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		<title>First Foal for Sequel’s Fire At Will</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The first foal by GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner and Sequel Stallions sire <a href="https://sequelnewyork.com/fireatwill/" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fire At Will</a> (Declaration of War–Flirt, by Kitten's Joy) was born recently. Bred in New York by Horse Haven Racing and born on Jan. 30, the colt is the first foal out of the unraced Marital Joy (<a href="https://coolmore.com/farms/america/stallions/practical-joke" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Practical Joke</a>). The mare</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first foal by GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner and Sequel Stallions sire <strong><a href="https://sequelnewyork.com/fireatwill/" class="horse-link">Fire At Will</a> </strong>(Declaration of War&#8211;Flirt, by Kitten's Joy) was born recently.</p>
<p>Bred in New York by Horse Haven Racing and born on Jan. 30, the colt is the first foal out of the unraced Marital Joy (<a href="https://coolmore.com/farms/america/stallions/practical-joke" class="horse-link">Practical Joke</a>). The mare is from the same extended family as Breeders' Cup winner Shared Account (Pleasantly Perfect) and her Breeders' Cup-winning daughter Sharing (Speightstown).</p>
<p>&#8220;The colt has a lot of scope to him,&#8221; said Sequel's Becky Thomas. &#8220;He has a good hind end, like his sire, and is overall very well balanced. This is exactly what we were hoping to see out of the first crop for <a href="https://sequelnewyork.com/fireatwill/" class="horse-link">Fire At Will</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://sequelnewyork.com/fireatwill/" class="horse-link">Fire At Will</a> will stand the 2024 season at Sequel in New York for $5,000.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Keepmeinmind (Laoban–Inclination, by Victory Gallop), whose prowess on the track first brought sire Laoban to the national forefront, and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner and Eclipse finalist Fire At Will (Declaration of War–Flirt, by Kitten's Joy) join <a href="http://www.sequelnewyork.com/honest-mischief" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Honest Mischief</a>, Freud and Mission Impazible at Sequel New York's stallion roster, bringing diverse and interesting options</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/new-stallions-keepmeinmind-and-fire-at-will-settle-in-at-sequel/">New Stallions Keepmeinmind and Fire At Will Settle in at Sequel</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/">TDN &#124; Thoroughbred Daily News &#124; Horse Racing News, Results and Video &#124; Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Keepmeinmind</strong> (Laoban&#8211;Inclination, by Victory Gallop), whose prowess on the track first brought sire Laoban to the national forefront, and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner and Eclipse finalist <strong>Fire At Will</strong> (Declaration of War&#8211;Flirt, by Kitten's Joy) join <a href="http://www.sequelnewyork.com/honest-mischief" class="horse-link">Honest Mischief</a>, Freud and Mission Impazible at Sequel New York's stallion roster, bringing diverse and interesting options for Thoroughbred breeders in the Empire State.</p>
<p>Bred by Southern Equine Stables, the physically impressive Keepmeinmind broke his maiden in the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. in November of his 2-year-old season. Prior to that, he was runner-up to future two-time Eclipse Award winner <a href="https://www.darleyamerica.com/stallions/our-stallions/essential-quality" class="horse-link">Essential Quality</a> (<a href="https://gainesway.com/stallions/tapit/" class="horse-link">Tapit</a>) in the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity. He finished third in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile behind <a href="https://www.darleyamerica.com/stallions/our-stallions/essential-quality" class="horse-link">Essential Quality</a> and Hot Rod Charlie.</p>
<p>&#8220;Keepmeinmind had a great 2-year-old campaign,&#8221; said Carlos Manresa, director of operations at Sequel New York. &#8220;He was really the first of the Laobans to make national notoriety, along with, of course, Simply Ravishing.&#8221;</p>
<p>At age three, Keepmeinmind was a respectable sixth in the GI Kentucky Derby and fourth in the GI Preakness S. He finished just a half-length behind <a href="https://www.darleyamerica.com/stallions/our-stallions/essential-quality" class="horse-link">Essential Quality</a> in the 2021 GII Jim Dandy S. Keepmeinmind was originally trained by Robertino Diodoro, and at age four he was transferred to Todd Pletcher for whom he won a Saratoga allowance. He was then third to <a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horse/life-is-good/" class="horse-link">Life Is Good</a> (Into Mischief) in the 2022 GI Woodward S.</p>
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<p>Pletcher told the TDN, &#8220;Keepmeinmind is a specimen with a terrific disposition. He competed with and beat the best of the best. A big boost for the New York breeding roster.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He's a more elegant, refined version of Laoban,&#8221; said Manresa of Keepmeinmind. &#8220;He's got the big, big hip, but he's also a leggy, stretchy horse that you would expect from the <a href="https://coolmore.com/farms/america/stallions/uncle-mo" class="horse-link">Uncle Mo</a> line.&#8221;</p>
