Journeyman Bloodstock News

Saturday, February 04, 2012
With a great first month of the year, Journeyman Stud's young stallion Exclusive Quality sits atop Florida's second-crop sire list...
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Champion Awesome Feather turned in yet another scintillating performance in the $300,000 Sunshine Millions Distaff S...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Budding star Christopher's Joy remained undefeated as the 3-year-old son of Exclusive Quality scored by a comfortable length in his first start against winners...
Saturday, January 14, 2012
A troubled start and twice altering course in the stretch couldn't stop 4-5 favorite Jackson Bend from claiming victory in the $100,000 Hal's Hope S...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The first weanling by Cowtown Cat offered at auction in 2012 brought $30,000, more than 7x his stud fee, during day 3 of the Keeneland January sale...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Exclusive Quality's Dreaming of Neno got home a three-quarter length winner in his career debut at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 11...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Shigeru Acerola, a 2-year-old son of Wildcat Heir, won his first career stakes, in just his fourth lifetime start, Dec. 17...
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Our Mr. Bud's 2 1/2-length maiden win Saturday at Gulfstream Park gave his sire Saint Anddan his 16th winner from his first crop...
Monday, December 12, 2011
Christopher's Joy powered to a 3 1/2-length victory Dec. 12 at Parx Racing in the career debut of the 2-year-old colt by Exclusive Quality...
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Cedar Key Sunset overcame a rough start to break his maiden at Hawthorne on Dec. 8, giving his sire Saint Anddan his 15th winner...
Saturday, December 03, 2011
Logan's Peak used a final furlong surge to break her maiden Dec. 1 at Woodbine...
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Ladies Drink Free battled to a half-length maiden win Nov. 27 at Hawthorne to give Exclusive Quality his twelfth winner of the year...
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Track announcer Tom Durkin called Awesome Feather's performance “perfect” as the 3-year-old filly crossed the wire in the Grade 1 Gazelle S. to run her record to a flawless 8-for-8...
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Saint Anddan, Florida's leading first crop sire of winners, ran his total to 14 on Nov. 26 when the aptly named It's Time to Win cruised to a 4 3/4-length win...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Brent & Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud announced no increases to fees for its 14-stallion roster for 2012, headlined by Wildcat Heir, Florida's 2011 Leading General Sire, and Awesome of Course, Florida's 2011 Leading Juvenile Sire...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Vineyard Haven, a three-time Grade 1 winner and leading 2-year-old of his generation, has been retired from racing and will stand his first season in 2012 at Brent & Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud in Ocala, FL...
Friday, November 11, 2011
J P's Gusto, a Grade 1-winning juvenile and top 3-year-old sprinter, has retired to Brent & Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud in Ocala, FL and will stand his first season in 2012...
Sunday, November 06, 2011
Exclusive Quality, Florida's second-leading freshman sire of winners, got his 11th Nov. 6 at Calder...
Sunday, November 06, 2011
Wildcat Heir's John Johny Jak won his third careers stake on Nov. 5 with a nose victory in the $70,150 Lure S. at Santa Anita...
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Wizardry galloped to a 3 1/2-length maiden victory on Nov. 1 to give freshman sire Teuflesberg his fourth winner from his first crop...
Monday, October 31, 2011
Hey Brayden went right to the front en route to a 2 1/4-length maiden win at Calder to give his sire Exclusive Quality his tenth winner...
Friday, October 28, 2011
Journeyman's Saint Anddan got 2-year-old winner No. 12 from his first crop to race, putting him at the top of the Florida Freshman Sire list...
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Fort Loudon drew away late en route to a 2 1/2-length win in the $300,000 In Reality S. Oct. 15 at Calder...
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Awesome Belle dominated her competition in the $300,000 Florida Stallion My Dear Girl S...
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Elusive Vacation drew off in the final furlong to break her maiden by a comfortable 3 1/2-lengths Oct. 15 at Calder Race Course...
