Grade 1-winning millionaire Force the Pass has been retired from racing and will enter stud in Maryland in 2020 as the property of T.K. Kuegler’s Wasabi Ventures Stallions, LLC, who recently acquired the son of Speightstown from his owner/breeder Richard Santulli.  Force the Pass will stand at Louis & Grace Merryman’s Anchor & Hope Farm… [Read More]

We started our last Mating Recommendation post dealing with Starr Gate by commenting that it’s always a good idea, during breeding season, to have a back-up plan in mind, and we are now on to our “Plan C” with Starr Gate after our first two choices didn’t pan out for a variety of reasons.  But… [Read More]

One of our favorites at the 2017 Keeneland September Sale, when he was simply known as “Hip 109,” was a colt by War Front out of Visions of Clarity, by Sadler’s Wells.  Now known as War of Will, he’s our pick in tomorrow’s Kentucky Derby off of a 15/1 morning-line. War of Will started his… [Read More]

Last year, Littlemissperfect was bred to Imagining only after she returned from Kentucky and lost the pregnancy she’d been carrying to Fed Biz.  This year, we’re even more excited to send her back to Imagining in the latest Housatonic Recommended Mating. Since their matchup last year, we have only become more bullish on Imagining’s chances… [Read More]

The latest Housatonic Recommended Mating will see the multiple stakes-placed, 12-time winner Broad But Nice visit our favorite Maryland stallion, the gorgeously-bred and gorgeously-built Imagining. Imagining’s 54 first crop foals are now 2-year-olds, and before we have even gotten into May, he already has five of his offspring on official worktabs, with several others earning… [Read More]

Our latest Housatonic Recommended Mating sends Tiz Emily and Jill to Curlin’s classic-placed son Irish War Cry as a member of this brilliant new Maryland stallion’s first book. Although there are not yet any stakes winners by Smart Strike’s sons out of mares by Tiznow or his sons (Tiz Emily and Jill being a daughter of… [Read More]

The latest first-time broodmare being bred in a Housatonic Recommended Mating is Animal Kingdom’s daughter Animalistic, who heads to WynOaks Farm for a date with their thoroughly-proven stalwart Weigelia. The definition of “blue collar,” Weigelia won 13 of 48 starts from 2- through 7-years-old, including the Grade 3 Kenny Noe Jr. Handicap and the Grade… [Read More]

Our latest Housatonic Recommended Mating features the recent acquisition Intrepid Forest, a seven-time sprint winner by top sprinter Forestry, who visits Bernardini’s very fast son Buffum at Northview this spring for her maiden mating. Buffum was a $1.2 million yearling who debuted at 2-years-old with a win at one mile, but his biggest career victory… [Read More]

The latest Housatonic Recommended Mating is another that features a maiden mare heading to a proven stallion in an attempt to give her the best possible start to her breeding career — in this case, the big, beautiful, former $150,000 auction yearling Super Mama will visit Juddmonte Farm’s versatile stalwart, Mizzen Mast. Mizzen Mast was… [Read More]

In the latest Housatonic Recommended Mating, we are throwing the “nick” rating out the window — for some very good reasons — and will be sending the recent acquisition Starr Gate to the intriguing young sprinter Buffum. Despite being by Mineshaft, who himself crafted a Horse of the Year campaign at 4 with seven two-turn… [Read More]

Our latest Housatonic Recommended Mating features the recent acquisition Rockport Dancer, a precocious and hard-knocking mare from a deep and talented female family, who will visit the Eclipse Champion 2-year-old and leading veteran sire Macho Uno in Kentucky this spring. As a young black-type runner just beginning her breeding career, we were anxious to send… [Read More]

The five-for-five winner-producing mare Rough Water features in the next of our Housatonic Recommended Matings, and she will be another to visit the promising freshman sire Irish War Cry. New to stud in 2019, Irish War Cry is a son of Curlin, one of the top handful of sires in the country, and probably the… [Read More]

Weigelia might have a bit of an off-beat pedigree, but he was a stone cold runner and he has sired nothing but the same in his limited opportunities as basically a house stallion at WynOaks Farm in Pennsylvania — we believe he will make a fantastic first partner for Kuznetsov in the latest Housatonic Recommended… [Read More]

Our favorite tactic in planning matings for a mare is to find something that has already worked with her female family and find the best option for trying to duplicate that — for Winning Bet, that means a 2019 visit to Giant’s Causeway’s fantastically-bred son Imagining in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. It is somewhat shocking… [Read More]

Magical Point, a daughter of Horse of the Year Point Given and from the fantastic Maryland female family of Illeria, will visit the impeccably-bred, incredibly-fast Redesdale this year during his first season at stud, in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. Magical Point is a half-sister to the stakes winner Candida H., both of them out of… [Read More]

Our latest Housatonic Recommended Mating is one of our favorite kind, when the “nick” is a good one and the mare’s female family has also worked with horses related to the stallion.  In this case, both of those factors will be present when Miz Magician visits the impeccably bred and incredibly fast incoming New York… [Read More]

In 2019, Tuxedo Annie will visit the court of Blofeld in a Housatonic Recommended Mating, for many of the same reasons that we set out a year ago, before we had to switch her at the last minute to Imagining.  Most interestingly, this mating will result in 8x7x5 line-breeding to Tuxedo Annie’s fourth dam, the… [Read More]

Our latest Housatonic Recommended Mating features Pinkprint, a daughter of Maryland’s legendary stallion Not For Love and a half-sister to last year’s Breeders’ Futurity-G1 winner Knicks Go, who will visit the veteran leading sire Tiznow. Given his long-standing record of success as a sire, Tiznow would make sense as a mate for just about any… [Read More]

One of the more intriguing young stallions in the Mid-Atlantic region at the moment is Buffum, a son of Bernardini at Northview Maryland, and we are excited that the stakes-winning La Wildcat will be bred to him in 2019 in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. La Wildcat is a multiple stakes-winning sprinter by the similarly quick… [Read More]

First-year Kentucky stallion McCraken was a brilliant racehorse and is the most precocious son of Ghostzapper to come along, which we think makes him an excellent candidate for sire success — he will be the first mate for the two-time winner Another Secret in our latest Housatonic Recommended Mating. McCraken started his unbeaten juvenile campaign… [Read More]

Given that the best horse appearing close-up in Paluxy Princess’s pedigree is the Grade 1-placed stakes winner Achiever’s Legacy, by City Zip, we are ecstatic that she was accepted into the first book of City Zip’s best racing son Collected for 2019, in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. Collected is a fascinating stallion prospect for Airdrie… [Read More]