Tag: Stallion Spotlight

PR Back Ring Kentucky Derby Preview / Keeneland April Sale: Who Is Bred For the Derby Distance?

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The latest issue of the PR Back Ring is now online, featuring a pedigree-focused preview of the Kentucky Derby, and analysis of the Keeneland April Horses Of Racing Age Sale.

The PR Back Ring is the Paulick Report's new bloodstock newsletter, released ahead of every major North American Thoroughbred auction. Seeking to expand beyond the usual pdf presentation, the Back Ring offers a dynamic experience for bloodstock content, heavy on visual elements and statistics to appeal to readers on all platforms, especially mobile devices.

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  • Lead Feature: Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills uses his award-winning Average Winning Distance analysis to determine which Kentucky Derby contenders have the best pedigree performance to handle a mile and a quarter – a distance none of the competitors have faced in competition.
  • Stallion Spotlight Presented By Kentucky Equine Research: Ryan Norton of Darby Dan Farm on Dialed In, the leading freshman sire of 2016, and sire of Kentucky Derby contender Super Stock.
  • The Stat Presented By Gainesway: Which sires mattered the most on this year's Kentucky Derby trail?
  • Ask Your Veterinarian Presented By Kentucky Performance Products: Dr. Scott Hopper of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital describes the different methods of conducting lameness exams on horses, and what a veterinarian is looking for in the tests.
  • Speed Figure Watch: Top Beyer Speed Figures earned by horses entered in the Keeneland April Sale.

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PR Back Ring Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale: Remembering Sheikh Hamdan’s Seven-Figure Star, Dayjur

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The inaugural edition of the PR Back Ring is now online, ahead of the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale of Selected 2-Year-Olds In Training.

The PR Back Ring is the Paulick Report's new bloodstock newsletter, released ahead of every major North American Thoroughbred auction. Seeking to expand beyond the usual pdf presentation, the Back Ring offers a dynamic experience for bloodstock content, heavy on visual elements and statistics to appeal to readers on all platforms, especially mobile devices.

Here is what's inside the debut issue…

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  • Remembering Dayjur, a watershed horse for Shadwell Farm and Taylor Made Sales Agency
  • Stallion Spotlight presented by Kentucky Research: Spendthrift Farm's Mark Toothaker on Gormley
  • Honor Roll presented by Breeze Up Consignors Association: War of Will's path from Europe to the Preakness
  • The Stat presented by Kirkwood Stables: Leading third-crop sires of 2020 by average progeny earnings (without their top earner)
  • Lesson Horses presented by Texas Thoroughbred Association: Bob Feld on Lucky Baldwin
  • Ask Your Veterinarian presented by Kentucky Performance Products: How do crushed heels happen?
  • On their own time: Kirkwood Stables' Gulfstream Gallop program continues to grow
  • Ask Your Insurer presented by Muirfield Insurance: Considerations for your new 2-year-old
  • Pennsylvania Leaderboard presented by Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association: Wait For It tops 2020 incentive earners
  • First-Crop Sire Watch: First juveniles of Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream sale

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Stallion Spotlight Presented By Kentucky Equine Research: Crestwood Farm’s Robert Keck On Yorkton

Stallion Spotlight offers stud farm representatives a chance to address breeders and answer questions as they finalize their mating decisions for the 2021 breeding season.

In this edition, Robert Keck of Crestwood Farm discusses Yorkton, a multiple Grade 3 winner who entered stud in 2021.

Yorkton
B. h., 2014, Speightstown x Sunday Affair, by A.P. Indy
Race Record: 30-7-4-3; $546,332
Advertised Fee: $5,000

What is Yorkton's strongest selling point as a stallion?

Robert Keck: It's hard to list just one. He was durable, making 30 starts, and fast, winning five stakes. He is a son Speightstown, a great physical with an elite pedigree.

If I've got a mare that needs help from a stallion physically, what do you foresee Yorkton best being able to contribute to that equation?

Keck: Yorkton is an exceptional physical. He has extremely good bone, you rarely see cannons that strong. He is very correct, has great muscling, and coupling. He is 16.1 hands with scope, a great top-line, and a good hind leg. Any mare will benefit from his physical attributes.

Speightstown is rapidly emerging as a sire of sires. What about Yorkton separates him within that group?

Keck: Being the only Speightstown, out of an A.P. Indy mare; additionally being from a super-elite female family gives him a great advantage. His half-brother Weyburn just won the G3 Gotham Stakes, earning 50 points for the Kentucky Derby.

Yorkton's third dam is the mighty Maplejinsky. How much does having a strong female family under a stallion affect his appeal, and his ability to sire runners?

Keck: Very rarely do you see a successful stallion that doesn't have a strong female family, that foundation forecasts a stallion that has a future. Yorkton has 11 Grade 1 winners, including six millionaires, and two champions from his immediate female family.

What else should someone considering Yorkton know before making the call?

Keck: Chiefswood Stables is supporting this stallion by breeding some extremely nice mares. The $1-million Breeders' Incentive Program gives you an idea of how committed they are to seeing Yorkton succeed.

The Breeders' Incentive Program will award $10,000 to the breeders of Yorkton's first 20 juveniles in his debut crop to win a North American maiden special weight at or above the $25,000 purse level.

Breeders of the first six debut-crop foals to win a listed black type stakes race in North America with a purse of $75,000 or more will receive a $100,000 bonus, if it's done before the end of their 3-year-old season.

A $200,000 bonus will go to the breeder of Yorkton's first Grade 1 winner before the end of their 3-year-old campaign, as well.

Anyone with questions can contact us directly at Crestwood Farm.

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PR Special OBS March: Making Mischief In Central Florida

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The juvenile auction season kicks off this week at the OBS March 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale, and the Paulick Report has the reading material you need in the PR Special newsletter.

The PR Special offers exclusive, in-depth bloodstock content not yet seen on the rest of the website in a pdf format that's easy to read and print. Here's what's inside the latest issue:

  • Front Page: Spendthrift Farm's Into Mischief holds an astonishing lead among sires with the most :10-flat and under workers at OBS under tack shows since 2015. Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills dives into the numbers to see why the record-setting stallion excels in this category to such a degree.
  • Stallion Spotlight: Robert Keck of Crestwood Farm on first-year sire Yorkton.
  • Pennsylvania Leaderboard: Top Pennsylvania sires by stallion awards earned in 2020.
  • Ask Your Veterinarian: Dr. Ashton Broman of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital on spring skin ailments.
  • Honor Roll: Mr. Monomoy's globetrotting trek to the Kentucky Derby trail.
  • American Graded Stakes Standings: Godolphin sets the pace among breeders.

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