FORT LARNED First Crop Yearlings Sell for up to $117,000 AAAAA SSSSASS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2016 WWW.BLOODHORSE.COM S S S S S END OF AN ERA: UNUSUAL HEAT PENSIONED By Blood-Horse Staff IN TODAY’S EDITION Brody's Cause Retired to Spendthrift 3 Justin Casse Enjoys Weekend Success 4 Keeneland Sales Feat: 10 Grade I Stakes 6 Peterson to Direct UK's Ag Equine Programs 7 Photo Call Earns Week's Top Speed Figure 8 Deja Vu for Ferguson at Tattersalls 9 Irish Sire Marju Dies at Age 28 10 Euros Arrive for Woodbine International Card 11 Heritage Place Sale Posts Increases 12 Progeny of Freshmen Impress in October 13 RON MESAROS Unusual Heat is the all-time leading sire in California by progeny earnings Results 14 Entries 15 nusual Heat, the all-time leading sire in California Leading Lists 17 Uby progeny earnings, has been pensioned from stud duty at Harris Farms near Coalinga, Calif., at the age of 26. "It is with great emotion that we have to announce the retirement of Unusual Heat," said Harris Auerbach, managing partner of M. Auerbach LLC. "He's been remarkable, and even in his final One in 310 Australians season at stud in 2016 managed to get 25 of 30 is a racehorse owner. bred mares in foal. It's been an amazing run, and Play video and learn why. I'm happy that 'Heat' can now just relax and enjoy the rest of his days just being a horse." Bred by John T. L. Jones Jr. in Kentucky, Unusual Heat is a son of Nureyev out of Rossard, a daughter of Glacial who was a champion in Sweden and Denmark. In 1991 he became the highest-priced horse ever sold at a Barretts yearling auction, fetching a price of $250,000. He went on to race both in Europe and the United States under trainers Dermot Weld, Richard Mandella, and Barry Abrams. Aushorse.com.au (continued on page 2) BLOODHORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF 17 END OF AN ERA: UNUSUAL HEAT PENSIONED earned more than $200,000. (continued from page 1) Unusual Heat has won six California leading sire titles and is still the reigning California-conceived He was a multiple stakes winner who finished with a leading turf sire with 12 straight titles (2004-15). record of 6-2-2 in 16 starts and earnings of $142,605. Unusual Heat has also produced 15 California Where Unusual Heat made his indelible mark champions, including Acclamation, a now freshman was in the breeding shed. Under the ownership of sire who stands at Old English Rancho. Abrams and Auerbach, Unusual Heat stood his first "He's been the perennial leading sire in California season at Walter Greenman's Farm near Hemet, for over a decade and his influence on California Calif., before moving to Old English Rancho near breeding and racing through his sons and daughters Sanger, Calif., where he spent the bulk of his early will be prevalent for years to come," said Doug stallion career. Burge, the longtime president of the California In 2010 Unusual Heat was moved to John C. Thoroughbred Breeders' Association. Harris' Harris Farms, where spent the last six Other notable runners by Unusual Heat include seasons. stakes winners Lethal Heat, Unusual Suspect, The impact of Unusual Heat on California Golden Doc A, Gervinho, Burns, Pretty Unusual, breeding and racing was far reaching. From 16 crops Lennyfromalibu, Spenditallbaby, Mensa Heat, Tucked racing he is the sire of 42 black-type stakes winners Away, Lakerville, and Lightmyfirebaby. and 12 graded winners, including Acclamation, a Currently, Unusual Heat is represented by 2016 multiple grade I winner who won the 2011 Eclipse stakes winners Cheekaboo, Majestic Heat, Pacific Award as champion older male and earned more Heat, Boozer, and Central Heat. In 2016 Unusual than $1.9 million. Unusual Heat's progeny, which Heat has had 89 runners and 47 winners and leads also include grade I-winning millionaire The Usual Q. all California sires in California-conceived North T., have amassed more than $52.4 million in earnings American progeny earnings. BH worldwide. Seventy-five of his 556 starters have s Share this story Year after year, since 1935, the Thoroughbred industry’s top breeders consult BloodHorse Stallion Register for the information they need when choosing a stallion for their mares. 