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Grade 2 Winner Engage Retired To Northview Stallion Station In Maryland

Multiple graded stakes-winning sprinter Engage has been retired to Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md., for the 2022 season.

Engage, a son of champion sire Into Mischief, competed at the top level of sprint competition throughout his 19-start career, starting with trainer Chad Brown before being transferred to Steve Asmussen. He won graded stakes at two and four, including Keeneland's Grade 2 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix, a Breeders' Cup “Win and You're In” event for the 2019 Breeders' Cup Sprint while defeating a field that included eventual Eclipse Award-winning sprinter Whitmore and Grade 1 winners Lexitonian, Hog Creek Hustle and Promises Fulfilled.

“This horse is pure speed,” said Northview general manager David Wade. “He is the first true sprinter we've retired to Northview in years.”

Engage was one of his sire's top juveniles in 2017 when winning two of three starts, topped by Belmont Park's G3 Futurity in which he drew off by 3 1/2 lengths going six furlongs. He finished first or second during a seven-race streak from two to three – his highlights at three were a win in 1:09 and change in Belmont Park's six-furlong Gold Fever Stakes, and seconds in the Grade 3 Bay Shore at Aqueduct, G2 Woody Stephens, and G3 Amsterdam at Saratoga, the latter to Promises Fulfilled.

Off for nearly a year from three to four, he returned that fall to win Parx's Bensalem Stakes, the Phoenix, then made the trip to California for the Breeders' Cup Sprint where he finished fourth behind stablemate Mitole. He retires with earnings of $802,780 and five wins, five seconds and two thirds in 19 starts.

Engage represents the highly successful pedigree cross of Into Mischief, the top stallion in the U.S. the past three years who now stands for $250,000, with Speightstown mares, which to date has yielded five black-type winners from 14 starters, including Grade 1-winning sprinters Mia Mischief and Mischevious Alex, and Grade 1-placed Make Mischief. His dam, the stakes-placed Nefertiti, is out of Clearly a Queen who was a three-time graded winner of $504,532.

Engage will stand for $5,000 live foal and is now at the farm and available for inspection. He will be showcased with the rest of the high-powered stallion lineup at an open house on Dec. 11 from 11 a.m. till 2:30 p.m.

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Pennsylvania Leaderboard Presented By Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association: Northview Stallion Station Paces Keystone State By Incentive Earnings

Northview Stallion Station's Pennsylvania division may no longer be in operation, but its presence is still felt in a big way through the state's stallion owner incentive program earnings.

Northview PA ended stallion operations at its Peach Bottom, Pa., location and consolidated its roster to its Maryland branch at the end of the 2020 breeding season, or moved the horses to other farms in Pennsylvania. However, its $197,039 in stallion owner awards through the end of July was nearly three times that of next-closest WynOaks Farm with $68,601.

Stallion owners in Pennsylvania receive a 10 percent bonus of the purse share earned when a registered Pennsylvania-bred by a Pennsylvania stallion finishes in the top three at an in-state racetrack.

Northview accounts for three of the top six stallions by incentive earnings, including the runaway leader, Jump Start.

The late son of A.P. Indy generated $91,829 in stallion awards through the end of July, led by stakes winner Hey Mamaluke, who made his sire $7,275 at the cutoff point. Jump Start's second-highest stallion award earner, and his top filly, was two-time winner Amen Sylvia, who made $5,761 for her stallion in the time frame.

Another departed stallion accounted for Northview's second-highest incentive earning stallion, and the state's third-highest overall.

El Padrino, who died in 2017, has generated $50,625 in stallion incentive awards, led by Prince of Rain. The 4-year-old gelding put up $11,459 on behalf of his sire, highlighted by a debut maiden score at Penn National, allowance wins at Penn National and Parx Racing, and a third-place effort in the Banjo Picker Sprint Stakes at Parx.

Rounding out the top trio was young sire Uncle Lino, who has brought in $29,700 through stallion awards, placing him sixth overall.

The 8-year-old son of Uncle Mo's top stallion incentive earner was Marvalous Mike, whose $12,536 in stallion bonuses was the third-most of any Pennsylvania-bred. He reached that level with a three-race winning streak at Parx, first winning a maiden special weight, then taking an optional claiming race and an allowance race. Marvalous Mike most recently finished second in the Parx Summer Sprint Stakes.

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Pennsylvania Leaderboard Presented By Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association: Jump Start Remains On Top By Stallion Incentive Earnings

Pennsylvania's stallion ranks have seen one name dominate the top of the list over the past decade, and that hasn't changed for the late stalwart Jump Start in 2021.

Jump Start sits atop the standings by Pennsylvania stallion incentive earnings through July 31 with $91,829, well ahead of second-place Weigelia at $68,601.

Pennsylvania stallion awards are generated from 10 percent of the purse share earned when a registered Pennsylvania-bred and -sired runner finishes first, second, or third in any pari-mutuel race in the state. Over $615,000 in stallion awards had been awarded through July 2021.

