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Champion Gilded Time Dies At Age 31

Gilded Time, the champion 2-year-old male of 1992 and a veteran sire, died on Dec. 2 from the infirmities of old age, Bar None Ranches announced on social media.

The 31-year-old son of Timeless Moment had resided at Bar None Ranches in Okotos, Alberta since 2008, and he was pensioned from stud duty in 2010.

Bred in Florida by Harry Mangurian, Jr., Gilded Time sold for $80,000 at the 1992 Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. Select Florida-Bred 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale at Calder Race Course, and he was placed in the barn of trainer Darrell Vienna for owners David Milch and Jack and Mark Silverman.

He went undefeated during his 2-year-old campaign, first taking a Hollywood Park maiden special weight by four lengths, then shipping cross-country to win the Grade 2 Sapling Stakes at Monmouth Park. Following a win in the G2 Arlington-Washington Futurity at Arlington Park, Gilded Time left the gate as the post time favorite in the 1992 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Gulfstream Park, and he finished on top in a stretch duel to prevail by three-quarters of a length.

The effort helped Gilded Time secure the Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old male.

A foot bruise suffered in training knocked Gilded Time off the Triple Crown trail, and the first start of his 3-year-old season would not come until the 1993 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Santa Anita Park, where he finished third to Cardmania, just three-quarters of a length behind the winner after a year layoff. He made a final start in that year's G2 Malibu Stakes, where he finished sixth.

In total, Gilded Time retired with four wins in six starts for earnings of $975,980.

Gilded Time retired to Vinery Stud in Kentucky for the 1994 breeding season, and he resided there until the 2007 season, after which he moved to Bar None Ranches. He also shuttled for multiple Southern Hemisphere seasons in Australia and South America.

Gilded Time sired 18 crops with 802 winners and combined progeny earnings of more than $61.3 million.

His best Northern Hemisphere runners include Grade 1 winners Gayego, Elloluv, and Mandy's Gold, Grade 2 winners Clock Stopper, and Elaborate, and Grade 3 winner Old Topper. He is also the sire of Brazilian champion Desejada Duda and Australian Group 1 winner Barely a Moment.

As a broodmare sire, Gilded Time was responsible for runners including Canadian champion and Grade 1 winner Shaman Ghost, Grade 1 winners Audible, Santa Teresita, Irish Smoke, and On Fire Baby, Australian Group 1 winner Voodoo Lad, two-time Uruguayan champion Aero Trem, Korean champion Bold Kings, and 2015 Puerto Rican Horse of the Year Mia Karina.

“He settled in quickly to his new role as “king of the farm”, and undeniably raised the bar for stallions in not only Alberta but for Western Canada as well,” a statement read from Bar None Ranches. “He gave us many exciting winners to cheer for, including the great homebred Silver Baubles.

“As a pensioned horse, Gilded Time enjoyed his retirement, with every want and whim catered to by breeding manager Shaun Rathy. Even in his twilight years, he was known for his sprints and bucking performances upon being turned out into his paddock, where he was able to watch each year's new foal crop and oversee the other horses from “his hill”. He will be greatly missed by Rathy, her team, and the entire Bar None Ranches family.”

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Bloodlines Presented By Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders And Owners Association: A Weekend Bonanza For Ashview Farm, Colts Neck Stables

Results from the graded stakes for juveniles at Aqueduct on Saturday, Dec. 4, proved a double success for the breeding partnership of the Lyster family's Ashview Farm and the Colts Neck Stables of Rich Santulli.

In the Grade 2 Remsen Stakes, Mo Donegal, a son of champion juvenile and leading sire Uncle Mo (by Indian Charlie), was the victor by a nose from Zandon (Upstart), and in the G2 Demoiselle, Nest (Curlin) won by a neck from the Firing Line filly Venti Valentine.

Both of the Kentucky-bred juveniles were foaled and raised at Ashview, which markets is yearlings as organically grown athletes. The marketplace gave a warm reception to those farm-fresh yearlings: Mo Donegal sold to Jerry Crawford of Donegal Racing Stables for $250,000 at the 2020 Keeneland September sale; Nest brought $300,000 at the same sale and races for Repole Stable, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, and Michael House.

As financially and professionally rewarding as those young horses have proven for the farm, Bryan Lyster said that “having bred these two with Mr. Santulli is one of the best things imaginable. He's been right by our side from the mid-1980s, and it's very satisfying that we had a day like that together.

“He's been a longtime client and my dad's best friend. In the last seven to eight years, we have bought a number of mares together.”

The partners own 12 to 15 mares, and breeding a pair of graded stakes winners from a small group of mares is an exceptional accomplishment. Then again, the mares who produced these young athletes are rather special too.

