We have several beautiful Thoroughbred stallions standing at stud.
Gogarty
Irish Thoroughbred Stallion
In loving memory of Gogarty
(1988 to 2008)
* Gogarty was sired by Tate Gallery (Northern Dancer x Fairy Bridge), and out of Brews
Bridge (Thatching x Little Bitty Tear).
* Stakes-placed winner in California and Ireland with earnings of
$486,027.00.
* Won 19 races from 6.5 to 9 furlongs on dirt and turf, including
consecutive one-mile events at Hollywood Park in 1:34.1.
* Ran second to Arlington Million -- G1 winner Star Of Cozzence at Del
Mar, while defeating G1 SW Super May.
* By European Leading Sire Sadler's Wells' G1 -- winning brother Tate
Gallery.
* From the family of champions Alflora, Ardross, Castletown, and Magic
Night (FR). Inbred 4x4 to Forli.
* Started 73 times, won 19, placed in 15, showed in 7.
* Retired sound.
Duckhorn
* Duckhorn is a 16.2 hand 1997 grey registered Thoroughbred stallion.
* Duckhorn is a Grade 2 stakes winner who raced 23 times, with 8 wins, 3 places, and 3 shows, earning $747,812.
* Duckhorn won the Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (Grade 2), and placed 4th in that same raced again the next year. Duckhorn also won the Ben Ali Stakes (Grade 3), the Harrison E. Johnson Handicap, and the Northern Dancer Stakes, placing second in the Stymie Handicap (Grade 3), placing third in the Washington Park Handicap (Grade 2), and placing fourth in the Stephen Foster Handicap (Grade 2).
* Duckhorn is sired by Not For Love (Mr. Prospector -- Dance Number), and is out of Ten's Testamony (Deputed Testamony -- Nottaten).
* Not For Love is sired by Mr. Prospector (Raise A Native -- Gold Digger), and is out of Dance Number (Northern Dancer -- Numbered Account).
* Not For Love is the leading sire in North America outside of Kentucky for the last 6 years, with over $51 million dollars in progeny earnings.
* Not For Love has sired 734 foals, 596 runners (81%) 478 winners (65%), and 66 stakes winners (9%), with average earnings per starter at $87,378 at per starter, and 21% stakes horses out of starters in his career.
* In 2008, he was the first stallion in history outside of Kentucky to reach the $6.4 million dollar mark in progeny earnings acheived in one year. He has dominated the Maryland Million for the last decade, with his runners accounting for 21 wins, one shy of the record. His progeny have earned in excess of $4 million dollars per year for 9 years in a row.
* Not For Love started 29 times, with 6 wins, and earnings of $178,870.
* Not For Love is a full brother to Champion 2 year old and Multiple Grade 1 stakes winner of $1,142,532, Rhythm.
* Not For Love is sired by the sire of sires, Mr. Prospector (Raise A Native -- Gold Digger).
* Mr. Prospector was a $220,000 yearling, and a multiple stakes winner of $112,171. He was leading sire by number of lifetime stakes winners, with a total of 181 stakes winners, including 18 European or North American Champions, out of 1,178 foals.
* Not For Love's dam, Dance Number, (Northern Dancer -- Numbered Account) was a Grade 1 stakes winner of $415,418, and dam of 6 foals, 6 runners, 6 winners, and 2 stakes winners, including:
* Rhythm (full brother to Not For Love), multiple Grade 1 stakes winner of $1,592,532, and Champion 2 Year Old in 1989.
* Get Lucky (full sister to Not For Love), Grade 3 Stakes winner of $157,760.
* Get Lucky produced Grade 2 Stakes winners Daydreaming and Girolamo, as well as Grade 3 Stakes winner Accelerator.
* Get Lucky is the second dam of Bluegrass Cat, 2006 winner of the Haskell Invitational (Grade 1), and runner up in the Kentucky Derby (Grade 1) and the Belmont Stakes (Grade 1).
* Get Lucky is also the second dam of 2010 Kentucky Derby (Grade 1) winner Super Saver.
* Offbeat (Fappiano), Grade 1 stakes placed winner and multiple graded stakes winner of $333,204.
* Duckhorn is out of Ten's Testamony (Deputed Testamony -- Nottaten).
* Ten's Testamony produced 7 foals, 7 winners, and 2 stakes winners, including Duckhorn, Grade 2 stakes winner of $747,812, and Bella Medaglia (Medaglia D'Oro), stakes winner of $250,916.
