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March 28, 2018 October 25, 2020 SPECIAL .COM OCTOBER , Daredevil Join Exclusive Fraternity Of First-Crop Classic Sires By Joe Nevills Whether they stand in Ken- superstar in the South- tucky’s finest station ern Hemisphere. He’s also or a remote outpost in Alaska, responsible for another top , the best-case scenario for any Australian-born Oh Susanna, North American sire involves who was named South Africa’s having a runner from his first Horse of Year in 2018. crop win a Triple Crown race. ’s four progeny History has proven this to be Breeders’ Cup victories tied easier said than done, but a him with fellow Darley stallion young sire that manages to Medaglia d’Oro for the most achieve the feat is more often among the club members. than not set up for a long, boun- tiful stud career. Medaglia d’Oro can also stake a claim for producing the top This year’s Triple Crown series LOUISE REINAGEL PHOTO Northern Hemisphere filly of saw Constitution become the Constitution the century, in Rachel Alexan- 10th horse to sire a North Continued on Page 4 American classic winner in his first crop since 1995, when won the in June. In Oc- tober, Daredevil became the 11th stallion to join the club when his daughter Swiss Skydiver shocked the . LORD It was the first time two first-crop sires were represented by classic winners since 2017, when NELSON won the Derby for and Cloud Com- puting upset the Preakness Stakes for Maclean’s Music.

Of course, there are no sure-fire indicators of future success or failure in a young stallion. There are plenty of First Yearlings: examples of one-hit wonders whose Triple Crown race winner was their only upper-crust runner of note. Some of them just have their time in the sun earlier than others. $460,000 $325,000 The market has proven, though, that a stallion that hits early will get more chances to succeed, and many of the $220,000 etc. 11 horses in the “First-Crop Club” took advantage of that trend and continued to do well.

The debate over the club member with the most success- ful stud career depends on the metric one wants to use.

For those counting by earnings, the winner is Street Cry, who saw champion take the 2007 Derby. Street Cry currently sits with progeny earnings in excess Look for more at of $170 million. F-T October The late resident of Darley’s became an international star at stud, siring arguably the best of this century on both sides of the world: Hall of Famer in the Northern Hemisphere, and Australian Page 2

Stallion Spotlight Tom Hamm Of Three Chimneys On Fast Anna By Joe Nevills

only look to continue to mature and FAST ANNA get better. Dk. b. or br. h., 2011, Medaglia d’Oro x Dreaming of Anna, by With his first runners being just Race Record: 9-3-2-2; $296,731 3-year-olds, a lot of Fast Anna’s Advertised Fee: $10,000 resume at stud remains to be writ- ten. What makes you optimistic What is Fast Anna’s strongest sell- about the stallion from what you’ve ing point as a stallion? seen so far?

Tom Hamm: Fast Anna produced over Hamm: The consistency of stakes seven percent stakes winners from winners from his first crop of juve- starters in his first juvenile crop. To top niles has us very optimistic. Multiple it off, he has the looks and pedigree to EQUISPORT PHOTO stakes winner Fast Scene is coming make it as a top stallion. Fast Anna back for a spring campaign, and we’re excited about Lexi On the If I’ve got a that needs help from the stallion on a Move who won her first two starts at Oaklawn Park. He was physical characteristic, what can Fast Anna best contrib- also represented by a Royal Ascot runner in his first crop ute to the equation? with Anna’s Fast.

Hamm: Fast Anna is a beautiful son of Medaglia d’Oro who What’s something about Fast Anna that you think goes stands at 16.2 hands. From him, and like his sire, you can overlooked? expect a big frame with plenty of size and scope. Hamm: The depth and quality of his pedigree. His dam, Fast Anna is out of a champion 2-year-old filly in Dream- Dreaming of Anna, won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies ing of Anna. What female-family influences do you see in and was crowned champion 2-year-old filly. His second dam Fast Anna and his foals? is a half-sister to leading sire Kitten’s Joy. A female family like that combined with sire power of Medaglia d’Oro pro- Hamm: Lots of precocity and speed. Fast Anna can certainly vides him with all the potential in the world. get you a stakes winner at two. What else should someone considering Fast Anna know Now that we’ve got a few crops on the ground, what can before making the call? a breeder expect from a Fast Anna foal as a weanling? As a yearling? Hamm: He is capable of producing a six-figure yearling or stakes winner at two. Witnessing the talent displayed from Hamm: As foals and weanlings, Fast Anna progeny have a his 2-year-old crop, we believe it is just the tip of the iceberg. great frame with plenty of leg under them. With time, they He’s the full package at a modest price. PRS

