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Mubtaahij Recieves Hormonal Treatments To Restart Stud Career In Argentina

It's been a difficult start at stud for Grade 1 winner and international standout Mubtaahij, whose battles with fertility issues have led to just two confirmed foals being produced since he began his stallion career in Argentina in 2019.

However, Racing Post reports that the 9-year-old son of Dubawi has received hormonal treatments that his managers hope will boost his fertility. The horse is in good health following the treatments, and he is set to stand the 2021 Southern Hemisphere breeding season at Haras Abolengo near Buenos Aires as property of Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa.

Mubtaahij covered 10 mares during his initial season at stud in the summer of 2019, with two fillies being born from the matings. He was bred to three mares in 2020.

The Irish-born Mubtaahij set himself up on the global stage after winning the G2 U.A.E. Derby. He shipped to the U.S. to finish eighth in the 2015 Kentucky Derby and fourth in the Belmont Stakes.

Mubtaahij became a globetrotter from then on, bouncing between the U.S. and the U.A.E. to compete in the handicap divisions on both sides of the world. His biggest stateside triumph came in the G1 Awesome Again Stakes, and he finished in the money twice in the Dubai World Cup. He retired with five wins in 24 starts for earnings of $5,780,332.

Lukes Alley, Duke Of Mischief To Stand At Flowing Acres Farm At Fleetwood Lane In West Virginia

Flowing Acres Farm at Fleetwood Lane in Charles Town, W.V., will add Canadian champion Lukes Alley and Grade 2 winner Duke of Mischief to its roster for the 2021 breeding season, both standing for a private fee.

Lukes Alley will stand his debut season at stud in 2021, owned in partnership between Tampa-based Michael Ingrassia and Ocala-based Tom Foley of Foley Bloodstock. The 11-year-old son of Flower Alley won nine of 18 starts during his on-track career for earnings of $795,122.

He was named Canada's champion older male of 2014 on the strength of a campaign that included victories in the Grade 2 Autumn Stakes and G3 Durham Cup Stakes. However, his biggest showcase victory came two years later when he staged a hard-closing rally to win the G1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap.

A homebred in Ontario from the program of Eugene Melnyk, Lukes Alley is out of the stakes-winning A.P. Indy mare Vaulcluse, who set a track record for a mile and 40 yards at Tampa Bay Downs when she won the Suncoast Stakes. All six of her foals to race are winners, also including the Grade 3-placed stakes winner Arrifana.

Arrifana won five of six starts racing in Maryland and New York, and Ingrassia said he hoped the sibling's success would help clear the way for Lukes Alley in the minds of breeders in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Duke of Mischief, a 15-year-old son of Graeme Hall, comes to West Virginia after spending time at stud in Florida, Indiana, and Michigan.

Duke of Mischief won seven of 30 starts during his on-track career, and earned $1,905,747. He won the G2 Oaklawn Handicap, and picked up G3 triumphs in the Charles Town Classic Stakes, Ft. Lauderdale Stakes, and Philip H. Iselin Stakes. The horse is also stakes-placed on turf.

Bred in Florida by Marilyn McMaster, Duke of Mischief is out of the winning Real Courage mare My Lady Ameila, who is the dam of three winners from five foals to race. He is a half-brother to Grade 3 winner Lord Robyn.

From four crops of racing age and 48 starters, Duke of Mischief has sired 26 winners. Among them is Missduke it's True, who is a two-time champion in the Dominican Republic, and a two-time group stakes winner in that country. Domestically, his runners are led by seven-time winner Foolish Prince and four-time winner Sandy Mischief.

Lukes Alley and Duke of Mischief will join Hello Broadway and Lord of Greatness on the Flowing Acres Farm stallion roster, all standing for Ingrassia in whole or partnership.

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Giant Expectations, Court Vision To Stand At Pryor Ranch In Nebraska

Nebraska's stallion ranks will add a pair of new faces in 2021, with Giant Expectations and Court Vision relocating to Pryor Ranch near Omaha, Neb.

Farm owner Judy Pryor, whose background comes in the Quarter Horse realm, said the decision to purchase Thoroughbred stallions came after the state passed racino legislation in November, opening up future opportunities for the state's breeding and racing programs. However, she said the process of finding the stallions wasn't easy.

