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Gem Heist Relocates To Rancho San Miguel In California For 2022

Third-crop sire Gem Heist, a son of Street Cry out of Tapit's Grade 1-winning millionaire Careless Jewel, has been relocated to stand at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel, Calif., for the 2022 breeding season. His fee is $2,500, live foal guarantee.

The 10-year-old stallion previously stood at a private farm in Bakersfield, Calif., as the property of the late horseman Bob Grayson Sr. Grayson purchased Gem Heist for $100,000 from Eddie Woods' consignment at the 2014 Barretts March Sale of Selected 2-Year-Olds in Training after the racing prospect was clocked in a co-bullet :9 4/5 seconds for his one-furlong, pre-sale breeze.

Gem Heist experienced a career-ending injury while preparing for his debut, and was subsequently retired to a modest stallion career prior to the 2017 breeding season. To date, he is credited with 29 reported foals, including eight juveniles and three yearlings of 2022.

From his five lifetime starters, three are winners, led by the multiple-winning filly Saturday Heist, an $82,700-earner from his initial foal crop. Now four, she broke her maiden by 6 1/4 lengths in her April 2021 career debut at Santa Anita Park, and has won three races overall by a combined 13 lengths.

Gem Heist's 2021 progeny earnings of $152,000 ranked him fourth among all California-based second-crop sires last year.

“We have nine Gem Heist babies in our barn now,” said trainer Val Brinkerhoff, who has saddled all three of the stallion's winners for Grayson's son, Bob Grayson Jr. “They are all very athletic and eager to train, and they all seem to have a good turn of foot. There's a lot of value to be had with their sire.”

Produced by 2009 Grade 1 Alabama Stakes winner Careless Jewel ($1,013,346), Gem Heist boasts the Grade 1-winning stallions City of Light, Subordination and Cacoethes in his immediate family.

“We are pleased to welcome a stallion with such top-class bloodlines to Rancho San Miguel,” said farm owner and manager Tom Clark. “Gem Heist has exhibited true potential with his early starters, and he is improving his mares. We look forward to helping him reach the next level in his stallion career.”

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First Foals Reported For Taylor Made Stallions’ Instagrand

Taylor Made Stallions' Instagrand sired his first reported foals when a filly out of Grade 1 winner Concrete Rose was born on Jan. 10, and a colt out of the Tiznow mare Siesta was born on Jan. 8.

Concrete Rose, a daughter of Twirling Candy out of the winning Powerscourt (GB) mare Solerina, was a $1.95-million Keeneland November acquisition in 2020 by OXO Equine LLC, which also bred the filly. Concrete Rose enjoyed a stellar racing career in which she annexed the $750,000 Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes, the G3 Edgewood Stakes, G3 Florida Oaks, and the Saratoga Oaks Invitational Stakes at Saratoga at three in 2019. At two, she won the G2 Jessamine Stakes at Keeneland. All told, Concrete Rose captured six of seven lifetime starts—five of them stakes—and banked $1,218,650.

Siesta, a daughter of Tiznow out of the Harlan's Holiday Miz Kella, is a half-sister to recent Zia Park Distaff Stakes winner Canoodling and hails from the immediate family of champion 2-year-old Shanghai Bobby, winner of the 2012 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and that year's G1 Champagne Stakes. Siesta was a $240,000 graduate of the 2018 OBS Spring Sale where she was purchased by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners. Siesta's colt was bred by Jay Goodwin, Michael Hore, DVM, and Doc Atty Stables.

Instagrand, a dominating son of Into Mischief, led gate to wire to win the 2018 G2 Best Pal Stakes at Del Mar by 10 1/4 lengths in just his second career start. Undefeated at two, Instagrand was named a TDN Rising Star after debuting a 10-length maiden special weight winner, running five furlongs in :56 flat and stopping the clock just .32 of a second off the Los Alamitos track record.

A $1.2-million Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream sale topper after breezing in :10 flat, Instagrand followed up his sensational juvenile season by placing in a pair of key Kentucky Derby preps at three. He placed in the G3 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct and set the pace in the G1 Santa Anita Derby in his two-turn debut, finishing just behind Roadster and champion 2-year-old and Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Game Winner.

By perennial leading sire Into Mischief, Instagrand is produced from the winning Lawyer Ron mare Assets of War and is from the immediate family of Grade 1 winners Irish Smoke and Book Review. He bred 190 mares in his initial season at stud and he will stand the upcoming breeding season for $7,500 S&N.

