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Claiborne Announces 2021 Stud Fees; War Front Dropped to $150K

Claiborne Farm has released stud fees for the majority of its stallions who will stand at the Paris, Ky.-based farm during the upcoming 2021 breeding season, which included a significant reduction in price for its international super-sire War Front.

Among Claiborne’s 13 stallions, War Front leads the charge with a stud fee of $150,000. The internationally acclaimed son of Danzig and emerging sire of sires is North America’s top sire by percentage of lifetime stakes winners, graded stakes winners, and Grade I winners. In 2020, War Front has added three new Grade I winners to his record, bringing his lifetime total to 23, second in North America behind only Tapit’s 27.

War Front’s most recent Grade I winners include Flower Bowl S. heroine Civil Union and GI Fourstardave H. victor Halladay, as well as classic winner War of Will, who will stand alongside his sire at Claiborne Farm for the upcoming breeding season. In the sales ring, he had a yearling filly sell to Mike Ryan at Keeneland September for $1.05 million and on the racetrack, no other sire in North America has more Grade I winners than War Front in 2020.

War Front previously stood for $250,000, which was the highest advertised fee in North America.

“In these unprecedented times, we felt it would be irresponsible to raise or keep some stud fees the same as last year, despite our stallions having outstanding success in the sales ring and on the racetrack,” said Claiborne President Walker Hancock. “It is now more important than ever that we do what is best for the sustainability of our industry.”

Eclipse champion and three-time Grade I winner Blame (Arch) will stand for $30,000. One of the leading sires of his crop with 63 stakes horses and 30 stakes winners lifetime, his 16 graded stakes winners include Nadal, winner of this year’s GI Arkansas Derby. Yearlings sired by Blame have sold for up to $400,000 this year.

Flatter, the prolific son of A.P. Indy, will stand for $35,000. He has sired more than 100 stakes horses and 50 stakes winners lifetime, including recent champions West Coast and Avie’s Flatter. This year, his 2-year-olds sold for up to $600,000, while his yearlings brought up to $330,000 in the sales ring.

Mastery, the undefeated Grade I-winning son of Candy Ride (Arg), will remain at $25,000. The much-anticipated first yearlings by Mastery sold for $510,000, $450,000 and $400,000 this year, with an average of $142,425.

Catholic Boy (More Than Ready) and Demarchelier (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who both stood their first seasons at Claiborne in 2020, will remain unchanged at $25,000 and $5,000, respectively. First Samurai (Giant’s Causeway), the sire of undefeated 2-year-old filly Plum Ali, a Breeders’ Cup hopeful and winner of the recent GII Miss Grillo S., will stand for $15,000. Stud fees for Eclipse Champion Runhappy (Super Saver) and War of Will will be announced following the Breeders’ Cup. GI Preakness S. hero War of Will added a score in the GI Maker’s Mark Mile S. at Keeneland this summer and is being pointed for the Breeders’ Cup.

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War Front Leads Claiborne Farm’s 2021 Stallion Roster

The Hancock family's Claiborne Farm announced stud fees Oct. 15 for a number of their stallions that will stand at the Paris, Ky-based farm during the upcoming 2021 breeding season.

Among 13 stallions, War Front leads the charge with a stud fee of $150,000. The internationally acclaimed son of Danzig and emerging sire of sires is North America's #1 sire by percentage of lifetime stakes winners, graded stakes winners, and Grade 1 winners. In 2020, War Front has added three new Grade 1 winners to his record, bringing his lifetime total to 23, the most of any stallion in North America behind only Tapit with 27.

War Front's most recent Grade 1 winners include Breeders' Cup hopefuls Civil Union and Halladay, as well as classic winner War of Will, who will stand alongside his sire at Claiborne Farm for the upcoming breeding season.

In the sales ring, War Front continued his reign among leading sires with yearlings commanding prices up to $1,050,000. On the racetrack, no other sire in North America has more Grade 1 winners than War Front in 2020.

