Journeyman Bloodstock News

Saturday, August 28, 2010
Journeyman's Mass Media got winner number six when Luna Grande broke her maiden by 2 1/4-lengths on Aug. 28...
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Bank Merger proved he belongs with the nation's best sprinters with a huge effort in the King's Bishop (G1)...
Thursday, August 26, 2010
A colt by hot freshman sire Mass Media topped the second session of the Ocala Breeders’ August Yearling Sale on August 25...
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Beso Grande, a 2-year-old filly by Mass Media, closed strongly to take a seven furlong maiden special weight race at Calder on Aug. 8...
Friday, July 23, 2010
Bank Merger won the first main track race of the 2010 meet at Saratoga, scoring by 1 1/4-lengths...
Monday, July 19, 2010
Mass Media became the first Florida Freshman this year to sire a stakes winner, when Alert the Press charged to a decisive victory in the Capitol City Futurity on July 18th...
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Journeyman Stud's freshman sire Mass Media recorded his fourth winner from just seven starters when Rivrav wired the field for a two-length victory at Arlington Park on July 15...
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Nationally-ranked freshman sire Mass Media moved up the sire ranks once again, when Alert the Press became his third first-crop winner on July 10...
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Bwana Babe charged to her third consecutive victory at a mile or more on July 5, winning a $76,500 allowance at Monmouth over older fillies and mares...
Monday, June 28, 2010
Consolidator, Florida's No. 2 Second-Crop Sire, picked up another stakes winner on June 26th when his 3-year-old colt Mr Consolidator scorched six furlongs in 1:09 and change to win the $72,000 Snack S. at Indiana Downs...
Monday, June 28, 2010
Tristanme, a 2-year-old filly from the second crop of Bwana Charlie, rallied strongly in the stretch to fall a neck short when finishing second in the $108,800 Debutante S. (G3) on June 26th at Churchill Downs...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
She'll Heir showed her fighting spirit, overcoming all types of trouble to win Hollywood Park's Cinderella S. on June 9...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Journeyman Stud's Consolidator and Bwana Charlie second crop of runners have put both of the stallions in the Top 5 of the 2010 Florida sophomore sire lists...
Friday, June 04, 2010
My Mass Media became the second winner for his sire Mass Media when he broke his maiden by 4 3/4-lengths June 4 at Calder...
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Jackson Bend came into the Grade 1 Preakness to prove that his 12th place finish in the Kentucky Derby (G1) was not the norm for the ultra-consistent son of Hear No Evil...
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Things couldn't have gotten off to a better start for Journeyman's Mass Media after the sire's first two runners finished one-two in a maiden special weight at Calder on May 15...
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Correct Call made it two stakes wins in a row after the 3-year-old filly won the Tomboy S. over the River Downs turf course on May 15...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Jackson Bend, by Journeyman's Hear No Evil, was made the sixth choice on the morning line at 12-1 when he drew post No. 6 for Saturday's $1 million Preakness S. (G1)...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Journeyman Stud will get that once-in-a-lifetime thrill when Jackson Bend breaks from the gate in Kentucky Derby 136 (G1)...
Monday, April 26, 2010
Jackson Bend is now assured of a spot in the gate for Kentucky Derby 136 after Rule was declared from the race on Monday morning...
Friday, April 16, 2010
A 2-year-old filly by Consolidator was among the top 10 prices at the Tattersalls' 2010 Craven Breeze Up sale...
Saturday, April 10, 2010
It didn't take long after 2-year-old racing began in 2010 for Wildcat Heir to get his first juvenile winner. It was the first race at Keeneland on Apr. 9 to be exact, when She'll Heir came home with a rush to capture the 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race for fillies...
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Journeyman stallion Bwana Charlie got off to a good start in April, with a pair of winning fillies during the first week of the month, giving the second-crop sire a total of 10 for the year...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
In a Barretts sale loaded with top-class sires, Wildcat Heir more than held his own, ranking second among all sires in terms of average price of all horses sold...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Journeyman stallion Wildcat Heir has risen to the top of the North American second-crop sire list, ranking above many more heralded rivals based in Kentucky...
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Jackson Bend, from the first crop of Journeyman stallion Hear No Evil, had another strong showing in a Kentucky Derby prep race, running second in the $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct...
