Bill Oppenheim, December 19-Bumper Crop Denman (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}--Peach {Aus}, by Vain {Aus})--Won a Group 1 and two Group 2 races in Australia over seven furlongs among nine wins from 12 starts. He=s by Lonhro, who=s proven so popular in Kentucky as a >reverse shuttler,= and is out of a by Vain, so he is bred to be fast. Given Lonhro=s BUMPER CROP popularity, Darley decided to being Denman to A handful of Euros may stand for more money, but Kentucky to reverse shuttle as well, and he=ll be there sure can=t be as many of them: by our count, standing his first Kentucky season for $15,000 in there are 27 stallions retiring to stud in North America 2014. in 2014 for $7,500 or more. Of the 27, we find 23 in Kentucky, two each in Florida and New York. I=m sure Fast Bullet (Speightstown--Renfro Valley Star, by we can count on readers to let us know about any Dayjur)--Lightly raced chestnut made just seven starts we=ve missed! This week, thumbnail sketches of the over three seasons, his best win coming this spring candidates: when he led all the way to beat fellow Zayat runner Justin Philip (First Samurai) in the GII True North H. at Kentucky six furlongs. Standing for $7,500, Fast Bullet goes to Alternation (Distorted Humor--Alternate, by Seattle stallion-maker Ben Walden=s Pauls Mill Farm, which is Slew)--Plied his trade mainly in the Midwest for also debuting I Want Revenge in 2014 (see below). owner-breeder Pin Oak Stud, to which he retires for $7,500. He won the GII Peter Pan S. Flat Out (Flatter--Cresta Lil, by Cresta Rider)--Ran 29 at as a 3-year-old and times in all over six seasons, the last 23 of them in the GII Oaklawn H. at four, both at graded races from ages five nine furlongs, and also won two through seven. He was in the Grade III=s and earned over first three in 16 graded races, $1 million. Pin Oak has always had a including 11 Grade I races. He good following, and though he may won three times at the not be the most high-profile sire to highest levelBtwo runnings of retire in Kentucky for 2013, you the 10-furlong Jockey Club Coady photography wouldn=t discount his chances one Gold Cup and the GI Cigar bit. Mile. He also won the GII Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}--Dalicia {Ger}, Suburban H. twice. He is one Adam Coglianese by Acatenango {Ger})--Won the GI on of three new sires for dirt, the G1 Dubai World Cup on synthetic (Tapeta), Spendthrift next year and will stand for $10,000. and gave Wise Dan a fright in the 2012 GI Breeders= Cup Mile on turf; effective at distances from a mile to Fort Larned (E Dubai--Arlucea, by Broad Brush)--Winner 10 furlongs, though his two of 10 of 25 lifetime starts, including the 2012 GI best wins were at the latter Whitney H., the 2012 GI Breeders= Cup Classic (Beyer trip. Has a great outcross 115, defeating ) and this year=s GI pedigree, being by a son of Stephen Foster H. leading all the way and drawing off Candy Stripes (by Blushing by six lengths. He earned $4.4 million overall, and ran Groom) out of a German-bred Beyer figures of 107+ six times. He=ll get a good shot mare by Acatenango. A great at Adena Springs, where he=ll debut for a $15,000 fee. prospect, though a word of caution on the physical: his Graydar (Unbridled=s Song--Sweetest Smile, by )- Horsephotos sire >Leroi= is a medium-sized, -Unbeaten in three starts this year, namely the GI Donn type, but H., GII New Orleans H. (both 9 furlongs) and the GII Animal Kingdom is a big, scopey type, likely throwing Kelso H. at a mile, and was 5-for-6 lifetime. Succeeds more to his damsire. I maybe wouldn=t send him the his late sire at Taylor Made and deserves to be well same physical