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Bucchero Relocating To McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds

Bucchero (Kantharos), the sire of the current 2-year-old stakes winners Book'em Danno and Mattingly and of the stakes-placed and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint fifth-place finisher Shards, will take up residence at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds for the 2024 breeding season for a fee of $7,500. After breeding 471 mares while standing for five seasons at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Florida, Bucchero will join a powerhouse New York stallion lineup alongside Central Banker and Solomini.

“Traditionally, New York breeders have not had the opportunity to breed to a new stallion who was already on the upswing with proven runners on the ground, but that certainly should be changing in the future with the exceptional program New York has developed and actively improved,” said Bucchero Managing Partner Harlan Malter. “We have broken the mold a bit with Bucchero and we feel we are doing it again with our move to New York.” 

Bucchero has celebrated a breakout season in 2023. His second crop has produced two unrestricted juvenile stakes winners, taking his total to three overall, and he has been represented by nine stakes-placed horses from 84 starters. Bucchero is the sire of 52 individual winners, a percentage of 62% that is second-best among his peers with 50 or more runners and higher than the likes of Justify and Good Magic. His runners have finished in the top three in over 47% of their combined appearances. 

Bucchero is currently the second-leading sire of 2-year-olds by earnings outside the state of Kentucky ($856,604). In New York, his current 2-year-old progeny earnings would make him the #1 juvenile sire in the state and his total 2023 progeny earnings of $2,291,021 would make him the third-leading sire overall in New York behind only Central Banker and Tourist.

Led by Shards, who sold for $175,000 at the 2023 OBS March Sale, Bucchero has excelled in the 2-year-old market, with consistently quick under-tack previews that have translated to the sales ring. From a $5,000 stud fee, Bucchero averaged nearly 10 times his stud fee with a $48,595 average from 21 sold in 2022 and built upon that in 2023 with an average of $51,133 from 30 sold.

Bucchero has quickly become a “trainers'” stallion as many went right back to the well in the second crop after campaigning first-crop runners. Joe Orseno, the trainer of first-crop stakes winner Beauty of the Sea and second-crop stakes winner Mattingly (85 Beyer in his most recent stakes start) commented, “I have now trained eight of them and they do nothing but run. Mattingly is a perfect example, a stakes winner on synthetic, stakes placed short on the turf and seven furlongs on dirt and I am now pointing him to the $300K In Reality Stakes going 1 1/16 miles on the dirt. They are fast and smart, versatile and racy.”

“We are thrilled to bring Bucchero to McMahon and the New York program as we feel Bucchero is built for a program like this,” added John McMahon. “He has shown he produces fast, precocious and, most importantly for New York breeders going forward, runners that can win on anything.” 

Malter, who campaigned Bucchero along with the current ownership group added, “All of us involved with Bucchero started as small breeders looking to survive in a very difficult market segment. Bucchero has proved he can get a breeder a quality sales horse and possibly even more importantly, a runner who will keep them looking forward to that 'mailbox money' small breeders depend on to succeed.”

On his way from Florida to New York, Bucchero will make a pit stop in Lexington during the second week of the Keeneland November Sale for a stallion show on November 14th from 1 – 4 pm at Kesmarc at 258 Shannon Run Rd, Versailles.

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Bucchero Colt Goes Deep In Hollywood Beach

Mattingly (Bucchero) gave his young sire a second juvenile stakes winner in 2023 and his third black-type winner overall with a good-looking victory in Saturday's Hollywood Beach S. over the Gulfstream synthetic surface.

Purchased for $70,000 out of this year's OBS March Sale with the objective of sending him over to Royal Ascot–where his sire was a strong fifth to Blue Point (Ire) (Shamardal) in the 2018 G1 King's Stand S.–Mattingly debuted in the May 13 Royal Palm Juvenile S., finishing runner-up to No Nay Mets (Ire) (No Nay Never), who received the automatic berth. Unplaced in the G2 Norfolk S., No Nay Mets has since added a pair of open-lengths stakes scores and is a leading U.S. hope for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. An easy maiden winner over this surface June 24, Mattingly was last seen finishing a softened-up second in the July 16 Victoria S. on the Woodbine Tapeta and landed here for a build-up into the fall.

Off quickly from gate four, the Florida-bred was soon overhauled at the fence by Esperon (Chitu), who zipped his opening quarter mile in :21.14 while opening a bit of daylight on the turn. Taking aim on the front-runner nearing the stretch, Mattingly needed to be straightened out by Samy Camacho approaching the eighth pole, but went to Esperon with about a sixteenth of a mile to race and edged clear. Okiro (Yoshida {Jpn}) rallied outside the eventual winner into the lane, but was outfinished for the victory.

