January, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

2022 Mating Plans: Smokin C LLC (Steven Chumney)

STORM RAVEN (m, 6, Bodemeister–Crystal Current, by A.P. Indy), to be bred to Justify

Several days into the 2020 Keeneland November sale, I found Storm Raven. She was just what I was looking for, a 2-year-old winner from a deep dirt race family and in foal to my most sought-after covering sire, Vino Rosso.

Fast forward to not quite a year later and I found myself at the Fasig Tipton Night of the Stars November Sale. Her beautiful scopey Vino Rosso Colt sold for $150,000, becoming my top sale, was the highest-priced Ohio-bred weanling in 2021. My hobby now turned profitable and the dream of being able to breed a mare to Justify was looking like a possibility. Coolmore had looked at the Vino Rosso colt and liked the Justify/Storm Raven mating and after analyzing a few other options, the contract was signed to breed to Justify in 2022. Dreams really do come true.

CANDY LANE (m, 6, Twirling Candy–Tangueray Miss, by Cowboy Cal), to be bred to Practical Joke

I walked the Keeneland Sales grounds with my best friend Jon Wise in 2021, looking for another standout mare that would fit my program. After a couple of good sales earlier in the year, our budget had grown. Candy Lane was that standout to us. A young multiple stakes placed Twirling Candy mare from a family of solid dirt winners and in foal to Justify, I doubted the chances, but decided to make sure we were there when she sold. She ended up selling for the exact amount that I had written down for her. In all of my excitement, I hadn't really considered that although our Ohio OTBO board had passed a rule allowing me to make the Justify foal an Ohio-bred, it still had not been approved by the Ohio legislature.

My only commercial and financially responsible option with her would be to become a Kentucky breeder, leave Candy Lane there to foal and breed her back to Kentucky stallion. It was a bittersweet decision. Candy Lane's pedigree lines up particularly well with Into Mischief line, and we spent the rest of the November Sale looking at foals of sons of Into Mischief and decided that Practical Joke was the best choice for Candy Lane based on the attributes he was passing on to his foals.

I am so excited for these 2022 matings and hope to see them result in great foals for these two young mares.

Let us know who you're breeding your mares to in 2022, and why. We will print a selection of your responses in TDN over the coming weeks. Please send details to: garyking@thetdn.com.

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I Want The Winner To Hold First Online Auction

The first online auction conducted by I Want The Winner will be held on Feb. 9 from 4 to 5 p.m. French time. A platform to buy and sell racehorses on the internet, I Want The Winner is offering AQPS Ip Up (Fr) (Secret Singer {Fr}) and she will be consigned by Donatien Sourdeau de Beauregard. The 4-year-old filly won first out and she is out of a winning sister to Cheltenham Festival winner Easysland (Fr) (Gentlewave {Ire}). Completing the online auction is the 3-year-old filly Joviale Bere (Fr) (Pedro The Great). Trained by Jerome Reynier, the maiden winner is from the same family as It's Midnight (Shamardal), Holocene (Lemon Drop Kid) and Solar Midnight (Lemon Drop Kid).

IWTW Development Director Valentin Adam said “We have created an innovative system which is the result of several months of development, the principle is simple: a virtual sales room per horse, a complete and transparent access to information. We are launching the first sale on Wednesday, 9th of February from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. (French time) and we invite you to take part, even if it's just as a visitor.”

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Foal Patrol Presented By National Museum Of Racing And Hall Of Fame: Bonding Between The Mare And Foal

The new Season 5 Education Site for Foal Patrol, an education initiative of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, provides a platform to respond to viewers' questions, share information about horse care and management from breeding through retirement, and spotlight efforts across the industry to provide the best possible care for Thoroughbreds before, during, and after their racing careers.

In partnership with industry collaborators, we will add new content to the Foal Patrol Education Site for viewers of all ages from now through June at www.foalpatrol.com/education.

