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Mill Ridge Farm Sets Oscar Performance’s 2021 Fee At $15,000

Mill Ridge Farm announces the 2021 stud fee for world record turf miler, Oscar Performance at $15,000, LFSN.

A son of 2018's leading North American sire Kitten's Joy, he was bred and raced by Jerry and John Amerman. As a 2-year-old, Oscar Performance won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.

He won Grade 1 stakes races at two, three, and four, and he broke a 20-year track record at Belmont Park at a mile in 1:31.23, all with no Lasix.

“We celebrate his third year, for we have seen so many of his foals and they are genuine quality,” said Headley Bell. “He has every opportunity to buck the trend and have more mares in his third year than he had in his first two of 118 and 116. At a stud fee of $15,000 live foal, he is value, for you have these quality foals in the pipeline.”

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Faversham, Full-Brother To California Chrome, Enters Stud At Daehling Ranch In California

Faversham, a multiple winner and the only full-brother to two-time Horse of the Year California Chrome, has been retired from racing to stand at Daehling Ranch in Northern California. His 2021 fee is $2,000, live foal guarantee. Lifetime breeding rights are available for $4,500.

A 5-year-old son of the late Lucky Pulpit, California's leading sire by progeny earnings in 2014 and 2016, Faversham was campaigned by his co-breeders, Perry and Denise Martin of Martin Racing, who also co-bred and raced California Chrome. Like his wildly famous older sibling, Faversham is a California-bred who won races on two different surfaces.

California Chrome won the 2014 Kentucky Derby, the 2016 Dubai World Cup and five additional Grade 1 races on dirt and turf before he retired to the breeding shed in 2017 with Eclipse Awards as Horse of the Year for 2014 and 2016, and a career bankroll of $14,752,650 that ranked him as the highest-earning North American runner in history. After standing his first three breeding seasons in Kentucky, with two additional Southern Hemisphere stints in Chile, California Chrome was purchased privately in late 2019 by Japan-based connections, and stood at Arrow Stud in that country this year.

The 9-year-old stallion is represented by eight winners from his first crop of 2-year-olds in 2020, led by his Grade 1-placed filly, Cilla.

Faversham and California Chrome were produced by two-time California Broodmare of the Year Love the Chase, a winning daughter of 12-time leading Maryland sire Not For Love.

“Faversham overcame several obstacles, including a torn tendon, to win races in California and Kentucky for us,” Perry Martin said of the Santa Anita Park and Turfway Park winner. “He always tried his best and managed to carve his own identity from the immense shadow cast by his big brother, who was the rarest of all Thoroughbreds — the horse of a lifetime.”

“We are thrilled to bring him home to California, where the legendary story of California Chrome started, and to offer his proven bloodlines at an affordable price for breeders on a budget.”

Faversham successfully covered a small group of test mares privately late last spring, and will be available to outside mare owners in 2021 as a registered California stallion nominated to Breeders' Cup.

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In The Stud Presented By Kentucky Equine Research: Tapwrit, First Crop Weanlings Of 2020

Going to stud with a classic win under one's belt is often enough to generate plenty of interest in a young stallion. Being a son of top commercial sire Tapit with a classic score on the resume only serves to further fuel the fire.

On this edition of In The Stud, we speak to Sean Tugel of Gainesway about Tapwrit, the 2017 Belmont Stakes winner whose first foals are weanlings of 2020.

Tapwrit was slotted for big things after selling for $1.2 million as a yearling, and he lived up to the lofty expectations. As a juvenile, he won the Pulpit Stakes going a mile at Gulfstream Park. He then emerged as one of the top 3-year-olds of his class the following season, winning the G2 Tampa Bay Derby in the spring and adding the crown jewel to his resume in the summer when he won the Belmont Stakes.

Tapwrit is out of the Grade 1-winning Successful Appeal mare Appealing Zophie, making him a half-brother to Grade 2 winner Ride a Comet. He will aim to be the successor to his sire, Tapit, who has been the anchor of the Gainesway stallion roster for a decade and a half.

The In The Stud video series, put together by our friends at EquiSport Photos, features up-and-coming names in the stallion ranks, with a focus on those whose first foals are weanlings of 2020. Paulick Report bloodstock editor Joe Nevills interviews farm staff about the stallion's appealing qualities and what mares might work best with them, while giving viewers and potential breeders a chance to see the stallion on the walk and on the racetrack.

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Cowboy Culture To Stand At Whitney Farms In Indiana

Quality Road's graded stakes-winning son Cowboy Culture enters stud in 2021 at Whitney Farms in Monrovia, Ind.

Undefeated in his first three starts for Repole Stable, Cowboy Culture won the Grade 3 Arlington Classic Stakes by a widening 5 3/4 lengths. A winner of six races from ages two to four, he retired sound with earnings of $339,494.

The 16.1- hand Cowboy Culture represents an outstanding opportunity for the Indiana breeder looking for a stellar racehorse by America's leading sire. His 2021 introductory fee of $2,500 live foal is enhanced with an option to breed additional mares for $1,500 each.

Best of all, participating breeders will receive at no cost a guaranteed lifetime breeding right to Cowboy Culture after three contracts have been fulfilled.

“My wife and I are thrilled to enter the Thoroughbred industry with a young, high-class stallion like Cowboy Culture,” said farm owner Josh Whitney. “His world-class pedigree, stellar race record, and conformational excellence exceeds that of any stallion in the state. As a fully-equipped breeding and layup facility only 40 miles east of Indiana Grand we offer our clients an on-site veterinary clinic staffed by the best professionals. Proper animal husbandry is the foundation of our long involvement with horses and we invite horsemen to visit us at any time, without appointment.”

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