Louise and Kiki Courtelis' Town and Country Farms has relocated Eastwood, a graded stakes-placed son of sire of sires Speightstown, from Diamond B Farm in Pennsylvania to Gary Broad's Walmac Farm where he will stand alongside the operation's flagship stallion Core Beliefs for the upcoming breeding season.
Eastwood, who will stand for $2,500 S&N, was represented in 2021 by well-received first yearlings, including a $45,000 colt at last year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearling Sale at Timonium. His first 2-year-olds will hit the track this year.
By perennial leading sire, Eclipse champion, and Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Speightstown, Eastwood posted head-turning victories in his first two career starts at Belmont Park, defeating a pair of eventual graded stakes winners in Lochte and Golden Lad in his debut. Eastwood was subsequently bought following those impressive wins for $800,000 out of the Baccari Bloodstock consignment at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Summer Horses of Racing Age Sale by Town and Country Farms.
A strapping chestnut bred in Kentucky by Fred Hertrich III, Eastwood is the first foal out of the Deputy Minister mare Fifth Avenue Ball. He originally sold at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale in 2010 where Baccari Bloodstock bought him from Taylor Made Sales, agent, for $240,000, marking the highest price paid for a Speightstown weanling in his crop. Speightstown, a top-five general sire of 2021, is one of only a few active sires to win a Breeders' Cup race and sire multiple Breeders' Cup winners.
Runner-up in the 2017 Grade 3 Los Angeles Stakes at Santa Anita at age seven, the speedy and sound Eastwood hit the board in eight of 12 lifetime starts, earning Equibase Speed Figures of 110, 109, 105, etc., with career earnings of $265,545.
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