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Gainesway Stallions McKinzie, Spun To Run Have First Foals

Gainesway residents McKinzie and Spun to Run each sired their first foals on Jan. 11, both of them fillies.

Grade 1 winner McKinzie's first foal came at Hill 'n' Dale Farms in Kentucky, out of the winning Midnight Lute mare Withholding Info.

The filly is the first foal out of Withholding Info, who won twice in three starts. She is herself the first foal out of the multiple Grade 1 winner Executiveprivilege, from the family of multiple Grade 1 winner Hoppertunity.

McKinzie, a 7-year-old son of Street Sense, stands for an advertised fee of $30,000 for the upcoming breeding season.

He retired with eight wins in 18 starts and earnings of more than $3.4 million, highlighted by victories in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Cash Call Futurity, Pennsylvania Derby, Malibu Stakes, and Whitney Stakes, the G2 Alysheba Stakes and Triple Bend Stakes, and G3 Sham Stakes. He also finished in the money in six additional graded stakes, including a runner-up effort in the 2019 Breeders' Cup Classic.

Spun to Run's first foal was a filly born in Louisiana, out of the winning Scat Daddy mare L. A. Style.

It is the second foal out of L. A. Style, a three-time winner and half-sister to stakes-placed runners Gettysburg and Devine Charger. Grade 3-placed Funny Sunny is in the extended family.

Spun to Run, a 6-year-old Hard Spun horse, will stand the approaching season for $10,000.

He won five of 12 starts during his on-track career and earned more than $1.1 million. In addition to his triumph in the 2019 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, Spun to Run notched a victory in the G3 Smarty Jones Stakes and in-the-money efforts in the G1 Cigar Mile Handicap and Haskell Invitational Stakes.

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Leading Thoroughbred Breeders In North America For 2021: A Different Take

The Jockey Club recently released its list of leading Thoroughbred breeders for 2021, ranking the top 50 individual breeders by money won in North America. It also published a second list that includes breeding partnerships. Those lists can be viewed here.

High-volume breeder Calumet Farm got knocked off its perch atop the list the last two years, with Godolphin out-earning Calumet by nearly $2.4 million despite having less than one-third the number of starters. Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, WinStar Farm and Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey rounded out the top five by North American money won.

Calumet was represented by 549 individual starters, more than twice as many as the next largest-sized operation, that of the Ramseys, with 246 starters.

That's all well and good, but I think there are other ways to look at this list that might be more useful to the Thoroughbred breeder than seeing who won the most money.

The accompanying list ranks those same breeders (or at least breeders with five or more starters in 2021) by average earnings per start. (Note: The only top 50 breeder with fewer than five starters was Northern Farm, which won $2,080,000 with its two Japanese-bred starters, Breeders' Cup winners, Loves Only You and Marche Lorraine).

The two people topping the list, Angie Moore ($151,406 per start) and Gail Rice $97,318), each were carried by one major horse. Among her six starters, Moore bred probable Horse of the Year Knicks Go, whose victories in 2021 included the G1 Pegasus World Cup and G1 Breeders' Cup Classic. Rice bred seven starters, led by Medina Spirit, whose 2021 earnings of $3,520,000 include $1,860,000 from the G1 Kentucky Derby. Those earnings are in jeopardy because of the horse's failed drug test.

Third on the list by average earnings per start is the late Edward A. Cox Jr., who was also elevated by one big horse. Hot Rod Charlie's $2,127,500 in earnings made up the bulk of purse money won by Cox-bred runners in 2021. Same goes with St. George Stables, ranked fourth by average earnings per start. St. George bred multiple G1 winner Letruska, who earned $1,945,540 in North America in 2021.

Rounding out the top five on our list is Godolphin, which leads the list by number of stakes winners, 18. Godolphin benefits in average earnings per start and stakes winner through its global operation by only sending mostly proven horses from Europe to compete at the top level in North America.

The top five by average earnings per start also account for the highest average percentage of stakes winners from starters.

Other breeding operations that had a commendable percentage of stakes winners/starters are Sam-Son Farms (9.62%), Live Oak Stud (9.52%), G. Watts Humphrey Jr. (8.86%), Rustlewood Farm (8.82%), W. S. Farish (8.51%), Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings (8,39%) and Hinkle Farms (8.16%).

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