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]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Perfect Gleam
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]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Another Secret
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]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Thicket
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]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Lucy Boo
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]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Not Me But U
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]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Paluxy Princess
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]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Littlemissperfect
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]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Notassharpasuthink
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]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Mo Light
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]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – I’m Engaged
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]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Gosling
Unlike the first two mates of her breeding career, who were both turf-oriented Roberto-line stallions in the form of Dynaformer’s sons Temple City and Point of Entry, the Juddmonte-bred Harlan’s Holiday mare Gosling will visit Irish War Cry in 2019, in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. New to stud in 2019, Irish War Cry is a… [Read More]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Participate
The hard-knocking, later-maturing Include mare Participate will retire to the life of a broodmare in 2019, and is slated to be a part of the first book of mares covered by the brilliant new Maryland stallion Irish War Cry in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. This pairing is one that will hopefully inject a bit of… [Read More]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Wild For Love
Given that the cross of Great Notion with daughters of Not For Love has so far produced four stakes winners from just 23 foals of racing age, he was a slam-dunk decision as the 2019 mate for Wild For Love in this Housatonic Recommended Mating. As the best stallion in Maryland for the last few… [Read More]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Waveland
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]
Housatonic Recommended Matings for 2019 – Campaign Vows
The most exciting mating plans are those where a mare’s female family has had success with a certain sire-line, and that sire-line also happens to nick strongly with the mare in question — which does not happen as often as you might think. But in the case of the stakes-placed mare Campaign Vows, that is… [Read More]
A Very Good Day for Great Notion
This past weekend’s Maryland Million program at Laurel Park highlighted yet again why Great Notion has to be considered the best sire in Maryland at the moment. Great Notion’s offspring collected three victories on the card, including one exacta finish and another race in which his runners finished first and third. This trio of wins… [Read More]
Wild For Love
Private purchase
Housatonic Bloodstock identifies the TDN “Buy of the Day”
We are excited to have been asked to choose a “Buy of the Day” for the select Day 1 session of the 2018 Keeneland September Sale, for which we identified a speedy-looking son of Munnings sold by Penn Sales to Thomas Haughey for PTK LLC.
Next Street
Private purchase
Pedigree Webinar for Wasabi Ventures Stables
Had a great time presenting a Pedigree Webinar for our friends at Wasabi Ventures Stables on Wednesday evening, discussing some general pedigree research techniques, looking at catalog pages and female families, the Stallion Register and nicking reports, and answering some more specific questions from watchers & listeners. You can watch the webinar in its entirety… [Read More]
Guest Appearance on Pedigree Radio
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]
Excerpt from Scott Wykoff’s “Weekend Blitz” on WBAL 1090
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]
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Analyzeyurspending
One of the hottest young stallions in the country right now is Quality Road, who stands at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky for a 2018 advertised stud fee of $70,000, after siring a pair of 2017 Eclipse Award Champions in Abel Tasman and Caledonia Road. Caledonia Road, who won last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies-G1… [Read More]
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Last-Minute Adjustments
We have previously mentioned in this space how even one’s best laid plans can go awry in the Thoroughbred breeding game, and as the 2018 breeding season wraps up, we have again had to make a few last-minute adjustments. Originally this spring, I’m Engaged was booked to Lord Nelson at Spendthrift and Littlemissperfect was slated… [Read More]
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Winning Bet
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]
2018 Freshman Sire Predictions
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]
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Paluxy Princess
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]
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Midnight Swinger
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]
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Annapolis Harbor
Just as with Minnesota Mafia going to Include, when our newest client asked for a mating recommendation for his other mare — again with the intention to breed-to-race — we went right back to our list of proven “Value Sires” to see what might work for Annapolis Harbor, and we quickly landed on another veteran… [Read More]
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Minnesota Mafia
A new client contacted us recently looking for mating recommendations for his pair of mares, including a stakes-winning Yonaguska mare named Minnesota Mafia, who was actually owned by a Country Life partnership during our time there. Minnesota Mafia’s new owner specified that he planned to race her foals himself, and – as it does whenever… [Read More]
Mating Plans for 2018 – Akasha
For Akasha’s 2018 mate, we are going in a different direction than we did for her first two matings, when we targeted the Danzig sire line and bred her to War Front’s sons Data Link in 2016 and Hit It A Bomb in 2017. Instead of a fast, precocious, turf-oriented stallion whose offspring have yet… [Read More]
Demarchelier
By Dubawi
Stands for $7,500 LFSN at Claiborne Farm, KY.