Pryor went to the recent Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale looking for a stallion, but the horses she landed on were scratched from the sale either because the owner decided to hang on to them or a private sale was made before the horse entered the ring. She did, however, take note of Giant Expectations, who was being shown as a stallion prospect at a farm near the sales grounds.

“I kind of came home from there with my tail between my legs, thinking, 'I don't need to work this hard, anyway,'” Pryor said. “I started really researching and asking a lot of questions, and the gentleman that owns Giant Expectations, Justin Border, won the Breeders' Cup and an Eclipse Award with a horse by one of the stallions I was interested in.”

Border, through the nom-de-course Exline-Border Racing, campaigns Storm the Court, who won the 2019 Breeders' Cup Juvenile en route to champion 2-year-old male honors. Storm the Court is by Court Vision, who had been standing at Acadiana Equine in Louisiana.

Pryor had always been keen on sons and daughters of Gulch – a rapidly shrinking population in 2021 – so seeing the Gulch sire line run through Storm the Court via Court Vision gave her another target for acquisition.

“I started thinking, 'This guy likes what I like,' so I started researching Storm the Court, and I got it in my head that I was going to get Court Vision,” Pryor said.

After plenty of research and phone calls, Pryor ended up with two new stallions; both of them tied to Border's stable either actively or passively.

Giant Expectations, a son of Frost Giant, won four of 25 starts during his on-track career for earnings of $1,343,600. The 8-year-old is best known for his victories in the Grade 2 Pat O'Brien Stakes and San Antonio Stakes.

Bred in New York by Sunrise Stables, Giant Expectations is out of the winning Is It True mare Sarahisittrue, whose five foals to race are all winners. He hails from the family of multiple Grade 2 winner C Z Rocket.

Court Vision, a 16-year-old son of Gulch, is best known on the racetrack for his victory in the 2011 Breeders' Cup Mile at Churchill Downs, a swan song that brought his career record to nine wins in 31 starts and earnings of $3,746,658. His other wins of note included the G1 Hollywood Derby, Woodbine Mile, Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap, and Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes, the G2 Remsen Stakes and Jamaica Handicap, and the G3 Iroquois Stakes.

From seven crops of racing age, Court Vision has sired 156 winners, with combined progeny earnings in excess of $13.9 million. He began his stallion career in 2012 at Park Stud in Ontario, then moved to Kentucky for one season at Spendthrift Farm in 2016 before relocating to Louisiana.

Storm the Court is Court Vision's best runner to date, conceived during Court Vision's lone season in Kentucky. In addition to bringing in an Eclipse Award and a Breeders' Cup trophy, Storm the Court finished a solid sixth in last year's Kentucky Derby, and he most recently ran second in the G2 Mathis Brothers Mile Stakes on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita.

Court Vision's other runners of note include Grade 2 winner Mr Havercamp and Canadian champion King and His Court.

Pryor said she was still deciding on stud fees for her two new additions, but her goal would be the same no matter the price: raise a horse that could take her to the Kentucky Derby as a connection instead of a spectator.

Court Vision, in particular, has already gotten one foal to Churchill Downs when the lights were at their brightest, and Pryor hoped history could repeat.

“I'm a 71-year-old lady that always wanted a Kentucky Bluegrass farm, but I live in Omaha, Neb,” Pryor said. “That's been my childhood dream. I know I'll probably never make it, but I'd sure like to go. I've gotten to be in the paddock at all three Triple Crown races a few times.”

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Grade 3 Winner Bobby’s Wicked One Retired To Acadiana Equine At Copper Crowne In Louisiana

Graded stakes winner Bobby's Wicked One, by red-hot Speightstown, the leading sire of Grade 1 winners in 2020, has retired to Acadiana Equine at Copper Crowne.

Bobby's Wicked One defeated Mitole winning his racing debut at two at the Fair Grounds by over five lengths. The winner of Keeneland's Grade 3 Commonwealth Stakes and second in the G1 Churchill Downs Stakes, Bobby's Wicked One defeated the winners of over $29 million, including 19 graded stakes winners, earned multiple triple digit Beyer Speed Figures and retired with earnings of $547,673.

Out of the Ghostzapper mare Wicked Charm, a winning half-sister to champion turf sire of 2020 English Channel, his third dam is multiple champion Committed.

Bobby's Wicked One will stand for $3,500 live foal as the property of a syndicate.

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