Grade I Winner And ‘TDN Rising Star’ Timberlake To Stand At WinStar Next Season

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Timberlake (Into Mischief), a 'TDN Rising Star' and Grade I winner at two, will stand the upcoming breeding season at WinStar Farm and his stud fee will be set at $20,000 S&N, according to a press release from the company on Thursday morning.

“Being an attractive and imposing son of top sire Into Mischief, Timberlake showed tremendous precocity in winning the GI Champagne and being second in the GI Hopeful at two,” said David Hanley, senior vice president/bloodstock services for WinStar Farm. “With his exceptional physical and his unique depth of pedigree, we look forward to standing him here at WinStar.”

Campaigned by Siena Farm and WinStar, the Brad Cox trainee was named a 'TDN Rising Star' following his second start where he won by 9 1/4 lengths at Ellis Park. After turning in a runner-up performance in the GI Hopeful Stakes at the Spa, the juvenile took home the GI Champagne Stakes at the Belmont at the Big A meet. Making his seasonal debut at three, the highlight of Timberlake's year came when he won the GII Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park. His career earnings currently sit at $1,303,100.

A $350,000 acquisition from the 2022 Keeneland September Sale, Timberlake, bred in Kentucky by Vincent and Teresa Viola's St. Elias Stables, is out of the stakes placed Lookin At Lucky mare Pin Up (Ire), a half-sister to multiple English group stakes winner Thomas Chippendale (Ire) (Dansili {GB}).

Timberlake's second dam, All My Loving (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), was Group 1-placed in Ireland, and other members of this extended female family include Irish Group 1 winners Quarter Moon (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), Yesterday (Ire) (Sadler's Wells) and Diamondsandrubies (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}).

“Timberlake hails from a hugely productive European family that traces to Mumtaz Mahal (GB), the great foundation mare for the Aga Khan's breeding operation,” Hanley said. “Her daughter, Mumtaz Begum (GB), is the dam of Nasrullah (GB) who Claiborne brought to America from England in 1950. From the Nasrullah sire line came Grey Sovereign (GB), Bold Ruler, Secretariat, Spectacular Bid, Seattle Slew, A.P. Indy, and Nashua, who is also the broodmare sire of Mr. Prospector and Roberto. Out of another daughter, Mah Mahal (GB), came Mahmoud (FR), and Northern Dancer's dam, Natalma, is a granddaughter of Mahmoud.”

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