Brahms has become a kingpin in the Southwest since the former Kentucky-to-Australia shuttle stallion moved to Louisiana in 2008. He led the 2009 general sire standings in the Pelican State and in 2012 topped the same list in Arkansas, where Brahms currently holds court at Richard and Frances Hessee’s Trophy Club Training Center in Royal.
Gaff recorded a runaway victory to lead the Texas freshman sire standings for 2012.
A number of quality runners helped propel Too Much Bling atop the juvenile sire list in Texas for the second year in a row.
Eureka Thoroughbred Farm manager Bill Tracy describes Oratory as an “eye-catching” stallion who passes his good looks on to his offspring. “I always joke [to people who own his foals], ‘If you don’t want to run them, you can always take pictures of them,’ “ Tracy said. “And they look really good in a win photo.”
Liquor Cabinet led Oklahoma freshman sires in earnings for 2012 by nearly $5,000 over Air Commander. The Irish-bred 12-year-old Hennessy horse, who stands at Oklahoma Equine in Washington, Okla., for a $2,500 fee this year, sired two winners from nine starters last year, Irish Dancer and Yonder.
River Oaks Farm in Sulphur, Okla., welcomed multiple Grade 2 winner Read the Footnotes to its stallion roster for 2012, after the 12-year-old Smoke Glacken horse had established himself as a productive sire in New York. He finished 2012 atop the state’s juvenile sire list with $371,110, although virtually all of those earnings came from runners based in the Empire State.
Ms. Cornstalk, dam of two Canadian champions, is among the first mares pronounced in foal to Grade 1 winner Creative Cause, who is standing his initial season at Brereton and Elizabeth Jones' Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky.
Led by a precocious state-bred, Rocket Included shot to the top of New Mexico’s freshman sire list for earnings in 2012.
A successful 2012 season by Fred and Linda Alexander’s A&A Horse Ranch stallions included sires in the juvenile rankings, with the farm standing New Mexico’s top two stallions.
Over the past decade, Desert God has been linked in one way or another to the best New Mexico’s breeding program has to offer.
