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Shadwell Farm, in continuing with its restructuring process, has decided to sell two of its auxiliary farms: Shadayid Stud consisting of 839 acres and Erhaab Stud with 525 acres. Both of these farms were meticulously developed by Shadwell, are in pristine condition, and have been impeccably maintained. These farms are separate from the original main division where Shadwell will continue to raise Thoroughbreds in the finest tradition.

Shadwell have selected the esteemed brokerage firm, Justice Real Estate, to represent it in the sale of these two premiere horse farms.

Shadayid Stud – 839 acres

When Shadwell Farm, established in 1985, decided to expand, they were given the order to procure the richest, undeveloped land that was available in Central Kentucky. This was accomplished in 1993 and 1994 with what's now named Shadayid Stud. Consisting of 839± acres on both sides of Leestown Road, Shadayid Stud has been painstakingly developed into the premier horse farm that it is today.

The North Side (587 acres) is currently developed into a yearling division featuring six well-planned fields from 50-75 acres each and can easily be converted into a broodmare/yearling operation. Beautiful winding roads lead you to six identical concrete block barns with 84 stalls and three employee houses.

In addition to the manager's residence, you'll discover two three-bedroom, two-bath employee houses plus the farm office and majlis. The South Elkhorn Creek is along the farm's entire rear boundary and interspersed along the creek are three small cabins.

The South Side is accessed via two stone gated entrances and is home to its horse and cattle division. With over 43 paddocks, you'll find two identical concrete block 18-stall horse barns, a rehab barn with offices and 8 stalls, a show barn, a calving barn, three hay barns, a turn-out barn, shop and equipment building, and a nice 2,100 square foot three-bedroom, two-bath employee house. The farm is further improved with 35 miles of fencing and over five miles of paved roads.

Exclusively offered at $17,750,000.

Erhaab Stud – 525 acres

Erhaab Stud, formerly known as Elko Bell Farm, is historically known as the most fertile and productive land in Scott and Franklin Counties. Located at the Scott/Franklin County line, Erhaab Stud is only minutes away from Midway, Frankfort, and Georgetown.

Shadwell Farm purchased this farm in 1999 because the land is of the highest quality and developed it into one of the most coveted Thoroughbred nurseries in Central Kentucky by true horsemen with the horse and land always in the forefront.

With approximately 3,000 feet of frontage on US 460 (Frankfort/Georgetown Road), you enter this magnificent farm via an impressive gated stone entrance and travel over approximately four miles of paved roads along its tree-lined driveways to its vast and quality improvements. Horse improvements include nine concrete block barns with 105 stalls, six fabulous concrete block run-in sheds, a covered six-horse walker, and covered round pen. Additionally, improvements include a shop/paint building and equipment shed.

Housing includes a c.1870s 5,900 square foot home (currently used as an office) and four employee houses.

This farm is further improved with approximately 22 miles of fencing and nearly four miles of paved roads. Bordered by the South Elkhorn Creek, Erhaab Stud is as aesthetically pleasing as it is functional.

Exclusively offered at $12,000,000.

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The 2022 OBS March Sale kicked off with a pair of seven-figure colts by OBS March graduate Into Mischief leading the first session.

• Hip 257 summoned $1.1 million from Hideyuki Mori. The bay colt by Into Mischief is out of the Not For Love mare Zapara and a half to stakes-placed Basso. He worked a bullet :9 4/5 and was consigned to the sale by Eddie Woods as agent.
• Hip 277, another bay colt by Into Mischief is out of multiple Grade 1 winner, Artemis Agrotera, by Roman Ruler, sold for $1 million. He had a :10 1/5 work and went to the partnership of Spendthrift, BSW/Crow Colts Group, and Bromans, from the Sequel Bloodstock consignment as agent for Chester and Mary Broman.

The market was buoyant and supported by a varied selection of six-figure juveniles, strongly represented by first-season sires.