“In these unprecedented times, we felt it would be irresponsible to raise or keep some stud fees the same as last year, despite our stallions having outstanding success in the sales ring and on the racetrack,” said Claiborne president Walker Hancock. “It is now more important than ever that we do what is best for the sustainability of our industry.”

Eclipse champion and three-time Grade 1 winner Blame will stand for $30,000. Ranked among the top of his crop with 63 stakes horses and 30 stakes winners lifetime, his 16 graded stakes winners include Nadal, winner of this year's Grade 1 Arkansas Derby. Yearlings sired by Blame have sold up to $400,000 this year.

Flatter, the prolific son of A.P. Indy, will stand for $35,000. He has sired more than 100 stakes horses and 50 stakes winners lifetime, including recent champions West Coast and Avie's Flatter. This year, his 2-year-olds sold for up to $600,000, while yearlings brought up to $330,000 in the sales ring.

Mastery, the undefeated Grade 1-winning son of Candy Ride (ARG), will remain at $25,000. The much-anticipated first yearlings by Mastery sold for $510,000, $450,000, and $400,000 this year, with an average of $142,425.

Catholic Boy and Demarchelier, who both stood their first seasons at Claiborne in 2020, will remain unchanged. Catholic Boy, one of only three North American 3-year-old colts in history to win Grade 1 events on both dirt and turf, will stand for $25,000. Demarchelier, the only son of top international sire Dubawi standing in Kentucky, will stand for $5,000.

First Samurai, the proven son of Giant's Causeway, will stand for $15,000. He is the sire of undefeated 2-year-old sensation Plum Ali, a Breeders' Cup hopeful and winner of the recent G2 Miss Grillo Stakes. Yearlings by First Samurai have sold for $260,000, $250,000, $240,000, etc. this year.

Stud fees for Eclipse champion Runhappy and War of Will will be announced following the Breeders' Cup.

Preakness Stakes hero War of Will, a classic-winning son of War Front, will join his sire at Claiborne Farm for stud duty in 2021. A Grade 1 winner on both dirt and turf, War of Will captured the G1 Maker's Mark Mile Stakes at Keeneland this summer and is pointed towards the Breeders' Cup.

See Claiborne's full stallion roster and 2021 stud fees below:

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Bernardini—Ava Knowsthecode, by Cryptoclearance
Fee: $5,000

Blame
Arch—Liable, by Seeking the Gold
Fee: $30,000

Catholic Boy
More Than Ready – Song of Bernadette, by Bernardini
Fee: $25,000

Demarchelier (GB)
Dubawi (GB) – Loveisallyouneed, by Sadler's Wells
Fee: $5,000

First Samurai
Giant's Causeway—Freddie Frisson, by Dixieland Band
Fee: $15,000

Flatter
A.P. Indy—Praise, by Mr. Prospector
Fee: $35,000

Ironicus
Distorted Humor—Meghan's Joy, by A.P. Indy
Fee: $5,000

Lea
First Samurai—Greenery, by Galileo (IRE)
Fee: $5,000

Mastery
Candy Ride (ARG)—Steady Course, by Old Trieste
Fee: $25,000

Orb
Malibu Moon—Lady Liberty, by Unbridled
Fee: Private

Runhappy
Super Saver—Bella Jolie, by Broken Vow
Fee: TBA

War Front
Danzig—Starry Dreamer, by Rubiano
Fee: $150,000

War of Will
War Front – Visions of Clarity (IRE), by Sadler's Wells
Fee: TBA

(All stud fee payable Live Foal Stands & Nurses)

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Mastery’s First Yearlings Gaining Pre-Sale Traction

Since the start of sales season last fall, comments have circulated on how Mastery could be the dark horse in his class of first-crop yearling sires.

There are many unknowns about the son of Candy Ride (Arg), as he may have never reached his full potential on the track when an injury forced him to retire prematurely. But his four-for-four career start had garnered talk of Kentucky Derby favoritism after dominating performances in the GI Los Alamitos Cash Call Futurity and the GII San Felipe S.