type you would send to >Leroi=. supported. Had he made the GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile, he might well have given the winner Goldencents Data Link (--Database, by Known Fact)--Grade plenty to think about. I winner at a mile (2012 GI Maker=s Mark Mile, at ); also second to Wise Dan in the same race I Want Revenge (Stephen Got Even--Meguial {Arg}, by in 2013), and won Grade II races at 8 1/2 and nine Roy)--Won the GI Wood Memorial in spectacular fashion at odds of 1-2 in 2009 and looked the favorite for that furlongs. Strictly a grass horse; he=s a Grade I winner by War Front, standing at Claiborne for a very year=s GI Kentucky Derby, but was sidelined by injury. He joins Fast Bullet as this year s Pauls Mill intake, reasonable $7,500, another in a string of righteous = > = which means he s gone to a farm which knows how to stud fees at Claiborne for 2014. = give them a good shot, and at $10,000, he looks very fair value for a horse who was the likely Derby favorite. Jimmy Creed (Distorted HumorBHookedonthefeelin, by Citidancer)--A $900,000 yearling purchase, a good sprinter who won the GI Malibu S. at 7 furlongs on opening day of Santa Anita=s 2012-13 winter meet and came back in April to win the “With 60 fillies or selling for the equivalent of $1-million or more this autumn GII Potrero Grande S. at – a 67% increase on 36 last year – it’s only a pleasant surprise that the European 6 1/2 furlongs, both on Mixed sales were up just as much if not more than the North American ones. There conventional dirt. In that respect are still more millionaires (equine and human) in America, as it’s still a much bigger he is more like his sire and has a market, but with 30%-plus gains at all three major European mixed sales, the 2013 chance to further establish sales season indisputably goes down in the history books as the year the Distorted Humor as a sire of market came roaring back.” spendthriftfarm.com sires, which would be welcome. – Bill Oppenheim Reasonably priced at $12,500, which if memory serves is the price at which his sire kicked off, at the resurgent Spendthrift operation.

Justin Philip (First Samurai--Ava Knowsthecode, by Cryptoclearance)--Very useful sprinter who ran 32 times over four seasons and finally got his deserved Grade I win in this year=s Alfred G. Vanderbilt S. at Saratoga; also won the GII Woody Stephens and a Grade III, and placed in nine other graded races. Sprinters with this kind of record--danced a lot of dances, usually right there--often turn out to be much better sires castletonlyons.com than the bare facts of their ARQANA DECEMBER BREEDING STOCK SALE records might suggest. Very YEAR CAT RING SOLD %W/D %S/R %S/C GROSS AVG well bred--he=s a half-brother to four other black-type 2013 954 846 686 11.3% 81.1% 71.9% €26,433,000 €38,532 winners, including Algorithms--and goes to Castleton 2012 930 814 598 12.5% 73.5% 64.3% €19,561,500 €32,712 Lyons for $12,500. 2011 908 788 544 13.2% 69.0% 59.9% €16,159,500 €29,705 2010 878 790 567 10.0% 71.8% 64.6% €16,309,000 €28,764 2009 748 674 512 9.9% 76.0% 68.4% €13,389,500 €26,151 Liaison (--Galloping Gal, by Victory 2008 734 656 464 10.6% 70.7% 63.2% €11,567,500 €24,930 Gallop)--Won the GI CashCall Futurity as a 2-year-old and contested eight graded races from eight starts at three, and connections obviously thought a lot of him, as he ran in the GI Kentucky Derby and GI Travers S. and he did place in the GII S. and GII Jim Dandy S. He came back this year at four to win the GII Mervyn Leroy H. Both his graded wins were on synthetic at Hollywood Parl, but he also did win a stakes on conventional dirt and is another headed to Spendthrift, for $10,000.

