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Medaglia d’Oro Leads Darley’s 2021 Stallion Roster

Darley in Lexington, Ky., has announced the advertised stud fees for its 2021 roster, led by top commercial sire Medaglia d'Oro at $150,000.

“These are trying times breeders are facing,” said Darley sales manager Darren Fox. “We gave great consideration to this when setting our fees to reflect the economic reality of today,” Fox continued.

“Breeders are attempting to navigate a sales environment that is both unpredictable and difficult,” Fox continued. “Subsequently, all but one of our stallions will see a decrease in stud fee from last year. We sincerely appreciate the past support from breeders, and we are looking forward to a better and brighter 2021.”

Medaglia d'Oro's fee will be set at $150,000 following another excellent year in 2020. He is currently the number one yearling sire in North America by both average and median and was represented by four million-dollar-plus offerings in 2020, the same number he was represented by in 2019. No stallion can match his 20 million-dollar yearlings since 2016.

With a total of 75 worldwide group or graded winners – 25 at the highest level – Medaglia d'Oro's propensity to consistently produce quality racehorses was further exemplified this year when his son Moretti won Saratoga's Birdstone Stakes, making him the all-time leading sire of black type winners at Saratoga with 20. His Grade 1 winner Higher Power is a contender for this year's Breeders' Cup Classic.

First-crop sire phenomenon Nyquist will stand for a fee of $75,000 in 2021. His 10 juvenile winners to date include Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes winner Vequist and G1 Summer Stakes winner Gretzky the Great, both slated to run in the Breeders' Cup next month.

Two G1 winners in any crop is no small feat for any stallion, but two from a freshman crop puts Nyquist in rarified air. Not since Danzig in 1984 has a stallion had two Grade 1 winners so early in his career. This quick success was reflected at the yearling sales this year as prices for his yearlings included $635,000 (top colt for a second-crop sire), $510,000 (top-priced filly for a second-crop sire), and $500,000. He is the leader of his sire crop by yearling average and median two years running.

Progeny of Street Sense, with a 2021 stud fee set at $60,000, are once again excelling on the track. No stallion can top his four graded stakes-winning dirt colts this year: unbeaten Maxfield in the G3 Matt Winn, multiple Grade 1 winner McKinzie in the G2 Triple Bend, juvenile TDN Rising Star Cazadero in the G3 Bashford Manor, and 3-year-old Shared Sense in the G3 Indiana Derby and G3 Oklahoma Derby.

Bernardini and Hard Spun will both stand for $35,000 next year. Bernardini's Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile-bound son Art Collector joined the list of the nation's best sophomore colts with a win in the G2 Blue Grass Stakes, while daughters Lady Kate and Micheline have both recorded Grade 1 placings with the latter under consideration for the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf. No stallion under $125,000 can top his 22 graded winners on dirt since 2015 and he has more Grade 1 winners, graded winners and black type winners as a broodmare sire than any 17-year-old stallion in history.

Hard Spun's current top runners include Grade 1 winner Hard Not to Love, Saratoga Oaks winner and multiple Grade 1-placed Antoinette, plus 10-length Churchill debut winner and TDN Rising Star Beautiful Memories. No stallion can top his three Grade 1-winning 3-year-olds over the past two seasons.

Frosted, the record-breaking Met Mile winner, is priced at $25,000 for 2021. His nine juvenile winners to date include G1-placed TDN Rising Star Travel Column, TDN Rising Star Inject, Saratoga winner Restored Order, recent Belmont winners Likeable, Frost Me and Ten for Ten, and his latest winner, Inspector Frost, who won at Keeneland on Oct.18. He is the only freshman with multiple TDN Rising Stars and he's the only stallion in America with three juveniles to have run an 80+ Beyer this year.

Street Boss's current crop of 2-year-olds is one of the best-bred groups of his career. Only Into Mischief can boast more juvenile stakes horses than Street Boss this year. Another reflection of the quality of his 2018 crop can be seen in a $760,000 2-year-old at the sales. Street Boss's new fee will be $15,000.

Medaglia d'Oro's Group 1-winning son Astern will shuttle from Australia again and his first foals will be 2-year-olds of 2021. His fee will be $7,500 next year. His first crop of Northern Hemisphere yearlings were received very well in 2020 with prices that included $100,000, $90,000 and $87,000.

