Wildcat Heir, who tops the North American Freshman Sires list in runners, winners and progeny earnings, is an early product of Journeyman Stud, which is rapidly becoming one of Florida's leading stallion stations since the reshuffle that has seen some big Florida outfits shift their operations to Kentucky.
Florida has long been a nursery for leading freshman sires, and Wildcat Heir comes to the table with the same sort of credentials that have always worked so well down there--speed and precocity. From the third crop by Forest Wildcat (Storm Cat), Wildcat Heir broke his maiden over five furlongs at two and ran second to Whywhywhy in the GII Sanford S. at Saratoga in just his second start. He then went on the shelf and made only one start at three, but came back at four to win the six-furlong GI Frank DeFrancis Memorial, recording a Beyer 109.
He's been well promoted and well managed, and is certainly off to the sort of start you'd hope for if you were managing a Storm Cat-line freshman sire in Florida.