Morning Line (Tiznow--Indian Snow, by A.P. Indy)--A bit of a forgotten horse, being very lightly raced the last two seasons. Won the GII and missed by a head in the GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile as a 3-year-old in 2010. He won the seven-furlong GI Carter H. at TOTAL 2ND HALF EUROPEAN MIXED SALES four and the GII Mervyn Leroy YEAR CAT RING SOLD %W/D %S/R %S/C GROSS AVG H. at five. A $700,000 yearling 2013 4,806 4,114 3,341 14.4% 81.2% 69.5% €192,703,559 €57,678 acquisition and by Tiznow, who 2012 4,744 4,008 3,109 15.5% 77.6% 65.5% €132,100,578 €42,490 lanesend.com 2011 4,496 3,792 2,757 15.7% 72.7% 61.3% €122,722,466 €44,513 has a real chance to be a sire of 2010 4,511 3,770 2,674 16.4% 70.9% 59.3% €97,346,550 €36,405 sires, Morning Line has retired 2009 4,318 3,593 2,689 16.8% 74.8% 62.3% €104,133,851 €38,726 to Lane=s End for $10,000. 2008 5,328 4,186 2,554 21.4% 61.0% 47.9% €98,305,323 €38,491

Data compiled by Brianne Stanley Orb (Malibu Moon--Lady Liberty, by Unbridled)--Though, Point of Entry (Dynaformer--Matlacha Pass, by Seeking like many GI Kentucky Derby winners, he never won the Gold)--Probably Dynaformer=s last great shot to again after the Derby, that was his fifth win in a row, make a sire of sires, and a big shot he has, too: he won which included the five in a row in 2012, including three Grade I=s in New GII Fountain of Youth S. York at 11-12 furlongs on the (defeating the theretofore turf (Man O=War, Sword unbeaten Violence) and Dancer, Turf Classic) before GI . This is a just failing to peg back Little horse with an aura: comes Mike in the 2012 GI Breeders= from Stuart Janney=s probably Cup Turf. He probably ran his oldest and best family and best race ever when defeating goes to Claiborne for none other than Animal claibornefarm.com $25,000. He=ll get serious Kingdom in the GI Gulfstream support from a good Adam Coglianese Park Turf H. at nine furlongs Claiborne syndicate and is sure to deservedly be one of last February, and added his this group=s commercial leaders. fifth Grade I in the 10-furlong Manhattan in June. He goes to Adena Springs for $25,000 and should appeal Overanalyze (Dixie UnionBUnacloud, by Unaccounted to Europeans as well as Americans. You wouldn=t be For)--Could prove quite a shrewd buy for WinStar. looking for precocious 2-year-olds, but this is a horse Though he wouldn=t be a household name, he did win who really will have the kind of support that could see the GII Futurity S. and GII Remsen S. at two, and the him make a sire. GI Arkansas Derby at three earlier this year. He=s by Dixie Union, also the sire of Union Rags, who is an Shanghai Bobby (Harlan=s Holiday--Steelin=, by underrated source of quality (he was, after all, a very Orientate)--Unbeaten in five starts at two, including a good 2-year-old by Dixieland Band), and does have a five-length trouncing of subsequent dual Grade I winner few things going for him, including where he=s Goldencents in the GI Champagne and a hard-fought standing. He debuts for $10,000. win in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile. Unbeaten 2-year-olds Oxbow (Awesome Again--Tizamazing, by Cee=s Tizzy)-- have a pretty fair record as sires, This year=s GI Preakness winner under an inspired and it cannot have gone front-running ride from the rejuvenated Gary Stevens, unnoticed that when Coolmore and also second to Palace Malice in the GI Belmont. At decided to replenish the Ashford 78 his equally rejuvenated trainer, Wayne Lukas, isn=t roster, they acquired four likely to have changed his methods, so Oxbow danced consecutive champion juveniles: plenty of dances until his retirement after the GI Lookin At Lucky (first 2-year-olds Haskell, but that=s no bad thing: Lukas has trained 2014), Uncle Mo (first yearlings plenty of top sires. With the promise of his owner 2014), Hansen (since sold to Calumet=s support, Oxbow goes to Taylor Made, coolmore.com South Korea, first foals 2014), alongside Graydar, for $20,000. and Shanghai Bobby. He=s by Harlan=s Holiday, which is also a plus as people like Paynter (Awesome Again--Tizso, by Cee=s Tizzy)--An him, and will be standing for $20,000. exciting sire prospect with a great advertising campaign, Paynter and Oxbow Swagger Jack (Smart Strike--Lyrical Prayer, by The are actually Minstrel)--Started out on grass but switched to dirt and 3/4-brothers, both being by was first or second in six consecutive races, Awesome Again and out of full culminating with a win in the GI Carter H. this April. By sisters