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Uncle Mo Tops Coolmore Roster at $150,000 for 2023

Uncle Mo will once again top the Coolmore America roster at $150,000 for the 2023 breeding season, the same fee at which he stood in 2022, according to a press release from Coolmore Wednesday morning. The 14-year-old stallion was the sire of 10 black-type winners in 2022, including the GI Belmont S. winner Mo Donegal.

Justify, who had four black-type winners from his first crop in 2022, will stand for the farm's second highest-fee, at $100,000, the same as in 2022. He is currently the third-leading first-crop sire by earnings.

The largest jump among the Coolmore stallions comes for Munnings. With 13 black-type winners in 2022, including the GI Woody Stephens S. winner Jack Christopher, he gets a hike from his 2022 fee of $85,000 to $100,000 to become the co-second-highest fee on the farm.

American Pharoah, who was the sire of four GI winners in 2022, gets a trim from $80,000 to $60,000.

Mendelssohn, having a strong first year at stud and currently seventh on the first-crop sires list in North America by earnings, will see his fee drop from $35,000 to $25,000.

The farm offers three new stallions in 2023: Corniche, who will stand for $30,000; Preakness winner Early Voting at $25,000; and Golden Pal, whose post-Breeders' Cup retirement was announced Wednesday morning, and will stand alongside his sire, Uncle Mo, at a fee to be determined after the Breeders' Cup.

The entire roster, with fees for 2023, will be:

American Pharoah – $60,000

Classic Empire – $15,000

Corniche – $30,000

Cupid – $5,000

Early Voting – $25,000

Echo Town – $5,000

Golden Pal – TBA

Justify – $100,00

Lookin At Lucky – $10,000

Maximum Security – $10,000

Mendelssohn – $25,000

Mo Town – $5,000

Munnings – $100,000

Practical Joke – $25,000

Tiz The Law – $30,000

Uncle Mo – $150,000

All fees live foal stands and nurses.

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Report of Mares Bred: Gun Runner Tops, Totals Slide

The Jockey Club has released its Report of Mares Bred (RMB) statistics for the 2022 breeding season. Through Oct. 18, 2022 and based on the RMBs received, a total of 925 stallions covered 27,163 mares in North America this year, a decrease of the reported 27,829 mares from 2021.

In Kentucky, the state's 196 reported stallions served 16,689 mares, a number which translates to 61.4% of all breeding activity in North America. That number reflects a decrease of 0.2% from last year when 16,727 mares were reported as bred in Kentucky, while the number of stallions was down 2% from 200 in 2021.

California was the second-busiest state from a statistical standpoint, with 99 stallions covering 1,781 mares, a decline of 3.4%. Florida is the only other state reporting four-figure matings, with 1,495 mares (-4.3%) having been bred to 59 sires (-4.8%).

Stallions in New York and Indiana covered more mares this year than last. In New York, 973 mares were reported as bred, an increase of 2.6%, while the number of sires remained static at 38. In Indiana, 39 stallions (down from 45 in 2021) bred 496 mares, a bump of 4.4% over 12 months ago.

In terms of individual stallions, Gun Runner, standing at Three Chimneys, bred 248 mares in 2022, tops in North America. He was followed by Yaupon (Spendthrift), 242; Mendelssohn (Coolmore), 230; Practical Joke (Coolmore), 227; and Not This Time (Taylor Made), 225. The top 56 stallions by mares covered were all in Kentucky. Six different farms had a stallion in the top 10, up from four in 2021.

Gun Runner's rise from 166 mares in 2021 was fueled by his exceptional first crop's performance on the racetrack. He led all first-year stallions in every black-type category, as well as by winners, wins, earnings per starter and earnings.

The top 10 first-crop sires by mares covered were also in Kentucky, led by Yaupon, good for second among all sires.

The Jockey Club estimates that it will receive an additional 2,500 to 3,000 RMBs.

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Violence Half To Lady Shipman Down to Debut in Japan

In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this weekend running at Tokyo and Hanshin Racecourses. The 3-year-old fillies' Classics concluded with last Sunday's running of the G1 Shuka Sho and the colts' division finishes up this weekend with the running of the G1 Kikuka Sho, the Japanese St. Leger over a mile and seven furlongs at Hanshin:

Saturday, October 22, 2022
3rd-HSN, ¥13,400,000 ($89k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800m
MATENRO EAGLE (JPN) (c, 2, Sharp Azteca–Doppia Vendetta {Brz}, by First American) is a son of a dual Argentinian group winner who was purchased by J S Company for $40,000 carrying this colt in utero at Keeneland November in 2019, having previously produced a pair of colts by Fast Anna. Doppia Vendetta is a half-sister to Brazilian champion 3-year-old filly Old Tune (Brz) (Wild Event). Like Sharp Aza Tack (5×4), one of three stakes winners for Sharp Azteca and a candidate for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, Matenro Eagle (5×3) is inbred to Quiet American. B-Kinya Murakami