Monday, March 29, 2010
The final weekend of March was big for Journeyman Stud's Consolidator, with winners at three different tracks propelling him into the Top 10 of the second-crop North American sire list...
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Correct Call remained undefeated in 2010 with her victory in the Royal North S. at Beulah Park. Her sire Consolidator stands in second place on Florida's second crop sire list for the year...
Friday, March 26, 2010
Paris Heiress, a 3-year-old filly by Journeyman stallion Wildcat Heir, ran her record to a perfect 2-for-2 after a sharp allowance score in a six-furlong sprint at Fair Grounds on Mar. 26...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The best Florida-bred thoroughbreds of 2009 were honored Mar. 15 during the 50th annual awards ceremony sponsored by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
As the first day of the Mar. 16-17 OBS Selected sale of 2-year-old wound down, a sturdy looking son of Wildcat Heir brought a price of $200,000, one of the top 10 sellers on the day.
Monday, March 08, 2010
PORTER ON PEDIGREES, by Alan Porter - Brent Fernung stands to go down in history as a three-time purchaser of "Derby dams" if Backtalk's impressive style carries him to a win on the first Saturday in May.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Hear No Evil’s sophomore colt Jackson Bend continued on his road to the Kentucky Derby with a strong second place finish in Gulfstream Park's Fountain of Youth...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Dances With Ashley captured the $50,000 OBS Fillies Sprint S. on Feb. 15 during OBS’s Day of Champions program to become Wildcat Heir’s fourth stakes winner from his record-setting first crop...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Cowtown Cat, a Grade 2-winning son of Distorted Humor, sired his first foal on Jan. 27 when a chestnut colt was born in Ocala...
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Hardly had the van door closed on the Storm Cat stallion (and former Kentucky resident) Consolidator than his runners began knocking over more victories... Frank Mitchell - Bloodstock in the Bluegrass
Friday, February 05, 2010
Star Crazy, a 3-year-old filly from the first crop of leading freshman sire Consolidator, scored an eye-catching victory on Feb. 3rd when she romped to a rarely-seen 26 ¾-length win...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Grade 1-winning juvenile and racing millionaire Circular Quay sired his first foal on Jan. 15 when a chestnut filly was born at Destiny Oaks Farm in Ocala, FL...
Monday, January 25, 2010
Hear No Evil’s exciting colt Jackson Bend made a solid 3-year-old debut on Jan. 23rd at Gulfstream Park, finishing a close second despite a wide trip in the $150,000 Holy Bull S. (G3)...
Monday, January 18, 2010
...time has begun to reveal quality among Wildcat Heir’s great quantity of winners. On November 13, Karmageddon took the Jersey Juvenile Stakes, and the very next day Wild Mia captured the John Franks Juvenile Fillies Turf Stakes...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
...we spend a lot of time tracking young stallions, and to have five individual winners by mid-May is an obvious indication that a stallion is siring precocious stock and needs to be followed closely,” is what I wrote then...
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Last week, Florida’s Leading Freshman Sire Wildcat Heir closed out 2009 by tying a world record with 39 2-year-old winners. On Saturday, Jan. 9th that momentum carried over to 2010, as the brilliant Grade 1-winning son of Forest Wildcat picked up his first graded stakes winner when his undefeated 3-year-old filly Richiegirlgonewild ran her record to three-for-three with an impressive front-running score in the $100,000 Old Hat S. (G3) at Gulfstream Park...
Monday, December 28, 2009
Bloodhorse.com: We caught up with Brent at his training barn in Ocala Monday morning and asked him five questions...
Friday, December 18, 2009
Leading Freshman Sire Wildcat Heir accomplished something from his debut crop that no other sire in the recorded history of Thoroughbred horse racing has – siring 39 juvenile winners in the Northern Hemisphere...
Saturday, December 12, 2009
A 15 ½-length debut winner is very rare – but not a world record. What is a world record are 38 2-year-old winners from the first crop of a Freshman Sire...
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Leading Freshman Sire Wildcat Heir got two more maiden winners from his near-record-setting first crop Saturday, Dec. 5th, running his total to 37 winners – just one off of Chapel Royal’s world record of 38 for a first-crop stallion...
