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Wildcat Heir colt gets first stakes win in Japan

Shigeru Acerola, a 2-year-old son of Wildcat Heir, won his first career stakes, in just his fourth lifetime start, Dec. 17...

Exclusive Quality firster rolls at Parx

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...

Cedar Key Sunset secures maiden win with strong stretch run

Cedar Key Sunset overcame a rough start to break his maiden at Hawthorne on Dec. 8, giving his sire Saint Anddan his 15th winner...

Teuflesberg filly takes top prize at Woodbine

Logan's Peak used a final furlong surge to break her maiden Dec. 1 at Woodbine...

Exclusive Quality racks up 12th winner in his first crop

Ladies Drink Free battled to a half-length maiden win Nov. 27 at Hawthorne to give Exclusive Quality his twelfth winner of the year...

Saint Anddan leading Florida freshman sire of winners

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...

Awesome Feather still perfect after Grade 1 Gazelle

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...

2012 fees unchanged for Journeyman Stud's Wildcat Heir, Awesome of Course

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...

Three-time G1 winner Vineyard Haven retires to Journeyman Stud

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...

G1 winner J P's Gusto to Journeyman Stud

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...

Awesome of Course juveniles Breeders' Cup preview

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...

Trinniberg seeks Breeders' Cup glory in inaugural Juvenile Sprint

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...

Top-5 freshman sire Exclusive Quality racks up 10th winner

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...

Another 'Awesome' day at the races

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...

Manicero dusts stakes field at Calder

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...

Exclusive Quality notches another winner at Calder

Florida's third-ranked freshman sire Exclusive Quality had another 2-year-old find the winner's circle on Aug. 19...

Paulick Report's Frank Mitchell on Awesome of Course

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...

Awesome of Course Back in the Headlines

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)...

Wildcat Heir Juvenile Impresses at Saratoga

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...

Bank Merger comes back a winner at Belmont

Bank Merger, making his first U. S. start since Oct., 2010, rolled to a six-length win at Belmont Park on July 8...

First crop sire Saint Anddan gets another winner

Journeyman Stud's first-crop sire Saint Anddan got his second career winner July 8 at Presque Isle Downs...

Teuflesberg colt romps in debut at Calder

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...

Black Diamond Cat has winning hand in $75K Umphrey Sprint

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...

Awesome of Course fillies 1-2 in $100K J J'sDream

Redbud Road and Awesome Belle completed a one-two finish in the $100,000 J J'sDream S. July 2 at Calder.

Saint Anddan sires first winner

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...

Wildcat Heir 2YO filly romps in debut

First-time starter Greatful Heir rolled to a 3 3/4-length victory going five furlongs at Monmouth Park on June 26...

First winner for Exclusive Quality

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.

Beso Grande continues stakes roll at Calder

Beso Grande won her second straight stakes at Calder on June 11...

Wild Mia makes Hollywood trip worthwhile

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...

G2 winner Teuflesberg sires first winner

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...

Consolidator filly impressive at Hollywood

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...

Stakes double at Calder for Mass Media

Beso Grande and Manicero swept the co-featured $75,000 stakes May 14 at Calder...

Hear Ye Hear Ye reigns supreme in Sumter stakes

Hear Ye Hear Ye left his rivals in the dust with a 5 3/4-length victory in the $55,000 Sumter...

Second stakes winner in 2 days for Wildcat Heir

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...

Wildcat Marie turns back challengers in G3 Whimsical

Wildcat Marie was first at every call in the $150,000 Whimsical S. (G3) April 23 at Woodbine...

Exclusive Quality 2YO hits $100K mark at OBS auction

Exclusive Quality had a colt from his first crop bring $100,000 during day 2 of the OBS 2-year-olds in training sale...

Saint Anddan's first 2YO sells for $125K at OBS

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...

Manicero dials up Tampa track record

Manicero keeps on winning at Tampa Bay Downs, setting a track record while scoring his third straight stakes win...

Jackson Bend runner-up in G3 Skip Away

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...

Consolidator filly handles off going at Santa Anita

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...

Alert the Press: Mass Media son wins another stakes

Aptly named Alert the Press put his name in the headlines once again with a 2 1/4-length win in the Bachman...

Wild About Marie repeats over Fair Grounds' turf course

Wild About Marie won her second stakes of Fair Grounds’ winter/spring meet on March 19...