• Hip 93, a chestnut colt by Gun Runner out of Sacre Coeur, by Saint Ballado, brought $600,000 from Fawzi Abdulla Nass. A half to champion Lady Eli, he worked :21 3/5 and was consigned by Eddie Woods as agent.
• Hip 291, a bay colt by freshman sire Bolt d'Oro out of the Uncle Mo mare, Beautissimo, herself a half to graded-placed stakes winner Two Thirty Five also brought $600,000. After breezing a co-fastest :9 4/5, He went to K S I from the Top Line Sales LLC, Agent consignment.
• Hip 190 was a dark bay or brown colt by fellow freshman sire Cloud Computing out of the Montbrook mare Tara Brooch, a half to stakes winner Al Max Diner. After a :9 4/5 work, he went to West Point / Talla Racing, LEB, Agent for $560,000 from the Paul Sharp, Agent consignment.
• Hip 125, a dark bay or brown filly by another first-year sire, Mendelssohn, fetched $525,000 from Gracie Bloodstock as agent after a :10 flat performance. She is out of the Candy Ride (ARG) mare Simply Confection, a half to newly-minted graded stakes winner and Kentucky Derby hopeful, Simplification.
• Hip 44, a bay Malibu Moon filly out of the Smart Strike mare Private Jet who is a full sister to champion Lookin at Lucky, sold to Katsumi Yoshida for $450,000. She was consigned by Top Line Sales LLC as agent. She went :9 4/5 in her breeze.
• Hip 82, a chestnut colt by freshman sire, Good Magic out of Rose Mine, by Street Cry (IRE) went :9 4/5 and sold to Maverick Racing for $450,000 from the Wavertree Stables, Inc. (Ciaran Dunne), Agent consignment. He hails from the family of champion Escena.
• Hip 46, a dark bay or brown filly by Upstart out of the Simon Pure mare Pure Legacy, a half to champion Areumdaundonghaeng. The filly had a :10 flat work and she went to Lael Stable for $425,000 from the de Meric Sales consignment as agent.
• Hip 213, a bay Adios Charlie filly out of Travelator, by A. P Jet, worked a bullet quarter in :20 2/5. She is a half-sister to new stakes winner Hollywood Jet and sold to West Point / Talla Racing, LEB, Agent for $410,000. She was consigned by Ocala Stud as agent.

Total figures for the first day of selling include:

• 188 horses changed hands compared to 175 in the first session of last year's March Sale.
• Gross sales of $26,325,000 compared for $19,125,000 in 2021 for a 37.6 percent year-to-year increase.
• Average price was $140,027 compared to $109,289 last year for a 28.1 percent increase.
• Median price was $77,500 this year and $55,000 in 2021, a 40.9 percent increase.
• The buyback rate was 16.8% compared to 13.8% last year for a 3 percent decrease.

The March Sale continues Wednesday, March 16 at 10:30 a.m. with hips 371 – 635 slated to visit the OBS sales ring.

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You can look to horse racing for an example of something that works. Yes, you're right: It is amazing. You probably don't want to be reminded of the ubiquitous dysfunction in these troubling days, but the next time it overwhelms you, the next time it gives you a headache, just think of Texas horse racing.

Here's something that works, something that would even put a smile on the face of Colonel “Hannibal” Smith, the leader of the A-Team in the popular 1980s television show, who at least once every episode would say, “I love it when a plan comes together.”

Well, the Texas plan is coming together. The impressive evidence sits at the confluence of the North and South Paluxy Rivers in Bluff Dale, an hour southwest of Fort Worth. Together they form the Paluxy, which flows for 29 miles southward before conjoining with the Brazos. Mark Collinsworth can tell you all about the wagon trains that rolled through this area heading west in pursuit of the American dream, and somehow that seems richly appropriate, for that's why he and his wife, Lori, are here, too. They're pursuing their dream: Forks of the Paluxy, a farm dedicated to breeding racehorses. They've built — and are building still — their farm around a dream, a Grade 1 stallion named Mr Speaker, and Texas' Horse Industry Escrow Account.

In 2019, through House Bill 2463, Texas lawmakers created the Horse Industry Escrow Account. Funded from revenue derived from taxes on horse-related products, the HIEA was created to support racing and breeding, as well as various programs and grants; in other words, it was intended to help preserve and promote the sport, the industry, the heritage, and the horse culture. And that was when Lori and Mark Collinsworth decided to pursue their dream — when the bill passed and Gov. Greg Abbott signed it into law.

Don't you love it when a plan comes together?

