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4 The Game, December 2005 Your Thoroughbred Racing Community Newspaper
Windfields Farm Open House
D’wildcat Moves to Florida
Grade 1 winner D’wildcat is moving to Vinery Stud, near Ocala, Florida, for the 2006 breeding season. The seven-year-old son of Forest Wildcat - D’Enough, by D’Accord, previously stood at Windfields Farm, near Oshawa, Ontario. His 2006 stud fee is $5,500 live foal guaranteed.
D’wildcat’s first foals arrived in 2005. His first two weanlings offered at public auction were a $125,000 filly at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky and a $67,000 filly at Keeneland November.
D’wildcat will stand at Vinery as the property of a syndicate, with Vinery, Windfields, and Fog City Stable retaining a significant interest.
Fort Chaffee is Back
At his new home in Tottenham, Ontario, thoroughbred stallion, Fort Chaffe (Mr. Prospector - Till Eternity, by Nijinsky II), is healthy and ready for action in 2006.
The sixteen year-old stallion (in 2006), who is the sire of Graded Stakes winner, Wafare Warrior ($214,302), will be standing at Lori Neilson’s Lorshan Farms.
He has progeny earnings to date of more than $4.1 million with an average earnings per starter of $34,860 making him an exceptional value at a stud fee of $1,500 live foal guaranteed.
Windfields Farm hosted their annual Open House and Stallion Parade at their Oshawa farm on Sunday, December 4. A door prize of a 2006 no guarantee season to the recently retired Mobil was offered by stallion owner Gus Schickedanz. Champion Mobil will be standing his first season at stud at Windfields Farm in 2006 joining stallions Ascot Knight, Cat’s at Home, Tethra and Whiskey Wisdom in the stallion barn.
General Royal New to Paddockhurst for 2006
Paddockhurst Stables has been one of western Canada’s top thoroughbred breeding facilities for the past 30 years. Continually striving to offer top notch stallions for the Alberta thoroughbred breeding market, Paddockhurst has recently introduced, General Royal, a son of A.P. Indy, to their roster for 2006.
Paddockhurst’s Managing Partner, Mike Secker, said that when the option to bring General Royal to Alberta came across his desk, they accepted the offer because of the stallion’s race record, sire pedigree and ‘beautiful’ female family.
“I believe that this horse has all the criteria to fit the Alberta market,” said Mike in a recent telephone interview, “We have a good opportunity, with his credentials, to enhance breeding in Alberta.”
The twelve year old stallion (in 2006) has been standing at stud in Kentucky after retiring from racing in 2000. He retired with an impressive race record which included 7 black type wins including the Grade 3 William Kyne Handicap at Bay Meadows and the Govenor’s Handicap at Sacramento. He earned close to $485,000.
General Royal currently has three crops of racing age and his progeny have earned more than $1 million in 2005 and close to $2 million lifetime.
His representatives include: Royal Rebuff, Champion Imported 3-year-old colt in Dominican Republic; Chippewa Trail, a 4-year-old stakes placed winner of $195,316; Sir Laff Alot, a stakes placed 3-year-old colt with earnings of $98,308; Roma Royale, a 4-year-old filly with an impressive 6 wins, 7 seconds, and 9 thirds in 33 starts and more than $155,000 in purse earnings; along with Royal Magician, a filly with earnings of $11,549.
A son of sire of sires, A.P. Indy, General Royal’s female line is equally impressive. His dam Bald Facts, by In Reality, is a stakes producing mare who has two daughters who are producers of graded stakes winners. His grandam is Too Bald, who has produced significant runners and sires; Champion, and sire, Capote ($714,470); Millionaire, and sire, Exceller ($1,654,003); as well as sire American Standard.
General Royal will stand for $3,000 live foal guaranteed.
Situated on 110 acres just south of Edmonton, Paddockhurst Stables prides itself on producing quality thoroughbreds and General Royal joins a quality roster of stallions which also includes; Highland Ruckus, Hurricane Center, and Rebmec.
News in Review
Twenty-two-year-old stallion Meadowlake, the sire of 54 stakes winners, died on November 5 at Darby Dan Farm near Kentucky from a ruptured small intestine.
Celebration of Champions
Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Schickedanz hosted a cocktail reception in the Northern Dancer Room at Woodbine on December 1, 2005 in celebration of the new careers of their Champions Mobil and Wando.
Both Mobil and Wando are homebred Champion millionaires and were retired from racing this year. Both will be standing at stud for the 2006 breeding season.
Mobil will stand at Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario and Wando will stand at Lanes End in Kentucky, in the U.S.
Peaks And Valleys to Gardiner
The Pin Oak Stud owned stallion, Peaks And Valleys (Mt. Livermore - Strike a Balance, by Green Dancer) will stand the 2006 season at Gardiner Farms in Caledon East, Ontario.
Bred and owned by Pin Oak, Peaks And Valleys won the 1995 G1 Molson Million at Woodbine and the G1 Meadowlands Cup and was Horse of the Year and Champion Three-Year-old in Canada.
He has been standing at stud since 1997 and is the sire of 38 stakes winners including Dollar Bill, Chamrousse, Higher World and Happy Trails. He is also the sire of local stakes winners Pinpoint and Invitational.
Pin Oak is the majority owner of stallions Where’s The Ring and Trajectory who also stand at Gardiner Farms.
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