Friday, December 04, 2009
Promising young allowance winners were revealed on Dec. 3rd for Journeyman Stud freshman sires Wildcat Heir and Bwana Charlie, as Dances With Ashley and B’wanagoldmine gained impressive second wins against top company at Calder and Fair Grounds, respectively...
Friday, November 20, 2009
Consolidator arrived at his new home of Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala, FL on Friday, Nov. 20th, where the Grade 1-winning son of Storm Cat will stand the 2010 breeding season...
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Leading Freshman Sire Wildcat Heir is enjoying a stellar weekend. On Friday Nov. 13th, he picked up his 30th first-crop 2-year-old winner as well as his first stakes winner. That poured over into Saturday when he quickly received his second 2-year-old stakes winner in the form of his filly Wild Mia, who captured the $100,000 Franks Juvenile Fillies Turf S...
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Despite a small first crop of 11 2-year-olds, Hear No Evil is proving to be one of the best Freshman Sires in the country. On Saturday, Nov. 14th, he picked up his second stakes winner when his colt Hear Ye Hear Ye won the $150,000 Jack Price Juvenile S...
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Friday the 13th proved to be a lucky day for Leading Freshman Sire Wildcat Heir, as his sensational first crop hit another level when he received his 30th winner and an impressive stakes winner in the same day...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Consolidator, a Grade 1-winning son of Storm Cat, will stand the 2010 breeding season at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Florida...
Monday, November 09, 2009
Dances With Ashley, a $125,000 purchase earlier this year as a 2-year-old in training at OBS, became Leading Freshman Sire Wildcat Heir’s 29th winner from his first crop...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
ReRun, a 501 (c)(3) Thoroughbred racehorse adoption program, announces that its annual holiday eBay auction of Moneigh® paintings, created by famous horses, will be held November 29 through December 6, 2009.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Foreman became the latest maiden special weight winner from the first crop of Bwana Charlie, as the 2-year-old colt won a 10-horse heat at Mountaineer Park the night of Nov. 2nd...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Many thanks to Mary Simons and Barbara Neel ofthe ReRun project, who were at our stud barn today to help some of our stallions paint their "Moneigh" paintings...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
A colt by Leading Freshman Sire Wildcat Heir topped the first session at the three-day Fasig-Tipton October Yearling sale in Lexington, KY, when Hip No. 152 went through the ring for $85,000...
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Inspiring hope for small breeders is juvenile standout Jackson Bend, whose durability and precocity combined are traits this Florida homebred inherited from both sides of his pedigree.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Jackson Bend, a 2-year-old colt from the first crop of Journeyman stallion Hear No Evil, turned in his best performance to date and showed that he is one of the top juveniles in the country, overcoming a poor start to impressively win the $400,000 In Reality S. and sweep the three-race FSS series on Oct. 17th at Calder...
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wildcat Heir got his crop-high 24th winner the evening of Oct. 14th when his 2-year-old filly Wild Rainbow romped to a five-length victory in a $28,000 maiden special weight heat at Charles Town...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Leading Freshman Sire Wildcat Heir got his 22nd winner in dynamic fashion on Monday night, Oct. 5th, as his 2-year-old Banner Cat streaked to a fast maiden special weight victory at Remington Park – romping by seven lengths and earning a 90 Beyer Speed Figure...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Wildcat Heir, Florida’s Leading Active Freshman Sire and a Top 5 National Freshman Sire, gained his crop-high 21st 2-year-old maiden winner from his debut crop on Oct. 5th when his filly Karmageddon proved best in a $47,000 maiden special weight heat at the Meadowlands...
Friday, October 02, 2009
Hear No Evil, a Leading Freshman Sire with such top 2-year-olds as three-time stakes winner Jackson Bend, has moved to Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala for the 2010 breeding season...
Friday, September 25, 2009
Florida’s Leading Freshman Sire Wildcat Heir became the first freshman sire in North America to reach 20 winners from his debut crop on Sept. 24th when his 2-year-old colt Wild Dixie Cat won a maiden special weight race at first-asking...
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wildcat Heir, Florida’s Leading Freshman Sire, was well-represented at the annual Keeneland September yearling sale when a colt from his second crop brought $140,000 to be one of the highest individual lots sold during the session on Wednesday, Sept. 23rd...