Lifetime statistics for Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Midshipman ($7,500) continue to position him as one of the best-priced stallions in Kentucky. His 17 percent career black type horses from starters is among the best in the business – no stallion under $50,000 can do better, and his eight black type winners and 16 black type horses in 2020 are the best of any stallion $25,000 and under.

Enticed, another son of Medaglia d'Oro who has made a strong start at stud, will stand for a fee of $7,500. His first season in 2020 reflected firm support from breeders who sent him 148 mares.

Stallion	Fee
Medaglia d'Oro	$150,000
Nyquist	$75,000
Street Sense	$60,000
Bernardini	$35,000
Hard Spun	$35,000
Frosted	$25,000
Street Boss	$15,000
Astern	$7,500
Enticed	$7,500
Midshipman	$7,500

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McKinzie Retired to Gainesway

Four-time Grade I winner McKinzie (Street Sense–Runway Model, by Petionville) has been retired from racing and will stand stud at Gainesway in 2021, the farm announced Wednesday evening.

“McKinzie was absolutely brilliant. He was an undefeated Grade I winner at two, as well as a multiple Grade I winner and top-rated horse at three and four years of age,” Brian Graves, General Manager of Gainesway, said. “His speed, precocity and good looks make him an absolute standout.”

Purchased by Karl Watson, Michael Pegram and Paul Weitman for $170,000 at Keeneland September, the bay was named in honor of trainer Bob Baffert’s late longtime friend Brad McKinzie, a Los Alamitos executive. Tabbed a ‘TDN Rising Star’ for his debut win at Santa Anita in 2017, he crossed the line second in that year’s GI Los Alamitos Cash Call Futurity S., but was promoted to first via DQ.

Kicking off his sophomore season with a win in the 2018 GIII Sham S., McKinzie was second in the GII San Felipe S. that March and was subsequently shelved. Resurfacing that September, he won the GI Pennsylvania Derby and failed to fire in the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic, but rebounded with a decisive win in the GI Malibu S. Second in both the 2019 GII San Pasqual S. and GI Santa Anita H., the colt was ultra-impressive when winning the GII Alysheba S. and was a close second in a salty renewal of the GI Met Mile last summer. A decisive victor of the GI Whitney S., the Baffert runner completed the exacta in both the GI Awesome Again S. and Breeders’ Cup Classic.

McKinzie made four starts this year with his best effort being a good-looking victory in the GII Triple Bend S. He retires with a record of 18-8-6-0 and earnings of $3,473,360.

“From day one, McKinzie has just been exceptional,” said Baffert. “He is a gorgeous physical with brilliant speed and stamina. I’ve only had one other horse in my career that has been able to accomplish what he’s done by winning a Grade I at two, three, and four. It takes an extraordinary horse to achieve that.”

Bred in Kentucky at Jane Lyon’s Summer Wind Farm, McKinzie is out of MGSW and MGISP Runway Model, who was purchased by Lyon for $2.7-million at the 2006 KEENOV sale. Her most recent foal is the 3-year-old filly Map Maker (Liam’s Map). Runway Model has been retired from the breeding shed, but one of her older fillies Malibu Model (Malibu Moon) has now taken up broodmare duties at Summer Wind in her place.

“McKinzie is the best son of Street Sense, his Ragozin sheet numbers are as impressive as I have seen and to maintain that speed and soundness over multiple seasons takes an absolute superstar,” said Sean Tugel, Gainesway’s Director of Stallion Sales and Recruitment. “He has everything you want in a stallion prospect.”

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Pennsylvania-Bred Gun Runner Colt Tops Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale

The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings sale concluded Tuesday with figures on par with the 2019 renewal, with eight of the top 10 prices paid for yearlings bred in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New York.

Hip 371, a colt from the first crop of Pegasus World Cup winner Gun Runner, sold for $270,000 during Tuesday's session to top the sale (video).

The chestnut colt was purchased by Lambe Bloodstock from the consignment of Becky Davis, agent. Hip 371 out of Stormy Tak, a daughter of multiple Grade 1 winner and millionaire Lady Tak, making her a half-sister to Melody Lady, dam of this year's Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt winner Volatile. The sale topper was bred in Pennsylvania by Jon A. Marshall.