Friday, October 14, 2011
With a big move at the top of the stretch, Wild About Marie rolled to a two length victory in the Buffalo Trace Franklin County S. Oct. 14 at Keeneland...
Friday, October 14, 2011
With 11 winners to his credit through Oct. 14, first-crop sire Saint Anddan rests atop Florida's list of freshman sires...
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Exclusive Quality added to his growing list of juvenile winners on Oct. 13 when Sassy Q drew off to a 3 3/4-length maiden win at Calder...
Monday, October 10, 2011
Journeyman Stud's Wildcat Heir took over the top spot on the Florida's general sire list with a big Oct. 8-9 weekend...
Friday, October 07, 2011
Backstage Magic rolled to 2 1/4-length maiden victory to give her sire Exclusive Quality his seventh winner from his first crop...
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Saint Anddan, Florida's leading freshman sire of winners, notched number ten on Oct. 6 when Bleu Darling galloped home a ten-length winner...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Awesome Feather, last year's 2-year-old filly Eclipse champion, returned in style to win her first start of 2011 in the $60,000 Le Slew S. Oct. 4 at Belmont Park...
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Vexor and Trinniberg, both sons of Journeyman Stud stallions, were well clear of the field in their 1-2 finish in the Grade 2 Nashua S. Oct. 2 at Belmont Park...
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Journeyman Stud first year stallion Saint Anddan has had an amazing first year with his juvenile fillies, with eight of his nine winners coming from the female ranks...
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Exclusively Maria battled to a neck victory in the $100,000 Cassidy S. Oct. 1 at Calder to give her sire Exclusive Quality stakes winner number one from his first crop of foals...
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Saint Anddan's Another Romance took the runner-up spot in the $100,000 Cassidy S. at Calder, just a neck back of Exclusively Maria, by Exclusive Quality, giving Journeyman first-crop stallions a 1-2 finish in the six furlong contest...
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Moment to Riches became winner number eight for Saint Anddan, Florida's leading freshman sire of juvenile winners...
Friday, September 23, 2011
Journeyman Stud's Saint Anddan has moved into the top spot on Florida's first-crop sire list with seven 2-year-old winners...
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Karmageddon earned her first win of the year and third lifetime stakes in Saturday's $60,000 Jersey Girl S...
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Mass Media's 3-year-old son Manicero made the first start of his career on the grass in the $75,000 Needles S. Sept. 17 at Calder...
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Saint Anddan, Florida's leading first-crop sire of winners with six, got his latest winner Sept. 16 at Woodbine...
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Saint D'aroak rolled to a 3 length win in the $89,200 City of Anderson S. on Sept. 10 at Hoosier Park to give her sire Saint Anddan his first stakes winner...
Friday, September 09, 2011
Florida-bred Jackson Bend may not be the biggest horse on the grounds, but the same thing can't be said about his heart...
Monday, September 05, 2011
Trinniberg faced the toughest 2-year-old colts on the East Coast in the $250,000 Hopeful S. (G1)...
Monday, September 05, 2011
First-crop sire Exclusive Quality logged winner number five on Sept. 4 when Howelling Wind broke his maiden first time out...
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Despite a less than ideal start, Jackson Bend was nothing short of incredible in the $250,000 Forego S. (G1)...
Saturday, September 03, 2011
With another maiden winner and a stakes-placed runner the past week, Journeyman Stud's first-crop sire Exclusive Quality has moved into the fourth spot on Florida's freshman sire list...
Friday, September 02, 2011
Saint Anddan had his second winner in three days when Saint D'aroak broke her maiden at second asking at Hoosier Park on Aug. 27...
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Florida's second-leading freshman sire Saint Anddan accounted for another winner on Aug. 27 when the filly Lok Virsa scored by 2 3/4-lengths...
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Awesome of Course sired a first, a second and a third in two Florida Stallion Stakes races August 27, further expanding his lead as Florida’s #1 Juvenile Sire...