Teuflesberg colt sells for $170,000 at OBS

On March 16 at the OBS sale, the first 2-year-old offered at auction in 2011 by Teuflesberg went for $170,000...

First Exclusive Quality 2YO sells for $82,000 at OBS

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...

Consolidator tops all 3rd-crop sires with 20 winners

Through nearly the first two months of 2011, Journeyman Stud's Consolidator leads all third-crop sires with 20 winners to date...

Mass Media filly Beso Grande wins 2011 bow

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...

Oppenheim: Wildcat Heir a leading sire of top racehorses

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...

Hear No Evil tops all sires by A-Runner Index

Journeyman stallion Hear No Evil leads all sires in the world by A-Runner Index, Bill Oppenheimh has reported in Thoroughbred Daily News...

Hear No Evil filly G2 placed in Forward Gal

Evil Queen made her graded stakes debut in the $200,000 Forward Gal S. (G2) Jan. 30 at Gulfstream Park...

Comma to the Top near the top of 2010 Experimental Handicap

Bwana Charlie's Comma to the Top was assigned 121 pounds on the 2010 Experimental Handicap...

Awesome Feather tops 2010 filly Experimental Handicap

Two-year-old filly 2010 Eclipse Award winner Awesome Feather was ranked at the top of the 2010 Experimental Handicap...

Wild About Marie courageous in Leggio Memorial at Fair Grounds

Wild About Marie repelled several challenges in the $60,000 Dr. A. B. Leggio Memorial...

Awesome of Course now the sire of an Eclipse Award winner

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...

Manicero wins third straight stakes with Pasco victory

Manicero has turned into a winning machine for his sire Mass Media...

Wildcat Heir: 2010's leading second-crop sire

Wildcat Heir continued to show why he is one of the country's best young stallions, leading all second crop sires in progeny earnings...

Journeyman sets Open House for Jan. 22

All breeders are welcome. Lunch will be served, and drawings will be held for complimentary 2011 seasons...

2010 Champion second crop sire Wildcat Heir sires first stakes winner of 2011

Just two days into the new year and Wildcat Heir recorded his first stakes winner of 2011...

Manicero notches second stakes win in Tampa's Inaugural

Mass Media logged his first career multiple stakes winner on Dec. 26 at Tampa Bay Downs...

Bwana Charlie Featured in TDN Pedigree Insights by Andrew Caulfield

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...

Wildcat Heiress goes gate to wire in Esplanade

Wildcat Heiress capped an excellent 2010 with a victory in the $60,000 Esplanade S. at Fair Grounds...

Comma to the Top rolls on, wins G1 CashCall Futurity

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...

Capixaba: Wildcat Heir's winning machine

Capixaba looks unstoppable at Laurel Park, running his winning streak to six in a row at the Maryland track on Dec. 17...

Two winners in one day at Calder for Hear No Evil

Hear No Evil had a pair of winners on the Dec. 10 card at Calder Race Course...

Newest Mass Media winner gets it done in debut

Joe Mac looked like a seasoned horse with a professional style one-length maiden score in his debut...

Mass Media now Florida's 3rd leading freshman sire

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...

Bwana Charlie's Comma to the Top wins G3 Generous

Bwana Charlie's leading 2-year-old Comma to the Top is now a two-time stakes winner...

Journeyman sets 2011 roster, fees

Brent & Crystal Fernung's Journeyman Stud announced its 14-stallion roster with fees for 2011...

Wildcat Heir fillies 1-2 in Churchill feature

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...

Winners continue to roll in for Mass Media

Freshman sire Mass Media had a pair of winners Nov. 19-20...

Multiple GSW Kiss the Kid retires to Journeyman

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...

Big weekend for Journeyman stallions

Horses by Wildcat Heir, Mass Media, and Hear No Evil all added black type to their resume on Nov. 13...

Mass Media colt shines as sire's first stakes winner

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...

Breeders' Cup sire Awesome of Course to Journeyman for 2011

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...

Consolidator adds 2YO stakes winner to roster

Ever Yours became the first 2-year-old stakes winner, and the fourth overall, in 2010 for her sire Consolidator...

Florida Top 5 freshman sire Mass Media adds another winner

Journeyman Stud's Mass Media, Florida's fourth leading freshman sire, added another winner to his growing list on Oct. 20...