Now in the stud barn at Claiborne Farm, he’s gained attention early on in his career. His weanling average of $153,272, with 22 of 28 sold, placed him near the top of his class by weanling averages with a $25,000 stud fee.

His leading weanling, a filly named Shes Bout a Mover, is a half-sister to GIW Nereid (Rock Hard Ten) and sold to agent Andre Lynch at the Keeneland January Sale for $365,000. Earlier in the season, a colt out of Native One (Indian Charlie) and from the same family as GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint Champion Mitole (Eskendereya) sold for $325,000 at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

“He’s one of two stallions that stood out to me from the group of first-crop stallions at the sales last year,” said Stonehaven Steadings’ Aidan O’Meara. “The Masterys have a little more frame and size to them than I would have expected with the sire line. He’s a decent-sized horse himself and after what he did in the San Felipe, we never got to see him do a whole lot more, but the raw brilliance was there. He’s been producing the physicals that people are looking for and is putting himself in a good position going forward to be the real deal.”

O’Meara found one Mastery weanling at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale that he couldn’t leave without. Stonehaven Steadings went to $240,000 for a colt out of the stakes-placed Broken Vow mare Janis’s Joy.

“I thought he was one of the top three foals I saw last year,” O’Meara said. “We loved him. He was a big, beautifully-framed foal and looked like a horse with a lot of potential going forward.”

The yearling is now slated for the Keeneland September Sale as Hip 1021.

“He’s developing into the horse you hoped he would,” O’Meara reported. “He’s a big, two-turn colt. He’s a magnificent physical specimen and mentally, he’s solid as a rock. He has that intangible, special way about him that separates your average good-looking horse with something that has legitimate class. He’s probably going to be our top physical at the sale and will be a standout in Book Two.”

An additional 67 Mastery yearlings are catalogued for the Keeneland September Sale. At the Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase, 14 of his offspring will be featured including Hip 194, a filly out of GIW and stakes producer Last Full Measure (Empire Maker), as well as Hip 350, a filly out of GI Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf Champion Shared Account (Pleasantly Perfect) and a half-sister to last year’s GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Sharing (Speightstown).

Claiborne’s Bernie Sams spoke on the quality he saw in the mares from Mastery’s first books, and how that has reflected onto this first class of yearlings.

“We bred 139 mares to him the first year, and a couple mares that were in there were the dams of Sharing and of Monomoy Girl (Tapizar). So he got good support for a horse that stands for $25,000. I’ve gotten good reports on the yearlings and the few I’ve seen have been really nice. They’ve been very athletic, well-conformed, a good size with plenty of bone to them.”

Sams said that an additional 143 and 137 mares were in Mastery’s next two books.

“He’s been very popular with the breeders,” Sams said. “He’s a good-looking horse, obviously he’s very much Candy Ride. I think people like the pedigree.”

His dam, Steady Course (Old Trieste), was picked up by Arthur Hancock for $20,000 at the 2009 Keeneland November Sale.

“She was barren at the time, but it’s a really good family and she was a big, strong, good-looking mare,” Hancock recalled. “I thought I’d probably have to pay a little more. I actually came to find out Garrett O’Rourke at Juddmonte was going to bid on her, but he got stuck in traffic.”

A few months later, Steady Course’s first foal Clear Sailing (Empire Maker) became a stakes winner, but Hancock didn’t have much luck with the mare in her first few years at Stone Farm until he bred her to Candy Ride in 2013.

Hancock noted, “My dad had a saying, ‘A good bull is half your herd, and a bad bull is all of it. I wanted to breed her to a good bull and Candy Ride is a good stallion. Mastery was a grand-looking foal.”

Mastery sold for $425,000 at the Keeneland September Sale to Cromwell Bloodstock as agent for Everett Dobson’s Cheyenne Stables.