A pair of Maryland-bred colts sold for more than $200,000 during the second session to account for the sale's second- and third-highest prices. The first of these was Hip 451, a son of Flatter which sold for $250,000 to Bell Gable Stable from the consignment of Northview Stallion Station (David Wade), agent (video).

The dark bay or brown colt is out of Apple Cider, a More Than Ready daughter of Grade 2 winner Who Did It and Run, and half-sister to stakes winners Giant Run and American Victory. Hip 451 was bred in Maryland by Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds.

The third-highest price of the sale was paid for Hip 383, a son of Street Sense sold for $240,000 to West Bloodstock, agent for Repole and St. Elias Stables from the consignment of Chanceland Farm, agent (video). The bay colt is out of the Polish Numbers mare Tanca, who has seven winners from as many to race, including stakes winners Cordmaker, Las Setas, and Corvus. Hip 383 was bred in Maryland by Robert T. Manfuso and Kathryn M. Voss.

The sale's top filly was a daughter of Malibu Moon sold for $140,000 during Tuesday's session (video). Offered as Hip 541, the filly was purchased by Charles J. Zacney from the consignment of Candyland, agent. The bay filly is out of the unraced Street Cry mare Fire of Freedom, who has produced four winners to date, including multiple stakes placed Travel Advisory. Fire of Freedom is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Flat Fleet Feet. The top filly was bred in Maryland by Candyland Farm.

All told, 379 yearlings sold for a total of $9,161,200. The average was $24,172 and the median was $14,000; both figures were nearly identical to last year's results. The RNA rate was 21 percent, also on par with 2019 results.

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Second Chances: Speaker’s Corner

In this continuing series, TDN’s Senior Editor Steve Sherack catches up with the connections of promising maidens to keep on your radar.

How much buzz was there ahead of Speaker’s Corner (c, 2, Street Sense-Tyburn Brook, by Bernardini)’s debut run on closing day at Saratoga?

Considering patient Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott’s two-for-48 record with debuting juvenile runners sprinting in dirt maiden special weights at the Spa the past five seasons (stat courtesy DRF Formulator), the Godolphin homebred was nonetheless hammered down as the 3-5 favorite facing eight rivals on the GI Runhappy Hopeful S. undercard.

The bay’s flashy worktab included a five-furlong move from the gate in :59 4/5 (3/20) Aug. 24 and a four-furlong bullet in :46 (1/109) Aug. 31, respectively.

Not off to the sharpest of beginnings from post two, Speaker’s Corner raced on the inside in some traffic and was urged along by Junior Alvarado in seventh through an opening quarter in :22.39.

Still with plenty to do approaching the quarter pole, he was tipped out off the turn for home and finished with interest down the lane to just grab third, beaten 6 3/4 lengths by good-looking second-time starter Team Merchants (Nyquist).

Speaker’s Corner earned a 59 Beyer Speed Figure for the effort.

Speaker’s Corner was produced by an unraced daughter of GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff heroine Round Pond (Awesome Again), a $5.75-million acquisition by Sheikh Mohammed’s operation at the 2007 Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

This same Street Sense over Bernardini cross is also responsible for Godolphin’s unbeaten GISW Maxfield and recent GIII Oklahoma Derby winner Shared Sense.

“As with most first-time starters, he was quite green,” Godolphin President Jimmy Bell said. “Hopefully, he got some needed racing experience and we look forward to seeing him stretch out in the not-too-distant future. He’s shown above average ability throughout most of his works. Time will tell.”

Speaker’s Corner has returned to the worktab since his unveiling with a pair of moves over the Oklahoma training track, including a five-furlong breeze in 1:02.89 (7/9) Sept. 25.

Previous standouts featured in ‘Second Chances’ include: GI Runhappy Santa Anita Derby winner Honor A. P. (Honor Code), Skidmore S. winner and Royal Ascot G2 Norfolk S. runner-up Golden Pal (Uncle Mo), MGISW and ‘TDN Rising Star’ Paradise Woods (Union Rags), GSW Backyard Heaven (Tizway), MSW and ‘TDN Rising Star’ Gidu (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), MGISP Spielberg (Union Rags), GII Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth S. runner-up Candy Tycoon (Twirling Candy); and Del Mar Juvenile Turf S. third Ambivalent (Constitution).

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