Cowtown Cat colt brings $70,000 at OBS

The OBS fall mixed sale marked the first-ever auction to include foals by multiple graded stakes winner Cowtown Cat...

Consolidator's Bank Merger comes through in $250K Gallant Bob

Bank Merger got his first career stakes win with a hard-fought win in $250,000 Gallant Bob ...

Wildcat Heir racks up sixth stakes winner of 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...

Teuflesberg colt sells for $45K at Keeneland

A colt from the first crop of Journeyman Stud's Teuflesberg sold for $45,000 at Keeneland's yearling sale on Sept. 22...

Derwin's Star tops huge week for Wildcat Heir

Wildcat Heir topped a red-hot week with Derwin Star taking the $400,000 Charles Town Oaks on Sept. 18...

Wildcat Heir filly dominates River Downs' Bassinet

Fiscal Policy became Wildcat Heir's latest stakes winner with a masterful 6 1/4-length triumph in the Coca-Cola Bassinet...

OBS Session Topper for Mass Media

A colt by hot freshman sire Mass Media topped the second session of the Ocala Breeders’ August Yearling Sale on August 25...

Mass Media filly popular winner at Calder

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...

Consolidator colt wins at Spa on opening day

Bank Merger won the first main track race of the 2010 meet at Saratoga, scoring by 1 1/4-lengths...

Mass Media First Florida Freshman to Sire a SW

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...

Winners keep coming for freshman sire Mass Media

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...

Third debut 2YO MdSpWt winner for Mass Media

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...

Another stakes winner for Consolidator

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...

Wildcat Heir filly wins Hollywood's Cinderella Stakes

She'll Heir showed her fighting spirit, overcoming all types of trouble to win Hollywood Park's Cinderella S. on June 9...

Consolidator, Bwana Charlie among Top 5 Florida 2nd Crop sires

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...

Mass Media 2YO wins in debut at Calder

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...

Jackson Bend all heart in $1 million Preakness

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...

First two starters for Mass Media complete Calder exacta

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...

Consolidator's Correct Call now a two-time stakes winner

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...

Jackson Bend 12-1 for Preakness 135

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)...

Jackson Bend first Derby starter for Hear No Evil

Journeyman Stud will get that once-in-a-lifetime thrill when Jackson Bend breaks from the gate in Kentucky Derby 136 (G1)...

Kentucky Derby 136 in sight for Jackson Bend

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...

Consolidator filly sells for $259K at Tattersalls

A 2-year-old filly by Consolidator was among the top 10 prices at the Tattersalls' 2010 Craven Breeze Up sale...

Wildcat Heir gets first 2YO winner of 2010 at Keeneland

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...

Wildcat Heir offspring put him near top at Barretts 2YO sale

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...

Wildcat Heir tops North American second-crop sire list

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...

Jackson Bend solid second in G1 Wood Memorial

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...

Final weekend of March big for Consolidator

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...

Correct Call captures Royal North S. for her sire Consolidator

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...

Wildcat Heir filly still undefeated after Fair Grounds win

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...

FTBOA names Wildcat Heir Florida Freshman Stallion of the Year

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...

$200K Wildcat Heir colt tops for sire at OBS March sale

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.

Dances With Ashley becomes Wildcat Heir’s 4th stakes winner

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...

Cowtown Cat’s first foal a colt

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...

Regional Stallions Prospering

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

Consolidator filly wins by 26 ¾ lengths

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...

G1 winner Circular Quay sires first foal

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...

Jackson Bend runs well in G3 Holy Bull in 3yo debut

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)...

And Now For The Stakes Winners... TrueNicks on Wildcat Heir

...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...

This Wildcatter has Struck Oil! - Jack Werk on Wildcat Heir

...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...

Wildcat Heir filly wins Old Hat S. (G3) at Gulfstream

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...

Five Questions: Brent Fernung

Bloodhorse.com: We caught up with Brent at his training barn in Ocala Monday morning and asked him five questions...

Wildcat Heir gets record-setting 39th winner

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...

Wildcat Heir ties world record with 15 ½-length debut winner

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...

Wildcat Heir up to 37

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...

Wildcat Heir & Bwana Charlie: Impressive 2yo allowance winners on Dec. 3

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...