He was sent to Bob Baffert and burst onto the scene when he broke his maiden on debut by over four lengths in October of his 2-year-old season. He continued on by taking three consecutive graded stakes wins in the GIII Bob Hope S., the GI Los Alamitos Cash Call Futurity and the GII San Felipe S. by over a combined 15 lengths.

“He became a really good racehorse,” Hancock said. “I think Baffert thought he had a big shot to win the Derby until he got an injury and went to stud after that. And now, we wait and see what happens.”

While it won’t be a long wait before Mastery’s progeny have the opportunity to prove their worth on the track, Hancock patiently monitors the development of Mastery’s full-brother who was born in late May this year.

“He’s a really nice colt and his looks speak for themselves.” Hancock nods to the rolling pasture of his Stone Farm and said, “He’s always running around out there and who knows? These fields here, not me but these fields, have raised three Kentucky Derby winners, two others who were second and seven who were in the Derby. If I stay out of his way, maybe he’ll develop into something.”

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Duramente Colt Tops Hokkaido Selection Sale

Despite massive COVID-19 prevention protocols, the postponed 2020 Hokkaido Selection Sale drew a strong crowd, easily as big as normal years despite protocols requiring everyone to pre-register for entry credentials. The looming pandemic-induced global recession also seemed to have little effect on the sale, which set records on nearly all fronts despite being pushed back a little over a month from its usual mid-July date.

While the clearance rate was 82.5%, down from last year’s record of 83.5%, it was the best year of the sale by every other measure since its inception. The 2020 renewal grossed ¥3,589,300,000 (US$33,719,535/£25,694,448/€28,549,547), a 15.66% increase from 2019. The 2020 average was ¥19,507,065 (US$183,406/£139,643/€155,160), and the median was ¥16,500,000 (US$155,007/£118,117/€131,242), both a record, up 23.83% and 22.22%, respectively, from the 2019 figures. Overall 184 of the 223 lots that went through the ring sold, of which 137 were colts and 47 were fillies. After weeks of COVID-19 spikes around the country, Hokkaido’s rural breeders uniformly issued a massive sigh of relief, being spared any massive consequences from the recession thus far.

The sires of the top 10 lots sold say a lot about the current trends in Japanese racing and breeding, and one of those trends is the popularity of young sires. The highest price lot was lot 155, a colt by first-crop stallion Duramente (Jpn) out of Kirschwasser (Jpn) (Sakura Bakushin O {Jpn}) that sold to Toshihiro Hirosaki Holdings for ¥79,200,000 (US$744,034/£567,013/€629,944), the second most expensive yearling ever sold in the history of the Selection Sale. Offered by Amaba Reiji Bokujo, his fourth dam was blue hen mare Blitey (River Ridge).

The second highest priced lot was lot 125, a Kizuna (Jpn) colt out of Smash Heart (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}) from the draft of Sakai Bokujo that Chiyono Terada bought for ¥66,000,000 (US$620,034/£472,511/€524,954).

Sophomore sire Kizuna (Jpn) had two other lots in the top 10. Lot 191, a colt that Toshihiro Hirosaki Holdings stretched to ¥50,600,000 (US$475,359/£362,250/€402,364) for from Tsuchida Farm and lot 97, another colt, that brought €44,000,000 (US$413,353/£314,945/€349,881) from Masahiro Miki and was offered by Hiroshi Chikushi.

Lord Kanaloa (Jpn), whose oldest foals are only 5-year-olds, had a pair of colts in the top 10: lot 21 went for ¥57,200,000 (US$537,358/£409,429/€454,825) to Minoru Yoshioka from Masanobu Sasajima’s draft. His dam is a half-sister to Japanese Group 3 winner Kinetics (Jpn) (Forty Niner) and the MSW Fujino Wave (Jpn) (Black Tie Affair {Ire}). The other, offered by Sakai Bokujo as lot 160, was out of MGSW & G1SP Kokorono Ai (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}). He was acquired by Shigeo Nomura for ¥50,600,000 (US$475,359/£362,250/€402,364).

