Housatonic clients sold a pair of short yearlings at the 2021 Keeneland January Sale for $110,000 and $95,000 — the former off a $20,000 advertised stud fee, and the latter out of a mare purchased for $10,000 just 14 months earlier.

We believe Jimmy Creed is the best value in Kentucky this spring, and given the success that he’s had with Unbridled-line mares, he’ll be a great fit for the young $97k-earner Mission Good Karma.

Irish War Cry was an extremely talented racehorse, and having seen some excellent specimens from his first crop of foals born last spring, we are excited to send the young Stormy Atlantic mare Ride the Tide to his court in 2021.

An undefeated, multiple graded stakes-winning 2YO, Blofeld is a young Maryland stallion that we believe has a big future — he should be a perfect fit for the hard-knocking young Congrats mare Justgimmeakiss.

Jimmy Creed is the best value in Kentucky in 2021, as a proven sire with plenty of upside at his current stud fee. He should be a perfect fit for the versatile Participate this spring in her third pairing.

Instagrand was the most brilliant 2YO by breed-shaping sire Into Mischief, and he’ll be a perfect fit for a multiple stakes-placed 2YO mare from the Unbridled’s Song line.

Brody’s Cause has excellent results with his first crop so far, and they should only get better next year. At his $5,000 fee, he offers great value with a lot of upside.

The veteran Include has long been one of our favorite value sires, and he added two new graded winners to his resume in 2020 — proving that he’s not done siring good horses yet. He’s an exciting pick for the promising young mare Kuznetsov in 2021.

Always fun to see oneself in the Thoroughbred Daily News — happy to have had the chance to highlight Instagrand among the first-year stallions, and Jimmy Creed for a proven value option.

As a highly-talented runner from 2 thru 6YO, Gift Box is a first-year stallion we’re very excited about — he’ll be a perfect first match for the SPW 2YO Group Text.

Instagrand is perhaps the most brilliant son of Into Mischief so far, and this mating with a stakes-producing Kafwain mare replicates the cross that produced his most brilliant daughter, Gamine.

Inspired by the TDN Europe’s recent “From the Experts” series, where breeders and agents are asked to identify recently-announced stud fees that offer value in a trio of different contexts, here are our own such assessments for this coming season’s Kentucky stud fees

Reading the piece by Joe Nevills in the Paulick Report last week about the stallions with increases in mares bred this spring, one number stood out big time: 2. As in, Bucchero picked up 31 more mares in his 2nd book than his first. That just doesn’t happen, and it makes Bucchero a big value for breeders heading into 2021.

Goldencents has proven to be the leading young stallion of his generation, and he’ll give a big shot to a well-related young mare early in her breeding career.

**The following narrative was authored by Lauren Floyd, the Bloodstock Intern for Wasabi Ventures Stables, to explain why Dominus was chosen as a mate for Almyra.  You can find out more about Lauren here.** Maiden special weight winner, Almyra, who raced for Wasabi Ventures Stables in her 4yo year, has been retired and will be… [Read More]

**The following narrative was authored by Lauren Floyd, the Bloodstock Intern for Wasabi Ventures Stables, to explain why Demarchelier was chosen as a mate for Settle It.  You can find out more about Lauren here.** Settle It, a full-sister to a stakes winner and another still-active stakes-placed winner, who raced for Wasabi Ventures Stables in… [Read More]

Magical Point, a daughter of Horse of the Year Point Given and from the fantastic Maryland female family of our favorite veteran sire Include, was the first mare to check in-foal this spring to new Maryland stallion Force the Pass, in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. The cross of Gone West-line stallions with Thunder Gulch-line mares… [Read More]

The versatile and hard-knocking 11-time winner Littlemissperfect has produced a pair of fillies by the Storm Cat-line stallion Imagining to kick off her broodmare career, but will be switching it up in 2020 when she visits Maryland’s newest Grade 1-winning millionaire Force the Pass in the latest Housatonic Recommended Mating. The Speightstown/Street Cry cross looks… [Read More]

This Housatonic Recommended Mating features the first match for the hard-knocking young mare Mission Good Karma, for whom we have chosen the precocious, versatile and well-bred newcomer Flameaway — and she is actually already pregnant to Darby Dan’s son of Scat Daddy on a February cover.  We are fans of Flameaway because he was extremely… [Read More]