Blofeld has already produced a pair of $200k earners out of a Union Rags mare, including the Preakness runner Mugatu.

Arzak looks like the perfect stallion for New York, and Pivotal Woman will provide just the right type of mate to him in his first book.

With an exciting update in the form of her TDN Rising Star half-brother Englishman, Fee will again get a highly-commercial pairing in 2026 when she visits Mindframe.

Johannes was one of the best turf milers of the last couple years, and as a son of Nyquist is a very exciting addition to the Claiborne stallion ranks in ’26.

Mischievous Mind will be bred to Prince of Monaco for the second year in a row, in a mating that makes just as much sense in ’26 as it did in ’25.

Commerciality is key to our plans for Saucily in ’26 — she’ll visit the exciting first-year multiple G1 winner Locked this time around.

Ebb Tide, from the family of Constitution, will return to the A.P. Indy sire-line for her ’26 mating with the exciting Arthur’s Ride.

Breeder bonuses are the play with the pairing of G3W Brazen Persuasion to perennial leading NY sire Central Banker in 2026.

Annapolis is a young stallion that we have a lot of time for, and we think he’ll suit the talented Irish-bred Calling All Angels very well.

Seville’s Princess will make another visit to Blofeld in 2026, her third straight mating with the best active sire in the Mid-Atlantic, and her fourth overall.

We’ll give this solid older black-type winner and producer another try with New York’s exciting young Honest Mischief in 2026.

Karakontie is a stallion that we have recommended to clients previously because he gets strong racetrack results and thus offers significant value at his advertised fee. Especially for a client that is not adverse to a turf runner (although Karakontie does have a Graded winner on the dirt to his credit), his statistics make him… [Read More]

Black-type earner Princess Phone is the perfect type to mate to Bucchero for a NY breeder planning to race her offspring.

The talented War Front mare Tracy Flick will be a perfect pairing with Eclipse Champion Up to the Mark this spring.

First Mission at Darley is a first-year stallion that we are very excited to use in 2026.

We are sticking with the A.P. Indy sire-line for Floral Hall yet again in 2026, and this time she’ll be going to the exciting young sire Tiz the Law.

We always appreciate the opportunity to share some of our Mating Plans for the Wasabi broodmares with the TDN.  You can read our thoughts in the January 14th issue of the TDN here: Mating Plans For 2026, Presented By Spendthrift: Wasabi Ventures

Croquembouche gets a shot with a proven stallion in ’26, and one that has already worked with her female family.

For her second mating, Cabra Chica will take a shot with a leading freshman sire who we think offers a ton of value for ’26 in Essential Quality.

Thank you to Joe Nevills at the Paulick Report for asking us to contribute to his yearly feature on value sires.  You can read our thoughts here: https://paulickreport.com/news/bloodstock/the-2025-26-all-value-sire-team-bloodstock-experts-george-adams-and-jessica-tugwell-make-their-picks

With several close relatives by Giant’s Causeway that excelled on the track, Aquatic Approach will head to a son of Not This Time for the second time in three years in 2026, when she visits Arzak.

Inbreeding to the broodmare sire of the sire is a tried-and-true pattern, and Why Not Tonight will visit Johannes in ’26 on a slight variation of that theme.

We’ll stick with another Speightstown-line stallion for the young Godolphin-bred Giving Spirit in ’26, this time the exciting first-year sire Straight No Chaser.

We’ll finally give Faze the Nation a shot with a Storm Cat-line stallion in ’26 after thinking about going that direction for several years.

This recommendation will cause long-time readers flashbacks to 2019, when Munnings was the most heavily-recommended horse to feature in our write-ups.

Having produced a BTW by a son of Tapit earlier in her breeding career, that’s an obvious direction to take with Wild For Love again in ’26, this time with first-year stallion Arthur’s Ride.

For a breeder hoping to breed-to-race, but one not looking to give up on commerciality completely, Darley’s proven and precocious Midshipman is the perfect pick.

Thousand Words is off to a very strong start with Tiznow-line mares, which is just one of the reasons we’ll send C’est Mardi his way in 2026.

We remain very high on Army Mule heading into ’26, and he’ll be an excellent choice for the young Godolphin-bred mare Sharma.

Tickle the Ivories was selected specifically to be a member of the first book of mares for MG1W Maryland-bred Mindframe.

Godolphin’s most recent US graded winner demonstrates several characteristics that have led to their amazing run as the country’s best owner/breeder

We won’t reinvent the wheel with Wand Work in ’26 — she’ll visit another Distorted Humor-line stallion in proven value sire Jimmy Creed.

We’re sticking with a pattern that just worked very well by sending Itgetsgreaterlater to exciting first-year stallion Locked.

Our first mare expected to foal in 2026 is also the first to get a write-up for her next match.

The first of our 2026 Housatonic Recommended Matings will be published tomorrow, so what better time to highlight some successes achieved by past products at last week’s KeeNov sale!

The last 30 days have seen 10 winners from Housatonic Recommended Matings!

Aidan O’Brien is on pace to match his own single-season record of G1 victories, and it makes us wonder: why don’t Coolmore’s American-based runners have similar success?

On Mindframe, Future Is Now, and what their pedigrees show us about the breeding theories of the man who bred the first three dams of each.

The Storm Cat sire-line had Saratoga success through two different branches this past week.

Plenty of reasons to think that “Plan B” for Wand Work this spring can work out “A” okay!

We have a significant rooting interest again in this year’s Kentucky Derby!

Our first revision of the 2025 season will see Juddmonte-bred Prosperity shifting to NY to visit fellow Juddmonte product Honest Mischief

Hard-knocking maiden mare Cabra Chica will make an ideal match for Army Mule, who is the proven KY stallion that offers the best value in ’25

Our final Mating Recommendation of the year will feature a newly-acquired mare who we acquired specifically to send to Bucchero.

We’re supporting first-year G1W Prince of Monaco heavily this year, with some promising young mares like the $170k yearling Croquembouche

The older, thoroughly-proven Sister Dawn will be a perfect match for the young, up-and-coming Honest Mischief in 2025.

Saucily gets a match with the proven, upwardly-mobile Army Mule in ’25 after visiting a first-year sire for her first mating last year.

We identified Byhubbyhellomoney at Keeneland January as a mare specifically suited to the new Pennsylvania stallion Beren for a bevy of reasons.

Three of our “house” broodmares will be returning to our favorite Mid-Atlantic stallion in 2025 after being bred to him in 2024 as well.