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Singing Saint and City Wolf will be standing the upcoming breeding season at Stolz Thoroughbreds in Leduc, Alberta.

Singing Saint, a son of El Prado, has sired progeny that include 43 winners of 118 races and earnings of over $3 million to date. His runners include the black type stakes winners Harp N Halo ($177,710, Avowal Stakes), and Songs and Laughter ($148,377, Bold Ruckus Stakes).

He also sired stakes-placed Tairneach ($288,076, second in the Prairie Mile Stakes) and multiple stakes-placed Meyer ($280,680, second in the Breeders' Stakes) in addition to stakes-placed Hot Cross Buns ($120,341, second in the Passing Mood Stakes), multiple stakes placed Meet the Soprano ($95,150, second in the Georgian Bay Stakes), and Sing to Run ($66,244, third in the Molson Cup Stakes).

Singing Saint will stand the 2023 season for $2,500.

Stolz Thoroughbreds is located in Leduc County near Edmonton and stands a total of five stallions, also including Dynamic Sky, Medallist, and Readyforprimetime.

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The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed sale concluded with a strong session Tuesday, topped by stakes winning broodmare prospect Lemieux.

The auction, which began Monday, yielded solid results across the board, posting the second-highest gross and third-highest average and median (tie) in the sale's history. The RNA rate was second-lowest in 10 years, behind only last year's all-time record low. Conducted at the Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky., offerings included racing/broodmare prospects, broodmares, and short yearlings.

Stakes winner Lemieux (Hip 588) topped the session and the sale when sold for $400,000 to Nice Guys Stables from the consignment of Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent (video). Offered as a broodmare prospect, the 4-year-old daughter of Nyquist was 6 1/2 lengths the best in the Brethren Juvenile Fillies Stakes going a mile at Gulfstream Park at two. Lemieux is a half-sister to Grade 1-placed Brilliant Cut (Speightstown), who topped this sale in 2022, from the immediate family of multiple Grade 1 winners Diamondrella (GB) and Life Is Good.

“It was another solid day,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “I think that if you are trying to buy horses, you can buy the horses you want to buy, but you might have to pay a little more than you wanted to. If you're selling horses, if you've got quality, you're probably getting what you thought, maybe a little more. But there's no euphoria. I think it's a fair marketplace.”

Rounding out the top five prices of the session were:

– Curlin Blessing (Hip 545), purchased for $230,000 by West Bloodstock, agent for Repole Stable, from the consignment of Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa, agent. The four-year-old winning daughter of Curlin out of multiple champion Indian Blessing (Indian Charlie) was offered as a broodmare prospect.

– A filly by Good Magic (Hip 350) out of Rich Love (Not For Love) sold for $225,000 to Champion Equine LLC from the consignment of Vinery Sales. By last year's second-leading freshman sire Good Magic, the bay filly is a half-sister to recently placed first-time starter Ruby Nell (Bolt d'Oro), who sold for $1.2 million to top The Gulfstream Sale in 2022. Hip 350 was bred in Kentucky by Theta Holdings I., Inc.

– She Gogo (Hip 378), purchased for $210,000 by Sea Smoke Holdings from the consignment of Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa, agent. An unraced daughter of multiple champion Arrogate, She Gogo is a half-sister to stakes winner Dance d'Oro (Medaglia d'Oro) from the immediate family of Horses of the Year Saint Liam and Gun Runner.

– A War Front colt (Hip 395) out of Special Thanks (Broken Vow), sold for $210,000 to Kilpatrick LLC from the consignment of Bluewater Sales, agent. The colt, who is a three-parts brother to Grade 3 placed winner Eve of War (Declaration of War), was  bred in Kentucky by Jeff Treadway.

– Unbridled Class (Hip 438) in foal to Candy Ride (ARG), purchased for $210,000 by Thorostock, agent, from the consignment of Hartwell Farm, agent. Unbridled Class is a multiple stakes winner by Unbridled Express and a full sister to three other stakes winners, including the dam of 2022 stakes winning juvenile King Ice.

“The nature of our industry is pretty amazing,” added Browning. “Generally, the attitude of most participants in the Thoroughbred industry today, whether at the sales or at the racetrack, is overall positive. There's a sense of confidence. I think that the participants in our business are eternal optimists. Whether you're looking to buy one that wins Grade 1's or breed one that wins Grade 1's, we're all trying to create the magic.”

Over the course of the two-day sale, 402 horses sold for $14,105,200, the second highest gross in sale history, behind only last year's record-shattering gross. The average was $35,088, third best in sale history. The median was $15,000, tied for third best historically to the $16,000 record for median set in 2014 and equaled last year. The RNA rate was just 13.9%, the second lowest in the past 10 years.

Full results are available online.

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On Sunday afternoon, a day before the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale, an Oklahoma breeder ventured out to Walmac Farm in Lexington, Ky., to get a look at first-year stallion Pinehurst and chat with new stallion sales man Jay Goodwin during the farm's open house.

The 4-year-old son of Twirling Candy was put through his paces outside the stallion barn, behaving better than most young stallions would during a brisk, gusty day in Central Kentucky. After the colt was put away, the breeder turned to Goodwin.

