Uncaptured leading freshman sire with four winners

Canadian champion Uncaptured got his own racing career off to a swift start, with a stellar season as a juvenile. Now a young stallion at Ocala Stud, he is rapidly earning a reputation for passing that precociousness on to his progeny.

Uncaptured, by Lion Heart, has recorded four individual winners through June 24, the most of any freshman sire thus far early in the season. Fellow Florida stallion Cajun Breeze and two-time Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Goldencents have each recorded three winners, and Uncaptured narrowly trails Cajun Breeze, $181,120 to $174,850, on the current freshman earnings list.

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Uncaptured’s four winners, Bye Bye J, Capture Your Dream, Catherinethegreat, and Harry’s Ontheloose, have all come at Gulfstream Park. Catherinethegreat earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 80 for her 10 1/4-length victory last Saturday in her second career start, the third-highest number this season for a 2-year-old. Tales of Chaucer, by second-crop sire Forty Tales, leads that list with an 84, while Tijori, by champion and freshman sire Will Take Charge, posted an 82 on debut.

Uncaptured was Canada’s Horse of the Year at 2, when he won 6 of 7 starts during the 2012 season. A three-time stakes winner at Woodbine, he shipped to Kentucky that fall to take the Grade 3 Iroquois and the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs. He went on to become a Canadian classic winner, taking the 2013 Prince of Wales Stakes, the middle leg of the Triple Crown, and was graded stakes placed at ages 3 and 4. Overall, he won 7 of 18 starts and attained millionaire status.