The catalog for Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic Yearling Sale, which will be held October 2nd and 3rd in Timonium, Maryland, has been posted online at www.fasigtipton.com. The sale catalog features 495 yearlings, many of them locally-bred horses by both national and regional sires. We at Housatonic Bloodstock would be happy to help you identify your next (or… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – Mid-Year Recap
As the 2017 foaling and breeding season wraps up, we can’t help but begin looking forward to the spring of 2018. After welcoming five Housatonic-bred foals this year, we will be looking forward to five more next year: Akasha is due February 16th with a foal from the first crop of Grade 1-winning juvenile Hit… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – 2017 Matings (Winning Bet – take 2)
Winning Bet is now being bred in 2017 to Munnings (Speightstown x La Comete, by Holy Bull; $25,000 LFSN at Ashford) As excited as we were to breed to Vancouver after we saw him at Ashford earlier this year, we have made a last-minute call to switch Winning Bet to Munnings this spring instead. From the first… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – 2017 Derby Pick
Our pick for the 2017 Kentucky Derby likely will not come as a shock to many of you given that Winning Bet just delivered a colt by Bodemeister on Wednesday, but, just to make it official, we are going with the Bodemeister colt, Always Dreaming. Despite having been burned by a lightly-raced Todd Pletcher trainee… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – Freshman Sires of 2017
Trying to predict the leading freshman stallions each year often seems little more than a crapshoot. For instance, who could have foreseen last year that Dialed In would eek out the title over the more fancied Union Rags and Bodemeister? Or that Henrythenavigator would lead the list in 2012 despite his exclusively non-dirt race record? … [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – 2017 Matings (Curlin’s Needle – take 2)
Curlin’s Needle is now being bred in 2017 to Jump Start (A.P. Indy x Steady Cat, by Storm Cat; $10,000 LFSN at Northview PA) After finding out that Curlin’s Needle is, in fact, pregnant to Discreet Cat off of a June cover from last spring, we have changed our plans with her and will no longer be… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – We Didn’t Plan the Matings…
When we bought Rough Water and Winning Bet at auction in January, they certainly had plenty of appeal in and of themselves, physically and on the basis of their respective produce records and female families. But another very attractive aspect was the stallion to which each was in-foal at the time of the sale –… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – 2017 Matings (Tuxedo Annie)
Tuxedo Annie is being bred in 2017 to Golden Years (Not For Love x Sweet Annuity, by Oh Say; $1,500 LFSN at O’Sullivan Farms) Unlike the rest of our mares, Tuxedo Annie is not being bred with a commercial purpose; rather, her foals will be kept to race with our partner. As such, a slightly different set… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – 2017 Matings (I’m Engaged – take 2)
I’m Engaged is now being bred in 2017 to Declaration of War (War Front x Tempo West, by Rahy; $35,000 LFSN at Ashford) Following the announcement that her proposed mate for 2017, Lord Nelson, is going to miss the 2017 breeding season after developing laminitis, I’m Engaged will instead visit the court of War Front’s champion son, Declaration… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – 2017 Matings (Rough Water)
Rough Water is being bred in 2017 to Verrazano (More Than Ready x Enchanted Rock, by Giant’s Causeway; $17,500 LFSN at Ashford) Given that Rough Water has already produced a pair of foals by More Than Ready who each brought $300,000 or more at the sales before going on to successful racetrack campaigns, we are excited to… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – 2017 Matings (Winning Bet)
Winning Bet is being bred in 2017 to Vancouver (Medaglia d’Oro x Skates, by Danehill; $15,000 LFSN at Ashford) This spring we will be breeding our new acquisition, Winning Bet, to one of the most impressive physical specimens that we have seen in our visits to Kentucky stud farms: the brilliant, unbeaten Australian Champion 2-year-old Vancouver. Winning Bet… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – 2017 Matings (I’m Engaged)
I’m Engaged is being bred in 2017 to Lord Nelson (Pulpit x African Jade, by Seeking the Gold; $25,000 LFSN at Spendthrift) As we mentioned in our explanation of the Share the Upside program pioneered by Spendthrift Farm, we are participating in that program with last year’s top sprinter, Lord Nelson. In addition to believing that Lord… [Read More]
Housatonic Bloodstock Services at Keeneland January
The catalog for Keeneland’s January Mixed Sale, which runs from Jan. 9th through Jan. 13th in Lexington, KY, has been posted online, featuring a large selection of broodmares, short yearlings, and horses of racing age. Housatonic Bloodstock can assist you in creating your shortlist in advance of the sale, whether you’re looking for a mare… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – 2017 Matings (Curlin’s Needle)