* Ten's Testamony is sired by Deputed Testamony (Traffic Cop -- Proof Requested).
* Deputed Testamony was a multiple Grade 1 Stakes winner, racing 20 times, with 11 wins and 3 places, earning $674,329.
* Deputed Testamony won the Preakness Stakes (Grade 1), the Haskell Invitational Handicap (Grade 1), the Governor's Cup Handicap (Grade 3), the Federico Tesio Stakes, the Keystone Stakes, and the Play the Palace Stakes.
* Deputed Testamony sired more than 31 $100,000-plus earners.
* As of 2004, Deputed Testamony sired 331 starters and 254 individual winners, with earnings of over $17 million, with 18 stakes winners.
*Deputed Testamony has also done very well as a broodmare sire; he is the broodmare sire of Whitmore's Conn and Bellamy Road, as well as Duckhorn.
* Ten's Testamony is out of Nottaten (Smarten -- Groan).
* Nottaten produced 5 foals and 2 winners.
* Duckhorn has sired numerous winners, including Miss Duckhorn, winner of $239,265, and Sweet Sugar, multiple stakes-placed winner of $176,932.
* Duckhorn is a handsome, correct horse with good bone.
* Duckhorn will stand at stud in 2010 for $1,000 LFG ($250 booking fee, $750 due when foal stands and nurses).
* Photo of Duckhorn is courtesy of Xanthus Farm, Inc., and Four Leaf Farm*
Buckle Down Ben
* Buckle Down Ben is a 16.1 hand 1998 registered Thoroughbred brown stallion.
* Buckle Down Ben is a Grade 3 stakes winner, who raced 31 times with 8 wins, 7 places and 5 shows, earning $367,743.
* Buckle Down Ben won the Laurel Futurity (Grade 3), placed 3rd in the Remson Stakes (Grade 2), placed 2nd in the Holy Bull Stakes (Grade 2), placed 5th in the Fountain of Youth Stakes (Grade 1), 6th in the Turfway Spiral Stakes (Grade 2), and 7th in the Belmont Stakes (Grade 1), and well as placing 2nd and 3rd in a couple of other stakes races.
* Buckle Down Ben has sired a minimal amount of foals, but out of those foals, he has had 8 winners.
* Buckle Down Ben is sired by Devil His Due (Devil's Bag -- Plenty O'Toole), and is out of Flying Hill (Flying Paster -- Shady Hill).
* Buckle Down Ben is sired by Devil His Due (Devil's Bag -- Plenty O'Toole).
* Devil His Due started 41 times with 11 wins, 12 seconds and 3 thirds, earning $3,920,405.
* Devil His Due was drug-free in 40 of 41 starts over 4 seasons.
* Devil His Due won the Gotham Stakes (Grade 2), the Wood Memorial Invitational Stakes (Grade 1), the Gulfstream Park Handicap (Grade 1), the Excelsior Handicap (Grade 2), the Pimlico Special Handicap (Grade 1), the Suburban Handicap (Grade 1), the Broward Handicap (Grade 3), the Brooklyn Handicap (Grade 2), and the Suburban Handicap (Grade 1) again.
* Out of 986 foals (and 940 foals of racing age), Devil His Due has sired 770 starters, 586 winners, 44 stakes winners, 49 stakes placers, with progeny earnings of over $46 million, and average earnings per starter over $60,000.
* Devil His Due is the sire of the Champion Roses In May, winner of $5,490,187, as well as 9 other graded stakes winners.
* Devil His Due is by Devil's Bag (Halo -- Ballade).
* Devil's Bag started 9 times with 8 wins, including the Champagne Stakes (Grade 1), the Laurel Futurity (Grade 1), the Cowdin Stakes (Grade 2), the Derby Trial Stakes and the Flamingo Prep Stakes.
* Devil's Bag was the 1983 2 year old Champion.
* Devil's Bag is the sire of Devil His Due, Buy The Sport, Diplomatic Bag, Twilight Agenda, and Taiki Shuttle, Horse of the Year in Japan.
* Devil's Bag sired 919 foals and 45 stakes winners.
* Devil His Due is out of Plenty O'Toole (Raise A Cup -- Li'l Puss).
* Plenty O'Toole started 33 times with 6 wins, 4 places, and 10 shoes, earning $216,765.
