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.