Grade 3 winner Mo Mosa will begin his stallion career at Paradise Farms at Spring Village in Jamaica after selling for $50,000 late during Tuesday's session at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale.
The 6-year-old son of Uncle Mo was cataloged as a racing or stallion prospect, but he was later switched to being offered strictly as a potential stallion. This caught the attention of bloodstock agent Chad Schumer, who signed the ticket on behalf of Paradise Farms.
Schumer was one of the agents responsible for brokering the deal that sent Grade 2 winner Bern Identity to stand in Jamaica, and the horse has become one of the country's perennial top stallions.
“We've been looking for a long time for another stallion,” Schumer said. “We actually bought a replacement in November, but we were offered a massive profit and ended up selling. I was actually looking at him as a racehorse when I went back to the barn, but when they said they were offering him as a stallion prospect only, I said, 'Oh, perfect.'”
Taylor Made Sales Agency consigned Mo Mosa, as agent.
Racing as a homebred for Perry Martin and his late wife Denise, Mo Mosa won four of 22 starts for earnings of $482,235.
Mo Mosa broke his maiden in his third career start in February of his 3-year-old season at Turfway Park, then after an unsuccessful try at the Kentucky Derby trail, trainer Mike Maker got the horse his first graded black type with a runner-up effort in the Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby.
His strongest season came at age four, where after starting the year in the Oaklawn Park allowance ranks, he shipped to Fonner Park to win the track's signature Bosselman Pump and Pantry/Gus Fonner Stakes by a front-running 1 1/2 lengths. Mo Mosa then carried that momentum over a sloppy track at Lone Star Park, and won the G3 Steve Sexton Mile Stakes by 3 1/2 lengths at odds of 23-1.
Mo Mosa is out of the unraced Eskendereya mare Roughing, who is the dam of two winners from four foals to race. His second dam, the stakes winner Playcaller, is the pivot point for runners including Grade 1 winners Diplomat Lady and Hunter O'Riley, as well as Grade/Group 2 winners Dream Play and Zulu Land.
Schumer has worked with Paradise Farms for about seven years, and he said the Jamaican racing program is contested primarily over dirt. This made Mo Mosa's on-track credentials and the main track success of his sire Uncle Mo made for a logical fit when shopping for stallions.
“Uncle Mo is an absolute sensation as a sire of sires,” Schumer said. “He's a graded stakes winner from a nice family, and he's beautiful. I'm delighted to have him.
“It's a regional program, but there's enough of an industry there to make sense of it,” Schumer continued. “Bern Identity's been absolutely dominant of late, so it's good to have another one to join him.”
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