* Plenty O'Toole won 3 stakes races, placed second in one stakes race, and third in both the Santa Barbara Handicap (Grade 1) and the Suwanneee River Handicap (Grade 3), as well as a couple of other stakes races.
* Plenty O'Toole produced 11 foals and 8 winners.
* Buckle Down Ben is out of Flying Hill (Flying Pastor -- Shady Hill).
* Flying Hill started 34 times, with 3 wins, 8 places, and 3 shows, earning $109,800.
* Flying Hill placed 2nd in the Orange Matron Stakes, and 3rd in the Johnston Stakes.
* Flying Hill produced 11 foals, 7 winners, 2 stakes winners and one stakes placed foal.
* Flying Hill produced Buckle Down Ben (Devil His Due), Grade 3 stakes winner of $367,743, Hillwalker (Skywalker), multiple stakes winner of $197,305, Cabo Queen (Al Mamoon), stakes-placed winner of $196,349, and Freedom To Fly (Skywalker), who earned $93,110.
* Flying Hill is sired by Flying Pastor (Gummo -- Procne).
* Flying Pastor raced 27 times with 13 wins, 7 places, 2 shows, and earnings of $1,127,460.
* Flying Pastor won the Santa Anita (Grade 1), the Hollywood Derby (Grade 1), the San Antonio (Grade 1), the Norfolk Stakes (Grade 2), the Del Mar Futurity (Grade 2), the San Carlos (Grade 2), the San Pasqual (Grade 2), the Sunny Slope Stakes (Grade 3), the San Vicente Stakes (Grade 3), the Balboa Stakes, and the California Breeders' Champion Stakes.
* Flying Pastor was California Horse of the Year in 1978.
* Flying Pastor was the leading sire in California from 1987 to 1991, siring 48 stakes winners.
* Flying Hill is out of Shady Hill (Hillary -- Penumbra).
* Shady Hill produced 8 foals, 7 runners, 6 winners, and two multiple stakes-placed foals, including Flying Hill, multiple stakes-placed winner of $109,800, and Sarason, multiple stakes-placed winner of $61,459.
* Buckle Down Ben is a very correct, muscular horse with excellent feet and legs- he is still sound to work at the age of 14 years!
* Buckles Down Ben's stud fee for 2012 is $1,000 LFG ($250 booking fee, $750 due when foal stands and nurses).
* Photos courtesy of Xanthus Farm, Inc.*
Well Said
* Well Said is a 16.3 hand 2003 registered Thoroughbred brown stallion.
* Well Said is sired by Aptitude (A.P Indy -- Dokki), and is out of Few Choice Words (Valid Appeal -- Allouette).
* Well Said is a Grade 3 Stakes placed winner with 10 starts, 3 wins, 2 places, 2 shows, and career earnings of $128,060.
* Well Said twice defeated Brilliant, Grade 2 stakes winner and Grade 1 stakes placed winner of $726,797.
* Well Said was 3rd to Master Command and Patriot Act in the Mineshaft Handicap Grade 3 (8.5F), defeating Purim, Grade 1 stakes winner of $928,543.
* Well Said was 4th to Lawyer Ron, Red Raymond and Steppenwolfer in the Rebel Stakes Grade 3 (1 1/16 miles), defeating Kip Deville and Private Vow.
* Well Said is sired by Aptitude (A.P. Indy -- Dokki).
* Aptitude is a multiple Grade 1 winner of $1,965,410, winning the Jockey Club Gold Cup- G1 and the Hollywood Gold Cup- G1 and placing in both the Kentucky Derby- G1 and the Belmont- G1.
* As of late 2009, out of 367 foals, Aptitude had 279 runners, 185 winners, 44 two year old winners, and 10 stakes winners, with earnings of over $13 million.
* Aptitude sired two Kentucky Derby contenders in his first two crops, including Steppenwolfer ($653,459).
* Aptitude is also the sire of Great Hunter, Grade 1 winner of $970,500.
* Aptitude is sired by A.P. Indy (Seattle Slew -- Weekend Surprise).
* "If the modern commercial era of American Thoroughbred breeding has produced the perfect equine embodiment of its principals, that horse would have to be A.P. Indy" -- John P. Sparkman
* A.P. Indy was multiple Grade 1 Classic winner of $2.9 million, and was Eclipse Champion 3 year old male in 1992 and 1992 Horse of the Year.
* A.P. Indy was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2000.
* A.P. Indy was a $2.9 million yearling, the most expensive price of the year.
