Fashionista, whose pedigree features Rasmussen Factor inbreeding to Ran’s Chick, will get her first pairing with our favorite Maryland stallion Blofeld in 2026.

Sister Dawn switches it up to another Storm Cat-line stallion in ’26, exciting first-year sire Arzak, who appears likely to be the most popular new stallion in NY this year.

The black-type placed and royally-bred Queen Mum will be a part of the first book of mares to visit Eclipse Champion Straight No Chaser in 2026.

A quick digression to discuss some color genetics and statistics.

Successful young runners First Mission and Lacie Be Good will pair up to produce what we expect will be an equally talented foal of 2027!

Bucchero and Inheritance have both produced extremely versatile foals, and should make an excellent pairing on proclivities.

New acquisition Imaginetheodds will take advantage of Blofeld’s best cross, and his second-best cross.

The proven and promising Army Mule will be a perfect pairing for young black-type winner Bluelightspecial in 2026.

Desert Rendezvous sticks with the Tapit sire-line in 2026 when she visits last year’s most popular first-year stallion, Charge It.

The brilliantly-fast maiden mare Cruise To Catalina will head to Darley for an exciting like-to-like match with freshman sire First Mission in 2026.

Blofeld has already produced a pair of $200k earners out of a Union Rags mare, including the Preakness runner Mugatu.

Arzak looks like the perfect stallion for New York, and Pivotal Woman will provide just the right type of mate to him in his first book.

With an exciting update in the form of her TDN Rising Star half-brother Englishman, Fee will again get a highly-commercial pairing in 2026 when she visits Mindframe.

Johannes was one of the best turf milers of the last couple years, and as a son of Nyquist is a very exciting addition to the Claiborne stallion ranks in ’26.

Mischievous Mind will be bred to Prince of Monaco for the second year in a row, in a mating that makes just as much sense in ’26 as it did in ’25.

Commerciality is key to our plans for Saucily in ’26 — she’ll visit the exciting first-year multiple G1 winner Locked this time around.

Ebb Tide, from the family of Constitution, will return to the A.P. Indy sire-line for her ’26 mating with the exciting Arthur’s Ride.

Breeder bonuses are the play with the pairing of G3W Brazen Persuasion to perennial leading NY sire Central Banker in 2026.

Annapolis is a young stallion that we have a lot of time for, and we think he’ll suit the talented Irish-bred Calling All Angels very well.

Seville’s Princess will make another visit to Blofeld in 2026, her third straight mating with the best active sire in the Mid-Atlantic, and her fourth overall.

We’ll give this solid older black-type winner and producer another try with New York’s exciting young Honest Mischief in 2026.

Karakontie is a stallion that we have recommended to clients previously because he gets strong racetrack results and thus offers significant value at his advertised fee. Especially for a client that is not adverse to a turf runner (although Karakontie does have a Graded winner on the dirt to his credit), his statistics make him… [Read More]

Black-type earner Princess Phone is the perfect type to mate to Bucchero for a NY breeder planning to race her offspring.

The talented War Front mare Tracy Flick will be a perfect pairing with Eclipse Champion Up to the Mark this spring.

First Mission at Darley is a first-year stallion that we are very excited to use in 2026.

We are sticking with the A.P. Indy sire-line for Floral Hall yet again in 2026, and this time she’ll be going to the exciting young sire Tiz the Law.

We always appreciate the opportunity to share some of our Mating Plans for the Wasabi broodmares with the TDN.  You can read our thoughts in the January 14th issue of the TDN here: Mating Plans For 2026, Presented By Spendthrift: Wasabi Ventures

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.