Forest Wildcat -
Penniless Heiress, by
Pentelicus
2000
Bay
- Entered Stud: 2006 - Fee: $8,000 Stands and Nurses
Wildcat Heir
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World-Record Holding Sire of 2YO Winners
- All-time North American record-holder by two-year-old winners - 39.
- Florida's #1 Freshman Sire of 2009 - progeny earnings $1,169,439.
- America's #1 Freshman and Sophomore Sire of winners, 2009 & 2010.
- America's #1 Sophomore Sire of wins, 2010, #2 Sophomore by earnings.
- Nationally-ranked General Sire in 2010 (#67), with over $2,300,000 in earnings.
- Nine stakes horses, five stakes winners from his first two crops.
- Four stakes winners from his first crop, including 2010 Graded stakes winner RICHIEGIRLGONEWILD, winner of the Old Hat S. (G3), and 2010 multiple stakes winner DANCES WITH ASHLEY.
- Nine juvenile winners of 2010 from his second crop, including Hollywood Park stakes winner SHE'LL HEIR, victress in the Cinderella S.
- Gorgeous and brilliantly fast Grade 1 Winner - 117 Beyer, Rag# 0.
- In 2010, his 22 two-year-olds in training averaged $76,227.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Wildcat Heir Generational Pedigree
Dosage Profile: DP = 6-4-6-0-0 (16) DI = 4.33 CD = 1.00
courtesy of Pedigree Query
Race Record:
| Age |
Starts |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
Earnings |
| 2 |
2 |
1 |
1(1) |
0 |
$49,200 |
| 3 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
$9,400 |
| 4 |
7 |
4(2) |
2(1) |
0 |
$305,860 |
| 5 |
2 |
1(1) |
0 |
0 |
$60,000 |
| Totals |
12 |
6(3) |
4(2) |
0 |
$424,460 |
- As a racehorse, won the Frank J. DeFrancis Memorial Dash S. (G1) defeating graded stakes winners MIDAS EYES, CHAMPALI, GATORS N BEARS, SHAKE YOU DOWN, etc.
- Previous winners of the DeFrancis include CHEROKEE RUN, YES IT'S TRUE, MONTBROOK and SMOKE GLACKEN.
- Rated one of the best sprinters of his generation, having posted a 117 Beyer Speed Figure, ranking him just below GHOSTZAPPER (G1), COMMENTATOR (G1) and FOREST DANGER (G1), ahead of LOST IN THE FOG (G1) in races up to one mile.
- The best son of the late FOREST WILDCAT from the legendary sire line of Storm Cat.
- Ran 6 furlongs in 1:08 2/5.
- His sire Forest Wildcat is the sire of 5 Grade 1 winners, 25% 2YO winners with 2005 yearlings selling for up to $725,000.
- 18 Stakes horses under the first 2 dams, including a Classic winner - from the family of Leading Sire Nashua.
- Graded Stakes placed 2YO who broke his maiden first time out in June of his 2YO year.
Wildcat Heir shown winning the Grade 1 DeFrancis Dash defeating Midas Eyes (G1) |
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