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Continued from Page 1 dra, who won the 2009 Preakness as part of her sire’s Unbridled is one of three sires in the club to have another first crop. classic winner after their initial success. Maria’s Mon punched his ticket when Monarchos won the 2001 Derby, Like Street Cry, Medaglia d’Oro has fashioned himself into then Super Saver won the same race nine years later. an international sire, capable of getting a winner over any ground put before his foals. His runners have made 34 saw claim the Derby and starts in Breeders’ Cup races, giving him the most in the Preakness in 2003, making him the only first-crop sire club, and his 78 graded or group stakes winners is highly since 1995 to take two legs of the Triple Crown with the likely to pass leader Street Cry’s 82 before long. same runner. In 2010, scored the upset in the Belmont Stakes to give him another classic triumph. Currently one of North America’s most reliable high-level A year later, Drosselmeyer shocked the world once again commercial sires, Medaglia d’Oro is also responsible for winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic. two-time champion , Canadian Horse of the Year , and Breeders’ Cup winners Talismanic, Distorted Humor is the most experienced member of Bar of Gold, and New Money Honey. the club, with 19 crops of racing age through 2020, and more to come. The WinStar Farm resident’s 167 stakes Looking at the overall body of work, Unbridled has a case for winners is the most of the horses in this group, and his being named the most successful member of the club, as 30 Breeders’ Cup starts is second. He is also tied for the well. He became the first member of the club to post a first- club’s most classic starters, with nine. crop classic winner after 1995, when won the 1996 Derby. ’s admission into the club was unique, being the only sire in the group to punch his ticket with two different Since then, Unbridled rests as the club’s leader by classic winners. In 2009, skimmed the rail Award winners (four) and classic winners (three) and co- to upset the , then won the leader by classic starters. This made all the more impres- Belmont Stakes en route to securing that year’s champion sive considering he did it with just 10 crops – less than 3-year-old male honors. five of his contemporaries. Getting two classic winners and a champion out of a first In the years that followed Grindstone’s Derby victory, crop seems like it ought to project to a massive stallion Unbridled added 2000 Preakness winner Red Bullet and career, but Birdstone was never quite able to follow up 2003 Belmont winner . He had a pair of on that early momentum. Noble Bird became a Grade 1 champion 3-year-old fillies in Banshee Breeze and Smug- winner for his sire, and Swipe finished second in the 2015 gler, and a pair of 2-year-old Breeders’ Cup winners who Breeders’ Cup Juvenile by just half a length, but Birdstone won their respective categories in Half- bridled and Anees. Continued on Page 7

Of course, any conversation about the impact of Unbridled on the racetrack and beyond can’t take place without Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner and leading sire Unbridled’s Song, as well.

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Continued from Page 4 never had another classic starter after his first crop. for him to sire another significant top-shelf U.S. runner. Though he had a stud career that many could only strive to attain, it lagged behind his breed-shaping contem- Maclean’s Music, a resident of Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa, has poraries who entered the club around the same time. high-level results almost in lockstep with Bodemeister, with about half the starters. The son of fellow club member After Birdstone and Medaglia d’Oro punched their tickets Distorted Humor has been on the upswing heading into into the club, there was a seven-year gap before another this year’s Breeders’ Cup, with multiple Grade 1 winner stallion joined them, but that newcomer proved to be Jackie’s Warrior pointing toward the Juvenile and Grade 1 worth the wait. winner Complexity contending for the Dirt Mile.