Monday, September 21, 2009
Florida’s leading freshman sire Wildcat Heir got another impressive maiden special weight winner on Sept. 20th when his 2-year-old colt Simplifying streaked to 4 ½-length score at Calder...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Freshman sire Wildcat Heir got off to a quick start about as soon as possible this spring, registering his first winner on April 1, and he has kept on going with 14 more... (Opens in New Window .pdf)
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Leading Freshman Sire Wildcat Heir picked up his crop-high seventeenth winner on Labor Day when his first-time starter My Good Friend keyed a Wildcat Heir exacta along with runner-up Wildcat’s Storm in a Calder maiden race...
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Hip 259, an attractive filly by the nation’s Leading Freshman Sire Wildcat Heir, was the first offering by her red-hot sire in the Open portion of the OBS August Yearling Sale August 24-27, and she showed the momentum created by Wildcat Heir by bringing $100,000 – the highest price fetched on Day 2 of the sale...
Monday, August 24, 2009
Grade 2 stakes-winning sprinter Teuflesberg has settled into his new home at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala, FL, where the 5-year-old son of Johannesburg will stand the 2010 breeding season...
Monday, August 03, 2009
Backtalk, an undefeated Grade 2 winner and the nation's leading juvenile, was a planned breeding by Brent Fernung...
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Leading Freshman and Juvenile Sire Wildcat Heir is not only getting an abundance of early winners, he’s getting them at some of racing’s most prestigious venues and at the highest level...
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Bwana Z, a 2-year-old filly from the first crop of Bwana Charlie, could not have been more impressive in becoming the fifth winner for her sire. On July 29th at Arlington, the speedy filly scored a leisurely six-length victory while finishing up well in hand at the wire...
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Journeyman Stud’s Top 5 Florida Freshman Sires Wildcat Heir and Bwana Charlie each added impressive maiden special weight winners on July 25th to their first crop of 2-year-old runners...
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Author: Deirdre B. Biles
Wildcat Heir, who was fast enough to win the six-furlong Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash Stakes (G1) in 2004, is getting off to a fast start as a stallion in 2009...
Friday, July 17, 2009
Past the halfway point in July, Leading Freshman & Juvenile Sire Wildcat Heir now has 11 winners from 21 of his first-crop two-year-olds to start, remaining strongly on top of all North American stallions with juvenile progeny earnings of $307,984 to date...
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Leading Freshman & Juvenile Sire Wildcat Heir recorded his eighth maiden special weight-winning 2-year-old of the season when a pair of his debutantes dominated a $47,000 five-furlong heat at Monmouth on July 3rd...
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Author: Bill Oppenheim TDN
Wildcat Heir, who tops the North American Freshman Sires List in runners, winners and progeny earnings, is an early product of Journeyman Stud...
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Leading Freshman & First-Crop Sire Wildcat Heir not only got his seventh maiden special weight-winning 2-year-old of the season on June 20th, he also became the sire of another good-looking winner – perhaps the most impressive to date...
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Leading Freshman & Juvenile Sire Wildcat Heir got his sixth maiden special weight winner from his debut crop on June 11th when Always Wildcatin’ drew off to a 3 ¼-length score in a $69,000 heat at Woodbine...
Friday, June 05, 2009
Author: By Nick Fortuna
Wildcat Heir has to be feeling a bit like Nuke LaLoosh, the pitcher in the classic baseball movie “Bull Durham” who famously told his catcher that he wanted to “announce his presence with authority.” Since joining Journeyman Stud in Ocala in 2006, the stallion has certainly done just that...
Monday, June 01, 2009
Journeyman Stud’s freshman sire Wildcat Heir is not only the Leading Freshman Sire in North America, he is also the Leading Juvenile Sire among all stallions in North America.
Monday, May 18, 2009
At WTC Inc., we spend a lot of time tracking young stallions, and to have five individual winners by mid-May is an obvious indication that a stallion is siring precocious stock and needs to be followed closely... Jack Werk is the President of Werk Thoroughbred Consultants, Inc.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Journeyman Stud’s leading freshman sire Wildcat Heir is continuing to rack up early winners from his debut crop of 2-year-olds to hit the racetrack, as his daughter Wildcat Aly became the latest impressive first-out winner on May 17th, rallying to win a $62,000 maiden special weight heat going away at Woodbine. She was his fifth winner from seven starters...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Journeyman Stud’s freshman sires Wildcat Heir and Bwana Charlie have gotten off to a lightning-fast start with their respective debut crops to hit the racetrack, ranking nationally as the Leading Freshman Sires through May 12th with an impressive six combined winners from nine starters...
