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First Mare Scanned In Foal To Grade 1 Winner Honor A. P.

Lane's End announced today that Grade 1 winner Honor A. P., new to the farm's roster for 2021, has his first mare confirmed in foal.

The first mare scanned in-foal is stakes winner and graded-stakes placed Omaticaya (IRE), owned by Dell Ridge Farm, LLC. She is from the immediate family of Grade 1 winner Muhtarram, champion St. Hilarion, and graded stakes winners Ballet de France and Profit Column.

An $850,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase, Honor A. P. broke his maiden as a 2-year-old by over five lengths posting a 91 Beyer Speed Figure, one of the highest of his generation. He put away eventual Horse of the Year Authentic, one of only two horses to do so, in his Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby victory as a 3-year-old by an easy 2 3/4 lengths with a 102 Beyer.

The G1 Santa Anita Derby has long produced breed-shaping sires with past winners like Honor A. P.'s grandsire A.P. Indy, Sunday Silence, Affirmed, Pioneerof the Nile and more.

In his next start, the Shared Belief Stakes, he posted another 102 Beyer making him one of four 3-year-old colts in 2020 to post multiple triple-digit Beyers beyond a mile.

Honor A. P. stands for $15,000.

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First Mare Confirmed In Foal To Daredevil Since Stateside Return

Lane's End announced today that Daredevil, new to the farm's roster for 2021, has his first mare confirmed in foal since returning to the U.S.

The first confirmed mare is Striking Style by Smart Strike owned by Bill Harrigan, Mike Pietrangelo, and Caldara Farm. She is a half to graded-stakes placed Aquitaine, and out of the Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet-placed Rahy Dolly.

Daredevil is the only first-crop stallion to ever sire an individual winner of the Kentucky Oaks (Shedaresthedevil) and the Preakness Stakes (Swiss Skydiver). Swiss Skydiver was named champion 3-year-old filly to top off his exceptional start at stud.

Daredevil stands for $25,000.

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Toast To Vino Rosso: Colt Out Of Secret Ingredient Has ‘Plenty Of Leg On Him’

Throughout the breeding season, the Paulick Report will be sharing photos of foals from the first crop of Spendthrift Farm's Breeders' Cup Classic winner Vino Rosso in the “Toast to Vino Rosso” series.

This week, we've got firsts for both the sire and the dam – a colt from the debut crop of Vino Rosso, out of the Congrats mare Secret Ingredient, who is herself a first-time broodmare.

The colt was born on Feb. 1, bred Kentucky by Siena Farm. His second dam is the Grade 1 winner My Trusty Cat, and the extended family also includes Grade 3-placed runners Entrustment and Tapitry.

“He's put plenty of leg on him,” said Siena Farm general manager Ignacio “Nacho” Patino. “The mare's not a big mare, kind of medium-sized, so we wanted to put some leg on the mare, and the stallion did the job.”

Patino said the success breeders have had crossing Curlin with the A.P. Indy line was an appealing factor when deciding the mating that produced the colt. Vino Rosso is a son of Curlin, while A.P. Indy is Secret Ingredient's paternal grandfather through her sire, Congrats.

Siena Farm has first-hand experience with the Curlin/A.P. Indy cross through Point of Honor. The Grade 2 winner is out of a Bernardini mare, putting A.P. Indy sire line in the same spot in the pedigree on the bottom side.

“This colt has a lot of those qualities,” Patino said, comparing the Vino Rosso colt with Point of Honor at this stage in their development. “They have the same length and muscling. They both have a lot of class.”

Vino Rosso, a 6-year-old son of Curlin, stands at Spendthrift Farm for an advertised fee of $25,000.

Vino Rosso won won six of 15 starts and earned $4,803,125 on the racetrack. In addition to his signature Breeders' Cup Classic score, the stallion picked up victories in the Grade 1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita Stakes, and the G2 Wood Memorial Stakes.

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Kind, Dam Of European Stars Frankel And Noble Mission, Dies At Age 20

It is with regret that Juddmonte Farms announces the passing of Kind (Danehill – Rainbow Lake), the dam of Group 1 winners Frankel and Noble Mission, on March 8 due to complications after foaling a colt by Kingman on March 2.

Kind was a second-generation Juddmonte homebred. Her family came into the Juddmonte Stud Book through the mare Rockfest – who was purchased privately in 1983 as part of a bloodstock package from the John 'Jock' Hay Whitney dispersal.

When mated with Rainbow Quest, Rockfest produced the Lancashire Oaks winner Rainbow Lake who went on to compile an enviable record as a broodmare as the dam of three group/graded stakes winners: G1 winner Powerscourt, G2 winner Riposte and G3 winner Last Train. However, it was her dual listed-winning daughter Kind who was to have the biggest impact.

Kind's legacy is to have five stallion sons at stud and her daughter Joyeuse and granddaughters Jubiloso and Jovial are in the broodmare band. Her 3-year-old Galileo filly Chiasma is currently in training with John Gosden. Due to her rare achievement of producing two Group 1 winners and a further group winner in Bullet Train, Kind's name is on the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities' International List of Protected Names.

Juddmonte's UK stud director Simon Mockridge commented: “I cannot thank the Rossdales and Juddmonte team enough for the tireless care they have given Kind. To many, she will rightfully always be best remembered as the dam of Frankel and Noble Mission, to us at Juddmonte she will always be Kind by name and kind by nature.”

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