Homework time
Owners looking for next champ as yearling sale approaches
The Atlantic Classic Yearling Sale is fast approaching with trainers and owners busy checking out the consignments for the next champion.
A total of 121 yearling are catalogued for sale with the event set for Friday, Oct. 5, at 2 p.m. at the Crapaud Exhibition Grounds.
The sale will feature the first crops of Rollwithitharry and Striking Lindsey.
Rollwithitharry stands at Bruce Wood’s Woodmere Farms in Marshfield and will offer 13 yearlings for sale from his inaugural crop of 24 total horses. The winner of $646,000 and 19 races boasts a mark of 1:50.1 over The Meadowlands Racetrack in New Jersey. One of his offspring kicks the sale off with Woodmere Harrion, a filly out of the Abercrombie mare Blue Violet, having hip number 1 in the sale.
Striking Lindsey, a trotting sire by Striking Sahbra, will offer his first Maritime crop up for auction with four horses in the sale. Stood by Blaine MacPherson at his Howmac Farms in North Wiltshire, Striking Lindsey is one of three Maritime trot stallions with horses up for auction in the Atlantic Classic Sale.
Another trot stud, Armbro Barrister, has been proving to be dominant in stakes action in recent weeks with Mile Mill Willie rising to the top in the two-yearold trotting division while West River Cindy and Windmeredon-tuworry were the two winners in P.E.I. Colt Stakes action last week in Charlottetown. He has two colts and one filly in the sale. The other Meridian Farms trot stallion, Tad The Stud, has six yearling in the Atlantic Classic Sale.
Rollwithitharry and Malicous have the most sale entries at 13 horses each. Malicious had his progeny well received at the 2017 sale with his two-year-old showing up to play this season, including Woodmere Bolt.
Second in entries are Maritime stallions Westwardho Hanover and Articulator with 12 entries each. Articulator has been a top sire of stakes horses since coming to the East Coast for the 2008 breeding season. Westwardho Hanover has had a number of stakes contenders rise up in the 2018 season, headlined by the Joe Baxter trained pair of Royaltywestho and Therealdeal.
The final crop of Camystic will sell at the sale with 11 horses entered. Also offering yearling for auction are Maritime pacing sires Ameripan Gigolo, Image Of Dawn, Proven Lover, Stonebridge Terror, Varadero Hanover and Western Paradise.
A number of Ontario stallions also have horses in the sale after breeder’s bred some of their mares for the Ontario program. Those Ontario sires are Badlands Hanover, Betterthancheddar, Big Jim, Johnny William, Shadow Play, Sportswriter, Sunshine Beach and Thinking Out Loud. The sale will also feature one hip by New York trotting sire Credit Winner.