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A Publication of the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association PAThoroughbred pabred.com January 2019 pabred.com Issue 58 REPORT Warrior’s Reward offers great value Bolstered by an exceptional breeders’ award program, the stallion market in Pennsylvania has gained Call Paul gallops considerable momentum lately. Warrior’s Reward is in PA Nursery another top prospect added Page 25 Page 3 to the region for 2019. Peace and Justice headlines FTM Dec Opportunity abounds Page 15 with Hoppertunity It isn’t every year that a horse with as PA-Breds selling much class as Hoppertunity retires to the breeding shed. Thanks to the at Keeneland efforts of the team at Northview Stallion Station, the remarkable, iron-willed January sale racehorse is taking up residence in the Mid-Atlantic region for his very first Page 6 Page 19 season at stud at Northview PA. PA-Bred Fillies PA-Bred Horses of the Year Unique Bella and Page McKenney retired due to Eclipse Finalists injuries Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint-G1 winner Shamrock Rose and two-time 2018 Grade 1 winner A Letter from Executive and 2017 champion female sprinter Unique Bella (left) are among this Secretary Brian Sanfratello year’s Eclipse Award finalists. Page 10 Page 13 9th Annual Stallion Auction January 17-19, 2019 thoroughlybred.com Starts 1/17 at 12:01 AM Ends 1/19 at 11:59:59 PM PENNSYLVANIA KENTUCKY Airoforce (LF) Aikenite (NG) Lemon Drop Kid (NG) Shackleford (NG) Bullsbay (LF) Bee Jersey (NG) Liam’s Map (NG) Sky Kingdom (NG) Dolphus (LF) Behesht (FR) (NG) Midshipman (NG) Slumber (GB) (NG) Eastwood (LF) Bodemeister (NG) Mineshaft (NG) Snapy Halo (ARG) (NG) Flashback (LF) Connect (NG) Mr Speaker (NG) Tale of Ekati (NG) Lord Shanakill (LF) Constitution (NG) Mr. Z (NG) Tapiture (NG) Medallist (LF) Conveyance (NG) Musketier (GER) (NG) The Factor (NG) Partners Hero (LF) Dialed In (NG) Niagara Causeway (NG) Tonalist (NG) Peace and Justice (LF) Even the Score (NG) Noble Mission (NG) Tourist (NG) Power By Far (LF) Fed Biz (NG) Optimizer (NG) Twirling Candy (NG) Red Vine (LF) Free Drop Billy (NG) Overanalyze (NG) Unied (NG) Rimrod (LF) Goldencents (NG) Paynter (NG) V.E. Day (NG) Smarty Jones (LF) (2 seasons) Grey Swallow (IRE) (NG) Poseidon’s Warrior (NG) War Correspondent (NG) Social Inclusion (LF) Honor Code (NG) Producer (GB) (NG) Wildcat Red (NG) Talent Search (LF) Jimmy Creed (NG) Raison d’Etat (NG) Uncle Lino (LF) Klimt (NG) Run Away And Hide (NG) Unfettered (LF) Uptowncharlybrown (LF) (2 seasons) FLORIDA NEW YORK MARYLAND Warrior’s Reward (LF) (2 seasons) Bahamian Squall (LF) A Shin Forward (NG) Bandbox (LF) Weigelia (LF) First Dude (NG) Bellamy Road (NG) Buum (LF) Well Spelled (LF) (2 seasons) Big Brown (NG) Cuba (LF) Wildcat Brief (LF) (2 seasons) Boys at Tosconova (NG) Divining Rod (LF) Courageous Cat (NG) Freedom Child (LF) Dr Large (LF) Friesan Fire (LF) Frank Conversation (NG) Golden Lad (LF) New seasons are still being added! Giant Surprise (NG) I’m Steppin It Up (LF) Golden Ticket (NG) Madefromlucky (LF) Check pabred.com for the latest updates. Honorable Dillon (NG) Mosler (LF) Majestic City (NG) Redeemed (LF) Be sure to register on thoroughlybred.com with a free user account beforehand so Market Rally (NG) Super Ninety Nine (LF) that you’ll be ready when the auction goes live. Micromanage (NG) Live foal is dened as a right of return the following year. If your mare does not achieve a live foal in 2019, you will receive one free season to the same or equally Redesdale (NG) priced stallion. Weekend Hideaway (NG) Zivo (NG) PA Bred 610-444-1050 pabred.com @PA_PHBA Warrior’s Reward offers great value and potential by Emily Shields Bolstered by an exceptional in the Wood Memorial Stakes-G1. Warrior’s stakes events before trying the Breeders’ Cup Reward has had 65 percent winners from Sprint-G1 at Churchill Downs; Warrior’s Re- breeders’ award program, the starters, and was ranked 38th on the 2018 ward finished fifth of 12 and has the distinc- stallion market in Pennsylvania has General Sires List ahead of the likes of Tiznow, tion of defeating future grass titan Wise Dan gained considerable momentum Bodemeister, and Awesome Again. in that race. Warrior’s Reward retired with four Bringing Warrior’s Reward to Pennsylvania wins and 11 top three finishes from 17 starts lately. Yet another top prospect was a lightning fast process. “We were shop- for earnings of $565,716. has been added to the region ping for a stallion and had put the word out,” Now that the impressively built stallion has Brown said. “We got a list of names. Warrior’s