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PR Back Ring OBS Spring Sale: Gun Runner Joined The Seven-Figure Juvenile Club – What’s Next?

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The latest edition of the PR Back Ring is now online, ahead of the OBS Spring 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale.

The PR Back Ring is the Paulick Report's new bloodstock newsletter, released ahead of every major North American Thoroughbred auction. Seeking to expand beyond the usual pdf presentation, the Back Ring offers a dynamic experience for bloodstock content, heavy on visual elements and statistics to appeal to readers on all platforms, especially mobile devices.

Here is what's inside the OBS Spring issue…

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Gun Runner became the 21st stallion since 2000 with a seven-figure juvenile in his first crop earlier this auction season. Joe Nevills examines the first 20 stallions to join the club, and how they performed in the short-term and long-term to see whether high-level auction success in a first crop leads to success on the racetrack.
Stallion Spotlight Presented by Kentucky Equine Research: Airdrie Stud's Cormac Breathnach on American Freedom
Lesson Horses Presented By John Deere Equine Discount Program: Erin O'Keefe Of BTE Stables On Exposure
Ask Your Veterinarian Presented By Kentucky Performance Products: Equine Chiropractic Therapy
Pennsylvania Leaderboard Presented By Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association: Fire's Finale Led Juvenile Incentive Earners In 2020
The Stat Presented By Pleasant Acres Stallions: Leading Florida Sires By :10-Flat And Faster Breeze Show Times, 2015-2021
American Graded Stakes Standings Presented By Muirfield Insurance: Godolphin Leads A Tight Race Among Breeders
First-Crop Sire Watch Presented By Neolithic: OBS Spring Sale 2021

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Grade 1 Winner Complexity’s First Four Mares Scan In Foal

The first four mares bred to Airdrie Stud's Complexity have been scanned in foal.

Two each were bred on Feb. 14 and 15.

Winner of the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes and the G2 Kelso Handicap for Klaravich Stables and Chad Brown, Complexity retired to Airdrie Stud for an introductory fee of $12,500 SN.

“We have had a terrific response to Complexity, and he has been booked full for some time,” said Airdrie's Cormac Breathnach. “He is off to a great start in the shed and we have a lot to look forward to with him.”

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‘All The Things That You Want To See In A Newborn Foal’: First Foal Is A Colt For Airdrie Stud’s Divisidero

Divisidero, a millionaire son of Kitten's Joy, was represented by his first reported foal, a colt born at Airdrie Stud.

The colt was produced by Always Tomorrow, a full-sister to six-time graded stakes winner Bigger Picture who set a track record when winning the Grade 1 United Nations Stakes. From the immediate family of the great matriarch, Blitey, Always Tomorrow's female family features no fewer than 24 Grade 1 performers under her first three dams.

“He's leggy and strong with good depth through the shoulder, all the things that you want to see in a newborn foal. We are very pleased”, said Cormac Breathnach, Airdrie's director of stallion nominations. “He is chestnut with two socks and a blaze, so you can really see the Kitten's Joy influence coming through. Mr. Jones is continuing to support Divisidero with some very nice mares and this is the kind of foal to embolden that faith.”

A graded stakes winner in each of his five racing seasons, Divisidero retired sound with earnings of over $1.6 million and a well-earned reputation for possessing a dazzling turn of foot. At three he flashed home to win the G2 American Turf Stakes on Kentucky Derby Day in just his third start, before setting a new track record in Belmont Park's Pennine Ridge Stakes next time out. A winner of consecutive renewals of the G1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Stakes, he was beaten just three-quarters of a length in the G1 Breeders' Cup Mile on unsuitably soft ground. In all, he earned 13 triple-digit Beyers and a staggering 26 single-digit Ragozins in his 29 starts for trainers Buff Bradley and Kelly Rubley.

Bred by Hinkle Farms, Divisidero is out of Madame du Lac whose rich distaff lineage traces to none other than Cosmah, the dam of Halo and a half-sister to Natalma, the dam of Northern Dancer himself. Divisidero was purchased by Josh Stevens for $250,000 from the Hinkle Farms' consignment at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Divisidero retired to Airdrie Stud where he receives robust support from Brereton C. Jones' broodmare band. His first book of mares had a C.I. of 2.37, second among all freshman sires to Catholic Boy (2.38). Divisidero's 2021 stud fee is $5,000 SN.

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In The Stud Presented By Kentucky Equine Research: Collected, First Crop Weanlings Of 2020

Collected did an admirable job preserving the memory of his late sire City Zip on the racetrack, and he'll aim to continue that pattern as he sets course on his stallion career at Airdrie Stud.

In the 2020 season premiere of the In The Stud video series, Airdrie Stud's Cormac Breathnach discusses what makes the 7-year-old Collected an attractive prospect for breeders, prior to the stallion's first weanlings going through the ring at this year's fall mixed sales.

Collected started his career on the turf, and he ran second in the Grade 3 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes as a juvenile. The colt was then moved to the dirt at three, where he found his true footing with victories in the G3 Lexington Stakes and Sham Stakes.

At four, Collected became one of the top older males in his division, racking up wins in the G1 Pacific Classic, G2 Californian Stakes, and G3 Precisionist Stakes. He also finished second in the Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar. In total, Collected retired with eight wins in 15 starts for earnings of $2,975,500.

The In The Stud series, put together by our friends at EquiSport Photos, features up-and-coming names in the stallion ranks, with a focus on those whose first foals are weanlings of 2020. Paulick Report bloodstock editor Joe Nevills interviews farm staff about the stallion's appealing qualities and what mares might work best with him, while giving viewers and potential breeders a chance to see the stallion on the walk and on the racetrack.

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