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Grade 2 Winner Leinster Retired To Pleasant Acres Stallions In Florida

Pleasant Acres Stallions is pleased to announce the arrival of Leinster (Majestic Warrior / Vassar, by Royal Academy) – who will stand in Florida for the 2022 breeding season for a $5,000 fee.

After earning $764,971 with a record of 6-6-5 from 24 starts, Leinster raced under Amy Dunne, Brenda Miley, Jean Wilkinson, and Westrock Stable. Now retired, Leinster is settling into his new home at Pleasant Acres Stallions ahead of the 2022 breeding season.

“Leinster is an exceptional addition to the stallion barn at Pleasant Acres Stallions,” said Joe Barbazon. “A world class turf sprinter, he brings with him two blazing fast track records in graded events and four triple digit Beyers.”

Out of the Royal Academy champion-producing mare Vassar, Leinster is half-brother to two-time Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint winner Stormy Liberal – the champion turf male of 2018. In 2019, Leinster handily beat Stormy Liberal in the six-furlong $700,000 Grade 3 Runhappy Turf Sprint at Kentucky Downs.

Leinster is a four-time graded stakes winner – including the 2020 G3 Troy Stakes in Saratoga where he beat multiple graded stakes winner and world record setting Disco Partner, as well as multiple graded stakes winner Pure Sensation. Leinster set his first track record that day when he covered 5 1/2 furlongs on the Mellon Turf in a time of 1:00.23, breaking the old track record of 1:00.46 set by Lady Shipman in 2015.

The Rusty Arnold trainee went on to set a Keeneland course record by racing 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:00.86 in the $150,000 G2 Shakertown Stakes, where he beat multiple graded stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Extravagant Kid – five times total in graded events.

Leinster topped off his impressive career by winning the $150,000 G2 Woodford Stakes at Keeneland after running second in the same race the previous year. He went on to finish third in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, where he beat the sensational multiple Grade 1 winner Got Stormy. In his final campaign, Leinster finished his career in style by winning the $100,000 G3 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint Stakes this past February.

“Track record holder at Saratoga and Keeneland. You don't get any faster than that and a beautiful individual to go with it,” says Trainer George “Rusty” Arnold.

Leinster's sire, Majestic Warrior (A.P. Indy / Dream Supreme, by Seeking the Gold) immediately excelled for his late owner and breeder and New York Yankees kingpin, George Steinbrenner. Majestic Warrior, a son of A.P. Indy, emerged in the competitive 2-year-old world of Saratoga in 2007 to win his 6 1/2 -furlong debut by 3 1/2 lengths and in his subsequent start, he rallied to take the G1 Hopeful Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths.

Leinster's dam, Vassar (Royal Academy / Dixie Fine, by L'emigrant) has produced seven winners out of eight runners as a broodmare – where she has amassed $3.8 million in progeny earnings to date – and has produced exceptional athletes including a champion, two graded black type winners, one black type winner, one graded blacktype placer, and one blacktype placer.

Leinster joins stallions Amira's Prince, Bellavia, Breaking Lucky, Bucchero, Curlin's Honor, Gunnevera, Handsome Mike, Long On Value, Neolithic, No Never No More, Ride On Curlin, and Sweetontheladies, at the 220-acre farm located just northwest of Ocala.

Pleasant Acres Stallions has received many accolades for excellence, including 2017 Florida Freshman Sire of the Year for Poseidon's Warrior, 2017 DRF Florida-bred Beyer Award, 2009 Florida Breeder of the Year, 2009 Florida Broodmare of the Year, Breeder of the 2009 Florida Horse of the Year, and was ranked third in the nation for leading breeders in 2009 by average earnings per starter with 10 or more starters.

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Bellavia Retired To Pleasant Acres Stallions In Florida

Pleasant Acres Stallions is pleased to announce the arrival of Bellavia (Honor Code / Glacken's Gal, by Smoke Glacken) – who will stand in Florida for the 2022 breeding season for a $2,500 fee.

Bellavia's female line has proven exemplary in each generation. His first dam, Glacken's Gal (Smoke Glacken / Lady Diplomat, by Silver Deputy) broke her maiden in her first attempt and two months later won the $100,000 Astoria Stakes (Listed) at Belmont.

A talented athlete on the track, Glacken's Gal has truly shined as a broodmare. She produced Live Lively who, after earning $280,300 racing, foaled Indian Miss – the dam of millionaire champion male sprinter and multiple Grade 1 winner Mitole and the upcoming Breeders' Cup Classic contender and millionaire Grade 1 winner Hot Rod Charlie.

Bellavia's second dam, Lady Diplomat, by Silver Deputy, produced almost $1 million in progeny earnings with nine winners from 12 starters, including three black type winners. His third dam, Mercedes Miss, by Carr de Naskra, produced stakes winner Missme and multiple black type-placed winners. His fourth dam, Kermis, by Graustark, produced 11 winners from 13 starters and more than $1.2 million in progeny earnings – including two black type winners and one black type placer.

“At Pleasant Acres Stallions, we are always searching for the most impressive sire lines to bring to our Florida breeders,” said Joe Barbazon. “Bellavia is by champion dual Grade 1-winning Honor Code and is not only the first Honor Code to stand in Florida, he is the second Honor Code to date to stand anywhere. His commanding presence and impressive build is just like his sire and his grandsire A.P. Indy.”