<p>Keepmeinmind will stand in 2023 for $6,500.</p>
<p>Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Fire At Will retired with a record of 6-3-0-1 and earnings of $675,932. Bred in Kentucky by Troy Rankin and raced by Three Diamonds Farm, Fire At Will broke his maiden at two in his second start in Saratoga's With Anticipation S. He then took the GII Pilgrim S. on the turf at Belmont. He punctuated the year with a victory in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Keeneland. He was an Eclipse Award finalist for the 2-year-old champion male, eventually won by <a href="https://www.darleyamerica.com/stallions/our-stallions/essential-quality" class="horse-link">Essential Quality</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;It's definitely an interesting time to bring a horse that has been successful on multiple surfaces to stud in New York,&#8221; said Manresa. &#8220;New York is in a shift towards all alternative racing surfaces, specifically at Belmont. There's been a lot of discussion over having a synthetic course as well as the dirt and grass surfaces.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fire At Will brings an impressive performance on the grass as well as proven turf pedigree to New York. Fire at Will is the first foal from the Kitten's Joy mare Flirt. His sire Declaration of War won the G1 Juddmonte International S. in 2013.</p>
<p>&#8220;[Fire At Will] is absolutely the fastest 2-year-old I have ever trained on the turf,&#8221; conditioner Mike Maker told the TDN.</p>
<p>&#8220;Fire At Will is standing at Sequel New York in partnership with Three Diamonds Farm, which is owned and managed by Kirk and Deborah Wyckoff,&#8221; said Manresa. &#8220;They're tremendous supporters of the New York-bred program, and it just seemed like the perfect fit for this Breeders' Cup champion to come to stud in New York.&#8221;</p>
<p>His fee for the upcoming season will be $6,000.</p>
<p>&#8220;We try to make a habit out of selecting the perfect stallions for us,&#8221; said Manresa. &#8220;And this year, we got lucky and were able to attract two phenomenal stallions that had exceptional racing careers at two years old, both being Breeders' Cup participants, both being placed in the Breeders' Cup, and one of them being a Breeders' Cup champion.&#8221;</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When John Jayko, the owner of Fedwell Farms, first approached Eddie Fazzone about an unraced New York-bred 2-year-old he had for sale, Fazzone had modest expectations. Fazzone, the owner of Eddie F's Eatery in Saratoga Springs, didn't have a lot of money to spend and the horse was by a sire, Emcee, who had never</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When John Jayko, the owner of Fedwell Farms, first approached Eddie Fazzone about an unraced New York-bred 2-year-old he had for sale, Fazzone had modest expectations. Fazzone, the owner of Eddie F's Eatery in Saratoga Springs, didn't have a lot of money to spend and the horse was by a sire, Emcee, who had never so much as produced a stakes winner. But the price was right and Fazzone was looking to expand his small stable. A deal was struck.</p>
<p>&#8220;We're not buying horses for $250,000, $500,000,&#8221; Fazzone said. &#8220;We're buying horses for 25, 30 maybe $40,000. You're not thinking that you're going to go in and win stakes races. You're thinking you're going to win some claiming races and, maybe, if you get lucky, an allowance race.</p>
<p>The again, sometimes these things work out a lot better than anybody could have expected.</p>
<p>The horse Fazzone bought from Jayko is named Chowda (Emcee), who won the 2020 Gander S. for New York-breds and has earned $207,368. The story gets even better. Fazzone and his trainer, Gary Sciacca, detected early on that Chowda had ability, so, before that horse had made his first career start, they went back to Jayko and bought his full brother. His name is Lobsta (Emcee) and he won his second career stakes race Saturday at Aqueduct when he was placed first through disqualification in the Say Florida Sandy S. He has earned $276,400.</p>
<p>&#8220;It's a dream,&#8221; Fazzone said. &#8220;It doesn't always take a lot of money to get a good horse. You see guys spend a ton of money on a horse at the sales and it never makes it to the racetrack. This goes to show you, you just never know.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fazzone was introduced to Saratoga early on, first attending the races there with his parents when he was a toddler.</p>
<p>&#8220;I just loved going to the track,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was totally into it, and I always wanted to start my own stable.&#8221;</p>
<p>But first, Fazzone had to tend to his restaurant, which he opened in 2016 with his wife Lisa. Eddie F's Eatery, described as Saratoga's only New England Seafood House, continued to grow and in 2018 Fazzone was ready to open up a stable, which he called Eddie F's Racing. His first horse was Wicked Macho (Macho Uno), who he claimed for $40,000 in 2018.</p>
<p>Emcee (Unbridled's Song) won the 2012 GI Forego S. Upon his retirement, owner Darley America sent him to New York to stand at Sequel Stallions. In 2018, he was sold and relocated to Brazil. Chowda and Lobsta are out of the dam Salty Little Sis (Chief Seattle). Her biggest win came in a 2010 allowance race at Aqueduct.</p>
