Pleasant Acres Stallions is pleased to announce the arrival of Chess Chief (Into Mischief x Downside Scenario, by Scat Daddy), who will stand in Florida for the 2024 breeding season for a $5,000 fee.
“Chess Chief is a wonderful addition to our stallion barn,” said Director of Stallion Services Christine Jones. “He was a talented athlete who beat Grade 1 winners Mucho Gusto ($3,953,800), Long Range Toddy ($1,264,420), and twice he beat Roadster ($901,500) – all in graded events.”
Chess Chief is a graded stakes winner and multiple graded stakes placed son of Into Mischief – four-time champion general sire – who stands for $250,000 at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky. Chess Chief won the Tenacious Stakes and the $400,000 Grade 2 New Orleans Classic and had career earnings of nearly $1 million. He placed in four graded stakes events including the G2 West Virginia Derby, G3 Oklahoma Derby, G3 Mineshaft Stakes, and G2 Alysheba Stakes.
Chess Chief is out of the Mineshaft mare Un Blessed who is a half-sister to stakes producer Bonnie Byerly, dam of Diabolical, a $300,000 2-year-old at OBS and a multiple graded stakes winner of $1,467,401. On the board in 22 of 32 races, he won the G2 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap, G3 Emirates Airline Maryland Sprint Handicap, and was multiple Grade 1-placed. Chess Chief's second dam, Plenty of Grace, was a multiple graded stakes winner – including the G1 Yellow Ribbon Invitational Stakes and G2 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup – who earned $744,499. She is a half-sister to Soaring Softly ($1,270,433) – multiple graded stakes winner and Eclipse Award 1999 champion grass mare and winner of the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf and G1 Flower Bowl Invitational Handicap.
Chess Chief's sire, Into Mischief has $161,337,313 in progeny earnings with $131,919 average earnings per runner. He's had 139 (11.4 percent) black type winners and 258 (21.1 percent) black type placed runners. Currently, he has 68 graded stakes winners and 18 Grade 1 winners. Continuing to break his own records, Into Mischief averaged nearly $600,000 for weanlings and close to $700,000 for yearlings in the sales ring in 2023 – a substantial increase from the prior year.
Chess Chief joins stallions Curlin's Honor (Curlin), Gone Astray (Dixie Union), Gunnevera (Dialed In), Leinster (Majestic Warrior), Magic On Tap (Tapit), Mutasaabeq (Into Mischief), Neolithic (Harlan's Holiday), No Never No More (Scat Daddy), and Sweetontheladies (Twirling Candy), at the 220-acre farm located just northwest of Ocala. Pleasant Acres Stallions has received many accolades for excellence, including 2021 Florida Freshman Sire of the Year for Neolithic, 2017 Florida Freshman Sire of the Year for Poseidon's Warrior, 2017 DRF Florida-bred Beyer Award, 2009 Florida Breeder of the Year, 2009 Florida Broodmare of the Year, Breeder of the 2009 Florida Horse of the Year, and was ranked third in the nation for leading breeders in 2009 by average earnings per starter with 10 or more starters.
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