The best start for a young mare is with a proven stallion, and the NY-based Lacie Be Good will get a mate who’s as proven as it gets when she visits Central Banker in 2025.

Tacitus is a young stallion that we have high hopes for, and he’s a great fit for the well-bred young Blame mare Queen Ann in 2025.

Numerous commentators have acknowledged the value that Bucchero brings to stud in NY this spring, and we’re excited to be sending Zarella his way, on the same cross that produced his G1-winning son

After taking off ’24 due to a late foaling date, Miss Malibu will get started early in ’25 when she heads for a visit with the high-ceilinged Army Mule.

From a historic Phipps family with successful relatives by Speightstown, Mischievous Mind will be a great fit for G1W Prince of Monaco.

This particular mating is all about complimentary physicals and racetrack proclivities, and should produce a heck of a racehorse!

Prosperity will visit the exciting young G1W Annapolis in ’25, from a sire-line that has worked repeatedly for her female family.

We know we sound like a broken record, but Blofeld remains the best choice — especially for a young mare — if you’re breeding to a regional stallion in the Mid-Atlantic.

Weigelia has proven one of the best and most consistent sires in the Mid-Atlantic, and his son Beren brings a similar profile to the PA ranks in ’25 when Faze the Nation will be his very first mate

Sharma’s first booking for Wasabi will be with the upwardly-mobile and extremely versatile Oscar Performance at Mill Ridge

Storm Cat-line stallions have clicked with Aquatic Approach’s female family over-and-over, and we’ll stick with that formula in 2025 when she visits Honest Mischief in NY.

With an eye towards producing a foal that will appeal to the commercial market, Wasabi mare Fee will have a date with exciting first-year stallion Muth for her maiden mating in 2025!

Most of the time, inbreeding is simply something to be noted (and occasionally avoided), but in the case of Princess Phone’s 2025 mating, inbreeding has played a large part in our recommendation.

Gun Slingin gets another big commercial shot in ’25 when she’ll be part of the first book of mares to visit the G1W 2YO Prince of Monaco at Claiborne Farm

Beren retires to stud at WynOaks Farm for the 2025 breeding season, where he will stand beside his sire, the perennial leading Pennsylvania stallion Weigelia, for a private fee.

Our friends at Wasabi got an incredible deal at 25KeeJan on the young Godolphin-bred Sharma carrying her first foal by Maxfield

As we’ve previously mentioned in this space, Army Mule’s pipeline has him poised to experience a big few years, and he’s another promising but proven option for the young American Thriller.

The Juddmonte-bred Paw Prints will lean into her turf-tending pedigree with a 2025 visit to Eclipse Champion Up to the Mark.

Black-type placed 2YO Queen Mum will make an excellent addition to the first book of Charge It in 2025.

When we find a match thru our typical methods that also encompasses the Rasmussen Factor, it’s particularly exciting, and that’s exactly the case with Desert Rendezvous and her ’25 mate

These two mares will visit the same stallions again in 2025 as they did in 2024, because we still like the matings that much!

Another dubious “no rating” designation won’t put us off recommending that the BTW Indiana-bred Bluelightspecial visit Bucchero for her maiden trip to the breeding shed in 2025.

The striking Raggedy will visit another AP Indy-line sire in 2025 for her second pairing, her mate this time around being the MGSW Tacitus

Sometimes the obvious answer is the best answer, and BT producer Andiemac to G1W Muth in his first crop makes all the sense.

First crop sire Prince of Monaco is one that we think has a huge shot, and Itgetsgreaterlater brings a highly commercial family to the table in this commercially-minded pairing.

We recommended two mares to Army Mule last year who both make all the sense in the world to send right back his way again in 2025.

Wand Work will try another Distorted Humor-line stallion in 2025 in a mating to mimic that which has produced her black-type brother Hedwig.

After visiting A.P. Indy-line stallions in her first two trips to the breeding shed, we’ll switch things up with Ebb Tide this year, and send her to War Front’s gorgeous and exciting son Annapolis.

Regular readers of this blog have likely wondered why we hadn’t mentioned Blofeld yet this season, but fear not! He’s still the best young stallion in the Mid-Atlantic.

Wild For Love has already produced a BTW by a Tapit son, and will visit a very exciting first-year horse by that leading sire in 2025.

Honest Mischief is off to an excellent start at Sequel NY, and makes a perfect pairing for the hard-knocking Unrequited Love.

Prince of Monaco is among our favorites of the first-year stallions for 2025, and we’re excited to send Wasabi’s first BTW his way.

The stallion that we believe offers the best value in Kentucky for 2025 is a horse that we have recommended previously — but we are even more bullish about Army Mule now than ever before.

Brazen Persuasion was a G3W 2YO and is a proven winner producer, and we’re excited to have acquired her for a new client who will send her to Bucchero.

Murmur Farm’s Blofeld has six runners in this year’s Maryland Million stakes races from his first 93 foals of racing age.

For a young, breed-to-race broodmare, it’s hard to find a better choice than Kentucky veteran Jimmy Creed.

As a half-sister to a champion runner by Scat Daddy, Gun Slingin will be a great fit for that horse’s Grade 1-winning grandson Arabian Lion.

As a nick that produces Rasmussen Factor inbreeding to the legendary Miesque, Karakontie’s success with Lemon Drop Kid mares makes loads of sense.

Although Areuhavingfunyet was purchased earlier this year as a racing prospect, things did not work out as planned and she won’t get a chance to improve on the strong 2nd-place finish that she attained in her second start. Luckily, she is a filly with a nice page and should make a great match in the… [Read More]

The MG1W turf miler Raging Bull is horse that we have a lot of time for, and are looking forward to sending the big, pretty, well-bred mare Mia Rosa his way in ‘24.

Frame of Mind’s family has had success with Street Cry and A.P. Indy, so she makes perfect sense to send to Speaker’s Corner in 2024, as he’s bred on that cross.

Tapiture gets a large number of winners and 2YO winners, and as such he continues to be a strong value option for a mare owner looking to race her offspring.

We loved the match of Wowwhatabrat with Blofeld last year, and see no reason not to take her right back to him again in 2024.

Misty Sky will visit Gun Runner’s first-season son Pappacap in a mating that will produce Rasmussen Factor inbreeding to a pair of full-sisters.

Tacitus is a horse we believe in and have used repeatedly during his early years at stud, and he makes a fascinating mate for Seville’s Princess in 2024.

Given some recent racetrack developments, we’re going to switch up which son of Into Mischief that Modernism will visit in ‘24 — she’s now slated to head to Airdrie Stud for a date with the second-year stallion Highly Motivated.

Floral Hall’s immediate family has had repeated successes with the A.P. Indy sire-line, and as such she’ll make a great match for that horse’s upwardly-mobile son Army Mule in 2024.

It’s always important to be flexible with mating plans, and Saucily is now slated for a different exciting new G1W stallion in 2024 than we’d initially planned – she’ll head to the court of Annapolis.

The recently acquired broodmare prospect Queen Ann comes from a deep and active Claiborne Farm family; for her first mating she gets a shot with the exciting up-and-coming Maryland stallion Blofeld

With a potentially stakes-caliber half-brother back to the races in 2024, and a promising freshman sire from that line one that we’re high on, we’re excited to switch Zarella to Instagrand in 2024.