Friday, August 26, 2011
Going through the ring nearly back-to-back, a pair of Wildcat Heir yearlings fetched strong prices at OBS' select yearling sale...
Thursday, August 25, 2011
First-crop yearlings by Circular Quay proved popular on day 1 of the Aug. 23-25 OBS yearling sale...
Thursday, August 25, 2011
After the 3-day yearling sale at OBS on Aug. 23-25, Journeyman Stud's Cowtown Cat had 14 yearlings from his first crop go through the sales ring...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
John Johny Jak, a 4-year-old son of Wildcat Heir, made a late bid to win the $85,000 Harry F. Brubaker S. by a nose...
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Mass Media's 3-year-old son Manicero rolled to a five length victory in the $75,000 Naked Greed S. Aug. 20 at Calder...
Friday, August 19, 2011
Florida's third-ranked freshman sire Exclusive Quality had another 2-year-old find the winner's circle on Aug. 19...
Friday, August 12, 2011
No one could have expected that a stallion standing in Oklahoma for $1,750 after failing to attract enough patronage to stay afloat in Florida would sire a Breeders' Cup winner and champion. But that was exactly what happened when Awesome Feather charged home first in the 2010 Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I)...
Friday, August 12, 2011
While the heavy heads were trading blows and taking headlines at Saratoga, the quietly successful stallion Awesome of Course was racking up a pair of stakes winners in the Dr. Fager and Desert Vixen divisions of the Florida Stallion Stakes at Calder...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Champion Sire Wildcat Heir unleashed yet another eye-catching juvenile when Vexor took a top class field of maidens gate to wire at Saratoga on August 10th...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Joe Hollywood, bred by Journeyman's Brent and Crystal Fernung, ran off the screen with an amazing stretch run in a six furlong long first-level allowance race.
Saturday, August 06, 2011
A pair of 2-year-olds by Awesome of Course topped off a great Aug. 6 for Journeyman Stud at Calder Race Course...
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Wildcat Heir's Black Diamond Cat sprinted away from his competitors at the head of the stretch en route to a 4 1/2-length win in the $55,000 Major Moran S...
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Quality Lass turned her maiden win into a laugher at Woodbine as the 2-year-old daughter of Exclusive Quality ran away to a seven length win...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
The fittingly-named 2-year-old colt Sheer Talent showed he was worthy of his monicker in his debut...
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Not an Altar Boy, a 2-year-old from the first crop of Teuflesberg, broke his maiden July 24 at River Downs...
Friday, July 22, 2011
Jackson Bend scooted up the rail to take the $78,000 James Marvin S. by 2 1/2-lengths on July 22...
Friday, July 08, 2011
Bank Merger, making his first U. S. start since Oct., 2010, rolled to a six-length win at Belmont Park on July 8...
Friday, July 08, 2011
Journeyman Stud's first-crop sire Saint Anddan got his second career winner July 8 at Presque Isle Downs...
Friday, July 08, 2011
Journeyman Stud's Teuflesberg scored his first U. S. winner on July 8 at Calder when Trinniberg dominated a field of 2-year-old colts...
Monday, July 04, 2011
Wildcat Heir's Black Diamond Cat got up in the shadow of the wire to grab the winner's share of the $75,000 Bob Umphrey Turf Sprint...
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Redbud Road and Awesome Belle completed a one-two finish in the $100,000 J J'sDream S. July 2 at Calder.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Journeyman Stud's Saint Anddan had his first winner June 26 at Hollywood Park when his 2-year-old filly Woebegon went gate-to-wire...
Sunday, June 26, 2011
First-time starter Greatful Heir rolled to a 3 3/4-length victory going five furlongs at Monmouth Park on June 26...
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Journeyman Stud’s Exclusive Quality sired his first winner on June 25, when Exclusively Maria won a $40,000 maiden special weight at Calder by six lengths.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Beso Grande won her second straight stakes at Calder on June 11...