<p>After Fazzone acquired Chowda he ran a contest on his restaurant's Facebook page to name the horse. He let his customers choose from among a handful of names and said Chowda was the easy winner.</p>
<p>Chowda won his third career start and the Gander in his sixth start. Lobsta broke his maiden in his second start, but looked no better than an allowance horse when going off at 28-1 in the Dec. 5 New York Stallion Series S. He pulled off the upset that day and came back to win the Say Florida Sandy after My Boy Tate (Boys At Tosconova) was taken down. Lobsta and Chowda have run against each other once, in the New York Stallion, where Chowda finished fourth.</p>
<p>Fazzone has nine horses in training. The list includes still another horse out of Salty Little Sis, the 2-year-old Oysta (Micromanage). Like the others, Fazzone bought him privately from Fedwell Farms.</p>
<p>His restaurant customers have taken notice of his success and some have asked if they can go in on a horse. Fazzone is happy to take on partners and is looking to build his stable. His next goal is to win a race in Saratoga, something he has yet to do.</p>
<p>&#8220;Going into this horse racing game, I knew that it was a tough, expensive hobby,&#8221; he said &#8220;We didn't go into this with a lot of money and we've won three stakes races. It's been a great ride.&#8221;</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horses/laoban-46158.html" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laoban</a> (<a href="https://coolmore.com/farms/america/stallions/uncle-mo" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Uncle Mo</a>–Chattertown, by <a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horses/speightstown-2018.html" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Speightstown</a>), a leading second-crop sire, passed away unexpectedly, officials at WinStar Farm said Monday. He was eight years old. “It is with heavy hearts that we have to announce that we lost <a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horses/laoban-46158.html" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laoban</a> this morning,” said Elliott Walden, WinStar's president, CEO, and racing manager. “He had quickly become one of our</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horses/laoban-46158.html" class="horse-link">Laoban</a> </strong>(<a href="https://coolmore.com/farms/america/stallions/uncle-mo" class="horse-link">Uncle Mo</a>&#8211;Chattertown, by <a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horses/speightstown-2018.html" class="horse-link">Speightstown</a>), a leading second-crop sire, passed away unexpectedly, officials at WinStar Farm said Monday. He was eight years old.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is with heavy hearts that we have to announce that we lost <a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horses/laoban-46158.html" class="horse-link">Laoban</a> this morning,&#8221; said Elliott Walden, WinStar's president, CEO, and racing manager. &#8220;He had quickly become one of our favorite stallions, and it's sad that we will not have the opportunity to see how influential he could have been as a sire. His passing will leave a tremendous void for all of us, and he will be greatly missed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bred by Respite Farm, the $40,000 Keeneland November weanling turned $260,000 Keeneland September yearling placed as a maiden in the GIII Sham S. and GIII Gotham S. before graduating in style in the 2016 GII Jim Dandy S.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horses/laoban-46158.html" class="horse-link">Laoban</a> entered stud in New York at Sequel Stallions, but was relocated to WinStar based largely on the performance of his first crop to the races in 2020. To date, Laoban has been represented by 25 individual winners, five at the stakes level, including GI Darley Alcibiades S. heroine Simply Ravishing and Keepmeinmind, who broke his maiden in the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. and was most recently a sound fourth in the GI Preakness S. His other black-type winners include Laobanonaprayer, recent Sir Barton S. winner The King Cheek&#8211;entered for Friday's GII Penn Mile S.&#8211;and Devious Mo.</p>
<p>Walden said that there would be no further comment from the farm.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, Katie Ritz visited Laoban at WinStar for the TDN and produced the video below.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Grade I-producing sire <a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horses/laoban-46158.html" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laoban</a> is off to a fast start in Kentucky as he nears the completion of his first book at WinStar Farm. Meanwhile, his son Keepmeinmind, one of two graded winners for the son of <a href="https://coolmore.com/farms/america/stallions/uncle-mo" class="horse-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Uncle Mo</a>, readies for his bid in Saturday's GI Preakness S. “He has settled in and is doing</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Grade I-producing sire <a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horses/laoban-46158.html" class="horse-link">Laoban</a> is off to a fast start in Kentucky as he nears the completion of his first book at WinStar Farm. Meanwhile, his son Keepmeinmind, one of two graded winners for the son of <a href="https://coolmore.com/farms/america/stallions/uncle-mo" class="horse-link">Uncle Mo</a>, readies for his bid in Saturday's GI Preakness S.</p>