Nest is the fifth foal out of her dam, the A.P. Indy stakes winner Marion Ravenwood, and the Demoiselle winner is a full sister to Idol, who won the G1 Santa Anita Handicap earlier this year, as well as a half-sister to Dr Jack, who also earned black type this season.

In the space of nine months, Marion Ravenwood has become the dam of a pair of graded winners, both by the 2007 and 2008 Horse of the Year, and a multiple stakes-placed racer by Pioneerof the Nile. The three siblings have made their dam a very valuable producer, and the 4-year-old Idol also played a role in Ashview's acquisition of Marion Ravenwood.

Bryan Lyster said, “We bought Marion Ravenwood carrying the Pioneerof the Nile, and we were impressed with her Curlin foal, which is now Idol. At the time we planned the mating that produced Nest, we were hoping for a yearling who had the look of Idol.”

The partners bought Marion Ravenwood for $400,000 from My Meadowview Farm LLC. The following spring, the mare produced a colt by Pioneerof the Nile, and Ashview sold the resulting foal for $250,000 as a November weanling. Named Dr Jack, the colt has placed third in the Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth and the Bourbon Trail Stakes at Churchill, earning $125,857 from seven races in the last eight months.

Lyster noted that neither Marion Ravenwood nor Callingmissbrown, the dam of Mo Donegal, will have a yearling for next year. That's rotten luck, but the breeders have been on the receiving end of the good luck, especially this year, and Marion Ravenwood “will be going back to Curlin. We're hoping to get her in foal early and have been big supporters of Curlin, going back to his first year.”

In fact, Callingmissbrown, the dam of Mo Donegal, is in foal to Curlin for next year, and Lyster said, “Since Mo Donegal is only the mare's second foal, I'd say the win on Saturday would tilt the scales toward a certain sire” for her mating next year.

A Pulpit mare that the Lysters acquired privately for their breeding partnership, Callingmissbrown “is built like a tank. I wouldn't call her big in height, 16 hands or so, but she has a tremendous hip.”

Those qualities no doubt helped when Ashview brought the mare's 2021 yearling, a filly by leading sire Into Mischief, to the Keeneland sales a couple months ago.

By the hot sire but out of a mare who hadn't produced a black-type winner till last Saturday, Callingmissbrown's September yearling brought $500,000 from Frankie Brothers, agent, and Litt/Solis. To bring twice what Crawford paid for the mare's Uncle Mo colt a year before, this filly was quite nice.

Bryan said, “The half to Mo Donegal was so smooth and so athletic in every other way that buyers really wanted her.” Being by Into Mischief put a bull's eye on the filly among discerning horsemen, and she brought a premium for it.

The good work and careful planning that produced a bonus success for Ashview and Colts Neck on the weekend is set to pay off with long-term dividends over the coming seasons from the siblings to these major winners.

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Grade 1 Winner Mo Forza Retired To Rancho San Miguel In California

Mo Forza, a Grade 1 winner and $1-million-plus earner by the very popular sire of sires Uncle Mo, has been retired from racing and will commence his stallion career in 2022 at Rancho San Miguel in Calif., as the property of Taylor Made Stallions and Onofrio Pecoraro.

The 5-year-old horse will make history on two important fronts: as Kentucky-based industry leader Taylor Made Farm's first foray into California's breeding industry and as the first son of Uncle Mo—North America's 2010 champion 2-year-old colt and the sire of the Grade 1-siring stallions Nyquist and Laoban—to stand on the West Coast.

Mo Forza's introductory fee is $9,000, live foal stand and nurse guarantee. A syndication is being formed, with a limited number of shares available.

Campaigned by Bardy Farm and Pecoraro's San Diego-based OG Boss stable, Mo Forza won eight of 15 starts and earned $1,034,460 as one of North America's top turf milers over the past three seasons. His seven graded stakes victories include the 2019 Grade 1 Hollywood Derby and the 2020-2021 editions of the G2 Del Mar Mile at Del Mar, as well as four Grade 2 races at Santa Anita Park: the 2020-2021 City of Hope Mile Stakes, 2019 Qatar Twilight Derby and 2019 Mathis Brothers Mile Stakes.

He is the first foal out of the Unusual Heat mare Inflamed, a full sister to Grade 2 winner and 2011 California Champion 3-Year-Old Male Burns and to Grade 1-placed multiple winner Brushburn.

“Mo Forza was born and raised at Taylor Made, and we have loved him from the very beginning” said Taylor Made Stallions Vice President Ben Taylor. “He is a big, strong, good-looking horse who ran four triple-digit Beyers and showed tremendous heart in winning seven graded races on the grass. As brilliantly as he trained on dirt, we have no doubt that he would have accomplished just as much on that surface if he had been given the opportunity.

