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Stormborne Stallions Opens New Florida Facility

Danielle Dougherty has recently opened up for business at her new stallion breeding and mare care facility in Citra, Fla.

Located on 65 lush acres in Marion County, Stormborne Stallions is home to Backtalk, Finale, Rogueish, Matanzas Inlet, and Young Brian.

“I am very excited about our new location and opening up the stallion shed in 2021,” Dougherty said. “Our facilities are ideal for the upcoming season with a 24-stall barn for the stallions and a separate wing set up for foaling and mare care.”

Dougherty, who has spent her career working with racehorses and stallions, also offers the services of mare care, sales prep, and foaling at her new facilities.

Backtalk (Smarty Jones – Apasionata Sonata, by Affirmed) is one of the five stallions standing at Stormborne Stallions. A $250,000 yearling, the precocious Backtalk was a multiple graded stakes winner that was on the board board in 12 of 15 starts. He broke his maiden in his first race at Churchill Downs, and less than a month later, he won the $110,500 Grade 3 Bashford Manor Stakes. Two weeks later, he won the $150,000 G2 Sanford Stakes in Saratoga. His dam, Apasionata Sonata won the Kentucky Cup Ladies Turf Stakes. Her progeny has earned $1,211,675, including two graded stakes and black type winners – Backtalk and Bsharpsonata (Pulpit). Backtalk stands for $2,500 in 2021.

Also standing at Stormborne Stallions is graded stakes and black type winner, Finale (Scat Daddy – Twinkle, by Lively One) – a $175,000 weanling at Keeneland that went on to win the black type Continental Mile Stakes and the $250,000 G3 Summer Stakes at Woodbine. He also placed second in the listed Dania Beach Stakes where he beat graded stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Excaper and multiple graded stakes winner Csaba. Finale's dam, Twinkle (Lively One – Twinkling Star, by J.O. Tobin) won a maiden special weight in her first race. As a broodmare, her progeny earnings are $1,213,396 with five winners out of six starters – two of which are graded stakes winners – Finale and Bright One. Finale stands for $2,500 in 2021.

Rogueish (Into Mischief – Verdana Bold, by Rahy) entered stud in 2020 at Stormborne Stallions. He is the son of champion sire Into Mischief (Harlan's Holiday – Leslie's Lady, by Tricky Creek) and is brother to stakes winner and Grade 2-placed Lucrezia. Into Mischief made history in 2020 with $22,506,085 in progeny earnings – establishing the all-time single season record for a sire in North America – ultimately shattering Tapit's previous mark of $19,907,973 from 2016. Into Miscief was also the only sire of five seven-figure yearlings in 2020. The dam of Rogueish, Verdana Bold (Rahy – True Legacy, by A.P. Indy) was a graded stakes winner of $331,297. She has produced $732,975 in progeny earnings with five winners out of eight starters that include two black type winners and one black type placed runner. Rogueish stands for $2,500 in 2021.

The newest addition to the stallion barn is Matanzas Inlet (Kitalpha – She's Stacked, by Stack). Kitalpha was a son of Mr. Prospector and a full brother to Kingmambo. Imported from Zimbabwe, the unraced chestnut – out of the champion mare Miesque – had sired six crops before returning to the U.S. Miesque (Nureyev – Pasadoble, by Prove Out) had career earnings of $2,070,163, 12 firsts, three seconds, and one third out 16 starts. She won the Eclipse Award for champion grass mare of 1987 and 1988, she was named to the Hall of Fame in 1999, and she was the winner of the Breeders' Cup Mile twice. Matanzas Inlet stands for $2,500 in 2021.

Also standing at Stormborne Stallions is Young Brian (Hard Spun – Glacier Peak, by Pulpit). He was a $500,000 2-year-old who broke his maiden in his first race at Del Mar – beating future Grade 3 winner Toews On Ice. Young Brian is by Hard Spun (Danzig – Turkish Tryst, by Turkoman) – who was on the board 11 out of 13 starts with career earnings of $2,673,470. Young Brian has five winners out of eight runners in 2020. Young Brian stands for $2,500 in 2021.

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Bodexpress To Enter Stud At Barton Thoroughbreds In California For 2021

Bodexpress has been retired from racing and will enter stud for the 2021 season at Barton Thoroughbreds in Santa Ynez, Calif., for $5,000 LFSN.

The 5-year-old Grade 1 winning son of Bodemeister out of a City Zip mare retires with lifetime earnings of near $700,000. This includes his notable victory in the Grade 1 Clark in November 2020 defeating Code of Honor, as well as his second to Maximum Security in the G1 Florida Derby in 2019.

Bodemeister has also sired Always Dreaming, the winner of the 2017 Kentucky Derby, and both Always Dreaming and Bodexpress have shown that they were able to carry their front-running speed over a distance of ground.

Barton Thoroughbreds is pleased to add a stallion to their roster of this caliber and looks forward to supporting him with mares. Bodexpress is available for inspection at the farm.

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Surf Cat Moves To Rancho San Miguel In California

Veteran stallion Surf Cat, a multiple Grade 2-winning millionaire and the sire of 2017 California Horse of the Year Sircat Sally, will stand at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel, Calif. during the 2021 breeding season. His fee is $2,500, live foal guarantee.