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Painted by Edward Troye ACCESS THE WORLD’S TOP SIRES AT STALLIONREGISTER.COM BLOODHORSE DAILY Download the FREE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2016 PAGE 2 OF 17 smartphoneLearn app More at StallionRegister.com BRODY'S CAUSE RETIRED TO SPENDTHRIFT By Blood-Horse Staff rody's Cause, a grade I-winning B2- and 3-year-old by Giant's Cause- way, has been retired from racing and will enter stud in 2017 at B. Wayne Hughes' Spendthrift Farm as the new- est participant in the Share the Upside program. "Brody's Cause ticks all the boxes in terms of the credentials needed to make a top sire," said Spendthrift MARK MAHAN New Spendthrift stallion Brody's Cause won the Toyota Blue Grass as a 3-year-old general manager Ned Toffey. "He's one of the best-looking sons of proven sire of sires Giant's Causeway that you'll ever one of the leading juveniles of his crop. He broke see, and he won prestigious grade I races at 2 and 3. his maiden at a mile at Churchill Downs in his first We believe it's another terrific opportunity to get in start on the dirt, before shipping to Keeneland to on a stallion prospect with huge potential through win the Breeders' Futurity just three weeks later. our Share the Upside program, and we expect he'll In the latter, Brody's Cause outkicked Exaggerator be popular." in the stretch to post a one-length victory over the The Share the Upside fee for Brody's Cause eventual Preakness (gr. I) winner, running 1 1/16 will be $15,000 on a two-year commitment, miles in 1:43.27. He closed out his 2-year-old season and breeders will earn a lifetime breeding right with a fast-closing third in the Sentient Jet Breeders' beginning in 2019 after having two live foals and Cup Juvenile (gr. I) behind champion Nyquist. paying the stud fees. For breeders not interested in As a 3-year-old, Brody's Cause became a the Share the Upside program, Brody's Cause will millionaire with a powerful victory in the 1 1/8-mile be offered for $12,500 on a standard stands and Blue Grass, streaking clear from a full field of 14 to nurses contract. Share the Upside opportunities win by 1 3/4 lengths and increased his earnings to are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served $1,168,138. basis, according to Spendthrift. Brody's Cause has taken up residence at Campaigned by owner Albaugh Family Stable and Spendthrift and is available for inspection. A trainer Dale Romans, Brody's Cause captured his $350,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase biggest victories in Keeneland's Claiborne Breeders' from the Paramount Sales consignment, he was Futurity (gr. I) at 2 and Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. bred in Kentucky by Gabriel Duignan, Bill Arvin Jr., I) at 3, joining Carpe Diem as the only two horses to and Petaluma Bloodstock out of the multiple stakes- win both of Keeneland's top races for 2-year-olds placed mare Sweet Breanna, and hails from the and 3-year-olds on dirt since Round Table in 1957. family of Secretariat and Cure the Blues. BH Brody's Cause proved to be precocious and s Share this story BLOODHORSE DAILY Download the FREE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2016 PAGE 3 OF 17 smartphone app Mark Casse, for the younger Justin they’re indicative of the increased prominence of the agent’s work as he continues to elevate his program of buying and selling Thoroughbreds. Mark, 55, and Justin, 35, are both sons of the late Norman Casse, the veteran horseman who was among the leaders of the Florida horse industry that helped move OBS into a successful sales and racing company. Another brother, John, operates an equine transportation company. “I get to know what it feels like to be my brother for a weekend,” Justin said jokingly of his Keeneland FASIG-TIPTON PHOTO FASIG-TIPTON successes. Justin Casse continues to elevate his program of buying and selling Dancing Rags was sold by Justin on behalf of the Thoroughbreds Steinbrenner family’s Kinsman Stud, a long-time client which had purchased Union Rags colt for JUSTIN CASSE ENJOYS WEEKEND SUCCESS $80,000 from the Lane’s End consignment to last By Ron Mitchell year’s Keeneland September yearling sale. Chadds t @BH_RMitchell Ford raced Union Rags, who now has two grade I winners from his first crop of foals to race. Bred ot many weekends go by in North America with- in Maryland by David DiPietro, the filly is out of Nout the Casse name figuring prominently in the winning grade III-placed Home Court, a Storm Cat outcomes of major stakes races, mainly due to the mare who has also produced grade II winner Coup success of the large stable operated by Mark Casse de Grace.