* A.P. Indy has sired 1,054 foals, 808 runners, 572 winners, 150 two year old winners, 23 two year old stakes winners, and 135 stakes winners, with total progeny earnings of over $111 million, with average earnings per starter of over $137,000, and is the sire of 10 Champions.
* Aptitude is out of Dokki (Northern Dancer -- Alluvial).
* Dokki is the dam of 12 foals, 9 runners, 6 winners, and two stakes winners.
* Dokki is the dam of Aptitude, multiple Grade 1 stakes winner of $1.9 million, as well as Sleep Easy, Grade 1 stakes winner of $463,654.
* Well Said is out of Few Choice Words (Valid Appeal -- Allouette).
* Few Choice Words started 6 times with 3 wins and 1 place, winning $76,408.
* Few Choice Words is the dam of 7 foals, 6 runners, 6 winners, and 2 stakes winners, including:
* Well Said, Grade 3 stakes placed winner of $128,060.
* Silent Valor, Grade 3 stakes winner of $144,180.
* Miss Jeanne Cat, stakes winner of $52,754.
* Miss Jeanne Cat is the dam of a 2004 colt by Officer that sold for $240,000 as a yearling at auction.
* County, winner of $146,860, and sold at Keenland for $112,000 as a weanling.
* Aitcho, winner of $161,100, and sold at Keenland for $435,000 as a yearling.
* Few Choice Words is sired by Valid Appeal (In Reality -- Desert Trial).
* Valid Appeal was a Grade 2 stakes winner of $201,734.
* Valid Appeal sired 790 foals and 88 stakes winners, including 21 Group or Grade 1 stakes winners, and at the time of his death, had progeny earnings of over $45 million.
* Valid Appeal was one of Florida's all time leading sires and a world class broodmare sire.
* Valid Appeal's daughters have produced Champion and Breeder's Cup Filly and Mare Turf Grade 1 stakes winner, Perfect Sting, Canadian Champion, Exciting Story, and Grade 1 stakes winner, Sydney's Dream, among others.
* Few Choice Words is out of Allouette (Proud Birdie -- Madame Defage).
* Allouette was a winner of $55,146.
* Allouette produced 14 foals, 11 runners, 9 winners, and 1 stakes winner.
* Allouette produced Nannerl, multiple Grade 2 winner of $553,465, and the only full sibling to Few Choice Words.
* Nannerl sold in foal to Storm Cat for $1.25 million, and the resulting foal sold for $850,000.
* Allouette's daughter, Etoufee, produced Earth Living, winner of $714,637.
* Allouette's daughter, Wild About Bridget, produced Kapanga, winner of $147,600 in 7 starts.
* Well Said's 3rd dam, Madame Defage, was a stakes placed winner of $45,427.
* Madame Defage produced Fact Finder, multiple Grade 1 winner of $849,231.
* Well Said is correct, leggy, extremely good looking and a huge mover with a sweet attitude.
* Well Said is standing at at in 2011 for an introductory stud fee of $500.00 LFG.
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* Wind in the Sky is sired by Sky Classic (Nijinsky x No Class), and out of Before The Wind (Relaunch x Spinnakers Flying).
* Wind is a 1998 15.3 hand dapple grey.
* Wind is gorgeous, muscular, correct, solid-boned, and good natured.
* Wind ran 44 times, won 7, placed in 6 and showed in 6 races, winning a total of $53,591.00.
* Wind's foals are big, healthy, correct, gorgeous, and good movers. He has sired several crossbred and several purebred foals, and they are predominately grey.
* Wind In The Sky's sire, Sky Classic, was Champion Turf Male in the US and Canada, Champion Older Male in Canada, Champion 2-year old in Canada, with winnings of $3.3 million dollars.
*Sky Classic's progeny earnings are over $45 million, with 58 stakes winners (8%), 104 stakes horses (18%), and 6 Champions out of 680 foals, 574 runners, and 430 winners.
*Sky Classic is in the top 20 sires in Kentucky by average per starter at an average of $79K per starter.
*Wind in the Sky's sire, Sky Classic, is sired by Nijinsky (Northern Dancer -- Flaming Page), and out of No Class (No Double -- Classy Quillo).
*Sky Classic's sire, Nijinsky, was English Triple Crown winner and sire of 851 foals, 655 runners, 461 winners, and 155 stakes winners.