“I think I've got a couple mares for him.”

Pinehurst entered Kentucky's stallion ranks in an unorthodox manner, after Gary Broad's Walmac Farm secured the Grade 1 winner in partnership with Kiki and Louise Courtelis' Town and Country Farms in a late-November Fasig-Tipton Digital “Flash Sale.”

In a market where rookie stallions are typically revealed well ahead of the November mixed sales, and they're frequently booked full before Christmas dinner is on the table, Pinehurst didn't arrive at Walmac until the day after Thanksgiving, and it was still a few more weeks until the administrative tasks behind standing a new stallion were solidified well enough to set an advertised fee.

That's why Goodwin said visits like the one from the Oklahoman breeder were so important. The North American Thoroughbred industry is one that's strongly dictated by inertia, and a fledgling stallion operation standing a new stallion that's late to the party doesn't enjoy many of the advantages of his fellow rookies.

When breeders came out to the farm and looked at the horse, though, Goodwin said the inertia disappeared and, more often than not, seasons got sold.

“That's been everybody's reaction,” Goodwin said about Sunday's interaction. “Once you get them out here and they see him physically, and knowing he was a Grade 1 winner at two, it's one of those things. Considering we're getting in late and behind the eight-ball, we couldn't be happier with where we are right now.”

Goodwin himself is a late addition to the stallion sales rat race, joining the Walmac staff after this year's Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale. He'd never sold stallion seasons before taking the job, but he was plenty familiar with Pinehurst before it was his job to market him.

“Before I even took the job, I took two breeding rights on him, just coming to look at first-year stallions,” said Goodwin, who has about 60 mares of his own. “I was a believer before anything.

“I think that's why Gary brought me on, to ease the minds of breeders and get these horses out there,” Goodwin continued. “That was the first thing. You have to sort of say, 'We're going to be here and we're about to make a splash in the stallion business.'”

He wasn't alone. Goodwin said the high-level breeders that have pledged mares to Pinehurst's first book included Elm Tree Farm, Woods Edge Farm, Machmer Hall, and John Penn.

Goodwin said Pinehurst already has over 100 mares booked for the upcoming breeding season, but he believed his ceiling could be considerably higher than that.

“We would love to get him to 150,” Goodwin said. “I think 125 to 150 is going to be a good spot for him.”

To accomplish that, Goodwin said getting breeders to the farm to look at the horse was paramount.

“He's 16.3 [hands tall],” Goodwin said. “Great hind leg. I've had several people say he's stretchy, a lot of leg, but still so balanced. He's one of those when you walk on up to him, you say, 'Man, he didn't look that big from over there.' He's got that Twirling Candy walk that everybody loves.”

On the racetrack, Pinehurst won three of seven starts and earned $1,213,500, chalking up a win in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity as a 2-year-old, and taking the G3 Saudi Derby at three.

Goodwin was also quick to note the connections that purchased Pinehurst at auction. The colt sold as a weanling to Peter O'Callaghan of Woods Edge Farm for $180,000, and he sold as a yearling to SF/Starlight/Madaket, as advised by Donato Lanni, for $385,000.

“For him to be bought by who he was, those are two of the best sets of eyes in the horse business, and that's one of my biggest selling points on him,” Goodwin said. “Woods Edge is probably one of the top five weanling buyers in the business, and Donato's resume speaks for itself. That's about as good as you can get.”

Goodwin will also be selling seasons for the original member of Broad's Walmac stallion roster, the Grade 2 winner Core Beliefs, who will enter his second season at stud in 2023.

“He is as pretty a Quality Road as I've seen,” Goodwin said. “What a shoulder and hip. He's so balanced and so powerful. He looks like an athletic running back. He's not your typical Quality Road, but he's built right and correct. Great bone. I was so impressed when I saw him the first time.”

Goodwin likes the hand he's been dealt in terms of the stallions under the Walmac shingle, but he also realized his job was to sell the farm's brand as much as it was to sell stallion seasons.

The Walmac property had been quiet on the stallion front since the likes of turf star Mr. Sidney left the farm in the late 2010s under previous ownership, but even before that, a stallion of true national repute like Songandaprayer was even further in the rearview mirror.

When Broad purchased Walmac Farm in late 2018, it had been a long time since commercial breeders had considered it a major stop on the stud farm map, and combating that “out of sight, out of mind” mentality is certainly a challenge that won't be solved overnight.

The trick for both the stallions and the farm itself is getting eyes on them. When they do, Goodwin said the pieces come together.

“I would come here when I first moved here to see Songandaprayer and Successful Appeal, and I used to breed quite a few mares over here,” he said. “Everybody that's come out here has told us what a beautiful place it is, and they hadn't been here in a while.

“You've got to show people,” Goodwin continued. “It's a very fickle business, and it's like a stallion with 3-year-olds. No matter what, you've got to produce and show, and keep showing up every weekend. I think we're just going to have to keep showing up with good horses, and show people that Pinehurst is going to get 125-150 mares, even though we were behind the eight ball, and that Walmac stallions is back in business.”

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