“I learned a lot in that Woodbine race,” said winning trainer Joe Orseno. “When it scratched down to four horses, we thought, 'Just go. He's fast.' He got stuck in a speed duel to set it up for the horse coming off of it. I said, 'That's not going to happen again. I said, 'We've got to let [Esperon] and [Prevent {Neolithic}] go.' That was the plan we took, and it worked.”

Regarding future plans for the horse, Ironhorse Racing Managing Partner Harlan Malter said: “I honestly don't think he's truly a five-furlong horse, so we might just let them go knock heads at Santa Anita [in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint] and try a race like the [Nov. 4 $120,000] Atlantic Beach S. [at Aqueduct] to give him a little more distance and to see what he can do back on the turf. But nothing is off the table right now.”

Ironhorse also campaigns the Orseno-trained 3-year-old Bucchero filly Beauty of the Sea, winner of the Blue Sparkler S. in July, who also descends from a Gone West-line dam. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

HOLLYWOOD BEACH S., $90,000, Gulfstream, 9-30, 2yo, 5f (AWT), :56.67, ft.
1–MATTINGLY, 120, c, 2, by Bucchero
1st Dam: Battingstar, by Grand Slam
2nd Dam: Starship Sensation, by Go for Gin
3rd Dam: Tremor, by Tromos (GB)
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. ($70,000 2yo '23 OBSMAR). O-Ironhorse Racing Stable LLC & Harlow Stables LLC; B-Lance Colwell (FL); T-Joseph F Orseno; J-Samy Camacho. $64,000. Lifetime Record: 4-2-2-0, $147,028. *Third stakes winner for sophomore sire (by Kantharos).
2–Okiro, 120, c, 2, Yoshida (Jpn)–She Hung the Moon, by Malibu Moon. 1ST BLACK-TYPE. ($8,200 Ylg '22 FTKOCT; $25,000 2yo '23 OBSMAR). O-Yutaka Enterprises Corp.; B-Burleson Farm & McKenzie Bloodstock (KY); T-Jose Garoffalo. $13,000.
3–Esperon, 120, c, 2, Chitu–Satan's Mistress, by Songandaprayer. 1ST BLACK-TYPE. ($70,000 RNA 2yo '23 OBSMAR; $165,000 2yo '23 OBSOPN). O-Champion Equine LLC; B-Michael Frank (FL); T-J David Braddy. $7,800.
Margins: 1 3/4, 1, 1. Odds: 1.50, 2.80, 5.20.
Also Ran: Prevent, El Principito. Scratched: Hermoso Hombre, Roar Ready.

 

 

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Bucchero Represented By First SW In Blue Sparkler

Sent off at overlaid odds of 13-1 from a 5-1 morning line, Ironhorse Racing Stable's Beauty of the Sea (Bucchero) was given a perfect ride by Jairo Rendon and held off My Sweet Affair (Twirling Candy) and Love Appeals (Speightstown)–each scratched out of Friday's rained-off Coronation Cup S.–to become the first black-type winner for her Florida-based stallion, also campaigned by Ironhorse.

Nicely drawn in gate two, the Florida-bred broke with them, but eased back to sit just behind a strong pace set by Coronation Cup entrant Bosserati (Holy Boss) with two-time course-and-distance winner Lady Irvine (Accelerate) not far behind. Committed to an inside run around the turn, Beauty of the Sea came after and collared Bosserati in upper stretch, but was confronted either side by My Sweet Affair at the fence and Love Appeals one path to her outside. Any of the three had claims at the sixteenth pole, but Beauty of the Sea fought on bravely from between the two market leaders and was home narrowly best.

 

Unplaced in a single juvenile appearance over the Gulfstream main track, Beauty of the Sea was runner-up in a five-furlong turf maiden in Hallandale Apr. 7 and donned cap and gown over that same track and trip May 5. No better than a 4-1 chance in her first start against winners over the Gulfstream synthetic June 3, she gamely split horses late and went on to punch her ticket to stakes company with a two-length success.

“We sent her here with this race in mind,” said winning trainer Joe Orseno. “She handled the turf so well so we figured let's keep her on the turf and see where we can go with it. “Jairo never panicked. I thought she would be laying right off the leaders. But he sat back there and when she moved up I saw she was running. It was just a question of the heavyweights coming at her. They were coming too, but we held them off.”

