The race for leading sire by Pennsylvania stallion award earnings looked through the end of March like it often does at the end of the year, featuring the stalwart Jump Start with a comfortable lead.
However, the race percolating below the surface showcased a young stallion on the rise.
Uncle Lino, who joined Jump Start at Northview PA before moving to the operation's Maryland branch, is firmly in second place by 2022 incentive earnings, making his owner $39,341 through March 31.
A Grade 1-placed stakes-winning son of Uncle Mo, Uncle Lino's oldest runners are just four years old, but he has quickly amassed a solid resume with his runners in the Keystone State. Though he is still seeking his first stakes winner, he boasted seven stakes-placed runners at the time.
In Pennsylvania, stallion owners earn a 10 percent share of purse earnings earned by a runner bred and sired in the state when they finish in the top three at a Pennsylvania racetrack.
By that metric, Uncle Lino was most supported through the first three months of 2022 by Far Mo Power, a 4-year-old gelding who generated $3,528 in stallion awards.
Far Mo Power went two-for-two through the end of March, taking a pair of optional claiming races at Parx Racing.
His first start of the year on Jan. 26 was an eventful one, stumbling out of the gate, settling wide in the middle of the pack, and getting up at the wire to prevail by a head in a seven-furlong race. The gelding then followed up with a far easier trip on March 8, staying within striking distance of the leader and kicking free to win another seven-furlong sprint by 4 1/2 lengths.
Far Mo Power is owned by Joseph Sutton and trained by Louis Linder Jr. He was bred by Peter Giangiulio, out of the stakes-placed Power By Far mare J.D. Safari.
Burano, a 3-year-old filly, was a close second among Uncle Lino's stallion award earners, making the Northview operation $3,300 through the end of March.
The filly started the season with a bang, crushing a one-mile Parx maiden special weight field by 6 1/2 lengths in a near wire-to-wire effort on Jan. 3. She then finished second in a Jan. 19 allowance optional claiming race at Parx, going one mile and 70 yards.
Burano is trained by John Servis, and she runs as a homebred for S.M.D. Ltd. She is out of the winning Sir Cat mare Catsuit.
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