In the latest Housatonic Recommended Mating, we are throwing the “nick” rating out the window — for some very good reasons — and will be sending the recent acquisition Starr Gate to the intriguing young sprinter Buffum. Despite being by Mineshaft, who himself crafted a Horse of the Year campaign at 4 with seven two-turn… [Read More]

Our latest Housatonic Recommended Mating features the recent acquisition Rockport Dancer, a precocious and hard-knocking mare from a deep and talented female family, who will visit the Eclipse Champion 2-year-old and leading veteran sire Macho Uno in Kentucky this spring. As a young black-type runner just beginning her breeding career, we were anxious to send… [Read More]

The five-for-five winner-producing mare Rough Water features in the next of our Housatonic Recommended Matings, and she will be another to visit the promising freshman sire Irish War Cry. New to stud in 2019, Irish War Cry is a son of Curlin, one of the top handful of sires in the country, and probably the… [Read More]

The latest Housatonic Recommended Mating features Boston Mine, a half-sister to a Puerto Rican champion by Eskendereya, who will visit Eskendereya’s brilliant first-year son Mor Spirit at Spendthrift Farm. In addition to that Puerto Rican sensation named Pure Lemon, Boston Mine (by Horse of the Year Mineshaft) is a half-sister to stakes winner Crafty Unicorn… [Read More]

Weigelia might have a bit of an off-beat pedigree, but he was a stone cold runner and he has sired nothing but the same in his limited opportunities as basically a house stallion at WynOaks Farm in Pennsylvania — we believe he will make a fantastic first partner for Kuznetsov in the latest Housatonic Recommended… [Read More]

Our favorite tactic in planning matings for a mare is to find something that has already worked with her female family and find the best option for trying to duplicate that — for Winning Bet, that means a 2019 visit to Giant’s Causeway’s fantastically-bred son Imagining in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. It is somewhat shocking… [Read More]

We purchased Kitten’s Peak for a client last January while she was in foal to the promising young stallion Fed Biz, and the mare was subsequently bred back to popular first-year sire Cupid for 2018.  In 2019, Kitten’s Peak will head to another son of Tapit when she visits the classic winner Tonalist in a… [Read More]

Magical Point, a daughter of Horse of the Year Point Given and from the fantastic Maryland female family of Illeria, will visit the impeccably-bred, incredibly-fast Redesdale this year during his first season at stud, in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. Magical Point is a half-sister to the stakes winner Candida H., both of them out of… [Read More]

Our latest Housatonic Recommended Mating is one of our favorite kind, when the “nick” is a good one and the mare’s female family has also worked with horses related to the stallion.  In this case, both of those factors will be present when Miz Magician visits the impeccably bred and incredibly fast incoming New York… [Read More]

In 2019, Tuxedo Annie will visit the court of Blofeld in a Housatonic Recommended Mating, for many of the same reasons that we set out a year ago, before we had to switch her at the last minute to Imagining.  Most interestingly, this mating will result in 8x7x5 line-breeding to Tuxedo Annie’s fourth dam, the… [Read More]

Our latest Housatonic Recommended Mating features Pinkprint, a daughter of Maryland’s legendary stallion Not For Love and a half-sister to last year’s Breeders’ Futurity-G1 winner Knicks Go, who will visit the veteran leading sire Tiznow. Given his long-standing record of success as a sire, Tiznow would make sense as a mate for just about any… [Read More]

The big, beautiful, hard-knocking race mare Smile Big will be mated with the epitome of a slam-dunk stallion prospect when she visits Mendelssohn in the latest 2019 Housatonic Recommended Mating. Smile Big’s looks can be inferred from the fact that, despite being a daughter of Big Drama out of a mare with no black-type, she… [Read More]

As the calendar turns to 2019 and all Thoroughbreds turn a year older, we want to say thank you to all our clients and friends who made 2018 the best year yet for Housatonic Bloodstock, and best of luck in 2019! We are looking forward to a big crop of 2019 foals bred from Housatonic… [Read More]

One of the more intriguing young stallions in the Mid-Atlantic region at the moment is Buffum, a son of Bernardini at Northview Maryland, and we are excited that the stakes-winning La Wildcat will be bred to him in 2019 in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. La Wildcat is a multiple stakes-winning sprinter by the similarly quick… [Read More]

For a set of owners looking to maximize their chances of having a commercially sale-able foal on a limited budget, we are excited that they have chosen the exciting first-crop stallion Mor Spirit for their young Speightstown mare Innyminniemineymoe, in our latest Housatonic Recommended Mating. An $85,000 yearling-turned $650,000 2-year-old in-training purchase, Mor Spirit broke… [Read More]

Perfect Gleam, a granddaughter of Broodmare of the Year Anne Campbell, will be our sixth Housatonic Recommended Mating for 2019 featuring the outstanding value sire Munnings at Coolmore America. Perfect Gleam’s dam, the Halo daughter Halo’s Gleam, is a half-sister to a pair of Grade 1 winners that both finished 2nd in the G1 Kentucky… [Read More]

First-year Kentucky stallion McCraken was a brilliant racehorse and is the most precocious son of Ghostzapper to come along, which we think makes him an excellent candidate for sire success — he will be the first mate for the two-time winner Another Secret in our latest Housatonic Recommended Mating. McCraken started his unbeaten juvenile campaign… [Read More]

The fifth Housatonic Recommended Mating for 2019 that features our favorite Kentucky value sire Munnings is for the five-time winning Successful Appeal mare Thicket. We have made it quite clear numerous times how highly we think of Munnings as a stallion, and with his stud fee reduced to $20,000 in 2019, he has to be… [Read More]

Having previously been bred to Mr. Prospector-line stallions from the Unbridled, Forty Niner and Smart Strike branches, the stakes-placed Rock Slide mare Lucy Boo will try the Gone West branch of the Mr. P sire-line in 2019 when she visits Munnings in a Housatonic Recommended Mating. Rock Slide is a full-brother to Horse of the… [Read More]