NY Sire Majestic City Succumbs to Laminitis

Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC's Majestic City (City Zip) was euthanized Tuesday, Nov. 8, due to the complications of laminitis. The 13-year-old is the sire of four small crops of racing age, which include 34 individual winners and Belmont's 2021 Iroquois S. winner The Important One.

“Majestic City will be sorely missed by myself and the entire team,” said Irish Hill & Dutchess Views manager Bill Leak. “He was a horse you could measure others against and only hope they can come close to his quality.”

Majestic City's wins during his five-year racing career included the GIII Lone Star Park H. and the GIII Hollywood Juvenile Championship S. He also placed in five additional graded races, including the GI Dixiana Breeders' Futurity and the GI Del Mar Futurity.

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War Dancer Tops Irish Hill & Dutchess Views 2022 Stallion Roster

Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions has announced its 2022 stallion roster and stud fees, featuring new addition Waiting (American Pharoah–Wait No More, by Medaglia d'Oro). Out of a $1.575-million Saratoga Yearling Sales topper, Waiting's second dam is champion Wait a While. He will stand for $4,000 LFSN.

Topping the 2022 roster will be War Dancer (War Front), currently the fifth-ranked sire in New York and leading second-crop sire, at $7,500 LFSN. Big Brown (Boundary) sits at number two in New York sires in earnings and tops the state's sires by number of winners and will stand for $5,000. King for a Day (Uncle Mo) will stand his second season at the Saratoga area farm for $5,000 after covering 73 mares in 2021.

Lookin At Lee (Lookin At Lucky), a multiple Grade I-placed millionaire and 2017 GI Kentucky Derby runner-up will return for his second year
at stud at $4,000. Rounding out the roster are leading NY third-crop sire Majestic City (City Zip) and Weekend Hideaway (Speightstown), who will have his first runners hit the track in 2022, both at $2,500.

Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions will continue to work closely with breeders by offering incentives for qualifying mares and multiple mare discounts across the entire roster. They will once again be holding an in-person stallion show this year Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. Follow them on Facebook (@IrishHillandDutchessViewsStallionsLLC) and Twitter (@IHDVStallions) for further details. The farm will be holding the annual stallion show raffle for a free season to each stallion as well as offering special stallion show pricing. Stallions are available for inspection by potential breeders on request.

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Irish Hill And Dutchess Views Stallions Reveals 2022 Roster, Including Newcomer Waiting

Irish Hill and Dutchess Views Stallions LLC announced 2022 stud fees for the New York stallions they will manage in 2022.

An addition to the roster is the exciting new stallion, Waiting, by American Pharoah out of Wait No More. Wait No More was a $1.575-million Saratoga Yearling Sales topper by Medaglia d'Oro. Waiting's second dam is 3-year-old North American Champion Wait a While.

As of this release, two stallions on the roster with current runners are ranked among the top five active stallions in New York.

Big Brown is ranked number two among all sires in the state based on earnings and is the leading sire by number of winners. War Dancer is the fifth-ranked sire among all active sires and the leading second crop sire.

King for a Day, a multiple stakes winning graded stakes placed son of sire of sires Uncle Mo, will stand his second season at the Saratoga area farm after covering 73 mares in his first season. Lookin at Lee, a multiple Grade 1 placed millionaire, the 2017 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum Brands runner-up and son of Lookin at Lucky will return for his second year at stud.

Rounding out the roster are leading New York third-crop sire, Majestic City, and Weekend Hideaway, who will have his first runners hit the track in 2022.

The 2022 stud fees will be:

War Dancer – $7,500 LFSN
King for a Day – $5,000 LFSN
Big Brown – $5,000 LFSN
Lookin at Lee – $4,000 LFSN
Waiting (NEW) – $4,000 LFSN
Majestic City – $2,500 LFSN
Weekend Hideaway – $2,500 LFSN

Irish Hill and Dutchess Views Stallions LLC will continue to work closely with breeders by offering incentives for qualifying mares and multiple mare discounts across the entire roster.

Irish Hill and Dutchess Views Stallions LLC will once again be holding an in-person stallion show this year on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. Please follow on Facebook (@IrishHillandDutchessViewsStallionsLLC) and Twitter (@IHDVStallions) for further details. The farm will be holding the annual stallion show raffle for a free season to each stallion as well as offering special stallion show pricing.

The stallions are available for inspection by potential breeders on request.

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Second Chances: Cricket West

In this continuing series, TDN's Senior Editor Steve Sherack catches up with the connections of promising maidens to keep on your radar.

Nothing seemed to go Cricket West (f, 2, Majestic City–Special Charm {Ire}, by Dansili {GB})'s way in her unveiling sprinting versus fellow New York-breds over the Saratoga lawn Aug. 12 (video). And she still came within a neck of getting her picture taken that day.

The Bloom Racing Stable homebred, off at odds of 10-1 for trainer Jorge Abreu, was bumped from both sides at the start and raced in sixth through an opening quarter in :22.45. She began to rev up beneath Manny Franco on the far turn while taking the overland route, and hit the top of the stretch parked out at least five wide. The dark bay kept on rolling down the lane, and, despite losing some momentum when getting bumped nearing the eighth poll as a result of a messy chain reaction in the 10-horse field, continued to fly down the center to just miss. She earned a 60 Beyer Speed Figure for the effort.

“It was like nothing ever went right and she still almost got there,” owner/breeder Jeffrey Bloom said.

“The filly hadn't been the type of horse that sort of sizzles and wows you in her workouts. But at the same time, she continued to progress substantially over the course of her final two-three workouts. I was like, 'Wow, this filly's got some talent.' We had high expectations for her. We expected to see a big run in her debut, but you just never know.”

Bloom raced MGSW & MGISP and young Irish Hill and Dutchess Views stallion Majestic City and acquired the winning mare Special Charm, a daughter of MGSW & GISP Olympic Charmer (Olympio), for $50,000 at the 2017 KEENOV sale. This is also the family of GI Runhappy Santa Anita Derby winner Rock Your World (Candy Ride {Arg}) and graded winners Charm The Giant (Ire) (Giant's Causeway) and Liam The Charmer (Smart Strike).

“She's got that fight and determination of her sire Majestic City, who, of course, we campaigned,” Bloom said. “To make it even that much more special is the fact that we have the stallion. I'm a big fan of Majestic City. He's made the most of what he has [from the mares he's covered]. To know that we still have the mare and to see Majestic City horses here on the New York circuit performing, it's very gratifying.”

As for what's next for Cricket West, Bloom concluded, “She came out of the race in really good shape. She's probably going to breeze this coming weekend. We'll look for that first opportunity at Belmont. We think she wants longer, so we were pretty excited to see her perform so well going that short. Ideally, we get her in the first available spot with a little bit of added distance back on the turf at Belmont.”

Previous standouts featured in 'Second Chances' include: GI Runhappy Santa Anita Derby winner Honor A. P. (Honor Code), GII Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner and Royal Ascot G2 Norfolk S. runner-up Golden Pal (Uncle Mo), MGISW and 'TDN Rising Star' Paradise Woods (Union Rags), GIII Las Virgenes S. heroine Moonlight d'Oro (Medaglia d'Oro), GII Los Alamitos Futurity winner and MGISP Spielberg (Union Rags), GSW Backyard Heaven (Tizway), and MSW and 'TDN Rising Star' Gidu (Ire) (Frankel {GB}).

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