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Exciting times at Spendthrift with five classy new stallions joining the farm’s talented roster, writes Melissa Bauer-Herzog
Spendthift’s young leading sire Into Mischief
WHEN SPENDTHRIFT FARM rang in 2020, the team had more than usual to be excited about. The farm’s foundation sire Into Mischief (Harlan’s Holiday) had notched up his first leading sires’ title in 2019 and, looking ahead, the farm has five new stallions to launch for 2020.
Into Mischief stood his first season in 2009 for a fee of $12,500 before dropping to $7,500, but the son of Harlan’s Holiday has become the poster boy for Spendthrift Farm’s Share The Upside programme, as an original member of the industry-changing concept.
Spendthrift’s general manager Ned Toffey, who has been with the farm since Into Mischief retired, always believed after seeing the stallion’s early success that a title would come eventually, but is still excited to see the stallion rewarded.
“You think of all the great sires through the
“It’s a credit to
all the breeders
who have supported Into Mischief
and he is just
a remarkable horse, but none of
this happens without our breeders
years that have had leading sire title by their name so it’s just an honour,” says Toffey.
“It’s a credit to all the breeders who have supported Into Mischief and he is just a remarkable horse, but none of this happens without our breeders.
“We’ve very appreciative to them for all their efforts in getting him there, this is very much the breeders’ honour as much as anything else.
“He’s a remarkable horse and, with the patronage of our breeders, it’s something that felt like it was going to happen sooner or later. Now it has, we couldn’t be happier about it.”
Just as exciting for the farm is the addition of another son of Into Mischief to the roster with his Grade 2-winning two-year-old Maximus Mischief joining the fold as a “Share The Upside” stallion.
He joins Into Mischief’s 2019 champion second-crop son Goldencents who has already proved that his sire has the potential
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