If you subscribe to these blog posts, you’re already familiar with the new Pennsylvania stallion Beren, who enters stud in 2025 at WynOaks Farm. We were recently tasked with finding a suitable mare to send his way out of the Keeneland January Sale, and the one we came up with is the New York-bred black-type winner Byhubbyhellomoney.
Beren, as we’ve mentioned here before, was campaigned from 2YO through 6YO, and won 12 of 35 starts, earning just under a million dollars. Seven of his wins were in black-type events, from six furlongs to a mile-and-a-sixteenth. In addition to numerous stakes at Parx and Penn, Beren also won two black-type events at Belmont Park and the historic Frank DeFrancis Dash at Laurel. In addition to his 12 wins, Beren placed in 11 races of which nine were black-type stakes, including the Grade 3 General George. He won on fast and wet tracks and had loads of speed, but also won his longest race — the two-turn Crowd Pleaser — by 9-1/2 lengths “under wraps.” So Beren has all of that same versatility that his sire Weigelia has brought to the table as one of the leading sires in Pennsylvania the last few years. Beren is also out of a heck of a racemare in the Grade 3 winner and millionaire Silmaril, who won 16 of her 36 starts. Speed, versatility, durability and class — Beren has it all and comes by it honestly, and he makes a fascinating addition to the Pennsylvania sire ranks alongside his sire.
His sire, the aforementioned Weigelia, had to do things the hard way at stud. Despite an admirable race career that saw him go (48) 13-9-11 with wins in a pair of graded stakes races and earnings of over a million dollars, he was supported at the outset pretty much exclusively by his owners at WynOaks and their close relatives at St. Omer’s Farm (Beren’s co-breeders and -owners). But Weigelia quickly proved that he was capable of passing on something resembling his own ability and durability, rather than the much more limited qualities his own pedigree implied (by Safely’s Mark out of an Obligato mare). Now in the twilight of his career, he has sired a dozen black-type winners from 180 runners, with average earnings per starter of over $93k in his career, and an AEI of 1.37 vs. a CI of just 1.05. Those stats are super-impressive, and that low CI indicates just how much Weigelia has had to overcome to achieve what he has.
Among the factors that led us to identify Byhubbyhellomoney as an attractive mate for Beren were, first and foremost, her pedigree: she is a daughter of the G1 winner Effinex, whose sire Mineshaft is a son of A.P. Indy out of a Mr. Prospector mare. Weigelia’s very first black-type winner, Brenda’s Way, is out of a mare by Malibu Moon (also by A.P. Indy out of a Mr. Prospector mare), and there are two more six-figure earners bred on that exact cross. Weigelia has also sired the black-type placed Poker Partner out of a mare by Congrats, who is also an A.P. Indy/Mr. Prospector product. Overall, from 13 starters, Weigelia has sired nine winners out of mares by sons or grandsons of A.P. Indy.
Byhubbyhellomoney’s broodmare sire, El Prado, represents another sire-line with which Weigelia has achieved success: El Prado is by Sadler’s Wells, whose son Wayne County is the broodmare sire of black-type winner Barracuda Wayne by Weigelia, plus three six-figure earning full-siblings to that one, while Private Interview, a son of Sadler’s Wells’s close relative Nureyev, is the broodmare sire of Weigelia’s black-type winner Ninetypercentmaddie and that one’s black-type placed full-sibling Ninetypercentbrynn.
So both Byhubbyhellomoney’s sire-line and broodmare sire-line have worked with Beren’s sire, and as such she should also fit Beren very well on paper.
Next, Byhubbyhellomoney was a successful race filly, scoring in the Fleet Indian Stakes at Saratoga, and placing in two additional black-type events on her way to earning over a quarter-million dollars. A winner on dirt and turf, she achieved her greatest success at two turns on dirt, which was another part of the brief in finding a mare for Beren. This will hopefully allow her to produce a foal by him capable of running a distance of ground, and being well-suited to year-round (dirt) racing in Pennsylvania.
Then physically, Byhubbyhellomoney is a big, strapping, leggy mare with plenty of scope and a nice straight hind leg which will complement Beren’s build and, again, hopefully blend well to produce a foal suited to running a bit longer than the sprint distances at which Beren excelled (though, as noted above, Beren did romp in his only start at more than a mile, so he might not need that much help).
All of which, we hope, adds up to a successful Pennsylvania-bred foal to help put Beren on the map!