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By Chief Stipe · Posted
Nope because my understanding is it comes with a heavy machinery warning. It is used primarily for chronic pain relief. If you need to use it for that reason then maybe a change of career from a less risky and less physical job would be the better option. -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The four-time Group 1 winner Legarto (Proisir) will be offered as part of the Attunga Stud draft at May's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale. Trained in New Zealand by Ken and Bev Kelso, Legarto registered her latest top-level success in the Herbie Dyke Stakes at Te Rapa on Saturday, regaining the title she'd previously won in 2024. An 11-time winner from 23 career starts, the now-six-year-old also ran out a determined winner of the Australian Guineas at Flemington back in 2023. Legarto is set to make at least one more appearance on a racecourse before heading to auction, with next month's G1 New Zealand Stakes at Ellerslie confirmed as an intended target, before a potential tilt at the G1 Australian Cup at Flemington later in March. “We've already arranged for her to go to Brian Nutt at Attunga Stud to be prepared for the sale,” said part owner Philip Brown. “Being a partnership, public auction is the proper way to realise her true worth. As a multiple Group 1 winner, including one in Australia, she's obviously a valuable mare, so it's going to be an interesting exercise.” Magic Millions managing director Barry Bowditch added, “Legarto ranks as one of the finest racemares to have graced the turf in New Zealand in recent seasons. We look forward to enjoying the final conclusion to her racing career before she heads to the Gold Coast where she will be a most sought after breeding prospect for any farm – no matter where they are located around the world.” The post Champion Racemare Legarto to be Offered at Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Looks like the boys must have got on the phone last week. Having watched him throw his weight around all January, it was time to remind Not This Time that he doesn't yet control every neighborhood. The Godfather himself took charge, Into Mischief sending out sons to earn 20 GI Kentucky Derby points on either coast: Plutarch taking the GIII Robert B. Lewis Stakes, Renegade the Sam F. Davis Stakes. But he also got together with Not This Time's big rival as young pretender to put a couple of fillies on the Classic trail: Meaning and Search Party, who banked equivalent Oaks points at Santa Anita and Oaklawn respectively, are both by Gun Runner out of Into Mischief mares. But we're actually going to start with Search Party's barnmate, Silent Tactic, whose GIII Southwest Stakes success on the same card represented a double breakout. Besides being the first stakes winner for his sire Tacitus, he's also the first for Gun Runner as damsire. He's apparently only the third starter out of a Gun Runner mare, so we can confidently assume that a 13-year-old stallion who has never missed a beat will be greatly expanding his legacy in this sphere over the years ahead. In the meantime, however, he must share the credit for Silent Tactic not just with Tacitus but with an aristocratic maternal family that has been seeded with due quality. Overall, in fact, this is a pedigree loaded with Classic brands. Certainly Silent Tactic's late surge is consistent with the fact that he not only extends an A.P. Indy sire-line but also owes his granddam Malvinia to the same stallion. Malvinia, placed twice in a light career, is in fact a sister to Malibu Moon–whose posthumous record as a broodmare sire grows ever more impressive, headlined by Gun Runner's son Sierra Leone and, as we'll remind ourselves shortly, the champion dam of Plutarch. Actually it was a Malibu Moon mare, namely GII Mother Goose Stakes runner-up Always Carina, who enabled Gun Runner to add to his laurels last weekend through their seven-figure daughter Always a Runner's “TDN Rising Star” debut at Tampa Bay. That filly duly has strong symmetry with Silent Tactic's dam, Magical Sign, who managed a solitary start for breeder Don Alberto-down the field in a turf maiden-but could not have made a much better start to her second career. Hopefully, then, this branch of a great dynasty is going to keep blooming, Malvinia herself having not really vindicated some elite covers other than with Moraz (Empire Maker), beaten a head for the GIII Santa Ysabel Stakes. On the face of it, her stock appears to have been a little deficient in soundness and that's consistent with a rather fragile brilliance in this corner of the family. We've already noted that Secret Tactic's first two dams stood little racing; Malibu Moon famously made just two starts; another of his sisters, Lady Nichola, was second on her only start; and their dam, Macoumba (Mr. Prospector), won a Group 1 as a juvenile but tapered away quickly at three. But there are never rules about this kind of thing. Macoumba, for instance, had two foals by Danzig: a gelding who won 14 of 84 starts, mostly in claimers; and a filly who never made the gate, but then took on board some Dynaformer toughness and came up with Temple City. Lady Nichola, similarly, produced graded stakes winner Worth Repeating, who raced until he was six, when adding some Giant's Causeway iron. So perhaps the deeper well of quality in this family–Macoumba and her Group 1 winning half-brother Septieme Ciel (Seattle Slew) were out of another elite performer in Maximova (Fr) (Green Dancer)–is best drawn with a sturdy bucket and chain. That augurs well for Tacitus, himself of course a horse of superb pedigree and eligible to put some Tapit grit into play. Silent Tactic's emergence could be just in time to encourage breeders to persevere with Tacitus, now trading at the basement fee of $5,000. While he has mustered no more than 13 winners from 50 starters, nobody could