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Breaking Lucky Represented by First Foal

GSW & MGISP Breaking Lucky (Lookin at Lucky–Shooting Party, Sky Classic) was represented by his first foal Jan. 29, a colt born at Blue Star Racing in Louisiana. Bred by 4M Ranch and Blue Star Racing, the colt is out of Anea (Unbridled's Song).

“If there is one word that I can use to describe this colt, it would be strong,” said Blue Star Racing Owner Dex Comardelle. “He is nicely put together, has all the right angles, has good bone, conformation, and lots of leg! If this first colt is any indication of how the rest of Breaking Lucky's crop will look, it's going to be an exciting year.”

A four-time winner and millionaire, Breaking Lucky stands at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Florida for $5,000 LFSN.

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Stormborne Stallions Opens New Florida Facility

Danielle Dougherty has recently opened up for business at her new stallion breeding and mare care facility in Citra, Fla.

Located on 65 lush acres in Marion County, Stormborne Stallions is home to Backtalk, Finale, Rogueish, Matanzas Inlet, and Young Brian.

“I am very excited about our new location and opening up the stallion shed in 2021,” Dougherty said. “Our facilities are ideal for the upcoming season with a 24-stall barn for the stallions and a separate wing set up for foaling and mare care.”

Dougherty, who has spent her career working with racehorses and stallions, also offers the services of mare care, sales prep, and foaling at her new facilities.

Backtalk (Smarty Jones – Apasionata Sonata, by Affirmed) is one of the five stallions standing at Stormborne Stallions. A $250,000 yearling, the precocious Backtalk was a multiple graded stakes winner that was on the board board in 12 of 15 starts. He broke his maiden in his first race at Churchill Downs, and less than a month later, he won the $110,500 Grade 3 Bashford Manor Stakes. Two weeks later, he won the $150,000 G2 Sanford Stakes in Saratoga. His dam, Apasionata Sonata won the Kentucky Cup Ladies Turf Stakes. Her progeny has earned $1,211,675, including two graded stakes and black type winners – Backtalk and Bsharpsonata (Pulpit). Backtalk stands for $2,500 in 2021.

Also standing at Stormborne Stallions is graded stakes and black type winner, Finale (Scat Daddy – Twinkle, by Lively One) – a $175,000 weanling at Keeneland that went on to win the black type Continental Mile Stakes and the $250,000 G3 Summer Stakes at Woodbine. He also placed second in the listed Dania Beach Stakes where he beat graded stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Excaper and multiple graded stakes winner Csaba. Finale's dam, Twinkle (Lively One – Twinkling Star, by J.O. Tobin) won a maiden special weight in her first race. As a broodmare, her progeny earnings are $1,213,396 with five winners out of six starters – two of which are graded stakes winners – Finale and Bright One. Finale stands for $2,500 in 2021.

Rogueish (Into Mischief – Verdana Bold, by Rahy) entered stud in 2020 at Stormborne Stallions. He is the son of champion sire Into Mischief (Harlan's Holiday – Leslie's Lady, by Tricky Creek) and is brother to stakes winner and Grade 2-placed Lucrezia. Into Mischief made history in 2020 with $22,506,085 in progeny earnings – establishing the all-time single season record for a sire in North America – ultimately shattering Tapit's previous mark of $19,907,973 from 2016. Into Miscief was also the only sire of five seven-figure yearlings in 2020. The dam of Rogueish, Verdana Bold (Rahy – True Legacy, by A.P. Indy) was a graded stakes winner of $331,297. She has produced $732,975 in progeny earnings with five winners out of eight starters that include two black type winners and one black type placed runner. Rogueish stands for $2,500 in 2021.

The newest addition to the stallion barn is Matanzas Inlet (Kitalpha – She's Stacked, by Stack). Kitalpha was a son of Mr. Prospector and a full brother to Kingmambo. Imported from Zimbabwe, the unraced chestnut – out of the champion mare Miesque – had sired six crops before returning to the U.S. Miesque (Nureyev – Pasadoble, by Prove Out) had career earnings of $2,070,163, 12 firsts, three seconds, and one third out 16 starts. She won the Eclipse Award for champion grass mare of 1987 and 1988, she was named to the Hall of Fame in 1999, and she was the winner of the Breeders' Cup Mile twice. Matanzas Inlet stands for $2,500 in 2021.

