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Breaking Lucky Moves To Pleasant Acres Stallions In Florida For 2021

The Canadian classic winner Breaking Lucky will be standing in Florida for the 2021 breeding season at Pleasant Acres Stallions, with a fee of $5,000.

He began his stallion career at Blue Star Racing in Louisiana for the 2020 breeding season. Before retiring to Louisiana, Breaking Lucky successfully raced for the partnerships of West Point Thoroughbreds, Reeves Thoroughbred Racing, Eric Young, and R.A. Hill Stable.

“Our mission has always been to expand Florida's breeding program by offering exceptional stallion bloodlines,” said Joe Barbazon, owner of Pleasant Acres Stallions. “Bringing Breaking Lucky to Pleasant Acres Stallions is a huge win for all of us in the state. This successful graded stakes-winning millionaire is the the only son of Lookin at Lucky to be standing in Florida and we are proud to have him at Pleasant Acres Stallions.”

Hailing from the red-hot sire line of Lookin at Lucky (Smart Strike), Breaking Lucky also comes from an impressive female family. His dam, the graded-placed Shooting Party (Sky Classic), broke her maiden in her first race. She was second in the Grade 1 Garden City Breeders' Cup Handicap and was third in both the G3 Pebbles Handicap and the G2 Nassau County Stakes.

Shooting Party had already produced two winners from her first two foals to race when she foaled Breaking Lucky – who went on to win $1,196,376. Currently, she is the dam of four winners including Quake Lake (War Chant) – the dam of Kentucky Derby winner Country House (Looking at Lucky) and the G3 Gallorette Stakes winner Mitchell Road (English Channel).

Breaking Lucky's sire, Lookin at Lucky, stands in Kentucky for $20,000 and is well on his way to becoming a sire of sires. A champion at two and three, he won nine races including the Preakness Stakes, the G1 Izod Haskell Invitational Stakes, the G1 Del Mar Futurity, the G1 Norfolk Stakes, and the G1 CashCall Futurity. Lookin at Lucky was in the money 11 out of 13 starts with career earnings of $3,307,278.

He is the sire of champion Accelerate (standing for $17,500 in Kentucky), Country House (standing for $7,500 in Kentucky), Grade 1 winner Wow Cat, and Grade 2 winners Madefromlucky, Money Multiplier, Dr Dorr, and Diamond Oops, among others.

On the track, Breaking Lucky won the 2015 Prince of Wales Stakes – the second leg of Canada's Triple Crown – while defeating Grade 1 winner and 2015 Sovereign Award champion 3-year-old Shaman Ghost (Ghostzapper).

In 2016, he won the G3 Seagram Cup Stakes at Woodbine. Breaking Lucky went on to place in the G1 Clark Handicap, G1 Whitney Stakes, and G1 Stephen Foster Handicap behind Horse of the Year Gun Runner (Candy Ride).

In total, Breaking Lucky was on the board in 10 graded stakes and two black type races, while campaigning in two countries, during his racing career.

Breaking Lucky joins stallions Amira's Prince, Bucchero, Gunnevera, Handsome Mike, Long On Value, Neolithic, Ride On Curlin, Squadron A, Sweetontheladies, and Treasure Beach at the 220-acre farm located just northwest of Ocala.

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Gunnevera To Enter Stud At Florida’s Pleasant Acres Stallions For 2021

Pleasant Acres Stallions is excited to announce that multiple graded stakes winner and multimillionaire Gunnevera will stand in Florida for the 2021 breeding season with a $6,000 fee.

Gunnevera retired with six wins from 21 starts, where he hit the board in a total of six Grade 1 events, with earnings of $5,561,800 and an average of $264,848 per start.

“Helen and I, and the entire team at Pleasant Acres Stallions, are thrilled to have Gunnevera begin his stallion career at our farm,” said Joe Barbazon, owner of Pleasant Acres Stallions. “He has had a very exciting career – earning more than $5.5 million dollars – while beating multiple Grade 1 horses like Always Dreaming ($2,415,860), West Coast ($5,803,800), Practical Joke ($1,795,800), and Classic Empire ($2,520,220) on the track – Some of which he beat more than once.

“In Florida, there are two stallions standing that Gunnevera defeated twice each,” he continued. “One is Girvin in the Travers Stakes and the Kentucky Derby, and the other is Seeking the Soul in the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes and the Woodward Stakes.”

Gunnevera was victorious in three starts at two – including the Grade 2 Saratoga Special Stakes and the $1-million G3 Delta Downs Jackpot Stakes. At three, he took the G2 Xpressbet Fountain of Youth Stakes and then finished third in the G1 Florida Derby. In the same year, Gunnevera won Gulfstream's black type Tangelo Stakes and was runner-up in the G1 Travers Stakes, as well as the G2 Lambholm South Holy Bull Stakes.

As a 4-year-old, Gunnevera placed second in the G1 Woodward Stakes and the G1 Breeders' Cup Classic, and third in the G1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational. His last race was the G1 Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline in 2019, where he placed third.

Gunnevera is by G1 Florida Derby and G3 Holy Bull Stakes Winner Dialed In. A leading forth-crop sire in 2019, Dialed In already has eight black type horses in 2020. Dialed In is by A.P. Indy's Horse of the Year Mineshaft, out of multiple stakes-producing dam, Miss Doolittle, by Storm Cat.

Gunnevera is out of Unbridled Rage, by Unbridled. Unbridled had 24 starts and was on the board 20 times with eight firsts, six seconds, and six thirds. With earnings of $4,489,474, Unbridled won the G1 Florida Derby, the G1 Kentucky Derby, and the G1 Breeders' Cup.