Harlan Malter, managing partner of Ironhorse Racing, made the trip in from California and will be on hand Sunday at Woodbine, where Bucchero's son Mattingly is a live chance in Sunday's Victoria S.

“I always referred to her as my mini-Bucchero,” Malter said. “To win the first stakes for him that sort of way is everything I thought of what Bucchero could be as a stallion. It means an enormous amount to me and my partners and we think that this filly is the first of many stakes winners to come for Bucchero.”

One of 36 winners from 58 starters for Bucchero, Beauty of the Sea, a $29,000 OBS June buyback last year, hails from the female family of the nails-tough Second of June (Louis Quatorze), Grade I winner Any Given Saturday (Distorted Humor) and GSW Bohemian Lady (Carson City). The unraced Belong to Sea, the only daughter of Poseidon's Warrior to have a foal of racing age, is also the dam of the 2-year-old colt Little Starships (Gone Astray). Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

 

 

 

BLUE SPARKLER S., $104,000, Monmouth, 7-15, 3yo, f, 5 1/2fT, 1:02.68, fm.
1–BEAUTY OF THE SEA, 116, f, 3, by Bucchero
1st Dam: Belong to Sea, by Poseidon's Warrior
2nd Dam: Niebla, by Belong to Me
3rd Dam: Whow, by Spectacular Bid
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. ($29,000 RNA 2yo '22 OBSOPN). O-Ironhorse Racing Stable LLC; B-Shade Tree Thoroughbreds Inc (FL); T-Joseph F Orseno; J-Jairo Rendon. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, $118,960. *First stakes winner for second-crop sire (by Kantharos).
2–My Sweet Affair, 116, f, 3, Twirling Candy–Illicit Affair, by Midnight Lute. ($72,000 2yo '22 OBSAPR). O-R A Hill Stable & Gatsas Stables; B-Highclere Inc, Dr Amy Rabanal & Constance Wickes (KY); T-George Weaver. $20,000.
3–Love Appeals, 118, f, 3, Speightstown–Gioia Stella, by Medaglia d'Oro. 1ST BLACK-TYPE. O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd (KY); T-Christophe Clement. $10,000.
Margins: HD, NK, 2 3/4. Odds: 13.10, 2.50, 2.50.

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Tax Package Including $27.5M in Support of Florida Tbred Industry Passed

Florida lawmakers passed a tax package May 5 that includes significant support for the state's Thoroughbred industry. With the support of Senate President Kathleen Passidomo; Senator Blaise Ingoglia, the Finance and Tax Chair; and Senator Jason Pizzo; House Speaker Paul Renner; Representative Stan McClain, Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee; and Representative Lawrence McClure, chair of the State Affairs Committee; as well as Wilton Simpson, Florida's Commissioner of Agriculture, the package includes $27.5 million annually for two years to bolster purses and racing awards at Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs. In addition, the two tracks will be provided tax credits to offset the cost of the Horse Racing Integrity and Safety (HISA) Program in Florida; the HISA assessment for Florida for 2023 will be $5.9 million.

Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign the bill into law.

“We thank Governor DeSantis and all of our state legislators who recognize the importance of Thoroughbred racing and breeding to the state of Florida,” Florida Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association President Joe Orseno said. “The revenue generated through this bill will help ensure the continued stability and growth of an industry that is so important to so many Floridians.”

The FTHA represents more than 6,000 horse owners and trainers who not only work and race at Gulfstream, but also do business throughout the state. FTHA and 1/ST Racing, which owns and operates Gulfstream, worked in tandem with Tampa Bay Downs to craft the language for the legislation and to get it passed. Although the primary focus of the bill is support for the racing industry, the FTBOA was also at the table so that all stakeholders were represented.

According to a study by the American Horse Council, Florida's Thoroughbred industry has a $2.7 billion economic impact and creates more than 23,000 job opportunities in the state. From the racetracks, to the training centers, to the breeding farms to the horse retirement facilities, there are nearly 100,000 Thoroughbreds stabled in virtually every county in Florida.

“Florida supports hundreds of equine-related businesses–not just the tracks and the racing stables and breeding operations, but the ancillary business as well, such as feed and tack stores, veterinary services, transportation, insurance companies, attorneys, the list goes on and on,” Orseno said. “We are thrilled that our Governor and our legislators have given their support to the thousands in the state who depend upon the Thoroughbred industry.”

 

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