Special Edition: New York and Midlantic Stallions
Special coverage of industry news and the stallion markets for New York, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
DRF Breeding StaffApr 07, 2017
Special coverage of industry news and the stallion markets for New York, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
As Practical Joke returns to his home state, breeders Keith and Allen Crupper, natives of Georgetown, Ky., will be on hand to watch the colt try to punch his ticket to the Kentucky Derby in the Blue Grass Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland.
Kentucky Derby pedigree analysis: Iliad
Frost Giant was New York’s leading freshman sire of 2012, establishing a state record in progeny earnings for that category. He has continued to show prowess with the juvenile set, finishing as New York’s leading 2-year-old sire of 2016.
Whether based on traditional or new metrics for evaluating stallions, dual classic winner and champion Big Brown has proven a solid and competitive addition to the New York market.
Jump Start moved to Pennsylvania for the 2010 breeding season and immediately topped the state’s sire list by general progeny earnings on the strength of his Kentucky-sired runners. A half-decade later, Jump Start has rooted himself at the top of the list as a Pennsylvania resident.
The Mid-Atlantic region has several growing state programs, but it also has a stallion roster in transition.
No matter the year, no matter the surface, no matter what competition comes to his home state, Freud continues to hold sway in New York with no signs of slowing.
The pensioning of all-time leading Maryland sire Not For Love in 2015 and his death the following year left some colossal shoes to fill at the top of Maryland's stallion ranks. The most immediate heir to the throne to emerge is Great Notion.
When Mind Your Biscuits won the Group 1, $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen going away March 25, he became the latest New York-bred to hoist the flag for a statebred program consistently producing runners who can hold their own against any company.