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Juddmonte Farms Releases 2023 European Mating Plans

Juddmonte is pleased to announce its 2023 mating plans.

Juddmonte will be utilizing 33 European stallions in 2023, with Frankel and Kingman receiving books of mares befitting their status as two of the world's leading stallions.

Frankel's book includes 25 black type performers or producers, headed by Grade/Group 1 winners Emollient (dam of G2 winner Raclette), Emulous, Juliet Foxtrot, and Viadera; as well as G1 producers Bird Flown (dam of G1 winner and classic winner Siskin), Nimble Thimble (dam of G1 winner Quadrilateral) and Repose (dam of multiple G1 winner State Of Rest).

G2 winners being covered include the Rockfel winner Isabella Giles, Arizona's sister Nay Lady Nay, Sapphire Stakes winner Soffia; and Starformer (dam of stakes winner Flavius). Other stakes producers visiting the leading sire in Europe by prizemoney are Flare of Firelight (dam of Gimcrack and Champagne Stakes winner Threat) and Portodora (dam of G2 winner and G1 performer Set Piece).

Kingman was represented by four 2-year-old group winners in 2022 including G1 winner Commissioning, the unbeaten Gimcrack Stakes winner Noble Style and G3 winner/G1-placed Nostrum, and his 2023 book of mares comprises some notable 2-year-old winners/producers, including G1 winner Passage Of Time (dam of Group winners Time Test and Tempus); G1-winning sprinter African Rose (dam of G3 winner Fair Eva); G3 winner and Famous Name's sister Big Break (the dam of listed winner Georgeville); G3 winner Helleborine (dam of Coventry Stakes winner Calyx) and G3 winner Pocket Square. He will also be covering G1 winners Proviso and Romantica as well as G1 producer Scuffle (the dam of Logician), and dual G2 producer Deliberate (dam of Headman).

One of Bated Breath's best prospects for 2023 is the G3-winning filly Juliet Sierra – and her dam Kilo Alpha will be returning to him this year. Incidentally, she produced the G1 winner Juliet Foxtrot to Bated Breath's sire Dansili. Other Juddmonte mares visiting Bated Breath in 2023 include listed winner Pavlosk (herself the dam of listed-winning 2-year-old Zarinsk); group-placed Straight Thinking (dam of listed winner Straight Answer); and group-placed Midweek (dam of promising 2022 2-year-old winner Halfway Line).

Juddmonte's youngest stallion Expert Eye, the sire of 25 winners to date from his first crop, will be enjoying continued support in 2023, with G1 winner Timepiece and the group producer Photographic amongst his book.

Visiting one of the most proven active sires Oasis Dream, whose progeny have won over 2,800 races – listed winner Vesela, a half-sister to Oasis Dream's top stallion son Showcasing, and Bonne Idee, a winning half-sister to the very promising Kingman colt Nostrum, are amongst his Juddmonte mares this season.

Juddmonte homebreds New Bay and Showcasing will be receiving several mares. Intercontinental's daughter Continental Drift, the dam of G3 winner/G1-placed Masen will be visiting New Bay, along with G3 winners Dandhu and Gaining. Showcasing's book includes group producer Lilyfire and dual G2-winning Lucky Kristale.

Other notable matings are Logician's winning half-sister Monsoon Moon visiting Baaeed; group-winning Sacred Bridge visiting Dark Angel; Enable and her dam Concentric visiting Dubawi, along with Fillies' Mile Winner Quadrilateral and Frankel's sister Chiasma.

Midday and her listed-winning daughter Mori are both due to be covered by Lope De Vega, while Expert Eye's dam Exemplify will be going to Mehmas.

Frankel's listed-winning half-sister Joyeuse is to be covered by No Nay Never, while G3-winning maiden mare Agave will go to Sea The Stars. The listed-winning maidens Elegant Verse (a daughter of Special Duty) and Noon Star (a daughter of Midday) will be visiting Siyouni.

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Bloodlines: Pegasus Winner Art Collector Extends Legacy Of Whitney Family’s Greentree Stable

Rather than being 15-1, there was a day when winning the Grade 1 Pegasus at Gulfstream Park would have been the expected result from Art Collector, a handsome son of champion racehorse and sire Bernardini (by A.P. Indy).