to Tiznow. Paynter was Smart Strike from a good Ned Evans family he=ll have a game front-running second to plenty of appeal. Goes to Millennium Farms for $7,500. Union Rags in the 2012 GI Belmont S., then came back to (A.P. Indy--Take Charge Lady, by win the GI Haskell in his next Dehere)--By A.P. Indy, which in itself is a good start. recommendation, out of He didn=t win a stakes this triple Grade I winner and year, but ran a Beyer 114 $2.4-million earner Take Horsephotos winning a Hollywood Park Charge Lady--which allowance race over seven makes him a furlongs (synthetic) and was runner-up to Mucho half-brother to this Macho Man in the GI Awesome Again S., which I think year=s pro-tem we used to know as the Goodwood. A horse with a lot 3-year-old champion Will of charisma and a big shot, he goes to WinStar for Reed Palmer Take Charge. $25,000. This horse ran two races which alone give him a big New York shot, in my view: he won the GI Florida Derby, which is Emcee (Unbridled=s Song--Surf Club, by Ocean Crest)-- as good a race for producing sires as any you can OK, let me see if I=ve got this right, as far as Darley at name: and this year, at four, he ran a sensational race Sequel Stallions goes: Desert in the GII Alysheba at , winning by six Party comes back to New York lengths in a Beyer 109. He goes to WinStar for in a straight swap for Girolamo, $20,000 and deserves to be well supported, which he who moves to Kentucky. And will be. Emcee debuts for Darley at Sequel. He was a crack sprinter Verrazano (More Than Ready--Enchanted Rock, by by Unbridled=s Song who four Giant=s Causeway)--Won his first four starts, including a times ran Beyers of 107-108, sensational 16-length allowance win at Gulfstream and including when winning the the GI Wood Memorial, then returned in the summer to sequelstallions.com GI Forego H. last year, after win the GI Haskell by nearly 10 lengths, running which he was sent off favorite another sensational race to record a Beyer 116. Only for the GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile. Very fast, debuts for Fort Larned and Flat Out among this year=s retiring $7,500. stallions--and both as older horses--ran figures that high in their careers. Verrazano goes to Ashford, though at Trinniberg (--Bella Dorato, by Goldminers this writing I believe they still have not announced a Gold)--Ripped off three impressive seven-furlong wins stud fee, leaving open the possibility that he remains in both before (GIII Swale S., GIII Bay Shore S.) and after training in 2014. He was probably the most high-profile (GII Woody Stevens S.) his effort to contest the pace in American 3-year-old of 2013 and is sure to command the 2012 GI Kentucky Derby. Ran a lifetime best to strong market support. upset the 2012 GI Breeders= Cup Sprint at generous 13-1 odds. There=s no doubt he was a serious Violence (Medaglia d=Oro--Violent Beauty, by Gone speedball, and is by Johannesburg=s son Teuflesberg, West)--Won all three of his starts at two, including the who himself moved to New York last year. Trinniberg GII Nashua S., then shipped will stand at Rockridge Farm for $7,500. across the country to win the GI CashCall Futurity. Injured and retired to Hill >n= Dale after running second to Orb in the GII Fountain of Youth. He was a $600,000 yearling, and the >judges= confirm he is >gorgeous=. He=ll stand for $15,000, and hillndalefarms.com from what we hear on the Bush Telegraph, he=s already just about full. The market is going to love him, too.

Florida Rattlesnake Bridge (Tapit--Prall Street, by Cherokee Run)--Son of Tapit who won the Long Branch S. and ran second to Stay Thirsty in the GI Travers S. and third behind To Honor and Serve in the GII Pennsylvania Derby. Tapit himself was one of four stallions since 2001 whose foals sold so uniformly well that the market was telling us he was a horse to bet on, and his son Trappe Shot did just about the same this year. Given Tapit and given Florida as a nursery for stallions, we=ll be paying attention here. He goes to Hartley/DeRenzo for $7,500.

Treasure Beach (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}--Honorine {Ire}, by Mark of Esteem {Ire})--Globetrotting Group 1 winner who ran second to Pour Moi in the G1 Epsom Derby, then won the G1 Irish Derby (RPR 122 in both races) and the GI S. at Arlington, as a 3-year-old in 2011, and finished second to Point of Entry in the GI Turf Classic last year. Who wouldn=t want a Group 1 Derby-winning son of Galileo? Goes to Pleasant Acres for $10,000.