Monday, May 11, 2009
Bwana Charlie received his second 2-year-old winner in four starters from his debut crop when Bwana Express became a first-out winner in a $27,000 maiden special weight heat at Calder Race Course on May 11th. The win moved Bwana Charlie into second behind Wildcat Heir on the Leading Freshman Sires list...
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Leading Freshman Sire Wildcat Heir received another pair of debut winners on May 2nd from his fast-starting first crop, as Richiegirlgonewild and Wildcat Honor won at first-asking at Arlington Park and Calder, respectively, to give the brilliant Grade 1-winning sprinter four winners from six starters to date...
Friday, April 10, 2009
Malawi, a 2-year-old filly from the first crop of multiple graded stakes winner Bwana Charlie, became the first starter and first winner for her sire, impressively drawing off to win her debut by four lengths in a 4 ½-furlong maiden special weight heat April 10th at Keeneland...
Friday, April 03, 2009
Journeyman Stud’s leading freshman sire Wildcat Heir has caught fire with his first crop of runners to hit the racetrack, as the Grade 1-winning son of Forest Wildcat has already been represented by a pair of first-out 2-year-old winners from his first two starters...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Grade 1 winner Wildcat Heir got off to a fast start at stud when his filly Kitty in the Bag, the first starter from his debut crop of 2-year-olds, cruised to an impressive 3 1/4-length win in a $36,000 maiden special weight heat on April 1st at Santa Anita...
Monday, March 23, 2009
Preparing for my trip to Ocala, I browsed farm information, looking for visitor-friendly sites, easy contact information, and stallions for whom, for one reason or another, I felt a particular affinity. In Journeyman Stud, I found all three...
Friday, March 20, 2009
Journeyman Stud has revised the stud fees on a number of its stallions for the remainder of the 2009 breeding season, it was announced by the Florida-based farm Friday, March 20th...
Friday, March 13, 2009
The first 2-year-olds by Grade 1-winning sprinter Wildcat Heir represented well at the opening under tack show for the OBS March Select Two-Year-Olds Sale March 12th, as Hip 100, a Wildcat Heir colt, and Hip 172, a Wildcat Heir filly, zipped through the co-fastest eighth of a mile on the day in 9.80 over the local SafeTrack surface in Ocala...
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Author: JoAnn Guidry
Question: What statistics do you consider when choosing a stallion. Brent: Almost all proven stallions were successful racehorses. Here are the statistics that bear that out: 90% of the Top 50 stallions in the country in 2008 were graded stakes winners. 94% of the Top 100 stallions in North America in 2008 were stakes winners.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
The excitement of Wildcat Heir’s first crop of 2-year-olds continued during the OBS February Select Sale on Feb. 17th, when a filly by the brilliant Grade 1-winning sprinter entered the ring as Hip No. 180 and sold for $125,000...
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Journeyman Stud’s Wildcat Heir saw several of his first Select 2-year-olds blaze the track at the OBS February Select Sale Under Tack Show Feb. 13th over the local SafeTrack surface...
Monday, February 09, 2009
Last year’s Southeastern stallion scene was dominated by the departure of Padua Stables, Cloverleaf Farms II, and Sequel Stallions from Florida, resulting in transfers of at least a dozen Florida stallions...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Like many longtime New Jersey residents, Indy Wind is seeking a taste of the good life during his retirement in Florida, and after winning five stakes races during his career at the racetrack, he deserves it...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Journeyman Stud’s Exclusive Quality sired his first foal, a colt, on Jan. 15th at Leprechaun Farm in Ocala, Florida...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Saint Anddan, A.P. Indy’s Grade 2-winning son standing at Journeyman Stud, sired his first foal on Jan. 11th when a dark bay or brown filly was delivered at Equitor Farm in Ocala, Florida...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
As he enters his first year as a stallion at Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Gaff needn’t worry about being lonely in the breeding shed. The horse, who stands for a $3,000 stud fee, will have the early backing of Bill Heiligbrodt of Heiligbrodt Racing Stable, who has promised to support the stallion with his own mares and in the sales ring...
