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‘Plenty Of Leg And Good Bone’: Taylor Made Stallions’ Tacitus Represented By First Foals

Taylor Made Stallions' multiple graded stakes winner Tacitus, a son of perennial leading sire Tapit out of champion older female and five-time Grade 1 winner Close Hatches, sired his first reported foals in New York on Monday, Jan. 16.

The first arrivals were a colt out of the Bustin Stones mare Super Stone bred by Jerry Bilinski, DVM, and born at Waldorf Farm, and a filly produced from the stakes-winning Courageous Cat mare Lady Joan bred by Irish Hill Century Farm and foaled at Irish Hill Century Farm.

“She is what I was expecting a Tacitus foal would look like,” Rick Burke of Irish Hill Century Farm said of the filly out of Lady Joan. “She has plenty of leg and good bone. She looks a lot like him.”

A Juddmonte Farms homebred trained by Bill Mott, Tacitus was a three-time graded stakes winner who banked more than $3.7 million in a stellar racing career, while recording six triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures. He broke his maiden in his second career start at two and from that point forward, he competed exclusively in graded stakes company for the next three years.

As a sophomore in 2019, Tacitus won the $400,000 Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby in his 3-year-old debut, stopping the clock in a new stakes-record time of 1:411.90 for 1 1/16 miles, just .15 off the track record in Oldsmar, Fla. In his next start, Tacitus overcame a troubled trip in winning the $750,000 G2 Wood Memorial — a race also won by his champion sire—and vaulted to the top of the leaderboard for that year's Kentucky Derby.

A game third despite a wide trip in the Kentucky Derby, defeating Grade 1 winners Improbable, Game Winner and War of Will, Tacitus remained one of the top 3-year-olds of his crop, subsequently finishing second in the Belmont Stakes and the G1 Travers Stakes. The following season at age four, Tacitus won the 1 1/4-mile G2 Suburban Stakes at Belmont Park, overpowering rivals for an 8 3/4-length victory in the sparkling time of 1:59.51.

Tacitus, who stands the 2023 season for $10,000 S&N and bred 188 mares in his initial book, is produced from Juddmonte's 2014 champion older female Close Hatches, a descendant of 1982 Broodmare of the Year Best in Show.

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Wanamaker’s 2023 January Sale Catalog Available Online

The Wanamaker's 2023 January Sale catalog has been released on wanamakers.com, with a wide array of offerings to get buyers off on the right foot in the new year.

This includes a yearling from the first crop of Instilled Regard, multiple 2-year-old racing prospects by sires of Grade 1 winners, racing prospects, stakes-winning broodmare prospects, open broodmares, and broodmares in-foal to some of the hottest stallions in the country.

The catalog includes sixteen stallion seasons on offer with proceeds being donated to Love My Pitties, a non-profit rescue, sanctuary, and rehabilitation program for dogs coming from high kill and rural shelters.

Bidding will open Wednesday, Jan. 25 at 8 a.m. ET, with the first listing set to close at 5 p.m. Subsequent listings will close in three-minute increments. Detailed information on the buying process can be found at wanamakers.com/buy.

Highlights of the catalog include:

– Breviary, a 6-year-old stakes-winning broodmare prospect by Super Ninety Nine. She is a big, beautiful mare located in Maryland.

– A Good Law, a 4-year-old daughter of Curlin offered as a racing/broodmare prospect. She has won back-to-back starts in West Virginia.

– Atlas Falls, a 2-year-old colt by Bernardini listed as a racing prospect. He is out of the graded stakes placed mare, Oldfashioned Style.

– Sophie Antoinette, a 7-year-old broodmare in-foal to Mitole. She is by Lemon Drop Kid and is a half-sister to stakes winner, High Limit Room.

– It's Nora Now, a 4-year-old broodmare prospect. A winning daughter of Tiznow, It's Nora Now is out of the stakes-winning mare, Dress the Part, who is also a half-sister to the producer of a Grade 3 winner and Al Atlasi, second in a strong maiden special weight at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 14.

For more information on those being offered in the 2023 Wanamaker's January Sale, see wanamakers.com. Prospective buyers may browse the website to view pedigrees, pictures, and videos of each hip offered. In-person inspections may be scheduled by contacting sellers with the information provided in the catalog.

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Bloodlines Presented By CTBA Sales: Mendelssohn Is Hitting The Right Note

As a son of leading sire Scat Daddy (by Johannesburg) band a half-brother to multiple leading sire Into Mischief (Harlan's Holiday), great things were expected of Mendelssohn when he retired to stud at Coolmore's Ashford Stud outside of Versailles, Ky., and covered his first book of mares in 2019.

As a half-brother to champion Beholder (Hennessy) and a grand-looking yearling, Coolmore had paid $3 million for Mendelssohn as a yearling when presented at the 2016 September sale by breeder Clarkland Farm.

Then the handsome bay won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf in 2017, as well as placing second in the G1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket. The following season, Mendelssohn won the G2 UAE Derby, then placed second in the G1 Travers and Jockey Club Gold Cup.

When Mendelssohn went to stud at four, breeders responded like he'd won the Derby and the Arc. They smothered him with mares.