With just six crops of racing age, Ashford Stud’s Uncle Mo Much like the last two stallions to accomplish the feat in is on pace to compete for the mantle as the club’s most the same year, Constitution and Daredevil are on different successful member. After his first crop of juveniles set trajectories, even though they started in the same place at the earnings record for a freshman sire, led by champion WinStar Farm. 2-year-old male and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Ny- quist, the same horse won the 2016 Derby. Constitution, a son of , appears destined for star- dom at stud. In one of the deepest sire classes in recent Uncle Mo is already tied for the group’s most classic start- memory – one including Triple Crown winner American ers, with nine, including three in his first Derby. His 69 Pharoah – Constitution has stood out as the kind of stal- stakes winners is the fourth-most among his contempo- lion that will aim to compete for a spot on the top shelf as raries, and his 41 graded/group stakes winners is in the a sire of runners and top-dollar horses. He had several top four. With blazing speed, Uncle Mo proved himself as buzzed-about runners on this year’s Triple Crown trail, a sire of the highest-quality runners, and his reward was a including Grade 3 winner Independence Hall and multiple place in the upper echelon of today’s commercial sires. Grade 1-placed Gouverneur Morris. He’s also responsible for a pair of Group 1 winners in Chile. A year after Uncle Mo punched his ticket, Bodemeister joined the group with Always Dreaming in the Derby, and Like Bodemeister, Daredevil was sent to Turkey after the Maclean’s Music earned his place with Cloud Computing in 2019 breeding season. Because the pipeline of new foals the Preakness. was already at a trickle before he was exported, the son of More Than Ready’s mission to carry on the momentum Despite entering stud as one the more lauded prospects in set by Preakness winner Swiss Skydiver and Kentucky his class, Bodemeister never caught the same spark after Oaks winner Shedaresthedevil will be more of an uphill Always Dreaming’s high-level run in the spring of 2017. climb than his contemporary. However, that positive mo- He has no Breeders’ Cup starters through his first four mentum on the racetrack earned Daredevil a ticket back crops of racing age. The grandson of Unbridled through sire stateside, following the announcement that he’ll stand Empire Maker was sold to stand in Turkey at the end of the at Lane’s End in 2021 as property of the Turkish 2019 breeding season, which means time is running out Club. The race, it appears, is far from over. PRS

Lifetime Progeny Performance Of Sires With First-Crop N.A. Classic Winners, 1995-Present

Crops of Stakes Graded Classic Classic BC BC Eclipse Sire Racing Age Wnrs Wnrs Wnrs Starters Wnrs Starts Wins Wnrs Earnings Daredevil 2 38 4 2 1 1 1 0 0 $4,634,232 Constitution 2 82 9 7 1 1 1 0 0 $7,646,181 Maclean’s Music 5 163 22 6 1 1 1 0 0 $14,703,486 Bodemeister 5 277 21 6 2 1 0 0 0 $20,797,267 Uncle Mo 6 528 69 41 9 1 9 1 1 $59,776,106 Medaglia d’Oro 13 933 151 78 6 1 34 4 2 $146,457,435 Birdstone 13 337 26 14 2 2 10 0 1 $30,084,117 Street Cry 12 1,107 142 82 3 1 13 4 2 $170,552,487 Distorted Humor 19 1,091 167 72 9 2 30 1 1 $146,010,578 Maria’s Mon 11 627 62 34 8 2 4 0 1 $62,920,433 Unbridled 10 283 49 26 9 3 11 3 4 $48,386,678 Page 8

First-Crop Sire Watch Fasig-Tipton October By Joe Nevills

Stallions whose first crops of yearlings are represented in the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale, includ- ing the number of horses cataloged and the farm where the stallion is currently advertised.

American Freedom – (29) Airdrie Stud, Ky. – (7) Deceased Astern – (19) Darley, Ky. Bal a Bali – (5) Calumet Farm, Ky. – (1) Deceased Bird Song – (4) Saudi Arabia – (22) Ashford Stud, Ky. – (15) Lane’s End, Ky. – (24) Ashford Stud, Ky. Divining Rod – (1) Country Life Farm, Md. Dortmund – (1) Bonita Farm, Md. El Deal – (1) Red River Farms, La. – (24) Farm, Ky. Greenpointcrusader – (1) Ocala Stud, Fla. – (12) Three Chimneys, Ky. Holy Boss – (1) Anchor & Hope Farm, Md. Hootenanny – (2) Ward Ranch, Ky. Iron Fist – (1) Whispering Oaks Farm, La. – (22) Calumet Farm, Ky. Kiss the Ghost – (1) Poplar Creek Horse Center, Ohio Klimt – (23) Darby Dan Farm, Ky. Kobe’s Back – (1) Bonita Farm, Md. Lord Nelson – (7) Spendthrift Farm, Ky. Mastery – (15) Claiborne Farm, Ky. Midnight Storm – (10) Taylor Made Stallions, Ky. Mohaymen – (12) Shadwell Farm, Ky. Mo Tom – (1) Red River Farms, La. Mr. Z – (6) Calumet Farm, Ky. Noble Bird – (2) Ocala Stud, Fla. Perfect Timber – (2) Colebrook Farms Stallion Station, Ontario – (16) Ashford Stud, Ky. Shaman Ghost – (1) Adena Springs, Ky. Tom’s Ready – (1) Red River Farms, La. Tu Brutus – (1) Crestwood Farm, Ky. Unified – (14) Lane’s End, Ky. Union Jackson – (1) Sequel New York, N.Y. War Correspondent – (3) Calumet Farm, Ky.