Gunnevera started life off as a bottle-fed orphan at 10 days old. The big chestnut colt went on to race, win, and place at the highest level and in some of the most prestigious races around the world. He was a precocious 2-year-old that won the G2 Saratoga Special Stakes one month after winning his maiden special weight. He then went on to win the G3 $1-million Delta Downs Jackpot Stakes just three months later.

Gunnevera joins stallions Amira's Prince, Bucchero, Handsome Mike, Long On Value, Neolithic, Ride On Curlin, Squadron A, Sweetontheladies, and Treasure Beach at the 220-acre farm located just northwest of Ocala. Pleasant Acres Stallions has received many accolades for excellence, including 2017 Florida Freshman Sire of the Year for Poseidon's Warrior, 2017 DRF Florida-bred Beyer Award, 2009 Florida Breeder of the Year, 2009 Florida Broodmare of the Year, Breeder of the 2009 Florida Horse of the Year, and was ranked third in the nation for leading breeders in 2009 by average earnings per starter with 10 or more starters.

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Gunnevera to Stand at Florida’s Pleasant Acres Stallions

Multiple graded stakes winner Gunnevera (Dialed In-Unbridled Rage, by Unbridled) will stand at Pleasant Acres Stallions near Morriston, Fla., for the 2021 breeding season. The Salomon Del Valle colorbearer goes to the breeding shed with a record of 21-6-5-3 and earnings of $5,561,800. It was announced earlier this month that he had been retired from racing.

“Helen and I, and the entire team at Pleasant Acres Stallions, are thrilled to have Gunnevera begin his stallion career at our farm,” said Joe Barbazon, owner of Pleasant Acres and syndicate manager. “He has had a very exciting career–earning more than $5.5 million–while beating multiple Grade I horses like Always Dreaming (Bodemeister), West Coast (Flatter), Practical Joke (Into Mischief), and Classic Empire (Pioneerof the Nile) on the track.”

Winner of the 2017 GII XpressBet Fountain of Youth S. as well as the 2016 GII Saratoga Special S. and GIII Delta Downs Jackpot S., Gunnevera was perhaps better known for the races he didn’t win over a career that spanned four seasons. In 2018, he was second to eventual champion Accelerate (Lookin At Lucky) in the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic after finishing in the runner-up spot to Yoshida (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}) in the GI Woodward S. The year prior, the Antonio Sano trainee was also second to eventual champion West Coast in the GI Travers S. In addition to being runner-up in some of the country’s biggest races, he also placed in the 2019 G1 Dubai World Cup in what would be his final start. Overall, he won or placed in 11 black-type events, 10 of which were graded.

Plagued by foot problems throughout his career, Gunnevera had overcome the loss of his dam and was a bottle-fed orphan from the time he was 10 days old. He goes to stud as the highest earner to ever stand in Florida.

Gunnevera will stand in 2021 for a fee of $6,000.

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Bucchero Breeds 291 Mares In 2019-20; Leads All Florida Sires

While Mendelssohn and Justify never faced Bucchero on the track, it was Bucchero that filled out the trifecta for most mares bred by second year sires in 2020 according to the Report of Mares Bred issued by the Jockey Club on Friday.

After breeding to 130 mares in his first season at stud, multiple graded stakes winner Bucchero followed up his first-year success by breeding to 161 mares in 2020. Second in Florida only to Khozan, his total topped standout second year sires such as Collected, Bolt d'Oro and City of Light. His 291 mares bred in 2019-20 made him the most-popular stallion in Florida over the past two years.

“Kantharos and Bucchero's direct family is as hot as any up-and-coming family in America” said the ownership group's managing partner Harlan Malter. “Between his sire Kantharos and Bucchero's three-quarters relative, multiple Grade 1 winner World of Trouble, this direct family bred to 421 mares in 2020. I think this really says a lot about how breeders feel about the explosive potential of this 'Freaky Fast Family.'”

Bucchero is the first son to stud by Kantharos, whose tremendous success as a Florida-based sire resulted in his being transferred to Kentucky to continue his career at Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa. Kantharos's current 15 2-year-old winners from his first Kentucky-conceived crop is more than American Pharoah, Munnings and Tapit.

Bucchero enters his third year at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Florida in 2021, where he will continue to stand for $5,000.

“We were excited to bring the Kantharos bloodline back to Florida and once the breeders were able to see him in person, he really sells himself” commented Joe Barbazon, owner of Pleasant Acres. “Breeders realize that the Florida program and 2-year-old sales put a lot of emphasis on speed and precociousness, and they see that Bucchero checks these boxes. We have had the chance to see many of his first crop foals and breeders report back that he is really stamping them – smart, correct and fast looking.”

A winner of 11 races, with earnings of $947,936, Bucchero won stakes going long and short, on dirt and turf, and was stakes placed on synthetic.

Bucchero won seven black-type races, including the $200,000 Grade 2 Woodford Stakes at Keeneland in both 2017 and 2018. He was stakes-placed seven times, including second in the $200,000 G2 Shakertown Stakes and third in the $150,000 G3 Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes.

Bucchero was the rare horse who was both precocious and durable. Debuting as a 2-year-old in stakes company, and finishing second by a half-length, he then broke his maiden at second asking running a Thorograph 4. Durable and sound, he raced 31 times at 13 different tracks, winning his second Woodford at the end of his 6-year-old campaign.

An “Early Bird” discount of $1,000 will be offered for bookings made before Jan. 1, 2021.

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