Monday, December 29, 2008
Author: Nick Fortuna
Brent Fernung got a firsthand look at Deputy Glitters’ racing ability at the Tampa Bay Derby (G3) at Tampa Bay Downs in 2006, when the horse defeated Grade 1 winner and 2-5 favorite Bluegrass Cat by two lengths...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Author: Nick Fortuna
Big things have been expected from Cowtown Cat ever since he commanded a sale-topping $1.5 million at Barretts’ sale of 2-year-olds in training in March 2006. Now, Brent Fernung, the owner of Journeyman Stud in Ocala, is hoping the colt can continue to make his presence felt in the sales ring as he begins his stud career...
Friday, December 05, 2008
Author: By Nick Fortuna, Wire to Wire
Stallions who want to stand at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala should follow the advice of Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis and “just win, baby.” Brent Fernung said he uses four sets of criteria to evaluate potential stallions – race record, sire, female family and looks – but if a horse lacks accomplishments on the racetrack, it’s not necessary to look at the other three areas...
Friday, November 21, 2008
Indy Wind, a five-time stakes winner by leading sire A.P. Indy, has retired from racing and will join the stallion ranks at Brent & Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala, FL for the 2009 breeding season, it was announced Friday...
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Author: JoAnn Guidry
Brent and Crystal Fernung establish a new home for their Ocala-based Journeyman Stud.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Brent & Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud has set stud fees for its expanded 11-horse roster for 2009, it was announced Tuesday, Nov 11th...
Monday, November 10, 2008
It was announced Saturday, Nov. 8 that Multiple Graded Stakes winner Cowtown Cat, who topped the 2006 Barretts March Sale at $1.5 Million, has been retired from racing and will stand at Brent & Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud in Florida...
Monday, October 27, 2008
Multiple graded stakes-winning sprinter Gaff has been retired from racing to begin a career at stud at Brent & Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud in Ocala, FL...
Sunday, October 26, 2008
A colt from the first crop of Journeyman Stud’s Wildcat Heir topped the final session of the three-day Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearlings Sale on Oct. 23rd in Lexington, Ky., selling for $107,000...
Monday, October 20, 2008
Three time Grade 1 winner Sweet Return has moved to Brent and Crystal Fernung s Journeyman Stud in Ocala FL for the 2009 breeding season Owned and campaigned by John Brunetti s Red Oak Stable ...
Monday, October 20, 2008
Dual Derby-winning 3-year-old Deputy Glitters has retired from racing and will stand his first season in 2009 at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The strength of family for Journeyman Stud’s Bwana Charlie continues to get better and better, as his most recent successful sibling, My Pal Charlie, claimed an impressive 4 1/4-length victory in the $515,000 Super Derby (G2) on Sept. 20 at Louisiana Downs...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Author: Nick Fortuna
The odds were pretty good that a horse sired by Repent and broken and trained by Brent Fernung would win the $77,500 Step Nicely Stakes at Belmont Park on Sunday. But few people other than Fernung thought that horse would be Famous Patriot and not Check It Twice...
Friday, September 12, 2008
Brent & Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud announce the addition of Circular Quay for 2009 and their new breeding facility.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Two of Journeyman Stud's young guns enjoyed successful showings from their first yearlings offered at public auction, as racing prospects by Wildcat Heir and Bwana Charlie were well-received at the OBS August Select Sale on August 18...
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Journeyman Stud builds a new 9,000 sq ft. 14 stall barn and main office complex.
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Mamma Lina a recent purchase by Journeyman Bloodstock breaks maiden at Arlington in maiden spw by 14 lengths.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Select yearlings from the debut crop of sensational sprinter Wildcat Heir hit the sales ring at the first big yearling sale of the season, the Fasig-Tipton July new-sire showcase in Lexington, Ky., and they were well-received by buyers...
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Brent and Crystal Fernung have announced that their Journeyman Stud division has started building a new 14 stall stallion complex...
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Author: Crystal Fernung
A new 14 stall stallion facility and new office are in progress at Journeyman Stud...
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Mongoose Gold, the leading money-winner for Mongoose, added to her bank account with a game victory in a $45,630 allowance race at Arlington Park on June 27...