<p>&#8220;He has settled in and is doing really well,&#8221; WinStar's President and CEO Elliott Walden said. &#8220;He's going to breed around 140 mares this year.&#8221;</p>
<p>The transition from <a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horses/laoban-46158.html" class="horse-link">Laoban</a>'s original stud farm, Sequel Stallions in New York, to WinStar was a breeze, thanks in no small part to Sequel's Stallion Consultant Charl Van Der Westhuizen, a South African native with a natural gift for putting any stallion at ease. Van Der Westhuizen made the trip alongside <a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/horses/laoban-46158.html" class="horse-link">Laoban</a> this year to help the young sire acclimate to his new residence and to properly introduce the team at WinStar to their new charge.</p>
<p>&#8220;Charl helped us tremendously in getting Laoban acclimated,&#8221; Walden said. &#8220;He's a first-class horseman. With the nuances of any horse, it's very helpful to understand their differences whenever you get a horse you don't know. Charl knew every detail about the stallion and was great at communicating his personality to us in a way that we could pick up the ball and go right away without having a learning curve.&#8221;</p>
<p>Van Der Westhuizen has served as stallion consultant at Sequel since March of last year. The farm's founder Becky Thomas said he has been a crucial member of their team since his first day on the job.</p>
<p>&#8220;Charl turned our program around last year,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was my easiest year with our stallions. COVID of course made it difficult, but it was my easiest year behaviorally. He has such a natural way with our stallions. One of them is kind of difficult to catch, but he literally trots himself up to Charl. They're so comfortable with him and he has an exceptional relationship with each of them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Van Der Westhuizen has worked at stud farms around the globe, but he said the key to handling any stallion successfully is to recognize their individual personality.</p>
<p>&#8220;Over the years, I've worked with a lot of different types of stallions, and each and every one is different,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You have to cater to the needs of the stallion. You have to be a competent handler because they feel if you're nervous and they will take over. On the other hand, if you have a horse that doesn't get overly excited, you can intimidate him to the point where he doesn't want to breed because he'll be more scared of you than he is of the mare.&#8221;</p>
<p>Born in the heart of South Africa in Johannesburg, Van Der Westhuizen and his family eventually left their urban location and moved to the countryside where at 13 years old, Van Der Westhuizen met a kind, old broodmare at the family's new farm.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I traded in my skateboard and started riding this mare,&#8221; he recalled. &#8220;My interest developed and there was actually a small Arabian stud down the road. They showed me the ropes and started teaching me the basic necessities of horsemanship. Growing up, my mates and I would see all the cowboys in movies from America, so we actually brought in a couple of wild horses to train and would have our own private rodeos.&#8221;</p>
<p>Not long after turning 18, Van Der Westhuizen saw an ad in a magazine for an internship at Lakland North in New York, the farm now known as Sequel Stallions. He made his first journey to the U.S. in 2002 for the internship and quickly gravitated towards the stallion division.</p>
<p>&#8220;As an intern, you do all aspects of jobs on the farm, but I took an interest in the stallions,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;It was a challenge because each and every stallion is so different in the way they behave. You have to learn each of their little quirks.&#8221;</p>
<p>After completing the internship in New York, Van Der Westhuizen relocated to Sequel's location in Florida for a breeding season before returning to South Africa.</p>
<p>There he spent over a decade honing his stallion-handling skills by serving at stud farms across the country, from Lammerskraal Stud, Newbury Stud, Balmoral Stud and Nadeson Park Stud. At each farm, he picked up valuable lessons from each of the stallions he oversaw.</p>
<p>Western Winter, a Grade I-placed son of Gone West that relocated to Lammerskraal in 1997, was a champion sire in South Africa.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was a pleasure to work with,&#8221; Van Der Westhuizen recalled. &#8220;He was so quiet and gentle, it almost made it easy.&#8221;</p>
<p>But Parade Leader (Kingmambo), a full brother to former Lane's End Texas sire and GIISW Parade Ground, was quite the opposite.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was a really mean horse,&#8221; Van Der Westhuizen said. &#8220;You had to watch your back the whole time. He would literally try to take your head off if you went in the stall to catch him.&#8221;</p>
