The times, they are a-changin'

Now that the Breeders’ Cup Championships are history, it’s time to take a look at the state of Pennsylvania and see what’s happening on the breeding front for 2011.

Two stallions formerly based in Pennsylvania were reported to be moving to Indiana to take advantage of its lucrative breed program. Smart Guy, who stood at Fox Tale Stud in Coopersburg, was sold by his owner, Dave Malatesta, to an Indiana farm (as yet unkown). Smart Guy, a son of Smarten, won the Pennsylvania Derby and has sired multiple stakes winner Secretintelligence, who has earned over $500,000.

Champion Action This Day, who stood the 2010 season at Gayle Gerth’s Dana Point Farm in Lenhartsville, is also heading to Indiana.  Sales-goers will also notice he has been entered in the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed Sale at Timonium on December 6, tabbed as Hip 148, the property of Dana Point. 

Standing in Oklahoma for the 2011 season will be Congressionalhonor, who formerly stood at Northview-Pa in Peach Bottom, and More Smoke, who stood at Dr. William Solomon’s Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom.

Congressionalhonor currently has 92 horses of racing age and has sired 3 winners, with total earnings from two crops at just over $160,000. He will stand at Oklahoma Equine in Washington, Ok., for $2,500.

More Smoke, a son of Smoke Glacken, has been moved to Fox Hill Farm in Okmulgee, Ok., and will stand for $750. His first foals race next year.

Joining the ranks of the gelded is Fusillade, a son of A. P. Indy-Ring of Fire, by Nureyev. He stood this year at Pin Oak Lane Farm.

Multiple graded stakes winner Ecclesiastic has been moved from Star Barn Thoroughbreds near Grantville, Pa. to Glenn and Becky Brok’s Diamond B Farm in Mohrsville, Pa. The son of Pulpit’s first foals will be 2-year-olds of 2011. A stud fee has yet to be announced.

B. L.’s Appeal, originally scheduled to stand at Diamond B, will be remaining in Florida for 2011.

The Thoroughbred Times has listed Eurosilver, a son of Unbridled’s Song, as a member of the Pennsylvania stallion corps. Where he will stand is still unknown.

HEADS N TAILS: Congratulations are in order for Dana Point Farm stallion Sir Shackleton, whose son Enduring Star, owned by West Point Thoroughbreds, finished a close third in the $250,000 Coronation Futurity at Woodbine on Sunday. Sir Shackleton’s first crop raced this year, and from only a handful of starters his progeny earnings are pushing the $100K mark.

Mike and Laura Cumberton’s Alex’s Pal, who has moved to Pin Oak Lane Farm for the 2011 season, is ranked number one among Pennsylvania sires by 2010 Pennsylvania-bred juvenile earnings as of November 8.

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