Curlin’s Needle is being bred in 2017 to Flashback (Tapit x Rhumb Line, by Mr. Greeley; $7,500 LFSN at Hill ‘N’ Dale) After she came up empty in 2016 to A.P. Indy’s son Girolamo, Curlin’s Needle will be bred in 2017 to Flashback, who is a speedy, young member of the A.P. Indy sire-line. As we mentioned… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – 2017 Matings (Atlantic Rainbow)
Atlantic Rainbow is being bred in 2017 to Midnight Lute (Real Quiet x Candytuft, by Dehere; $20,000 LFSN at Hill ‘N’ Dale) Midnight Lute will be Atlantic Rainbow’s mate for 2017, and he meets the same three major criteria that led us to pick Graydar for her last year: (1) his sire-line has had success… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – 2017 Matings (Akasha)
Akasha is being bred in 2017 to Hit It A Bomb (War Front x Liscanna, by Sadler’s Wells; $7,000 LFSN at Spendthrift) As we mentioned last year, we believe that Akasha’s best chance for success as a broodmare is going to come by crossing her with stallions from the Danzig sire-line, the best current representative of which… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – Plan B
A while back, we chronicled our unsuccessful attempt to sell Atlantic Rainbow’s yearling colt by The Factor (now named Nautical Nature) at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. We ended by noting that our 2016 crop of filly foals could still turn things around for us this year depending on how they ended up selling, and… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – The Lowdown on Share the Upside
We have posted recently on our social media pages (links at the top of our home page) about the “Share the Upside” program in which we will be participating at Spendthrift Farm with their new stallion, Lord Nelson, and we thought it worthwhile to explain a bit about the program for those that aren’t familiar… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – Best Laid Plans
Numerous tropes and cliches exist highlighting the difficulty of succeeding in the Thoroughbred racing industry: there’s the sartorially specific requirement that one must wear “long pants” to participate, or the idea that in order to end up as a millionaire with race horses, one ought to start off as a multimillionaire. Our personal favorite is… [Read More]
Housatonic’s 2016 Matings, Switching It Up
Curlin’s Needle is now being bred in 2016 to Discreet Cat (Forestry x Pretty Discreet, by Private Account; stands for $7,500 at Darley). Unfortunately, Curlin’s Needle repeatedly came up empty after several covers by Girolamo this spring. With one last shot to try to get her in foal for 2017, we decided to switch things… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – 2016 Derby Thoughts and the Pick
Since last June, it has been virtually guaranteed that this year’s Kentucky Derby would be something of a letdown, in that the winner could not help but fail to stack up against American Pharoah and his ultimately historic effort in the Run For the Roses on his way to becoming racing’s twelfth Triple Crown winner. … [Read More]
Housatonic’s 2016 Matings, New Mare and Her Mate
Akasha is being bred in 2016 to Data Link (War Front x Database, by Known Fact; stands for $7,500 at Claiborne). Data Link is a member of the first crop of current leading international stallion War Front, and now stands alongside his sire at the historic Claiborne Farm. After running well in two dirt tries… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – New Stallions of 2016, Part 2
The 2016 class of incoming stallions in Kentucky is a stronger group than there has been to retire the same year in recent memory, with six stallions beginning their stud careers for fees greater than $20,000. Part 1 of this blog encompassed all of the first-year stallions at the three farms standing those six highest-priced… [Read More]
Housatonic Meanderings – New Stallions of 2016, Part 1
The 2016 class of incoming stallions in Kentucky is a more promising group than there has been in recent memory, with six beginning their stud careers for fees greater than $20,000, namely American Pharoah ($200,000), Honor Code ($40,000), Tonalist ($30,000), Carpe Diem ($25,000), Constitution ($25,000) and Liam’s Map ($25,000). To have this many stallions starting… [Read More]
Housatonic’s 2016 Matings
I’m Engaged is being bred in 2016 to The Factor (War Front x Greyciousness, by Miswaki; stands for $25,000 at Lane’s End). The Factor was a brilliantly fast racehorse, and is the first top son of War Front. He broke his maiden at 6 furlongs as a 2-year-old in track record time of 1:06.98 at… [Read More]
Breeders’ Cup Meanderings – An American Classic
American Pharoah’s performance in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland was everything for which a horse racing fan could have hoped from the 12th Triple Crown winner’s swan song: his devastatingly easy victory was never in doubt, meaning it could be viewed with awe and with joy, and without a trace of apprehension. While critics… [Read More]
2015 Mating Decisions
Atlantic Rainbow’s mate for 2015 is Verrazano (More Than Ready x Enchanted Rock, by Giant’s Causeway; stands for $22,500 at Ashford). Verrazano was a brilliant racehorse, as witnessed by his dominant win in the Grade 1 Haskell, and he raced 10 times as a 3-year-old for Todd Pletcher, demonstrating his durability. He was also versatile,… [Read More]
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