What makes Jump Start's leading margin so impressive is that he's done it so far with a consistent group of runners, as opposed to one standout doing most of the heavy lifting.

Jump Start's leading earner of stallion awards through July 31 was Hey Mamaluke, whose $7,275 in awards for his sire was the eighth-most in the state.

The 5-year-old jumped to the top of the list for his sire in his seasonal debut on June 22, a visually impressive triumph in the Power By Far Stakes at Parx Racing. Hey Mamaluke races as a homebred for Joe Capriglione, and he's trained by Patricia Farro.

Jump Start's second-highest stallion award earner, and his top filly, was Amen Sylvia, who made $5,761 for her stallion in the time frame.

A 5-year-old homebred for Lydee D. Shea, Amen Sylvia finished in the top three in five races at Penn National through the end of July, including a maiden special weight victory in May, and an allowance score in July.

Jump Start, a Grade 2-winning son of A.P. Indy, began his stallion career at Overbrook Farm in Kentucky, then relocated to Ghost Ridge Farm in Felton, Pa., for the 2010 breeding season. He was moved to Northview PA in Peach Bottom, Pa., in 2012, all the while also establishing himself as a top sire in Argentina during the Southern Hemisphere breeding seasons, and he was euthanized in 2019 due to complications from colitis.

If Jump Start can hold on to the lead by stallion earnings for the rest of the year, it will be his seventh consecutive year at the top of the chart, and his eighth in a row finishing second or better.

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Mendelssohn Colt Tops Historic Renewal Of Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale

The 2021 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings sale ended Tuesday evening in Timonium, Md., with numbers greatly surpassing those posted in 2020. Steady, enthusiastic trade over the course of the two-day sale resulted in new all-time sale records in average and median.

For the second day in a row, the session topper was a colt (Hip 415) from the first crop of Breeders' Cup champion Mendelssohn. Scanlon Training and Sales purchased the chestnut colt for $235,000 from the consignment of Northview Stallion Station (David Wade), agent (video).

Hip 415 is out of Grace Is Gone, a Malibu Moon daughter of Grade 1 placed winner Grace Anatomy, and hails from the immediate family of champion Soaring Softly and Grade 1 winner Plenty of Grace. The colt was bred in Kentucky.

A pair of well-related fillies sold for $200,000 during Tuesday's session to tie for that top spot. The first through the ring was Hip 295, a daughter of Street Sense purchased for $200,000 by Charles Zacney's Cash Is King and consigned by Chanceland Farm, agent (video).

The filly is out of Belterra (Unbridled), a Grade 2 winner who has produced four winners to date, including this filly's full sister, stakes winner Taketheodds. Hip 295 is also a half-sister to Sheave (Mineshaft), dam of 2016 Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia, who was purchased by Zacney at this sale in 2014. The Maryland-bred filly was produced from a similar cross to Cathryn Sophia, by that classic winner's breeder Robert T. Manfuso.

A daughter of last year's leading first-crop sire Nyquist, offered as Hip 441, also sold for $200,000 (video).

The bay filly was purchased by Cary Frommer from the consignment of Becky Davis Inc., agent. Hip 441 is the second foal out of the winning Not For Love mare How My Heart Works; her first foal is Maryland Million Classic winner and graded stakes placed Monday Morning QB (Imagining). The immediate family includes Dubai World Cup winner Well Armed, as well as Grade 1 winner American Patriot. Hip 441 was bred in Maryland by Bowman & Higgins Stable.

Rounding out Tuesday's top five were a pair of yearlings by well-established sires:

Hip 378, a filly by Hard Spun out of Fairytale Ending (IRE), which sold for $125,000 to P. Lawley-Wakelin, agent for Cambus-Kenneth Farm, from the consignment of Audley Farm Equine. The dark bay or brown filly is a half-sister to recent Brookmeade S. winner Urban Fairytale (Distorted Humor), from the immediate family of Group 1 winners Airwave (GB) and Churchill (IRE). Hip 278 was bred in Kentucky by the consignor.
Hip 506, a colt by Munnings out of the Pioneerof the Nile mare Compulsion, which sold for $120,000 to New Day Training Center from the consignment of Blake-Albina Thoroughbred Services, agent. The gray or roan colt hails from the immediate family of multiple Grade 1 winner Spoken Fur. Hip 506 was bred in New York.

Over the course of the two sessions, 381 yearlings sold for $11,269,400 – the sale's fifth highest gross all-time and its best since 2007, when 574 horses sold for $13,331,400. The gross rose 23.6 percent over receipts of $9,120,700 in 2020.

The average was $29,578, a record for Midlantic Fall Yearlings, good for a 22.9 percent increase over last year's average of $24,065. The median, also a record, held steady at $20,000 throughout the sale, and marked a 42.9 percent increase over last year's median of $14,000.

The previous records for both categories were established in 2013, when 289 yearlings sold for an average of $25,847 and a median of $17,000. The RNA rate was 16.4 percent, the lowest at this sale since 2013.

Full results are available online.

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