Freshman sire Maurice (Jpn)’s lot 217 was a colt consigned by Kineusu Bokujo that was snapped up by Northern Farm for ¥50,600,000 (US$475,359/£362,250/€402,364). Consigned by Oshima Bokujo, the Mastery colt (lot 94), out of the MGSP mare Courtesan (Street Sense), sold for ¥45,100,000 (US$423,700/£322,854/€358,612) to Bando Bokujo. He came to Japan in utero after selling for $250,000 to J.S. Company during the 2018 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Also included in the top 10 was what is likely the last Deep Impact (Jpn) yearling filly to ever go through public auction. A member of the Sakai Bokujo consignment, lot 91, out of GII Indian Oaks heroine Tiz Windy (Tiznow), sold to Tatsue Ishikawa for ¥63,800,000 (US$599,381/£456,720/€507,349).

Also among the top 10 lots was Grand Stud’s lot 209, a Henny Hughes half-brother to Listed Japan Dirt Derby (Jpn-G1) winner Higashi Will Win (Jpn) (South Vigorous). He changed hands for €53,900,000 (US$506,402/£385,843/€428,622) and was bought by Yoshizawa Stable Co. Ltd., the owner of 2019 Kentucky Derby contender Master Fencer (Jpn) (Just a Way {Jpn}).

Besides Mastery’s single lot, two other foreign stallions were represented. Lot 129, a filly by Nathaniel (Ire) out of a full-sister to two-time G1 Dubai World Cup winner and Japan-based stallion Thunder Snow (Ire) (Helmet {Aus}) hailed from the Yano Bokujo consignment. She sold for ¥30,800,000 (US$289,372/£220,487/€244,933) to Yuichi Masuda. Postponed (Ire)’s filly (lot 70) rounded out the trio from the draft of Yano Bokujo. Knocked down to Yasuo Tejima for ¥9,350,000 (US$87,849/£66,932/€74,354), the daughter of Salasie (Fr) (Teofilo {Ire}) is out of a half-sister to Kind (GB) (Danehill), the dam of Frankel (GB).

Overall it was Kizuna that rocked the sale selling nine lots for a gross of ¥298,100,000 (US$2,800,860/£2,133,964/€2,370,398) and an average of ¥33,122,222 (US$311,217/£237,116/€263,377). Henny Hughes wasn’t far off selling all of his 11 offerings for a gross of ¥285,450,000 (US$2,682,095/£2,043,491/€2,269,837) and averaging ¥25,950,000 (US$243,835/£185,750/€206,348). Lord Kanaloa sold eight for a gross of ¥242,550,000 (US$2,279,088/£1,736,175/€1,928,706) and average of ¥30,318,750 (US$284,886/£217,021/€241,100). Epiphaneia (Jpn), a sophomore sire with a lot of promise, had 13 lots sell grossing ¥229,900,000 (US$2,160,305/£1,645,673/€1,828,207) and averaging ¥17,684,615 (US$166,177/£126,590/€140,631). The hot two freshman sires Maurice and Duramente grossed ¥227,700,000 (US$2,139,633/£1,629,925/€1,811,029) from 12 sold and ¥222,750,000 (US$2,093,019/£1,594,600/€1,771,659) from 10 sold, respectively. Maurice averaged ¥18,975,000 (US$178,294/£135,836/€150,920), while Duramente’s average came in at ¥22,275,000 (US$209,291/£159,448/€177,167). Finally, first-crop sire Drefong, who has been quite popular with his progeny at the sales this year and last year grossed ¥138,600,000 (US$1,302,258/£992,126/€1,102,390) from six sold, averaging ¥23,100,000 (US$217,047/£165,351/€183,731).

The week continues with the 2020 Hokkaido Summer Sale beginning Tuesday and running through Aug. 28. If the Selection Sale’s momentum can be maintained, it could be a banner year for Hidaka region breeders.

JP¥106.449 = US$ 1.00

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