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<p>One of the most challenging stallion careers he remembers overseeing was that of well-regarded South African sire Rakeen (Northern Dancer), sire of the late multiple champion sire Jet Master.</p>
<p>&#8220;At first he was really mean, but we figured out he wanted to be close to the mares,&#8221; Van Der Westhuizen recalled. &#8220;So we put him in a paddock next to the broodmare barn and it immediately changed him.&#8221;</p>
<p>He remembers when Rakeen once fell and broke his hip. Even after the stallion had fully healed, breeding season the next year proved to be a challenge when he couldn't fully support his body weight when on his hind legs.</p>
<p>&#8220;We found a slope along the barn and he would stand on the slope and we would back the mare up into a hole so he could comfortably breed the mare,&#8221; Van Der Westhuizen explained. &#8220;When he would mount, we had a sling that we would put underneath his hindquarters and two guys would stand on either side to keep his weight up.&#8221;</p>
<p>Van Der Westhuizen said the breeding program in South Africa differs from the one in the U.S. in several aspects.</p>
<p>&#8220;[In South Africa], you'll do your selection a lot more on pedigree, where I would say here a lot of the breeding is based on conformation. They do not have a lot of juvenile racing as there is here, where the focus is on young 2-year-old colts running as quickly as possible, so the dynamic of the whole breeding program is slightly different. The process is similar, but I would say the end goal is different.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another major difference, Van Der Westhuizen said, is that most breeding sessions in South Africa take place outdoors.</p>
<p>&#8220;Only a few farms there actually have an enclosed breeding shed. While it varies from stallion to stallion, one thing I've noticed is that stallions seem to breed a lot easier in open surroundings and on natural surfaces than when you're in the shed.&#8221;</p>
<p>When Van Der Westhuizen arrived at Sequel last year, he had a few tricks up his sleeve based on what he had learned from his home country to help the stallions at Sequel succeed.</p>
<p>&#8220;Laoban always preferred to face the one side of the breeding shed towards the door,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;We figured out if we opened the door to the shed so he could see outdoors, he was happy. It was nice to be a part of a success story like him, changing up a few things in the shed before he moved to Kentucky to stand with the big boys. Ultimately, it was his progeny that got him there, but to work with a horse like that, it bolsters your confidence and keeps it interesting.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Van Der Westhuizen learned early on in his career that his greatest pride came in teaching early lessons to young stallions as they first started stud duty. This year, he had the opportunity to show the ropes to stakes-winning Juddmonte homebred Honest Mischief (<a href="https://www.spendthriftfarm.com/into-mischief" class="horse-link">Into Mischief</a>). See our video on the new sire <a href="https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/honest-mischief-brings-blue-blooded-speed-to-ny/">here. </a></p>
<p>&#8220;He's doing great; he's been really busy,&#8221; Van Der Westhuizen reported. &#8220;I believe the way you start off a stallion provides the fundamentals for how he will breed for the rest of his career.&#8221;</p>
<p>One of the first young stallions Van Der Weshtuizen ever worked with was a son of Storm Cat named <a href="http://www.sequelnewyork.com/freud" class="horse-link">Freud</a>. Now a perennial leading sire of New York-breds, the full brother to Giant's Causeway started his stud career at Sequel in 2002 when Van Der Weshtuizen was at the farm completing his first internship.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have almost a sentimental connection to <a href="http://www.sequelnewyork.com/freud" class="horse-link">Freud</a>,&#8221; Van Der Westhuizen admitted. &#8220;I do prefer him out of all the horses in the barn. He has calmed down a lot. He's now 23, but he breeds like he's five. He has his own set way of breeding but the more you work with stallions, the more you pick up on each of their quirky ways.&#8221;</p>
<p>Van Der Westhuizen expressed his partisanship for Sequel Stallions as he's watched the farm's success from afar during his time in South Africa, in between his stint as a humble intern two decades ago up until his current position as one of the farm's top advisors.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is where my professional career started for me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;To see it grow into the farm it currently is made it so much easier to come back from South Africa to the States with my wife and daughter. To be able to focus on the stallions again, I can actually feel that the decisions I make impact not just the stallions, but the mares as well.&#8221;</p>
<p>Van Der Westhuizen said he's not done climbing the ladder of success yet in the industry, knowing there's a new lesson to be learned from every stallion he encounters.</p>
<p>&#8220;You always read about the old greats, people who have been a stallion manager and worked with these super stallions for many years,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Ultimately, I'd like to build up enough knowledge to specialize in stallion fertility and troubleshooting. I'd like to be at the point where people contact me if their stallion is having problems.&#8221;</p>