To provide more answers to your questions and to bring you closer to this season's featured mares and foals, Foal Patrol has partnered with the Paulick Report to ask farm staff questions about mare and foal care and management.

In this episode with Traveling Tiger and her 2022 Audible filly at Safari North at Pauls Mill Farm in Versailles, Ky., Safari North's Debbie Ward addresses the question, “What kind of bonding should the mare display after foaling?”

For a chance to have one of your questions asked in an upcoming Foal Patrol episode on the Paulick Report, email your question to foalpatrol@racingmuseum.net. Be sure to let us know if your question is for a specific Season 5 mare.

Since its first season in 2018, people all over the world have engaged with Foal Patrol's live webcam series for a behind-the-scenes look at what daily life is like for in-foal mares and foals. Learn more about this season's lineup at www.foalpatrol.com and watch “Recent Updates” for Foal Patrol announcements, posts about featured Season 5 mares and foals, and updates on mares and foals from prior seasons.

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Con Lima Named 2021 Texas Horse Of The Year

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Joseph Graffeo, Erik Nikolaus Del Toro, and Troy Johnson's Con Lima has been named the 2021 Texas Horse of the Year by the Texas Thoroughbred Association. Con Lima has also been named champion 3-year-old Texas-bred filly for 2021 following a remarkable season.

Con Lima, a now 4-year-old filly by Commissioner out of the Consolidator mare Second Street City, bred in Texas by Lisa Kuhlmann, was a tour de force in 2021. She capped her impressive 3-year-old campaign with a front-running score in the $700,000 Grade 3 Saratoga Oaks Invitational Stakes on the turf at Saratoga in August, defeating a field of international sophomore fillies.

Her 3-year-old season began in early January with a wire-to-wire victory in the listed Ginger Brew Stakes at Gulfstream Park; that was just the beginning of an impressive season for the Texas-bred filly. She followed that with four victories in graded stakes races, including the G3 Herecomesthebride Stakes, the G3 Wonder Again Stakes, and the aforementioned Saratoga Oaks Invitational Stakes. Con Lima was also second in the G1 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes and the G3 Sweetest Chant Stakes. She was off the board just once in eight starts in 2021, amassing a record of 8-5-2-0 with $795,015 in earnings.

Con Lima's dam, Second Street City, has been named the 2021 Texas Broodmare of the Year. And her breeder, Lisa Kuhlmann, is the Texas Thoroughbred Association's 2021 Breeder of the Year.

The leading Accredited Texas-Bred money earner for 2021 was Douglas Scharbauer

The human awards—the T.I. “Pops” Harkins Award for lifetime achievement and Allen Bogan Memorial Award for TTA member of the year—will be announced at a later date.

Following is the complete list of the 2021 champion horses:

2-Year-Old Filly: Eagle Express (by Eagle) • Owner: W.S. Farish • Breeder: W.S. Farish

2-Year-Old Colt/Gelding: Tengo Mis Papeles (by My Golden Song) • Owners: Wayne Sanders & Larry Hirsch • Breeder: Mascassar Corporation

3-Year-Old Filly: Con Lima (by Commissioner) • Owners: Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Joseph Graffeo, Erik Nikolaus Del Toro, and Troy Johnson • Breeder: Lisa Kuhlmann

3-Year-Old Colt/Gelding: Stone Cafe (by Stonesider) • Owner: 1. Douglas Scharbauer; 2. Henry Witt • Breeder: Douglas Scharbauer

Older Filly/Mare: Shes Our Fastest (by Oratory) • Owner: Mark Norman & Norman Stables LLC • Breeder: Eureka Thoroughbred Farm

Champion Older Horse: Sunlit Song (by My Golden Song) • Owners: Carolyn Barnett and Becky Harding • Breeder: Carolyn Barnett

Champion Broodmare: Second Street City (by Consolidator)

Horse of the Year: Con Lima (by Commissioner)

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