Crestwood Farm’s promising first-crop stallion Tizdejavu got on the board with his first stakes winner and Medaglia d’Oro was represented by a pair of stakes winners last weekend.
Tizdejavu’s Tizgorgeous capped off a seven-race juvenile campaign with a score in the $68,225 Pat Whitworth Illinois Debutante last Saturday at Hawthorne Race Course. Along with being her sire’s first stakes winner, she’s the 10th stakes winner out of a mare by Siphon. Other good runners out of Siphon daughters include 2014 multiple Grade 1 winner Private Zone (by Macho Uno).
Tizdejavu is perhaps the best turf runner to date sired by Tiznow with a quartet of grassy graded stakes wins on his resume. He’s the sire of five other winners from his first 12 starters through Tuesday.
Along with Super Saver, Lookin At Lucky is the first crop co-leader with four stakes winners. One of those, Good Luck Gus is now a multiple stakes winner after a victory from post 11 in Sunday’s $100,000 Damon Runyon Stakes at Aqueduct. Also the winner of the rich New York Breeders’ Futurity in early October at Finger Lakes, Good Luck Gus is out of a mare by Deputy Minister and is one of at least 14 stakes winners bred on the highly-successful Smart Strike/Deputy Minister cross.
Smart Strike, himself, is the sire of six graded winners out of daughters and granddaughters of Deputy Minister, including two-time Horse of the Year Curlin. Lookin At Lucky is the third Smart Strike son with a stakes winner on the cross. Curlin has sired a pair of stakes winners out of mares by the Deputy Minister sons Awesome Again and Silver Deputy, respectively. Calumet Farm’s English Channel has sired the multiple graded winner Heart to Heart out of a Silver Deputy mare and a pair of graded winners out of mares by Deputy Minister, including 2014 Travers hero V. E. Day.
Ashford Stud’s Lookin At Lucky was also represented by his first Grade 1 performer last Saturday when Maybellene (dam by Giant’s Causeway) finished third in the Grade 1 Starlet Stakes at Los Alamitos. Lookin At Lucky’s first graded stakes winner, Grade 3 Iroquois winner Lucky Player is out of a mare by Giant’s Causeway’s sire, Storm Cat.
Darley’s Medaglia d’Oro was the only North American stallion with multiple stakes winners last weekend. Mshawish is now a stakes winner in three countries after a 2-length tally in the $100,000 El Prado Stakes Saturday at Gulfstream Park. The 4-year-old was a listed winner in France last year and took the Group 2 Zabeel Mile at Dubai’s Meydan racecourse earlier this season. He’s one of two graded winners by Medaglia d’Oro out of Thunder Gulch mares (from 10 starters) with the other being French Group 1 winner Passion for Gold.
Micromanage is Medaglia d’Oro’s only starter out of a mare by Flying Paster and he earned his fourth stakes win in the $100,000 Queens County Stakes Saturday at Aqueduct. Racing in the colors of Repole Stables, the 4-year-old has also earned trophies in the Grade 3 Skip Away and Birdstone in 2014 and the 2013 Long Branch.
Sequel Stallions New York‘s Freud made last week’s Breeding Watch post as the broodmare sire of two new juvenile stakes winners Dec. 6. Eight days later, his newest stakes winner, Freudie Anne, emerged with a dominant performance in the $100,000 East View Stakes in New York. The Eddie Kenneally-trained filly rolled to a 9 3/4-length victory for her third win in four career starts. She is also the first stakes winner out of a mare by the Grade 1-winning Awesome Again son Toccet.
Freudie Anne is her sire’s 38th lifetime stakes winner from 427 starters, a very impressive 8.8 percent strike rate. With more than $4.4 million in 2014 progeny earnings, Freud is poised to earn his second title as New York’s leading sire.
-originally published on http://www.thisishorseracing.com
Matt O'Neil Consulting 