<p>He's on track to do just that. From a teenager playing cowboy in the South African countryside to a sought-after advisor for the world's top stallions, oh, the stories he will have to share.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Just one live race day – the New Year's Eve card at Aqueduct Racetrack – remains in 2020 to complete a remarkable year of racing action on the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) circuit. The NYRA Press Office checked in with a selection of New York-based racing personalities to get their reflections on the […]</p>
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<p>Becky Thomas is the founder of Sequel Stallions – one of the premier stud farms and Thoroughbred operations in New York and a leader in breeding and consigning racehorses. Thomas founded Sequel Stallions in 2000, then known as Lakland North, with Lewis Lakin, with whom she co-owned Grade 1-winner and multiple champion producing stallion City Zip and bred 2006 Champion Female Fleet Indian. In 2011, Thomas re-opened an expanded Sequel Stallions with co-owner Dennis Narlinger on an upgraded facility on 223 acres of land in Hudson, N.Y.</p>
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<p><em>Q: The pandemic has been tough on everyone. Discuss the effect it had on your operation.</em></p>
<p>Thomas: When the pandemic first started, it was right around the time that sales season starts. We, fortunately, were able to continue having the <a href="http://www.obssales.com/" class="blue-link">OBS</a> Sale in March, but we were so unsure about what was going to happen after that. None of us knew what to expect. But through all of it, sales companies worked together; buyers and consigners worked together, and we all got through it together as smoothly as we could have. We adjusted reserves on some of our horses that were going through the ring. What made it great is that we were able to have any level of commerce at all. We were just happy to get going again. When we had our first sale, it was joyful. We had a sense of relief.</p>
<p><em>Q: What was the most difficult thing to cope with amidst the pandemic?</em></p>
<p>Thomas: The fact that everything happened during our busiest season was the most difficult. I'm used to having employees going back and forth from New York to Florida during the sales and I couldn't go back and forth and inspect the horses myself. There were restrictions. If you went out of state, you had to quarantine for a certain amount of time depending on where you were coming from. No one got sick but it was still very difficult to deal with. Sales companies worked very hard with our state and federal governments. Hats off to them for making everything work. Geoffrey Russell [Director of Sales at Keeneland], Boyd Browning [President and CEO of <a href="http://www.fasigtipton.com/" class="blue-link">Fasig-Tipton</a>] and Tom Ventura [President of Ocala Breeders Sales Company] and their teams did an incredible job for making things go as well as they possibly could have.</p>
<p><em>Q: What has been the highlight of 2020?</em></p>
<p>Thomas: Simply Ravishing winning the P.G. Johnson at Saratoga. She is a New York-bred by a New York sire in Laoban, who we stood, who won an open company stakes race at Saratoga. She was pretty much dismissed but went on to win a Grade 1 [in the Darley Alcibiades at Keeneland]. Laoban was the most phenomenal thing to happen to us this year. He's done so well in his first crop and got off to such a great start to his stud career.</p>
<p><em>Q: You're obviously very invested in the New York program. What makes it so great?</em></p>
<p>Thomas: The purse structure is high year-round, and the awards program is the strongest in the country. New York takes a lot of pride in its breeding program, as it should. It is a very good program and it's the reason I breed in New York.</p>
<p><em>Q: Looking ahead to 2021, what is one thing Sequel Stallions is most looking forward to?</em></p>
<p>Thomas: We added a new stallion to our roster for next season in Honest Mischief. I'm pretty excited about him. He looks like a big rubber stamp of his sire <a href="http://www.spendthriftfarm.com/horses/into-mischief-464.html" class="blue-link">Into Mischief</a>, who really stamps his progeny. He has good length in his back, a good shoulder, a good hip and a nice and clean neck. We were delighted to have been chosen to stand him.</p>
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<p>The 2020-21 winter meet at Aqueduct returns to action on Thursday, Dec. 31 and continues through Sunday, March 28.</p>
<p>NYRA Bets is the official wagering platform of Aqueduct Racetrack, and the best way to bet every race of the winter meet. Available to horseplayers nationwide, the NYRA Bets app is available for download today on iOS and Android at <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#m_2351281726972828269_"  rel="noopener noreferrer">www.NYRABets.com</a>.</p>
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<p>Stakes winning sprinter, Honest Mischief (<a href="http://www.spendthriftfarm.com/horses/into-mischief-464.html" class="blue-link">Into Mischief</a> – Honest Lady by Seattle Slew), has been retired to Sequel Stallions New York, where he will stand for a fee of $6,500 LFSN.</p>
