The latest Housatonic Recommended Mating features Boston Mine, a half-sister to a Puerto Rican champion by Eskendereya, who will visit Eskendereya’s brilliant first-year son Mor Spirit at Spendthrift Farm. In addition to that Puerto Rican sensation named Pure Lemon, Boston Mine (by Horse of the Year Mineshaft) is a half-sister to stakes winner Crafty Unicorn… [Read More]

We purchased Kitten’s Peak for a client last January while she was in foal to the promising young stallion Fed Biz, and the mare was subsequently bred back to popular first-year sire Cupid for 2018.  In 2019, Kitten’s Peak will head to another son of Tapit when she visits the classic winner Tonalist in a… [Read More]

The big, beautiful, hard-knocking race mare Smile Big will be mated with the epitome of a slam-dunk stallion prospect when she visits Mendelssohn in the latest 2019 Housatonic Recommended Mating. Smile Big’s looks can be inferred from the fact that, despite being a daughter of Big Drama out of a mare with no black-type, she… [Read More]

As the calendar turns to 2019 and all Thoroughbreds turn a year older, we want to say thank you to all our clients and friends who made 2018 the best year yet for Housatonic Bloodstock, and best of luck in 2019! We are looking forward to a big crop of 2019 foals bred from Housatonic… [Read More]

For a set of owners looking to maximize their chances of having a commercially sale-able foal on a limited budget, we are excited that they have chosen the exciting first-crop stallion Mor Spirit for their young Speightstown mare Innyminniemineymoe, in our latest Housatonic Recommended Mating. An $85,000 yearling-turned $650,000 2-year-old in-training purchase, Mor Spirit broke… [Read More]

Perfect Gleam, a granddaughter of Broodmare of the Year Anne Campbell, will be our sixth Housatonic Recommended Mating for 2019 featuring the outstanding value sire Munnings at Coolmore America. Perfect Gleam’s dam, the Halo daughter Halo’s Gleam, is a half-sister to a pair of Grade 1 winners that both finished 2nd in the G1 Kentucky… [Read More]

The fifth Housatonic Recommended Mating for 2019 that features our favorite Kentucky value sire Munnings is for the five-time winning Successful Appeal mare Thicket. We have made it quite clear numerous times how highly we think of Munnings as a stallion, and with his stud fee reduced to $20,000 in 2019, he has to be… [Read More]

Having previously been bred to Mr. Prospector-line stallions from the Unbridled, Forty Niner and Smart Strike branches, the stakes-placed Rock Slide mare Lucy Boo will try the Gone West branch of the Mr. P sire-line in 2019 when she visits Munnings in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. Rock Slide is a full-brother to Horse of the… [Read More]

Given that he is probably the most accomplished racehorse to retire to stud in Maryland in some time, we are excited that the six-time winning Flatter mare Not Me But U (whose seventh dam is none other than the foundation broodmare La Troienne) is going to visit Dortmund in 2019 in a Housatonic Recommended Mating…. [Read More]

As we laid out a year ago when planning her first mating, we believe that Littlemissperfect should have her greatest success as a broodmare crossing with Storm Cat’s descendants, and for 2019 she will visit Mor Spirit, a brilliant first-year representative of that sire-line, in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. An $85,000 yearling-turned $650,000 2-year-old in-training… [Read More]

The one-time $170,000 2-year-old in-training purchase Notassharpasuthink has a lovely weanling filly of 2018 by Speightstown’s promising New York freshman-sire son Central Banker that was purchased in utero a year ago, and after she delivers her Fed Biz foal next spring she will head back to our favorite Speightstown stallion Munnings, in a Housatonic Recommended… [Read More]

As much sense as we thought Munnings made for Mo Light last year in her maiden voyage to the breeding shed, our belief in this particular match has only increased in the intervening year, and she will be bred back to Munnings a second time in 2019 in another Housatonic Recommended Mating. We have mentioned… [Read More]

I’m Engaged will visit a Mr. Prospector-line stallion for the first time in 2019, when she heads to the court of one of our favorite up-and-coming sires, Munnings, in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. We have mentioned repeatedly how highly we think of Munnings as a stallion, and with his stud fee reduced to $20,000 in… [Read More]

The easiest matings to plan come when a mare has already had considerable success with a particular sire or sire-line and there is a suitable similar option to which she can return again — which is exactly the case in sending Waveland to Jump Start for 2019, in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. Waveland’s first foal… [Read More]

Excited to have been a guest on Jared Gollnitz’s Pedigree Radio last night — we talked about some general breeding theories and touched on the pedigrees of some of the recent stakes winners at Saratoga, like Sombeyay, Catherinethegreat and Sistercharlie.  Give it a listen! Listen to “Pedigree Radio – July 22nd, 2018 with George Adams”… [Read More]

Huge thanks to host Scott Wykoff and Wasabi Ventures Stables founder TK Kuegler for the shout-outs in TK’s interview on Scott’s recent radio show! Excited to be a small part of the team helping pick out horses for WVS — the whole interview was very interesting and worth a listen (but if you just want… [Read More]

Though she has thus far been mated exclusively to Mr. Prospector-line stallions (save one foal by A.P. Indy’s son Take Charge Indy), we are going to take Winning Bet in a completely different direction for her 2018 cover.  Instead of adding more Mr. Prospector blood (Winning Bet being inbred to him 4×2 already), we are… [Read More]

Our pick to lead this year’s crop of freshman sires is the WinStar stallion Fed Biz. After making his racetrack debut in November of his 2-year-old year (finishing 4th that day), Fed Biz broke his maiden second time out, with a day to spare in his juvenile season.  He won his first start at 3… [Read More]

We have mentioned more than once that starting a young mare off with a proven stallion is a tactic that makes the utmost sense in order to give her the best chance at beginning her breeding career with success.  At the same time, finding an accomplished sire who is both still affordable and offers some… [Read More]

We are very excited to have been able to recommend the brilliant 2-year-old Kantharos, whose success and versatility at stud have already outstripped what he himself accomplished in an abbreviated career on the racetrack, as a first match for the well-bred Midnight Lute mare, Midnight Swinger. Because Midnight Swinger is herself a half-sister to a multiple… [Read More]