“We are looking forward to participating in the lucrative California-bred program with this outstanding stallion prospect,” Taylor added. “We believe Mo Forza is the right horse at the right time for us to launch our entry into the California breeding industry.”

Pecoraro will remain as a co-owner in Mo Forza and will support him with several high-quality mares.

“We have been looking for a son of Uncle Mo to offer to California breeders, and Mo Forza was number one on our list,” said Rancho San Miguel owner/manager Tom Clark. “In addition to winning seven graded races here in California, he is out of a daughter of our state's all-time leading sire, Unusual Heat. He is also a direct male descendant of another multiple leading California sire, In Excess (Ire), through his Grade 1-winning, California-bred grandsire, the great Indian Charlie. He is a perfect fit here.”

“Mo Forza's name translates roughly from Italian to 'more strength,' and that is precisely what I believe he offers to California's breeding and racing program,” Clark said. “We are thrilled to partner with Taylor Made and Mr. Pecoraro on this exciting new venture.”

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Beau Liam Retired To Airdrie Stud For 2022

Stonestreet Stables LLC's Beau Liam (Liam's Map) has been retired from racing and will stand the upcoming breeding season at Brereton and Elizabeth Jones's Airdrie Stud as a partnership between Stonestreet, Spendthrift Farm and Airdrie.

One of the fastest 3-year-olds of his generation, Beau Liam gained a strong national following this season while winning each of his first three races in impressive fashion for Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen. Named a TDN Rising Star following his electrifying 7 1/2-length debut at Churchill Downs, Beau Liam's six-furlong time of 1:08 3/5 represented the fastest recorded clocking of any maiden at the distance in the history of the historic racetrack. By comparison, his Ragozin Sheet number of 5 3/4 in the race was faster than the winning figure in this year's Kentucky Derby.

In his second start, Beau Liam earned a 106 Beyer Speed Figure when taking a well-publicized seven-furlong allowance at Saratoga. His lofty Beyer trailed only multiple Grade 1 winner Jackie's Warrior's 107 and equaled the 106 figure earned by Grade 1 winner Life is Good amongst the fastest 3-year-olds of the year at seven furlongs. In his third start, a dominant six-length victory at Saratoga, Beau Liam stopped the clock for 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:15 flat, earning a career high 107 Beyer Speed Figure.

Bet down to 2-5 favoritism while taking on his elders in the Grade 3 Ack Ack Stakes at Churchill Downs, Beau Liam finished second by a length to the multiple graded stakes winner Plainsman. The final time for the mile fixture was 1:33 4/5. Beau Liam was being pointed to the G1 Cigar Mile at the time of a training injury that led to his retirement. He retires with three wins and a second from four lifetime starts and earnings of $229,000.

Bred in Kentucky by Barbara Banke's perennial leading nursery Stonestreet Farm, the son of Liam's Map was kept to race in the farm colors after not meeting his $385,000 reserve as a yearling at the Keeneland September Sale. From the second crop of his popular young sire, the final hammer price was higher than the most expensive Liam's Map yearling of the 2019 sales season.

His dam, the Dehere mare Belle of Perintown, captured the G2 Silverbulletday Stakes as a 3-year-old after a juvenile stakes victory in the Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill Downs. In addition to Beau Liam, she is the dam of no fewer than three other black-type performers including the graded-winning Strike it Rich and the graded stakes-producing Sumptuous. Belle of Perintown is a granddaughter and great granddaughter, respectively, of the talented race fillies Jeanne Jones and Beautiful Glass.

“Beau Liam is a brilliantly fast horse by one of the most exciting young stallions in the industry, “said Airdrie's Bret Jones. “He is gorgeous and from a top-class family. There is no shortage of important stallions with a similar race record to this horse and their unifying characteristic has almost always been brilliant ability. We believe running the fastest maiden sprint in Churchill Downs history on debut and then following with 106 and 107 Beyers absolutely merits that distinction. We have been given a tremendous opportunity by Barbara Banke and the great team at Spendthrift Farm to stand this horse and we will be supporting him heavily to ensure he has the opportunity we all believe he deserves.”

“This horse was an absolute freak,” said Stonestreet Farm bloodstock advisor John Moynihan. “Everyone saw what he did as a 3-year-old, but he showed us that talent at two as well. I would have the same belief in Beau Liam's stallion potential as when we retired Maclean's Music. He's that kind of special. He will get a great chance at Airdrie Stud.”

“He's just a freakishly fast horse,” said conditioner Steve Asmussen. “I wish we'd had the opportunity to get a Grade 1 next to his name, but anyone who saw him run knows he was of that talent level.”

Beau Liam will stand his first season for a fee of $6,000 stands and nurses.

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