Monday, June 06, 2011
Wild Mia made her first start in California a winning one, edging Andina by a neck to capture the $75,100 Redondo Beach S. June 5 at Hollywood...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Journeyman Stud's Teuflesberg sired his first winner on May 21, when his 2-year-old son This One for Me broke his maiden by 3 1/4 lengths at Hipodromo de las Americas racetrack in Mexico...
Monday, May 23, 2011
Three wins on May 21st, including a sterling victory in a $54,584 Hollywood Park allowance over 8 ½ furlongs, solidified Consolidator’s ranking as America’s Leading Third Crop Sire by winners and wins...
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Beso Grande and Manicero swept the co-featured $75,000 stakes May 14 at Calder...
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Hear Ye Hear Ye left his rivals in the dust with a 5 3/4-length victory in the $55,000 Sumter...
Sunday, April 24, 2011
John Johny Jak rallied to win the Carterista S. at Gulfstream Park, giving his sire Wildcat Heir his second new stakes winner in two days...
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Wildcat Marie was first at every call in the $150,000 Whimsical S. (G3) April 23 at Woodbine...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The very first Saint Anddan 2-year-old offered at auction got plenty of attention after she brought $125,000 at the OBS training sale...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Exclusive Quality had a colt from his first crop bring $100,000 during day 2 of the OBS 2-year-olds in training sale...
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Manicero keeps on winning at Tampa Bay Downs, setting a track record while scoring his third straight stakes win...
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Hear No Evil's Grade 1 son Jackson Bend gave another good account of himself in the Grade 3 Skip Away S. April 3 at Gulfstream Park...
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Trinniberg, the leading earner of 2011 for first-crop sire Teuflesberg, is one of the top three choices in the first running of the $500,000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint...
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Cute N Sassy took a liking to the sloppy main track at Santa Anita to register a 2 3/4-length maiden win on March 25...
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Aptly named Alert the Press put his name in the headlines once again with a 2 1/4-length win in the Bachman...
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Wild About Marie won her second stakes of Fair Grounds’ winter/spring meet on March 19...
Thursday, March 17, 2011
On March 16 at the OBS sale, the first 2-year-old offered at auction in 2011 by Teuflesberg went for $170,000...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
A filly from the first crop of Exclusive Quality sold for $82,000 during day 1 of the OBS March Sale of 2-year-olds...
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Vexor, winner of the Grade 2 Nashua S. in his last start, will line up for Friday's inaugural Breeders' Cup Sprint as one of the top choices in the $500,000, six furlong race...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
A pair of 2-year-olds by Awesome of Course will represent Florida's leading juvenile sire of 2011 in this weekend's Breeders' Cup...
Monday, February 21, 2011
Through nearly the first two months of 2011, Journeyman Stud's Consolidator leads all third-crop sires with 20 winners to date...
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Beso Grande, a 3-year-old filly from the first crop of Mass Media, won a hard-fought three-way battle to win her 2011 debut...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Analyst Bill Oppenheim noted Wildcat Heir as one of the planet's top sires in 2010 in a recent article in the Thoroughbred Daily News...
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Journeyman stallion Hear No Evil leads all sires in the world by A-Runner Index, Bill Oppenheimh has reported in Thoroughbred Daily News...
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Evil Queen made her graded stakes debut in the $200,000 Forward Gal S. (G2) Jan. 30 at Gulfstream Park...
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Bwana Charlie's Comma to the Top was assigned 121 pounds on the 2010 Experimental Handicap...
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Two-year-old filly 2010 Eclipse Award winner Awesome Feather was ranked at the top of the 2010 Experimental Handicap...
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Wild About Marie repelled several challenges in the $60,000 Dr. A. B. Leggio Memorial...
Monday, January 17, 2011
Awesome of Course had a brilliant 2010 capped off at the Eclipse Awards on Jan. 17 when his daughter Awesome Feather was named the 2-year-old filly champion...
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Manicero has turned into a winning machine for his sire Mass Media...