As a result, the horse has a first crop of 175 foals, per Equineline. Of those, 138 went to yearling sales, 109 sold for an average price of $145,456 and a median of $100,000. From the second crop of 172 foals, 130 were offered for sale as yearlings, 105 sold for an average of $91,968 and a median price of $75,000.

Nearly everyone thought the gold mine was open for business.

Then, the 2-year-olds were a little slower to come to hand than expected in 2022, and the rumbling started. And in truth, Mendelssohn didn't have a black-type horse until Sept. 23, when the filly Miracle was second in the restricted Joseph A. Gemma. A second followed a week later, with the colt Congo River in the Legacy Stakes at Dundalk.

All those holding their breath for the young stallion's success, as well as those holding foals of 2022 and mares in foal for 2023, were waiting for something serious to happen.

And in the last 100 days, it certainly has. Mendelssohn has accrued numerous more winners, three more stakes-placed horses for a total of five, and three stakes winners. The first of those came on Oct. 7 at Keeneland, when Delight won the G2 Jessamine Stakes.

The latter pair came in the last two weeks. Classical Cat won the Eddie Logan Stakes at Santa Anita on Dec. 30, and Opus Forty Two won the Gasparilla Stakes at Tampa Bay on Jan. 14. By the end of the year, the sire's year-ending flurry of good results had moved him up the list of first-crop sires to seventh place.

Bred in Kentucky by Rose Hill Farm and John Trumbulovic, Opus Forty Two sold at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale for $185,000 to Ben Gowans, agent, and is owned by Mark Grier. This filly is the second foal from the winning Lemon Drop Kid mare Laquesta and was winning for the second time in four starts with her victory in the Gasparilla.

Opus Forty Two had debuted going five furlongs on turf, finished second; came back at 5 ½ furlongs on turf, was second; was sent six furlongs on dirt at Tampa Bay and won; and then made her stakes success going seven furlongs on dirt.

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This brings up an interesting point about Mendelssohn. Among the top 12 freshmen sires of 2022, only one, Oscar Performance (Kitten's Joy), has a longer average winning distance among his offspring. This may explain why the racers by Mendelssohn have taken a bit longer to get under way. The longer distance a racer needs to show its proper form, the longer it typically needs to be in training, and the longer the juveniles have to wait for those races to be written and to fill.

The results appear to have been worth the wait, as more of Mendelssohn's racers win and earn black type. This is a joyous sound for breeders and buyers who have supported the horse, and the sounds of beauty are not just in the eyes and ears of the stallion's supporters.

Opus Forty Two is named after Felix Mendelssohn's musical composition that he labeled with that number. In it, the composer set Martin Luther's German translation of Psalm 42 to music and voice. Mendelssohn premiered the work in January 1838 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, of which he was the conductor until his death in 1847.

Mendelssohn's works are generally ranked among the very best classical compositions of the 19th century, and now his equine namesake is making a joyous noise as well.

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Favorable Outcome, Anyportinastorm To Enter Stud At F4 Farms In Nebraska

Nebraska's stallion ranks will gain two newcomers in 2023, with Grade 2 winner Favorable Outcome and multiple stakes winner Anyportinastorm retiring to F4 Farms in Ashland, Neb., for the 2023 breeding season.

Both stallions will stand for an advertised fee of $2,000.

Favorable Outcome, a 9-year-old son of Flatter, retired with eight wins in 28 starts for earnings of $522,818. He started his on-track career with owner Klaravich Stable and trainer Chad Brown, winning on debut at Saratoga Race Course as a 2-year-old, and following up that effort with a third-place finish in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes. He won his seasonal debut at three, taking the G2 Swale Stakes at Gulfstream Park, and he finished the year with a third-place effort in the G1 Malibu Stakes.

At the end of his 4-year-old season, Favorable Outcome sold to owners Amy Hardy and Westside Racing Stable, and he became a regular presence in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions, highlighted by a win in the Front Range Stakes at Arapahoe Park.

Bred in Kentucky by Charles T. Matses, Favorable Outcome is out of the stakes-winning Eltish mare Shananies Song, whose six winners from seven foals to race also includes U.A.E. Group 3 winner Mouheeb, Grade 2-placed stakes winner Bellamentary, and Grade 3-placed Beguine.

Anyportinastorm, a 9-year-old City Zip horse, won nine of 26 starts and earned $376,469 for owner Peter Redekop B.C.

He broke his maiden in his 3-year-old bow at Golden Gate Fields, and he won his first stakes race at four when he took the Zia Park Sprint Stakes. His strongest season came at age five, when Anyportinastorm rolled off wins in Lost in the Fog Stakes at Golden Gate, and the Governor's Stakes and Budweiser Stakes at Emerald Downs before finishing second by a head in the G3 Longacres Mile Handicap. Later campaigns saw him pick up an additional victory in the Lost in the Fog Stakes, as well as the Oak Tree Sprint Stakes at Pleasanton.

Bred in Florida by Sally Andersen, Anyportinastorm is out of the winning Wild Again mare La Defense, making him a half-brother to stakes winner Quelle Surprise and stakes-placed runners A Gala Day and Thunder Run.

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