At the time, the Collinsworths had a farm in Midland, and Mark worked in the industrial real estate business. For years they had enjoyed going to the races together, and in 2012 they bought their first horse, a filly they named Strike Pleasure, for $5,200, out of the Texas yearling sale. Two years later, she gave them their first victory. She went on to win five more times and earn $116,000; so you could say Strike Pleasure was instrumental in the formation of their dream.

They owned only a few, but they continued to win races — with horses such as Lawyer Gabe, Lass Channel, Mad Dog Matters, Joyable, Paluxy Princess, South Texas Lingo, Quinn Murphy, and Hanalei's Houdini. The Collinsworths over the years raced a few horses in Texas, but because of purses, most of their horses raced elsewhere, from New York to California, with trainers such as Dallas Keen, Karen Jacks, Carlos Martin, Joe Orseno, and Bret Calhoun. And the dream kept expanding, this dream to have a stallion and a farm and raise racehorses. When their son, Richmond, settled in Dallas and their daughter, Alana, went to Southern Methodist University, the Collinsworths knew where they wanted their dream to be realized.

Initially, Mark explained, they thought they might stand Maraud, their graded stakes winner of $506,000. But when HB 2463 passed, he said, that “gave us the confidence to seek and acquire a Grade 1-winning sire because with the increased purses, Texas horsemen would have confidence to breed in Texas. This also gave us the confidence to come back to Texas to race as well.”

And so their Paluxy, a $45,000 yearling by Brody's Cause, has won consecutive races at Sam Houston. And Mr Speaker, purchased and relocated from Lane's End in Kentucky, has taken up residence at Forks of the Paluxy. Standing for $5,000, he's arguably the most accomplished stallion in the state. In fact, since he's not only a Grade 1 winner himself but the sire of a Grade 1 winner as well, he's probably the most accomplished stallion ever to stand in Texas. He raced with the best of his generation and won major stakes on turf and dirt. And he's here in Texas as a direct consequence of the legislation passed in 2019.

You have to love it when a plan comes together.

As a 2-year-old, Mr Speaker won the Dania Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park; at three, he won the Lexington at Keeneland and the Belmont Derby in New York; and at four, he won the Commonwealth Cup at Laurel — all graded stakes. Trained by “Shug” McGaughey and racing in the distinctive silks of the famed Phipps Stable, Mr Speaker earned $1,247,544 in his career. Uncommonly handsome and obviously athletic, he looks like a millionaire. He looks, in other words, like the horse he was born to be: He's by Pulpit, a son of A.P. Indy who won the Fountain of Youth and Blue Grass before finishing fourth in the Kentucky Derby, and Mr Speaker is a grandson of the incomparable Personal Ensign, who never lost a race in her Hall of Fame career.

He also has been successful in his second career as a stallion. Among the stakes winners Mr Speaker has sired is Speech, winner of the Grade 1 Ashland at Keeneland who ran third in the Kentucky Oaks. From his four crops, he has sired 16 black type stakes horses, including Ironstone, Speaking, Miss Hard Knocks, and Three Technique.

Mr Speaker is alone for the moment in the stallion barn, which has been built on a Kentucky model. Admiring visitors come by and stare into the sumptuously large stall at Mr Speaker as James Weatherford, the farm manager, watches. Nothing gets by either of them.

In the middle of the property, at the highest point, the Collingsworths have built a large house, its upper floor adorned by equine art, dominates. Or seems to, for in truth this place was built for Mr Speaker — and for grandchildren, of course, who love horses and require plenty of space.

On the other side of the farm, in a rolling pasture near the river, nine mares leisurely await their moment. Strike Pleasure, who's in foal to Tonalist, is among them. Most of the mares, however, the Collinsworths purchased in foal to breed back to Mr Speaker. Among those mares is Ginger Brew, a multiple stakes winner of $970,311 who in 2008 was Canada's champion 3-year-old filly. She's in foal to Hard Spun. Twixy Roll, a multiple stakes winner of $277,000, is in foal to Malibu Moon. Unspoken Word, a multiple stakes winner of $370,000, is in foal to Upstart.

You can count on it: Excellence will emerge from the Forks of the Paluxy — excellent and talented racehorses, bred and born in Texas to excel. Yes, this plan has come together beautifully.

This story was originally written by veteran turf journalist Gary West for TXRacehorse.com, and was reprinted with permission.

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