At the midpoint of the horse's 3-year-old season, few if any of his contemporaries were rated more highly than Art Collector, winner of four straight races and both the Blue Grass Stakes and Ellis Park Derby during the weird summer of 2020, when Covid-19 had derailed the scheduling for the Triple Crown.

That year, the Preakness Stakes was raced last of the series, after Tiz the Law (Constitution) had won the 2020 Belmont Stakes over nine furlongs in June and Authentic (Into Mischief) had clipped the Belmont winner in the Kentucky Derby on Sept. 5. Authentic was the favorite for the Preakness, raced on Oct. 3, with Art Collector the second choice, but both were upset by the swashbuckling filly Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil), with Authentic second and Art Collector fourth.

Then Art Collector went a bit off the path, but he has kept on racing and winning at the highest level. From 21 starts, the horse has won 11 races, and it's either won or done for Art Collector because he has nine off the board, with a second only in his debut. (The horse actually finished first in yet another but was disqualified due to a medication positive prior to being transferred to Bill Mott's training stable.)

One of the fascinating things about Art Collector is that he has remained in training, remained sound, and has retained his level of ability through the beginning of his 6-year-old form. He came back at four to win a trio of races culminating in the G1 Woodward Stakes, then returned last year, after a debacle in the G1 Saudi Cup, to win a listed stakes at Saratoga and then the G2 Charles Town Classic. The Pegasus was his seasonal debut.

This winner of $4 million was bred in Kentucky by Bruce Lunsford from a family of historic vintage and classic character.

The Pegasus winner is out of the stakes winner Distorted Legacy (Distorted Humor), also bred by Lunsford, and Distorted Legacy won the Sky Beauty Stakes at Belmont and was stakes-placed three times. She showed the best form of her career with a second in the G1 Flower Bowl Invitational and with a fourth in the G1 Breeders' Cup Filly Turf, beaten a length by Perfect Shirl (Perfect Soul).

Distorted Legacy is one of four stakes horses out of Bunting (Private Account). Bunting had won a maiden at Saratoga as a juvenile, then proceeded to race competitively in graded stakes at three, placing second in the G1 Ashland at Keeneland and in the G2 Black-Eyed Susan at Pimlico in 1994. Then, Lunsford and partners purchased the 3-year-old filly out of the Greentree racing stable dispersal at the 1994 Keeneland November sale for $500,000, with Seth Hancock signing the ticket, and Bunting won an allowance and placed in two others for her new owners before retiring to stud the following spring.

There, she met with immediate success from her mating to leading sire Storm Cat. The resulting colt was named Vision and Verse, and he became a graded stakes winner. The scopy bay came home first in the G2 Illinois Derby, but he gained even more notice for seconds in the G1 Belmont Stakes and the Travers. Both of those seconds were to Lemon Drop Kid (Kingmambo) by a head and three-quarters of a length, respectively. After earning slightly more than $1 million, Vision and Verse was sent to stud in Kentucky at Hill 'n' Dale Farm.

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Bunting's second foal for Lunsford was the Broad Brush mare Broadway Express, who won twice and placed second in the 2000 Sam Houston Oaks. Bunting also produced Performing Diva, a full sister to Vision and Verse who ran second in the 2005 Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland. Then in 2007, Bunting foaled Distorted Legacy.

Bunting was a daughter of the Hoist the Flag mare Flag Waver, winner of the Rampart Handicap and the third stakes winner out of Bebopper (Tom Fool). The mare's previous stakes winners were leading sire Stop the Music (Hail to Reason), winner of the Champagne Stakes (on the disqualification of Secretariat for nudging the other colt out of his way) and the Dwyer; and Hatchet Man (The Axe), winner of the G1 Widener and Haskell, as well as the Dwyer. Both were successful sires, especially Stop the Music, sire of Belmont Stakes and Travers winner Temperence Hill, who was champion 3-year-old colt; the G1 winners Dontstop Themusic (Spinster, Vanity), Music Merci (Del Mar Futurity), and Cure the Blues (Laurel Futurity), plus G2 winner Play On, also second in the 1984 Preakness.