2018 Mating Plans – Tuxedo Annie (revised)
We had originally planned to send Tuxedo Annie to the new Maryland stallion Blofeld in 2018, because his pedigree contains two crosses of the Phipps/Wheatley foundation mare, Grey Flight, who is also Tuxedo Annie’s fourth dam. But due to some unforeseen circumstances, we had to call a last-minute audible, and Tuxedo Annie has instead been… [Read More]
Postnup
2018 bay filly
By Declaration of War x I’m Engaged, by Broken Vow
Our 2018 Value Sires
Several of the major racing publications, both in the States and Europe, have recently put out their versions of a “Value Sires List,” which we always read with fascination – and excitement, when those experts validate our own choices or the recommendations that we’ve made to our clients. Usually the authors of these articles take… [Read More]
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Perfect Gleam
Perfect Gleam’s second dam, Anne Campbell, produced a pair of Grade 1-winning sons who both finished 2nd in the G1 Kentucky Derby, and she was a Broodmare of the Year. More importantly for our purposes, though, she has also founded a high-class family in Europe (and more specifically, at Ballydoyle/Coolmore) via her daughter Mr. P’s… [Read More]
Mating Plans for 2018 – Littlemissperfect
The crux of our mating ideology is, generally, to try and duplicate what has already worked for other members of a mare’s female family. In the case of Littlemissperfect, we hope to replicate the success of her dam’s full-sister, Procession, who produced Proceed Bee, a Grade 3 winner of 20 races, when bred to the… [Read More]
Dialed In
By Mineshaft
Stands for $15,000 LFSN at Darby Dan Farm, KY.
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Not Me But U
With breeding season just about upon us, Housatonic Bloodstock LLC is here to help you plan your 2018 matings. Below are excerpts from a project that we completed back in 2017 for a group of clients, who provided a list of stallions that they were considering as mates for their mare last spring, and asked… [Read More]
Kalmar
2018 gray/roan filly
By Golden Years x Tuxedo Annie, by Black Tie Affair
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Serena’s Joy
As a daughter of the Storm Cat stallion Forestry out of a full-sister to Serena’s Song, we recommended that our clients would be best served to consider Mr. Prospector-line stallions for Serena’s Joy in 2018. With Pioneerof the Nile being one of the hottest conduits of the Fappiano branch of that line out there these… [Read More]
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Notassharpasuthink
We have have previously discussed how and why we believe that Fed Biz is poised to become an important sire, and are therefor excited to have been able to recommend him to a client as a mate for our recent auction purchase, Notassharpasuthink. Notassharpasuthink is a daughter of Sharp Humor out of a Silver Hawk… [Read More]
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Kosmo’s Buddy
We have recommended that the multiple stakes-winning Outflanker mare Kosmo’s Buddy visit the high-class Grade 1 winner and sire First Samurai, by Storm Cat’s son Giant’s Causeway, in 2018. Kosmo’s Buddy won or placed in 14 stakes races from 2- through 5-years-old, winning on both turf and dirt, and her progeny so far include the… [Read More]
2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Gosling
With Gosling being from an excellent European family of accomplished turf horses cultivated by Juddmonte Farm, we recommended that she be bred in 2018 to the most promising young American turf stallion to come along in some time: Dynaformer’s five-time Grade 1-winning son, Point of Entry. Gosling’s first dam is the unbeaten, Group 3-winning Dansili… [Read More]
Old Line Magic
’16 Juice – hip 405 at 17FTMSEP
Campaign Vows
2008 bay
By Broken Vow out of Who’s Cozy, by Cozzene
Buff’s In Love
2015 bay
By Buffum out of Who’s In Love, by Not For Love
Mating Plans for 2018 – Rough Water
In her nine previous matings, Rough Water has visited More Than Ready or his sons four times, Mr. Prospector-line sires three times, and Awesome Again’s son Paynter twice. This year, for her tenth foal, we are going to take an entirely new direction with her and will send Rough Water to Cupid, the exciting first-year… [Read More]
Housatonic Bloodstock Mating Recommendations – Sample
As breeding season fast approaches, Housatonic Bloodstock LLC is here to help you plan your 2018 matings. Below is an excerpt from an analysis that we completed back in August of this year for a client who was seeking mating recommendations for his young Uncle Mo mare, Mo Light. The client is looking to breed… [Read More]
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