Touch Gold -
Sultry Allure, by
Forty Niner
2001
Dkb/Br.
- Entered Stud: - Fee: $2,000 Stands and Nurses
Mass Media
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FL's 2nd leading Sophomore Sire of Stakes Wins
- Eight stakes victories in 2011 - 2nd-best among all Florida 2nd Crop Sires.
- Three SWs in 2011 - more than any other sophomore sire in North America at his fee.
- Ranked 2nd in his siring crop, ahead of Bernardini, by APEX/A-Runner Index (3.28)
- 5 Stakes Horses, 3 SWs, $1,750,000 from his first crop.
- 8 winners, 63% multiple winners from his second crop.
- Best progeny include 7-time SW/NTR-Setter MANICERO ($415,508, 8 wins in 12 starts), multiple 2011 SW BESO GRANDE ($235,947), multiple SW ALERT THE PRESS, $100,000 stakes colt Rivrav.
- Juvenile runners earn nearly twice the national average - 1.78 2yo AEI.
- Significant improvement of mares - 1.61 AEI vs. 1.13 CI.
- First season: #3 Florida Freshman by earnings - #1 by SWs - 24% 2yo SHs/Strs.
- One of the nation's fastest horses for four consecutive years.
- Facing the top sprinters of his generation, won or placed in seven graded stakes, including the Met Mile (G1), Forego S. (G1), and Cigar Mile (G1).
- Won the Forego S. (G1) in 1:22.59, the Sport Page H. (G3) in 1:21.10, the Fly So Free S. in 1:08.92.
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Won his first two starts at two by a combined 33 lengths.
- Earned 8 Triple Digit Beyers – including a 115 setting a new stakes record.
- From a true foundation family of sire producers.
- Bred more mares than all but three other Florida sires in 2011 - 106.
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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...
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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...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
Beso Grande won her second straight stakes at Calder on June 11...
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Beso Grande and Manicero swept the co-featured $75,000 stakes May 14 at Calder...
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Saturday, April 09, 2011
Manicero keeps on winning at Tampa Bay Downs, setting a track record while scoring his third straight stakes win...
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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...
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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...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011
Manicero has turned into a winning machine for his sire Mass Media...
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Mass Media logged his first career multiple stakes winner on Dec. 26 at Tampa Bay Downs...
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Friday, December 10, 2010
Joe Mac looked like a seasoned horse with a professional style one-length maiden score in his debut...
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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...
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Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Brent & Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud announced its 14-stallion roster with fees for 2011...
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Freshman sire Mass Media had a pair of winners Nov. 19-20...
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
Horses by Wildcat Heir, Mass Media, and Hear No Evil all added black type to their resume on Nov. 13...
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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...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Mass Media's Manicero was a runaway winner in his maiden victory Oct. 30 at Calder Race Course...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)
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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...
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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...
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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...
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| Age |
Starts |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
Earned |
| 2 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
$28,800 |
| 3 |
5 |
3 (2) |
0 |
0 |
$137,750 |
| 4 |
9 |
1 (1) |
2 (2) |
2 (1) |
$299,870 |
| 5 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
2 (2) |
$103,320 |
| Totals |
21 |
6 (3) |
2 (2) |
4 (3) |
$569,740 |
Racing Highlights
Won at 2
- An allowance race at Louisiana Downs (6 furlongs, equal top weight, by 22, defeating Amen Brother, Hail to Smokester, Tunnel Vision, Atten Hut, Glad You Dance, Woodmeister, Sea Doctor).
- A maiden special weight race at Louisiana Downs (6 furlongs, by 111/4, defeating Trust Me, Summertime Mood, Bc's Music, Ante Up Pete, Trifecta, Shot Gun Terry, Rose Country Man, A Team Leader, Lay It On Me, Senor Gran Day).
Won at 3
- Sport Page H (gr. III, 7 furlongs, by 31/2, defeating Lion Tamer, Gygistar, Voodoo, Personal Touch, Super Fuse, Eavesdropper, Conservation, Tomahawk).
- Fly So Free S (6 furlongs, defeating Smokume, All Hail Stormy, Willy o'the Valley, Chapel Royal).
- An allowance race at Belmont Park (6 furlongs, defeating Forest Grove, Introspect, Our Bobby V., More Heck, Platitude, Overflight).
Won at 4
- Forego S (gr. I, 7 furlongs, defeating Battle Won, Silver Wagon, Yankee Mon, Forest Danger, Keep The Faith).
2nd at 4
- Hill 'n' Dale Cigar Mile H (gr. I, 1 mile, equal top weight, to Purge, defeating Gygistar, Silver Wagon, Value Plus, Scrappy T, Bailero, Badge of Silver, Host, Imperialism, Straight Line).
- San Fernando Breeders' Cup S (gr. II, 1 1/16 miles, to Minister Eric, defeating Skipaslew, Imperialism, Castledale, My Creed, Harvard Avenue, Action This Day, Indian Country).
3rd at 4
- True North Breeders' Cup H (gr. II, 6 furlongs, equal top weight, to Woke Up Dreamin, Voodoo, defeating Smokume, Willy o'the Valley, Aggadan, Vicarage, With Distinction, Key Deputy, Sing Me Back Home).
3rd at 5
- Metropolitan H (gr. I, 1 mile, to Silver Train, Sun King, defeating Bandini, Wilko, Sir Greeley, New York Hero).
- Alfred G. Vanderbilt Breeders' Cup H (gr. II, 6 furlongs, equal top weight, to War Front, Judiths Wild Rush, defeating Afrashad, Bishop Court Hill, Thunder Touch).
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Mass Media Generational Pedigree
Dosage Profile:
courtesy of Pedigree Query
Mass Media Research Links
Mass Media Yearling Photos
Mass Media Yearling Photos - Journeyman Bloodstock
Mass Media Foal Photos
Mass Media - Journeyman Bloodstock