sensibly have expected him to produce precocious stock, and this particular colt's pinhook success ($60,000 to $500,000) suggests a highly progressive trajectory. Tacitus did win at two himself, but only over a mile in November, and it was not until the spring that he really began thriving, en route to third (promoted) in the Derby. In maturity he proved rather frustrating, outclassing his rivals for the GII Suburban Stakes but never quite justifying short odds at Grade I level. But he had amply confirmed the functionality of some of the most happening genes in the breed. For his siblings Syclla (GI Breeders' Cup Distaff) and Batten Down (GIII Ohio Derby) have meanwhile confirmed how their champion dam Close Hatches (First Defence) is replicating a genetic prowess shared by her sister, the GI Kentucky Oaks third Lockdown, whose daughter Idiomatic (Curlin) had preceded Scylla on the Distaff roll of honor a couple of years previously. Moreover this is the famous dynasty of Best in Show, fourth dam of Close Hatches. Tacitus may or may not consolidate from here, but further progress from Silent Tactic himself would make him look a legitimate stud prospect regardless. He has the seamless “stairwell” that you tend to get when a pedigree is held together by well-bred stallions: on top, for instance, the grandsire and damsire of Tacitus are Pulpit and First Defence, both from regal families; and below, of course, we only find stallions eligible to serve such a strong maternal line. Behind second and third dams are established breed-shapers, A.P. Indy and Mr. Prospector; and while he has barely started, in this capacity, someday perhaps being out of a Gun Runner mare will appear the icing on the cake. Something in the Wind Our community is often accused of insularity but we could represent ourselves as a pretty cultured bunch on a weekend when a son of Tacitus could be joined on the Derby trail by a colt honoring another of the ancient world's most important writers. If Plutarch was named for greatness, then that is wholly consistent with his parentage. For if we might accurately record that both Into Mischief's big winners last weekend are out of Curlin mares, that is clearly too bland a description for either! Renegade is out of Spice Is Nice, a graded stakes scorer who cost seven figures as a yearling as a daughter of Grade I winner Dame Dorothy (Bernardini). And Plutarch, of course, is out of none other than Stellar Wind. She had to settle for fourth in her own Oaks bid but made up for that with six Grade Is and $2.9 million in prizemoney. Joining Coolmore for $6 million, she began with two foals by the ageing Galileo (Ire): an unraced colt, and a disappointing filly culled to St. George Stables for $350,000 at the 2024 Keeneland November Sale. That filly is now going up in the world. Straight after that auction, her half-brother by Justify won a Del Mar maiden by six lengths (albeit unseen since). Then in stepped Into Mischief, albeit with a twist: both Stellar Wind's foals by the champion sire have switched between surfaces and, until now, had only won on turf. But now Plutarch has won a dirt race routinely chosen by his trainer to announce a Derby colt, and has restored black type to a family whose development had been curtailed because Stellar Wind's dam, Evening Star-as mentioned above, a daughter of Malibu Moon-only had two other foals, neither making the gate. Behind her, as many will doubtless recall from Stellar Wind's heyday, was Virginian matriarch Sequins (Northern Fashion). We can hardly reprise the full legacy of the Keswick Farm linchpin here but suffice to say that she is granddam and third dam, respectively, of two previous Bob Lewis winners in Great Hunter (Aptitude) and Mor Spirirt (Eskenderaya). Moreover, she is third dam of Speed King (Volatile), whose name can be found below Silent Tactic in the Southwest roll of honor. For a recent impact by Into Mischief on this family, meanwhile, note that Sequins also features as third dam of Shred the Gnar–a sister to the ill-fated Owendale and so impressive in the GIII Chilukki Stakes a few weeks ago. Storm Bird an Interested Party Since delivering Plutarch, Stellar Wind has favored Gun Runner with a couple of visits–another testament to the challenge he is laying down to Into Mischief. As noted above, however, the pair meanwhile co-operated to provide the winners of the Las Virgenes Stakes and Martha Washington Stakes in Meaning and Search Party. Only at their respective second dams, therefore, do these two pedigrees part company–and Search Party does so in particularly auspicious fashion. For she was bred by Tracy Farmer from Devious Charm, another versatile daughter of Into Mischief who broke her maiden at Kentucky Downs but got her stakes podium on dirt. Farmer had bought her as a $260,000 yearling in 2017: Into Mischief was moving up the ranks, and she was out of Limbo, only placed during a light career in Europe but a daughter of A.P. Indy and none other than Storm Bird's Grade I-winning sister Northernette (Northern Dancer). Gun Runner will meanwhile look to strengthen his Derby hand when Paladin lines up for the GII Risen Star Stakes on Valentine's Day. Let's hope he remembers to send Stellar Wind a card. The post Breeding Digest: Silent Breakout Amplifies Sire and Damsire appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Paladin is the 8-1 individual morning-line favorite and "All Other 3-Year-Olds" not named within the 39 individual interests as the overall 4-1 choice in the latest Kentucky Derby Future Wager.View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
With Kentucky Derby (G1) preps in full swing, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Top 3-Year-Old Poll was bound to welcome some new faces. John Oxley's Silent Tactic jumped to sixth place with his win in the Feb. 6 Southwest Stakes (G3).View the full article
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