Touch Gold - Sultry Allure, by Forty Niner
2001 Dkb/Br. - Entered Stud: - Fee: $2,000 Stands and Nurses
Mass Media


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.
  • 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.




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, 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...
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Beso Grande won her second straight stakes at Calder on June 11...
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Beso Grande and Manicero swept the co-featured $75,000 stakes May 14 at Calder...
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Manicero keeps on winning at Tampa Bay Downs, setting a track record while scoring his third straight stakes win...
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...
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...
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Manicero has turned into a winning machine for his sire Mass Media...
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Mass Media logged his first career multiple stakes winner on Dec. 26 at Tampa Bay Downs...
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
Brent & Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud announced its 14-stallion roster with fees for 2011...
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Freshman sire Mass Media had a pair of winners Nov. 19-20...
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...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Mass Media's Manicero was a runaway winner in his maiden victory Oct. 30 at Calder Race Course...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)
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...
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...
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...
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:
TOUCH GOLD (USA)
b. 1994
DEPUTY MINISTER (CAN)
dkb/br. 1979
VICE REGENT (CAN)
ch. 1967
NORTHERN DANCER (CAN)   b. 1961 [BC]
VICTORIA REGINA (CAN) ch. 1958
MINT COPY (CAN)
dkb/br. 1970
BUNTY'S FLIGHT (CAN) b. 1953
SHAKNEY (USA) dkb/br. 1964
PASSING MOOD (CAN)
ch. 1978
BUCKPASSER (USA)
b. 1963 [C]
  TOM FOOL (USA) b. 1949 [IC]
BUSANDA (USA) blk. 1947 *
COOL MOOD (CAN)
ch. 1966
NORTHERN DANCER (CAN)   b. 1961 [BC]
HAPPY MOOD (USA) ch. 1951 *
SULTRY ALLURE (USA)
ch. 1994
FORTY NINER (USA)
ch. 1985
MR. PROSPECTOR (USA)
b. 1970 [BC]
RAISE A NATIVE (USA) ch. 1961 [B]
GOLD DIGGER (USA) b. 1962
FILE (USA)
ch. 1976
TOM ROLFE (USA) b. 1962 [CP]
CONTINUE (USA) dkb/br. 1958 *
SULTRY SUN (USA)
dkb/br. 1980
BUCKFINDER (USA)
dkb/br. 1974
BUCKPASSER (USA)   b. 1963 [C]
SHENANIGANS (USA) gr. 1963 *
SUNNY DAME (USA)
b. 1970
DAMASCUS (USA) b. 1964 [IC]
SUNNY MORN (USA) b. 1960
courtesy of Pedigree Query

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