The 19-year-old son of Storm Cat's multiple graded stakes winner Sir Cat has stood exclusively in California since his retirement from racing in 2009 — originally at historic Old English Rancho and most recently at a small, private farm near Chowchilla.

From nine crops of racing age, Surf Cat has sired 57 winners from 84 starters to date, with lifetime progeny earnings of $4,046,140 and average earnings per starter of $48,168. His five black type runners are led by Sircat Sally, a $552,860-earner who won three graded turf stakes at Santa Anita Park and California-bred Horse of the Year honors from the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association in 2017. He is also represented by the dual Grade 3 winner San Onofre ($402,730).

Conditioned by the late trainer Bruce Headley, Surf Cat won six Grade 2 races from 6 1/2 furlongs to 1 1/8 miles from 2005 through 2008: the Swaps Breeders' Cup Stakes and two editions of the Mervyn LeRoy Handicap at Hollywood Park and the Potrero Grande Breeders' Cup Handicap and two runnings of the San Carlos Handicap at Santa Anita. He also ran second by a head in Hollywood's 2007 G1 Triple Bend Invitational Handicap en route to earning $1,045,420 from his 23 career starts.

“I am thrilled to have Surf Cat back; he was one of my favorite racehorses,” said owner Marsha Naify, who campaigned Surf Cat with Headley's wife, Aase. “Bruce did such a wonderful job training him. He has never been promoted very heavily as a stallion, but he has had some good runners, and I want to make the most of his remaining breeding years.”

Produced by the five-time winner Trust Greta, a multiple graded stakes-producing daughter of the Mr. Prospector stallion Centrust, Surf Cat hails from the family of leading sire Broad Brush.

“We are thrilled to have Surf Cat come to Rancho San Miguel,” said farm owner/manager Tom Clark. “He has an amazingly strong produce record from his small crops to date. We look forward to working with Marsha to help Surf Cat reach his full potential as a sire.”

Surf Cat joins a 2021 Rancho San Miguel stallion roster that features Curlin to Mischief, Danzing Candy, Heartwood, Northern Causeway, Richard's Kid, Sir Prancealot (Ire), Slew's Tiznow and Tom's Tribute. Inspections of all stallions at the central California farm are available by appointment.

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Lone Star Special To Holly Hill Farm In Louisiana

Lone Star Special (Malabar Gold-Sunshine Special) has moved to Dr. Robert Hewlett's Holly Hill Farm in Benton, La. for the 2021 breeding season.

Benton Salmon has acquired 50 percent interest in the stallion who stood at Cherokee Ridge Farm in Carencro, La. for the previous two seasons for Irwin Olian's Tigertail Ranch. Tigertail Ranch has retained 50 percent ownership.

Salmon, a successful businessman with growing interest in the horse racing and breeding industry, is excited about his venture into stallion ownership and is planning on breeding a number of high quality mares to the stud.

“Lone Star Special has demonstrated remarkable success producing a number of high class runners from a very small number of foals,” Salmon said. “Notable among his offspring are Mobile Bay, Wheatfield and Trevilion. Lone Star Special has never had a fair chance and I intend to give him that. We are looking to gain the support he deserves from the Louisiana breeding community.”

Lone Star Special is an Unbridled-line stallion who is among an elite number of stallions that moves his mare up. Only 32 percent of all sires have a lifetime AEI higher than their mares CI. Lone Star Special has an AEI of 1.49 vs his mare's CI of 1.11. His statistics of 57 percent winners, $56,228 average earnings per starter, 11 percent blacktype horses and 19 percent 2-year-old winners, compete with leading national sires.

Lone Star Special is the sire of two graded stakes horses, both accredited Louisiana-breds.

Grade 2 Super Derby winner Mobile Bay ran from ages three to six, hitting the board in 21 of 29 lifetime starts. He won eleven stakes, often showing speed in route races of 1 1/16 to 1 1/8 miles, including the Grade 2 Super Derby, open company stakes such as the Sunland Park Handicap, the Maxxam Gold Cup and the Zia Park Derby, as well Louisiana-bred Stakes including the Louisiana Champions Day Classic at the Fair Grounds twice. He placed in another five stakes including the G3 Oklahoma Derby. His lifetime earnings of $1,246,440 rank him fourth among all-time leading accredited Louisiana-bred runners. A multiple accredited Louisiana bred champion, Mobile Bay was named 2015 3-year-old colt or gelding and Horse of the Year, 2016 older male and Horse of the Year, and 2017 older male.

Multiple stakes winner, Wheatfield ran second in the 201717 G2 Inside Information Stakes at Gulfstream. She was named 2016 4-Year-Old and up Louisiana-bred champion filly or mare. She earned black type in 11 stakes events, many against open company, and currently has $394,603 in lifetime earnings.

“I am delighted that Benton Salmon is enthusiastic about the prospects for Lone Star Special and is now my partner in this outstanding stallion. He will be breeding a number of top quality mares to him this season. Together we are building a strong book of mares for 2021,” says Tigertail Ranch's Irwin Olian. “At a fee of $2,000, he compares favorably to many stallions in Kentucky and Louisiana which stand for substantially higher fees. His ability to move up his mares puts him in very rare company among Louisiana sires and suggests there will be a lot more good things to come from him in the future”

Lone Star Special will stand the 2021 season for a fee of $2,000 live foal payable when foal stands and nurses.

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