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<p>Bred and raced by leading global powerhouse, Juddmonte Farm, Honest Mischief broke his maiden in his second start by eight lengths at Keeneland becoming a TDN Rising Star and earning an outstanding 2 Ragozin Number. He became a stakes winner winning the Force The Pass City of Laurel Stakes and was second to the brilliantly fast <a href="http://www.threechimneys.com/horses/volatile.html" class="blue-link">Volatile</a> in the Aristides Stakes at Churchill Downs. Honest Mischief became graded stakes-placed in the Grade 2 Amsterdam Stakes at Saratoga. He bested G1 stakes winners Mind Control and <a href="http://www.airdriestud.com/horses/complexity-46050.html" class="blue-link">Complexity</a> in the G1 Woody Stephens Stakes at Belmont. Honest Mischief retires with four wins, three seconds, and one third in nine career starts with earnings of $287,464.</p>
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<p>“Honest Mischief identified himself very early as one of the best dirt prospects of his crop in our barn.&#8221; Said Chad Brown, Trainer. &#8220;He proved to be very fast, durable, and consistent in both the mornings and afternoons. He has all the qualities my really good Into Mischief's have. I have never had a horse run a 2 Ragozin Number so early in his 3-year-old year. He was very, very fast!”</p>
<p>Honest Mischief hails from one of the most significant families in the stud book today. His G1 stakes winning dam, Honest Lady, is a half-sister to 4 Graded Stakes winners including G1 Classic winner, Empire Maker, as well as sires, Chester House and Decarchy. Honest Lady established herself as one of the most important racehorses of her generation winning the G1 Santa Monica Handicap and running 2nd against colts in the Breeders' Cup Sprint. Honest Mischief is also the grandson of Broodmare Of The Year, Leslie's Lady, and Toussaud.</p>
<p>“Honest Mischief's pedigree epitomizes the simplistic Juddmonte approach of matching the world's best dirt stallion with Prince Khalid's best dirt family.&#8221; Said Garrett O'Rourke, Manager of Juddmonte Farm. &#8220;Honest Lady was a nose away from being a Breeders Cup Sprint G1 champion in the fastest ever Breeder's Cup Sprint. She also placed in a Met Mile G1 against colts, and was the most beautiful little mare with a regal personality. Then to be by Seattle Slew out of broodmare of the year, Toussaud, and dam of G1 winner, First Defense, illustrates the peerless quality of this pedigree. Honest Mischief was pegged as a real talent by our exercise riders from the very beginning. He had raw speed, he was sound, and he had desire. He placed behind stars like Shancelot and Volatile at the top of their games and when he won, he won like a G1 horse. Honest Mischief has such a genetic concentration of classic talent, on top and bottom of his pedigree, that expectation of his success at stud is just a given.”</p>
<p>“Into Mischief is the most dominant sire of our times, rocketing to stardom from the very ordinary mares originating from his first books. To stand at stud the son of such an incredible sire as well as the magnificent female family Honest Mischief exhibits is beyond exciting,” said Becky Thomas of Sequel New York. “I am a super fan of Into Mischief and am honored to bring Honest Mischief to New York with the support and participation of Juddmonte Farm.”</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Blue-blooded black-type winner and graded stakes-placed Honest Mischief (Into Mischief–Honest Lady, by Seattle Slew), who hails from one of the top families in the stud book, has been retired to Sequel Stallions New York. He will stand for $6,500 LFSN. The Juddmonte homebred broke his maiden at second asking at Keeneland at three by eight</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blue-blooded black-type winner and graded stakes-placed <strong>Honest Mischief</strong> (Into Mischief&#8211;Honest Lady, by Seattle Slew), who hails from one of the top families in the stud book, has been retired to Sequel Stallions New York. He will stand for $6,500 LFSN.</p>
<p>The Juddmonte homebred broke his maiden at second asking at Keeneland at three by eight lengths and was tabbed a <strong>&#8216;</strong><a href="https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/tdn-rising-stars/?hid=594524"><strong>TDN Rising Star</strong></a><strong>&#8216; </strong>by virtue of that win, then went on to be third behind Shancelot (Shanghai Bobby) in the GII Amsterdam S. at Saratoga in just his fourth career start. An allowance win at Keeneland and a win in the Force the Pass City of Laurel S. at Laurel closed out his sophomore campaign. He began this year with a runner-up finish to Volatile (Violence) in Churchill&#8217;s Aristides S. and closed with it with a win via disqualification at the same track in September. The Chad Brown trainee retires with a record of 9-4-3-1 and earnings of $287,464.</p>
<p>&#8220;Honest Mischief was pegged as a real talent by our exercise riders from the very beginning,&#8221; said Juddmonte&#8217;s Garrett O&#8217;Rourke. &#8220;He had raw speed, he was sound, and he had desire. He placed behind stars like Shancelot and Volatile at the top of their games and when he won, he won like a Grade I horse. Honest Mischief has such a genetic concentration of classic talent, on top and bottom of his pedigree, that expectation of his success at stud is just a given.&#8221;</p>
