit Darley’s wickedly fast Speaker’s Corner in 2023.

Newly-acquired maiden mare Paw Prints, from a stellar Juddmonte family, will visit the versatile and proven Midshipman for her first mating in 2023.

We continue to be very high on the young Maryland stallion Blofeld, and are excited to have recommended two mares to him for a WV-based breeder

Sending the hard-knocking, black-type placed Wowwhatabrat to Blofeld in 2023 will result in a foal that has 2 crosses of champion & broodmare of the year Misty Morn, and 4 of her dam, the Blue Hen Grey Flight

“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” is the perfect shorthand for why we are recommending that Wild For Love visit the proven sire of winners and stakes winners Tapiture in 2023.

The durable, versatile, and well-bred Mad Grace will be among the first book of mares to visit BC Sprint winner Aloha West in 2023

Well-bred young mare Floral Hall will visit Greatest Honour in 2023, he from a sire-line that has worked repeatedly with her immediate family