2025 Mating Plans: Peter Brant

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Nine years after he re-entered the sport after an almost 20-year absence, Peter Brant has built a broodmare band that is the envy of the breeding world. Between sales purchases and talented fillies and mares on the track retiring to be bred, he has amassed some of the most powerful bloodlines in the business.. He sat down and talked to the TDN about plans for his top European and American mares. Some top American mares appear below.

 

NEWSPAPEROFRECORD, 9, Lope de Vega (Ire)-Sunday Times (GB), by Holy Roman Emperor (Ire)
(Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner) Newspaperofrecord is going to Justify. It's a very good nick, and the physicals look good. She was a great miler, and he was a miler who and ran and won up to a mile and a half. I like the Scat Daddy on the male side with Shamardal.

 

GINAROMANTICA, 6, Into Mischief-Special Me, by Unbridled's Song. To be bred to Gun Runner
(Three time Grade I winner) Gina Romantica is going to Gun Runner for her first mating. I've bred to him three times and they've been good-looking horses. I'm breeding four mares to him this year. I did it because we had a lot of luck with Sierra Leone. He's very special. I like horses that had really good three-year-old form. I like to see them run at two, but my theory is different than that of other people who focus on two-year-old form. I like to see them run at two, but I like to see them train on to the Classic races. We're trying to breed middle-distance horses. We use speed but only to come up with a Classic horse. We're trying to specialize in a certain kind of thing. I I think all the really good horses can be a sprinter, a middle-distance horse, or a longer-distance horse. I like to be able to focus on seven furlongs to a mile and a eighth and if they're good they can go a mile and a quarter.

 

UNI, 11, More Than Ready-Unaided (GB), by Dansili (GB). To be bred to Justify
Uni (the 2019 Champion Turf Female) is going to Justify. That's a very good cross. We have a (2024) Sottsass (Fr) and a (2023) Frankel (GB) from her and her first foal is a Kingman (GB) who is just turning three who we like. We're going to bring her over to America to breed to Justify and then bring her back to Coolmore Ireland.

 

STRONG INCENTIVE, 12, Warrior's Reward-G.G.'s Dolly, by Comic Strip. To be bred to Into Mischief
We bought this mare with the Coolmore gang (for $2.75 million at Fasig-Tipton November 2024). Strong Incentive has produced Highly Motivated (Into Mischief), Surge Capacity (Flintshire {GB}) and Ways and Means (Practical Joke). She's in foal to Into Mischief and we're going to breed her back to Into Mischief. She has been very productive, and she has a Good Magic filly which Jon Clay kept. We chose Into Mischief because Ways and Means is by Practical Joke, who is also by Into Mischief. I really like Surge Capacity a lot. She has worked with grass horses and worked with dirt horses.

 

CAFÉ AMERICANO, 9, Medaglia d'Oro-Roxy Gap, by Indian Charlie. To be bred to Into Mischief
Café Americano is going back to Into Mischief. We have a very nice newly turned two year old by Tapit that we really like. She aborted an Into Mischief in 2024, and we're breeding her back to Into Mischief. Her daughter Lavender Disaster, by Into Mischief, is going on her three-year-old year, and was a TDN Rising Star in her first start.

 

REGAL GLORY (IRE), 5, Cotai Glory (GB)-Regal Salute (GB), by Medicean (GB). To be bred to Gun Runner
Regal Glory is going to Gun Runner. We think physically they suit each other.

 

WOW CAT (CHI), 11, Lookin at Lucky-Winter Cat, by Cat Thief. To be bred to Into Mischief
Wow Cat won four Group 1s in her native Chile who came to America to win the GI Beldame

Wow Cat is going to Into Mischief. We have a two-year-old by Into Mischief we really like.

 

BLEECKER STREET, 7, Quality Road-Lemon Liqueur, by Exchange Rate. To be bred to Justify
(Grade I New York Stakes winner) Bleecker Street has a 2024 colt by Into Mischief and she is going to Justify. In her four-year-old year, she was five-for-six until she got hurt in the Diana where she was third, and we retired her.  She was seven-for-eight overall.

 

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