Bellavia's sire, 2015 champion older horse Honor Code (A.P. Indy / Serena's Cat, by Storm Cat) averaged $345,943 per start in 2015, with career earnings of more than $2.5 million and a record of 6/2/2 from 11 starts. He is a multiple Grade 1 winner and is from the last crop by A.P. Indy.

Honor Code won the G1 Metropolitan Handicap (112 Beyer), the G1 Whitney Stakes (113 Beyer), the G2 Gulfstream Park Handicap and the G2 Remsen Stakes He is the ninth horse in history to win the Met Mile and the Whitney in the same year and still holds the third-highest Beyer (112) up to a mile in 2015. Max Player, by Honor Code, is a 2021 Breeders' Cup Classic contender.

Bellavia joins stallions Amira's Prince, Breaking Lucky, Bucchero, Curlin's Honor, Gunnevera, Handsome Mike, Long On Value, Neolithic, No Never No More, Ride On Curlin, and Sweetontheladies, at the 220-acre farm located just northwest of Ocala.

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Mr Speaker Sold To Forks Of The Paluxy Farm In Texas

Grade 1 winner Mr Speaker has been purchased by Lori and Mark Collinsworth and will be relocating to their Forks of the Paluxy Farm in Bluff Dale, Texas for the 2022 breeding season.

“We are thrilled to have the opportunity to stand a horse of Mr Speaker's caliber in Texas,” said Mark Collinsworth. “He was a very talented racehorse, and he is off to a great start in his stallion career with a number of stakes horses already to his credit. With the creation of new Texas-sired stakes races this year and the purse increases we have seen recently in Texas, we are thrilled to offer a stallion with his proven credentials to Texas breeders.”

Mr Speaker is currently represented by four Northern Hemisphere crops of racing age. His top progeny to date includes Grade 1 winner Speech, who annexed the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes at Keeneland as a 3-year-old, and impressive 2021 juvenile stakes winners Speaking and Ironstone. From just 135 foals of racing age, Mr Speaker has produced average earnings of over $47,000 per starter.

A multiple graded stakes winner on dual surfaces, and an earner of over $1.2 million on the racetrack, Mr Speaker won six of his 18 careers starts and finished on the board 11 times in his career. His career highlight came in his 3-year-old season, winning the G1 Belmont Derby over an internationally renowned field that included eight graded stakes winners. In addition to his Grade 1 win, Mr. Speaker added graded stakes victories in the G2 Commonwealth Cup at Laurel Park, the G3 Lexington at Keeneland, and the G3 Dania Beach at Gulfstream Park.

Mr Speaker is from one of the last crops by sire-of-sires Pulpit and hails from a deep Phipps Stable pedigree. Out of the Unbridled mare Salute, Mr Speaker is a half-brother to Grade 3 winner Fire Away. His second dam is the undefeated, Hall-of-Fame member Personal Ensign.

Mr Speaker will stand for $5,000.

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Three Rules Retired To Wesfield Farm In Florida

Three Rules, named the Florida-bred Horse of the Year and champion 2-year-old male in 2016 after sweeping the male division of the prestigious FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes that year, has been retired and will stand the 2022 breeding season at Robert Smith's Wesfield Farm in Ocala, Fla.

The graded stakes-winning son of Gone Astray out of Joy Rules, by Full Mandate won the first five races of his career for trainer Jose Pinchin including the $75,000 Birdonthewire Stakes by five lengths at Gulfstream Park in his second start on July 2 of 2016. He then went on to dominate the $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager in early August, winning the six furlong test by seven lengths while earning a 92 Beyer Speed Figure and setting the stakes record in 1:09.49 that continues to stand today. He then won the $300,000 Affirmed by five-and-a-half lengths over seven furlongs on Sept. 3 before crushing his rivals with a 10-length romp in the $500,000 In Reality going a mile-and-one-sixteenth.

Three Rules finished his juvenile year by traveling to Santa Anita for the $2 million Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile and finished sixth behind winner Classic Empire with now popular stallions Not This Time and Practical Joke finishing second and third.

Three Rules was bred in Florida and raced for Bert Pilcher in the name of his Shade Tree Thoroughbreds in partnership with Geoff Roy and Tom Fitzgerald, both of Toronto, who are all still partners in the horse.

“Robert Smith at Wesfield will stand Three Rules for us,” Pilcher said. “He wants to breed some of his mares to him and some of his clients have inquired about breeding some of their mares. Of course, I will be supporting him and I have clients who are excited to see him at stud and plan to breed their mares to him. I think he will be very popular in Florida and I think he will produce a very nice race horse.

“He was a fabulous 2-year-old who only lost one race that year and that came in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and he beat some nice horses in that race. And then he competed well in the [Kentucky Derby] preps at Gulfstream before becoming a graded stakes-winner later that year.”

He began his sophomore year on the Kentucky Derby trail with a second-place finish to Favorable Outcome in the Grade 2 Swale before finishing third behind winner Gunnevera in the G2 Fountain of Youth, both at Gulfstream Park in February and March respectively. He then finished fifth in the G1 Xpressbet Florida Derby won by eventual Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming at Gulfstream on April 1.

Later in 2017, Three Rules was third in the $200,000 Chick Lang Stakes won by future graded stakes-winner Recruiting Ready at Laurel before winning the Grade 3 Carry Back at Gulfstream in July, defeating future multiple stakes-winner Mo Cash.

Three Rules finished his career with six wins, two seconds and two thirds while earning $972,825.

His fee has not been announced.

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