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Top 3-year-old My Pal Charlie is getting closer to Pyro. After finishing second by three lengths to highly-regarded Pyro in the Louisiana Derby (G2) in March, Journeyman Stud stallion Bwana Charlie's full brother whittled the margin between the two to less than two lengths in the Northern Dancer Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs on June 14...
Monday, April 21, 2008
When Behindatthebar won the $250,000 Lexington Stakes (G2) at Keeneland on April 19, it marked another addition to the growing list of 3-year-old graded stakes performers of 2008 who received their early schooling under the guidance of Brent Fernung...
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Author: JoAnn Guidry
Bsharpsonata makes it 6 for 9 winning the Davona Dale Stakes.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
My Pal Charlie came into the $600,000 Louisiana Derby (G2) off two straight victories at Fair Grounds...
Sunday, February 17, 2008
After breaking his maiden at Fair Grounds on Jan. 26, My Pal Charlie came back in a $40,000 allowance race on Feb. 14 and made it two straight...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
A colt out of Journeyman owned ONE TO FIVE brings $200,000 at OBS February sale.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
When Journeyman Bloodstock’s Brent Fernung was in his final month as farm manager at CloverLeaf Farms, he advised owner John Sykes not to sell a Pulpit filly named Bsharpsonata...
Friday, February 08, 2008
Author: JoAnn Guidry
After purchasing Repent privately, Fernung then buys Crowning Touch among other mares expressly to breed to Repent.. The success is obvious
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Record-setting, Grade 1 winner Mass Media sired his first foal on Jan. 8th when a bay colt out of the Moscow Ballet mare Soviet Missile was born at Tara Stables in Ocala, Florida...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Journeyman Bloodstock wound up as the leading consignor at the three-day OBS Winter Mixed Sale which concluded on Jan. 18...
Monday, January 21, 2008
Crystal and Brent Fernung’s Journeyman Bloodstock had the day’s sales toppers in the consignor preferred session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales 2008 Winter Mixed Sale.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Author: JoAnn Guidry
Smooth Air has a strong connection to the Fernung's
Friday, January 11, 2008
On December 30th at Santa Anita, Florida-bred Gorgeous Goose became the first stakes winner for Florida stallion Mongoose.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Bushwacker, mated for Starship Stables by Brent Fernung, has strong Florida ties.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Bushwacker’s strong Florida family ties Florida-bred Bushwacker, who won the Vernon O. Underwood Stakes (G3) on December 2 at Hollywood Park, has quite an extended Florida family.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Grade 2 winner Saint Anddan, winner of the Churchill Downs Handicap (gr. II) has been retired from racing, and will stand the 2008 breeding season at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Florida....
Monday, December 10, 2007
Brent and Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud hosted the farm's first stallion show Saturday, Dec. 8 at the old Sez Who Thoroughbreds property in Ocala...
Friday, November 16, 2007
Gorgeous Goose, out of Gorgeous Me defeated a full field Wednesday Nov. 14th...
Friday, November 09, 2007
Exclusive Quality, a stakes winner who won three of four career starts, will begin his stallion career in 2008 at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Bwana Charlie, a Grade 2 stakes winning son of top sire, Indian Charlie, is going to stand the 2008 breeding season at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud...
Monday, September 24, 2007
As agent for CloverLeaf Farms II, Brent Fernung purchased Apasionata Sonata infoal to Pulpit...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Author: JoAnn Guidry
The saying goes that when one door closes, another opens. And in this case, the closing of...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Author: By JoAnn Guidry
The saying goes that when one door closes, another opens. And in this case, the closing of CloverLeaf Farms II opened the door of opportunity for a new Ocala-based stallion station...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Author: By Ryan Conley
It's almost considered a running joke now, but it's certainly one Brent Fernung always enjoys hearing:
Friday, January 26, 2007
Woodford's Gal went on to break her maiden by five and 1/4 lengths at Turfway Park returning 36.40 to win.
Friday, December 29, 2006
Sadie Sue Cat, a daughter of the Cloverleaf stallion Mongoose, became the sixth winner for her sire when she won the second race at Philadelphia Park, Dec. 11...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Mongoose, a son of Broad Brush standing at John Sykes’ Cloverleaf Farms II, gained his fifth winner from his first crop...