Greentree bred all the foals out of Bebopper and raced them. The operation acquired this family with the purchase of the French-bred Bebop (Prince Bio), a stakes-placed half-sister to 1954 Oaks winner Sun Cap (Sunny Boy) and 1952 Prix Jean Prat winner La Varende (Blue Moon). Another of Bebop's daughters, the stakes-placed Stepping High (No Robbery), is the dam of Peter Pan Stakes winner Buckaroo, the sire of 1985 Kentucky Derby winner Spend a Buck.

The family had shown its classic quality in Europe, and the pursuit of the classics was clearly Greentree's intention in acquiring and breeding the mares the way they did. Lunsford has followed suit, and it has paid off with quality racers and now a Pegasus champ.

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Broodmare Poster Girl Tops 2023 CTBA Winter Mixed Sale

Poster Girl, a stakes-placed broodmare in foal to California stallion Halladay, sold for $70,000 to top Tuesday's California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Winter Mixed Sale at Fairplex in Pomona, Calif.

The 10-year-old Poster Girl, by English stallion Excellent Art and consigned by Checkmate Thoroughbreds, was purchased by Cedros Bloodstock. She has a yearling filly by More Than Ready.

The highest-priced 2-year-old at the sale was Rachael's Ride, a California-bred filly by Clubhouse Ride, out of the Bodemeister mare Slalom, bred by Tony Busching and Carol Busching and purchased for $43,000 by Nick J. Hines, agent for M. Nentwig.

Hines and Nentwig also combined to purchase a 2-year-old Cal-bred filly by Om, out of the stake-placed Good Journey mare Kathleen Rose and a 2-year-old Sir Prancealot colt out of the stakes-placed Havana Gold mare Nonna Giana. Both sold for $33,000.

A 2-year-old Sir Prancealot filly, out of the Candy Ride filly Candy Forest, sold for $40,000 to Jeff Bonde.

There were 75 horses sold for gross sales of $698,000, an average of $9,307 and a median of $4,750.

To view the auction's full results, click here.

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Stakes Winner Lemieux Headlines Latest Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Supplements

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged an additional 29 supplemental entries to its 2023 Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale, to be held this coming Feb. 6 and 7 in Lexington, Ky. Sessions will begin daily at 10 a.m.

These latest entries, which are cataloged as hips 566-594, include:

– Miss Auramet (Hip 566): A three-time stakes winner at Tampa Bay Downs, Monmouth, and Gulfstream Park of $632,830, she notched 12 wins from ages two to six. Consigned as a broodmare prospect by Hidden Brook, Agent.

– Flight to Shanghai (Hip 586): Stakes placed mare is a half-sister to two graded stakes performing 2-year-olds from the family of Grade 1 winner Game Face and recent graded stakes winner Turnerloose. Consigned as a racing/broodmare prospect by Blandford Stud, Agent.

– Lemieux (Hip 588): Four-year-old daughter of Nyquist was a stakes winner at two, and is a half-sister to Grade 1 stakes placed Brilliant Cut. She's out of a half-sister to three stakes winners including multiple Grade 1 winner and international group stakes producer Diamondrella (GB). Her immediate family includes multiple Grade 1 winner and recent Horse of the Year finalist Life is Good. Consigned as a broodmare prospect by Taylor Made Sales Agency, Agent.

– Karakatsie (Hip 591): Five-year-old daughter of Karakontie (JPN) was a multiple stakes performer at three and four, including a strong third in last fall's Grade 2 Goldikova Stakes at Santa Anita to Grade 1 winner Going Global (IRE). Her collector's female family traces back to blue hen producer Courtly Dee. Consigned as a broodmare prospect by Brookdale Sales, Agent.

– Wasp (Hip 592): Daughter of American Pharoah was stakes placed at Saratoga on her way to earnings of $242,380. She hails from the immediate family of Grade 1 winners Evening Jewel, Denman's Call, General Challenge, and Notable Career. Consigned as a broodmare prospect by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.

The supplement also includes mares in foal to Army Mule and Audible, as well as yearlings, horses of racing age, and a racing/stallion prospect.

These entries may now be viewed online and will be available in the equineline sales catalogue app. Print versions of the supplemental catalog will be available on the sales grounds.

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