Also standing at Stormborne Stallions is Young Brian (Hard Spun – Glacier Peak, by Pulpit). He was a $500,000 2-year-old who broke his maiden in his first race at Del Mar – beating future Grade 3 winner Toews On Ice. Young Brian is by Hard Spun (Danzig – Turkish Tryst, by Turkoman) – who was on the board 11 out of 13 starts with career earnings of $2,673,470. Young Brian has five winners out of eight runners in 2020. Young Brian stands for $2,500 in 2021.

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Guess Who’s Back: Vitali Saddles First Runner At Turf Paradise

Embattled trainer Marcus Vitali has returned to entering racehorses for the first time since July of 2019, this time at Turf Paradise in Phoenix, Ariz. His trainee Be Gone Daddy ran third in Monday's Hank Mills Sr. Stakes, and he has four more horses entered at the track in the coming days.

The Thoroughbred Daily News briefly connected with Vitali Tuesday. The trainer said he had bad cell reception and that he would return the call, but did not do so. The TDN was unsuccessful in attempts to get comment from Arizona commission officials.

Vitali has made headlines many times over the years, first for numerous therapeutic medication violations, then for avoiding sanctions for positive post-race drug tests by turning in his license in Florida. In 2016, reporting by the Paulick Report revealed Vitali was training horses at Gulfstream Park under the name of Allan Hunter; Vitali and Hunter were subsequently barred from the entry box there and at Tampa Bay Downs. Vitali reapplied for a trainer's license in Florida, where state officials credited him with time served for his medication overages.

Vitali sent out just 29 starters in 2017, mostly at Gulfstream and Gulfstream Park West, but returned with a stronger hand in 2018, with 334 starters, also mostly in South Florida.

In 2019, Vitali's license was suspended for one year when he interfered with a search conducted by Delaware Park security of his employee's dorm, bursting into the room and absconding with an object which was never recovered. Vitali claimed the object was a container of marijuana. His employee at the time said it was an unlabeled vial containing a clear liquid of some type which Vitali asked her to keep in her refrigerator. He has completed that suspension.

In 2020, the Maryland Jockey Club told the Paulick Report that it had given trainer Wayne Potts one week to vacate his barn at Laurel Park, where he keeps 30 horses, after track officials say they discovered Potts was program training for Vitali. Vitali reportedly could not get stalls at racetracks in the area. Maryland officials said they discovered the connection between the two when horses based at Rising Sun Training Center in New Jersey were entered under Potts's name at Laurel and turned up with health certificates that had been altered to white out Vitali's name. A cluster of horses appeared at Rising Sun around that time from longtime Vitali clients, primarily from Florida. That cluster included Be Gone Daddy.

After Potts was told to vacate Laurel, Vitali applied for a training license in Illinois afterwards but was unsuccessful in receiving one. The horses formerly based at Rising Sun ran at Arlington Park and Hawthorne under trainer Dino DiZeo. Many of the same group from Rising Sun posted workouts at Turf Paradise in the days before Vitali saddled his first runner there.

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Mr. Money To Stand At Florida’s Journeyman Stallions In 2021

Multiple Grade 3 winner Mr. Money will stand at Journeyman Stallions in Ocala, Fla., for the 2021 breeding season, BloodHorse reports.

The 4-year-old son of Goldencents will debut for an advertised fee of $5,000, and he'll stand as property of Allied Racing and Spendthrift Farm, who campaigned him during his on-track career.

Mr. Money won six of 18 starts for earnings of $1,360,430. The pinnacle of his career was seen during a four-race graded winning streak, which saw him find the winner's circle in the Grade 3 Pat Day Mile Stakes, Matt Winn Stakes, Indiana Derby, and West Virginia Derby. He followed up that effort with a runner-up finish in the G1 Pennsylvania Derby.

At four, Mr. Money added a win in the G3 Ack Ack Stakes.

Mr. Money is out of the Tiznow mare Plenty O'Toole. He hails from the family of Dubai World Cup winner Well Armed.