moved from Kentucky to Pennsylvania, Brown for 2019, with Warrior’s Reward Reward was on it, and I knew immediately has opted to do something a bit different coming in from Kentucky to settle that’s who we wanted, that was the one. The with the horse’s stud fee, officially listed as: at WynOaks Farm near Delta. horse was only on the market about 24 hours.” “$4,500 Live Foal stands and nurses. Special Warrior’s Reward has been shuttling the consideration for mares foaling in Pennsylva- The stallion’s $4,500 fee looks paltry com- Southern Hemisphere season in Australia and nia.” pared to what he offers: a solid pedigree, a was not scheduled to Brown explained, Grade 1-winning record, and average earnings arrive in Pennsylvania “The way the Penn- per starter of $47,553. With just five crops on until Dec. 20. “We are sylvania breeding the track to date, Warrior’s Reward has prog- planning and hoping program works, eny earnings of over $17 million. Although to do a stallion view- there is a reward for $3.4 million of that was earned by juveniles, ing with him on Jan. stallion owners here Warrior’s Reward is adept at siring horses of 5,” Brown said. in the state when all types. Barbara Wheeler, there are offspring “He can produce any kind of runner on any who owns WynOaks that race here. We kind of surface,” said Donald Brown, man- Farm with her hus- thought that people aging partner of Warrior’s Reward. “He’s had band, Chip, said, “We who race in Penn- Breeders’ Cup horses, he’s had graded stakes are absolutely excit- sylvania should get a winners, and he’s had horses in claimers that ed about having him. discount, because we go long and short. They dirt, they turf. He’s ca- He’s going to be a have a chance of get- pable of getting anything.” great addition to the ting that money back Warrior’s Reward, by Medaglia d’Oro and Pennsylvania breed- down the road. If we out of the Seeking the Gold mare For All You ing program. He is a have a lot of offspring Do, is the sire of Puerto Rican champion well-established stallion, especially after the on the ground in Pennsylvania, the return 3-year-old Exclusivo, 2018 Grade 3 winner accomplishments his offspring had this year.” could be more than the $4,500 if someone Warrior’s Club, and stakes winners Medal of Warrior’s Reward had previously been gets a really nice runner.” Courage and Yockey’s Warrior. The most no- standing at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky, For Brown, the draw lies in Warrior’s Re- table runner he had the past year is Axelrod, where he entered stud in 2011 for a fee of ward’s pricing. “I love the value in him,” he who won the Indiana Derby-G3 and the Smarty $15,000 after a successful racing career. said. “He’s a proven stallion that ranks any- Jones Stakes after placing in the Affirmed He broke his maiden first out at Gulfstream where from 30th to 40th in the overall general Stakes-G3 at Santa Anita. He finished second Park, then won an allowance race at Churchill sire rankings, and at his price point he’s simply in the Pennsylvania Derby-G1 at Parx before Downs four months later before embarking on a value. You usually have to pay a lot more to trying the Breeders’ Cup Classic-G1, ultimate- a slew of stakes starts. Warrior’s Reward fin- go to a stallion in that range.” ly earning $692,080 during the year. ished second or third in the Dwyer Stakes-G2, Warrior’s Reward will be one of two stal- Other stakes winners by the now 13-year- Jim Dandy Stakes-G2, and the Northern Danc- lions at WynOaks this season; Weigelia also old stallion include T Rex Express, Battle Sta- er Stakes-G3, but the best was still to come. stands there. Wheeler is looking forward to tion, Requite, Strawberry Baby and Warrior- As a 4-year-old in 2010, Warrior’s Reward that prospect, and joked, “It will make things scmoutoplay. He also sired 2015 stakes won an allowance race before taking Aque- a little busier to have both of them, but we’re winners at Belmont Park, Gulfstream Park, and duct’s Carter Handicap-G1, defeating the okay with that!” n Woodbine Racetrack. His Tencendur ran in the likes of Musket Man and future standout sire 2015 Kentucky Derby after finishing second Munnings. He then placed in two more graded PA THOROUGHBRED REPORT 3 Pennsylvania, where fans can become breeders! Join the lucrative PA Breeding Program with a share in a PA-Bred Breeding Partnership! Want to participate in the lucrative PA-Bred program as a breeder with the benet of seeing how to buy and foal a commercial mare in Pennsylvania? Become a PA breeder with the purchase of a 10% share of TENSAS COWGIRL, in foal to leading sire SPEIGHTSTOWN.