Sunday, October 23, 2022
3rd-TOK, ¥13,400,000 ($89k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1400m
DOUBLE JOKE (c, 2, Practical Joke–Double Date, by Rahy) is one of two in this heat for Godolphin and was acquired for $80,000 out of the 2020 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. The chestnut is out of a half-sister to Canadian Horse of the Year Peaks and Valleys (Mt. Livermore) and the late Alternate (Seattle Slew), the dam of GISW Higher Power (Medaglia d'Oro) and MGSW 'TDN Rising Star' Alternation (Distorted Humor), who passed away at Pin Oak Stud Oct. 15. Godolphin is also represented by its homebred FROST CITY (c, 2, Frosted–Texas Twirl, by Hard Spun), the first foal out of an unraced half-sister to MGSW & MGISP Cowboy Cal (Giant's Causeway). B-William Humphries & Altair Farms LLC (KY)

4th-HSN, ¥13,400,000 ($89k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1200m
JASPER ROYAL (c, 2, Violence–Sumthingtotalkabt, by Mutakddim) is the latest to make the races for his now 19-year-old dam, whose notable produce include GSW and GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint runner-up Lady Shipman (Midshipman), the dam of Golden Pal (Uncle Mo), who will be favored to repeat in the Turf Sprint at Keeneland in 16 days' time; and MSP Just Talkin (Midshipman). Jasper Royal cost trainer Hideyuki Mori $140,000 after breezing an eighth in :10 1/5 at this year's OBS March Sale. B-SF Bloodstock (KY)

JUZCAR (c, 2, American Pharoah–Blue Bahia, by Wildcat Heir) is a third-generation product for this breeder, who raced Blue Bahia to a pair of stakes victories and better than $317,000 before she produced this first foal. The bay, who carries Storm Cat 4x4x4 in his pedigree, was knocked down to Katsumi Yoshida for $380,000 at OBSMAR after covering a furlong in :10 1/5. B-Dennis Drazin (KY)

5th-TOK, ¥13,400,000 ($89k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800mT
COLLECTANEA (c, 2, Collected–Dance With Kitten, by Kitten's Joy), a half-brother to recent dirt maiden winner Suetonius (Carpe Diem), gets his career started on the grass, and with good reason, as his dam is a full-sister to two-time GI Woodford Reserve Turf Classic hero Divisidero, who stands alongside Collected at Airdrie Stud. Dance With Kitten relocated to Japan in 2020 and is the dam of a yearling colt by Yoshida (Jpn) and a weanling filly by two-time Horse of the Year Kitasan Black (Jpn). B-Shadai Corporation (KY)

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The 2022 Foal Crop Dips Again, by 2.2%

The Jockey Club (TJC) announced Wednesday that breedings in 2021 have resulted in 18,609 live foals of 2022. At this same time last year, The Jockey Club reported that the breedings had resulted in 19,021 live foals, which marks a year-over-year decline of 2.2%. The foal crop has declined every year since 2015 and was at 35,274 as recently as 2008.

The Jockey Club estimated that the number of live foals reported so far is 85-90% complete.

In total, 1,303 stallions covered 29,065 mares, according to statistics compiled through Oct. 6. The number of stallions declined from the 1,447 that were active in the preceding year, a drop of 10%, and the number of mares bred declined by 2.1%.

Kentucky was once again the runaway leader when it comes to Thoroughbred breeding activity, accounting for 57.8% of the mares reported to be bred in North America and 61.6 % of the live foals. A total of 16,796 mares were bred to 207 different Kentucky-based stallions, producing 11,460 live foals, for a 0.7% decrease over figures from the previous year. However, the number of mares bred to Kentucky stallions showed a slight increase of 1.9%.

Among the 10 states and provinces that were among the top 10 in terms of mares covered, four–California, Ontario, Oklahoma and Indiana–produced more live foals in 2022 than in 2021. Indiana had the biggest gain, with the number of live foals reported going up by 20.3%.

Outside of Kentucky, California was the leader in number of mares bred with 1,939. Florida was next with 1,617.

The Coolmore stallion Practical Joke (Into Mischief) led all stallions in the category of mares bred. He was bred to 231 mares. Second on the list was Goldencents (Into Mischief) at 230. Showing the popularity of sons of Into Mischief, Authentic (Into Mischief), in what will be his first crop, was next at 229 mares. Vekoma (Candy Ride {Arg}), also a first-crop sire, came in fourth, having been bred to 222 mares. Maclean's Music (Distorted Humor) was next at 221, making a remarkable jump after being bred to 57 mares the prior year.

Still another son of Into Mischief (Honest Mischief) led the way in the category of non-Kentucky-based sires. Standing in New York, he was bred to 127 mares.

Twelve stallions were bred to 200 or more mares and 43 were bred to 140 or mares, which exceeds the cap The Jockey Club had attempted to impose to encourage diversity in the breed.

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