Monday, January 03, 2011
Wildcat Heir continued to show why he is one of the country's best young stallions, leading all second crop sires in progeny earnings...
Monday, January 03, 2011
All breeders are welcome. Lunch will be served, and drawings will be held for complimentary 2011 seasons...
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Just two days into the new year and Wildcat Heir recorded his first stakes winner of 2011...
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Mass Media logged his first career multiple stakes winner on Dec. 26 at Tampa Bay Downs...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
One of the first to set Indian Charlie's fee climbing was his son Bwana Charlie, who became Indian Charlie's first American graded stakes winner...
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Wildcat Heiress capped an excellent 2010 with a victory in the $60,000 Esplanade S. at Fair Grounds...
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Bwana Charlie's Comma to the Top collected the biggest win of his career with a decisive score in the $750,000, Grade 1 CashCall Futurity...
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Capixaba looks unstoppable at Laurel Park, running his winning streak to six in a row at the Maryland track on Dec. 17...
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Hear No Evil had a pair of winners on the Dec. 10 card at Calder Race Course...
Friday, December 10, 2010
Joe Mac looked like a seasoned horse with a professional style one-length maiden score in his debut...
Thursday, December 02, 2010
With a maiden-breaking score on Dec. 2 by Moon Over Parador, Journeyman Stud's first-crop Mass Media went over the $500,000 mark in progeny earnings...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Bwana Charlie's leading 2-year-old Comma to the Top is now a two-time stakes winner...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Brent & Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud announced its 14-stallion roster with fees for 2011...
Thursday, November 25, 2010
A pair of 3-year-old fillies by Wildcat Heir filled out the exacta on a cold, wet day at Churchill Downs on Nov. 24...
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Freshman sire Mass Media had a pair of winners Nov. 19-20...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Kiss the Kid, a multiple graded stakes winner and earner of $820,873, has been retired and will stand stud in 2011 at Brent and Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud in Ocala, FL...
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Horses by Wildcat Heir, Mass Media, and Hear No Evil all added black type to their resume on Nov. 13...
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Manicero, a 2-year-old colt by Mass Media, put on the show of the day with a dominating 8 1/4-length score in the $125K Jack Price Juvenile...
Monday, November 08, 2010
Awesome of Course, sire of undefeated Breeders’ Cup winner and Fasig-Tipton November Sale Topper Awesome Feather, will stand the 2011 season at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud, it was announced today. His stud fee will be $5,000, stands and nurses...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Mass Media's Manicero was a runaway winner in his maiden victory Oct. 30 at Calder Race Course...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Ever Yours became the first 2-year-old stakes winner, and the fourth overall, in 2010 for her sire Consolidator...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Journeyman Stud's Mass Media, Florida's fourth leading freshman sire, added another winner to his growing list on Oct. 20...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The OBS fall mixed sale marked the first-ever auction to include foals by multiple graded stakes winner Cowtown Cat...
Saturday, October 09, 2010
Bank Merger got his first career stakes win with a hard-fought win in $250,000 Gallant Bob ...
Saturday, October 02, 2010
Karmageddon registered a 3 1/4-length win in the $75,000 Princeton S. to give her sire Wildcat Heir his sixth stakes winner on the year...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
With 20% stakes horses from starters, Mass Media reigns as Florida’s Leading First Crop Sire by percentage of stakes horses...
Monday, September 27, 2010
Man I Can became the seventh winner from the first crop by Mass Media on September 23, breaking his maiden over 7 furlongs at Woodbine...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
A colt from the first crop of Journeyman Stud's Teuflesberg sold for $45,000 at Keeneland's yearling sale on Sept. 22...
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Wildcat Heir topped a red-hot week with Derwin Star taking the $400,000 Charles Town Oaks on Sept. 18...
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Fiscal Policy became Wildcat Heir's latest stakes winner with a masterful 6 1/4-length triumph in the Coca-Cola Bassinet...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...