<p>By <a href="https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/into-mischief-passes-tapit-sets-single-season-earnings-record/">record-setting leading sire </a>Into Mischief, Honest Mischief is from the signature Juddmonte family of Toussud (El Gran Senor). The remarkable Grade I-winning mare became a blue hen, producing Classic winner and sire Empire Maker (Unbridled), as well as GISW and sire Chester House (Mr. Prospector), GISW Chiselling (Woodman), MGSW, GISP, and sire Decarchy (Distant View), and GISW Honest Lady (Seattle Slew), who is Honest Mischief&#8217;s dam. Honest Mischief is one of four black-type winners out of Honest Lady, including GISW and sire First Defence (Unbridled&#8217;s Song).</p>
<p>&#8220;To stand at stud the son of such an incredible sire, as well as the magnificent female family Honest Mischief exhibits, is beyond exciting,&#8221; said Sequel&#8217;s Becky Thomas. &#8220;I am a super fan of Into Mischief and am honored to bring Honest Mischief to New York with the support and participation of Juddmonte Farm.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Laoban Relocating to WinStar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Laoban (Uncle Mo–Chattertown, by Speightstown), a son of champion and perennial leading sire Uncle Mo and one of the leaders of his freshman class, is relocating from Sequel Stallions in New York to WinStar Farm for 2021. A limited number of seasons will be offered at $25,000 S&#38;N until the Breeders’ Cup. That fee is</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Laoban</b> (Uncle Mo&#8211;Chattertown, by Speightstown), a son of champion and perennial leading sire Uncle Mo and one of the leaders of his freshman class, is relocating from Sequel Stallions in New York to WinStar Farm for 2021. A limited number of seasons will be offered at $25,000 S&amp;N until the Breeders&#8217; Cup. That fee is subject to change pending results in the Breeders&#8217; Cup, as Laoban has contenders in the GI Breeders&#8217; Cup Juvenile Fillies, GI Breeders&#8217; Cup Juvenile, and GI Breeders&#8217; Cup Juvenile Turf.</p>
<p>The leading New York freshman sire with debut winners sprinting and routing on dirt and turf, Laoban is represented by the undefeated Simply Ravishing, a dominant 6 1/4-length winner of the GI Darley Alcibiades S. at Keeneland for which she earned an 89 Beyer Speed Figure, the fastest 2-year-old Beyer of Keeneland&#8217;s fall meet thus far. Prior to that eye-catching score, she strolled home a 6 1/2-length winner of the P.G. Johnson S. at seven furlongs on the dirt at Saratoga which followed a maiden-breaking win at 1 1/16 miles on the turf at Saratoga in her career debut for trainer Ken McPeek. Additional top performers by Laoban include graded stakes-placed runners Keepmeinmind, second in GI Claiborne Breeders&#8217; Futurity and Ava&#8217;s Grace, third in the GII Adirondack S. at Saratoga.</p>
<p>&#8220;My phone lit up before [Simply Ravishing] crossed the wire at Keeneland,&#8221; said Becky Thomas of Sequel Stallions. &#8220;In the following days, we were overwhelmed with calls from all of the very top stallion farms in Kentucky.</p>
<p>&#8220;Laoban is stamping his foals and proving to be a cookie-cutter of the Uncle Mo style of stretch and athleticism. Since receiving the foals from New York, they certainly looked the part, but once we started training them at Winding Oaks, I knew that he was going to be something special. Talking with other horsemen in Ocala who were training his first crop of 2-year-olds and seeing them perform consistently, he was the buzz horse all season. Then, for him to become the first New York stallion to sire a Grade I winner in his first crop is absolutely incredible. It is truly a humbling experience to be a part of what is becoming such an important young stallion. WinStar is a great fit for him and he is sure to get a wide variety of nice mares coming from all their partnerships and support. We couldn&#8217;t be more excited about his future.&#8221;</p>
<p>A wire-to-wire winner of the 2016 GII Jim Dandy S. for Southern Equine Stables and Eric Guillot, the dark bay banked $526,250 in his career with additional graded placings in the GIII Gotham S. and GIII Sham S.</p>
<p>An outcross in his first four generations, Laoban, a $260,000 Keeneland September sale yearling bred in Kentucky by Respite Farm, is out of a stakes-placed three-quarter sister to MGISW and multi-millionaire I&#8217;m a Chatterbox (Munnings).</p>
<p>&#8220;I have tremendous respect for Becky and her Sequel operation,&#8221; said Elliott Walden, WinStar&#8217;s president, CEO, and racing manager. &#8220;We are excited to partner with her and the original shareholders and we are appreciative of the efforts of Siena, Taylor Made, and Breeze Easy in bringing Laoban to Kentucky. Laoban is a beautiful son of Uncle Mo who might have three horses in the Breeders&#8217; Cup and we believe Uncle Mo is an important sire line for the next generation. Having Laoban join third-leading freshman sire Outwork on our roster gives us two of his exciting three sons with 2-year-olds this year.&#8221;</p>
<p><span> For more information on Laoban, contact Liam O&#8217;Rourke, Chris Knehr, or Olivia Desch at (859) 873-1717, or visit </span><a href="https://www.winstarfarm.com/">WinStarFarm.com</a><span>.</span></p>
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