*Sky Classic's dam, No Class, is a Reine-de-Course, and dam of 8 foals, 7 winners, 6 stakes winners including the four Champions, Sky Classic, Regal Classic, Grey Classic, and Classy and Smart, plus the Grade 1 stakes winner, Always A Classic.
*Wind in the Sky's dam, Before the Wind, is sired by Relaunch (In Reality -- Foggy Note), and is out of Spinnaker's Flying (Grey Dawn -- Sea Regent).
*Spinnaker's Flying was a multiple stakes winner of $237,019. Spinnaker's Flying is the dam of the graded stakes winner Fly Smartly (Smart Strike), winner of $329,772, the multiple graded stakes-placed Longship (Smart Strike), winner of $118,242, See the Wind (Sky Classic), winner of $229,096, and With the Wind (A.P. Indy), winner of $103,540.
*Before the Wind is sired by Relaunch, multiple graded stakes winner of $278,100. Relaunch sired several multiple Grade 1 stakes winners, including Honour and Glory, One Dreamer, Waquoit, and With Anticipation.
*Wind in the Sky is leased out for the 2011 breeding season.
* Click here for breeding contract: Breeding Contract*
Oh My Stars
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* Oh My Stars is sired by Not For Love (Mr. Prospector -- Dance Number), and is out of Vicki's Vixen (Wolf Power -- Run Nicoma Run).
* Oh My Stars started 21 times, with 4 wins, 4 places, 3 shows, and career earnings of $110,332, running mostly at Belmont and Aquaduct.
* Oh My Stars sold for $210,000 in the Fasig-Tipton Midatlantic 2004 Eastern Fall Yearling Sale.
* Oh My Stars is sired by Not For Love, leading sire in North America outside of Kentucky for the last 6 years, with over $51 million dollars in progeny earnings.
* Not For Love has sired 734 foals, 596 runners (81%) 478 winners (65%), and 66 stakes winners (9%), with average earnings per starter at $87,378 at per starter, and 21% stakes horses out of starters in his career.
* In 2008, he was the first stallion in history outside of Kentucky to reach the $6.4 million dollar mark in progeny earnings acheived in one year. He has dominated the Maryland Million for the last decade, with his runners accounting for 21 wins, one shy of the record. His progeny have earned in excess of $4 million dollars per year for 9 years in a row.
* Not For Love started 29 times, with 6 wins, and earnings of $178,870.
* Not For Love is a full brother to Champion 2 year old and Multiple Grade 1 stakes winner of $1,142,532, Rhythm.
* Not For Love's dam, Dance Number, (Northern Dancer -- Numbered Account) was a Grade 1 stakes winner of $415,418, and dam of 6 foals, 6 runners, 6 winners, and 2 stakes winners.
* Not For Love is sired by the sire of sires, Mr. Prospector, who himself was a $220,000 yearling, and a multiple stakes winner of $112,171. He was leading sire by number of lifetime stakes winners, with a total of 181 stakes winners, including 18 European or North American Champions, out of 1,178 foals.
* Oh My Stars is the only foal out of the multiple stakes placed mare, Vicki's Vixen, winner of $102,532.
* Vicki's Vixen is sired by Wolf Power (Flirting Around -- Pandora).
* Wolf Power was a multiple Grade 1 stakes winner, and was Champion 2 year old colt in South Africa (1981), Champion Older Horse in South Africa (1983), and South African Horse of the Year (1984), setting ot tying eight course records, and was the first South African horse to run a sub- 1:34 mile. He was the all time leading money earner in South Africa at the time of his retirement.
* Wolf Power sired 500 starters, 384 winners, 38 stakes winners, and progeny earnings of over $23 million dollars.
* Vicki's Vixen's dam, Run Nicoma Run (John Alden -- Run Equine Run), is the dam of three stakes placed horses, including Vicki's Vixen (Wolf Power), Ekundu (Wolf Power), and Salute and Run (Salutely).
* Oh My Stars is a 16 hand 2003 bay stallion.
* Oh My Stars is beautiful, correct, muscular, and good natured.
*Oh My Star's first crop of foals are outstanding, being very correct, muscular, and good natured, like their sire.
In Memory of Dandardel Lusty K (Syr) (1994-2003).
Dandardel Lusty K (Syr)
* Syr was sired by the famous Farnley Kernel (Farnley Pellinore x Farnley Ceres), and was out of Dandardel Biretta (Farnley Strephon x Farnley Biretta).
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