G1 winner Consolidator arrives at Journeyman Stud

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...

2 days, 2 stakes winners for Wildcat Heir

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...

'Hear Ye' becomes 2nd stakes winner for Hear No Evil

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...

Wildcat Heir: Winner No. 30 and stakes winner in same day

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...

Consolidator to Journeyman

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...

$125,000 Wildcat Heir filly dazzles in debut

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...

ReRun Visits the Farm! (Photos)

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...

$85,000 Wildcat Heir yearling tops Day 1 at F-T OCT

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...

Hear No Evil colt sweeps FSS series

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...

Wildcat Heir: 24th winner romps by 5

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...

Wildcat Heir 2yo earns 90 Beyer

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...

Lucky 21 for Wildcat Heir

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...

Hear No Evil to Journeyman Stud

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...

Wildcat Heir: 20 it is!

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...

Wildcat Heir colt brings $140,000 at KEESEP

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...

19 winners now for Wildcat Heir

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...

Wildcat Heir paces freshman sire ranks from Florida

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)

A Wildcat Heir exacta gives sire No. 17

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...

Wildcat Heir filly tops Day 2 at OBS August

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...

Teuflesberg to Journeyman

Grade 2 stakes-winning sprinter Teuflesberg has settled into his new home at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala, FL, where the 5-year-old son of Johannesburg will stand the 2010 breeding season...

Del Mar: Sight of latest impressive MSW winner for Wildcat Heir

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...

Journeyman Freshman Sires: More impressive maiden special weight winners

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...

Blood-Horse: Wildcat Heir Off to Fast Start

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...

11 winners for Leading Juvenile Sire Wildcat Heir

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...

Wildcat Heir debutantes run 1-2 in Monmouth maiden special weight

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...

Bill Oppenheim: Journeyman Stud "rapidly becoming one of Florida's leading stallion stations"

Wildcat Heir, who tops the North American Freshman Sires List in runners, winners and progeny earnings, is an early product of Journeyman Stud...

Wildcat Heir’s 7th winner may be most impressive to date

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...

6 winners now for Leading Freshman & Juvenile Sire Wildcat Heir

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...

Journeyman Stud’s freshman sires top the charts

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...

Wildcat Heir: Leading Freshman & Juvenile Sire In North America

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.

Wildcat Heir Sprints to the Lead!

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.

5 winners from 7 starters for Wildcat Heir

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...

Journeyman Stud 1-2 on Freshman Sires List

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...

Two more debut winners for Wildcat Heir

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...

Two runners, two winners for Wildcat Heir

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...

First starter by Wildcat Heir wows at Santa Anita

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...

A morning at Journeyman Stud

Preparing for my trip to Ocala, I browsed farm information, looking for visitor-friendly sites, easy contact information, and stallions for whom, for one reason or another, I felt a particular affinity. In Journeyman Stud, I found all three...

Journeyman Stud further revises fees

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...

Wildcat Heir duo breeze co-fastest 9.80 at OBS March

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...

Wildcat Heir filly brings $125,000 at OBS

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...

Wildcat Heir’s first 2yos breeze fast at OBS

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...

Market Watch - Value, Variety, and Pedigree

Last year’s Southeastern stallion scene was dominated by the departure of Padua Stables, Cloverleaf Farms II, and Sequel Stallions from Florida, resulting in transfers of at least a dozen Florida stallions...

Indy Wind brings Northeast toughness to Florida

Like many longtime New Jersey residents, Indy Wind is seeking a taste of the good life during his retirement in Florida, and after winning five stakes races during his career at the racetrack, he deserves it...

First foal for Journeyman’s Exclusive Quality

Journeyman Stud’s Exclusive Quality sired his first foal, a colt, on Jan. 15th at Leprechaun Farm in Ocala, Florida...

Saint Anddan sires first foal

Saint Anddan, A.P. Indy’s Grade 2-winning son standing at Journeyman Stud, sired his first foal on Jan. 11th when a dark bay or brown filly was delivered at Equitor Farm in Ocala, Florida...

Cowtown Cat brings sale-topping fame to Ocala

Big things have been expected from Cowtown Cat ever since he commanded a sale-topping $1.5 million at Barretts’ sale of 2-year-olds in training in March 2006. Now, Brent Fernung, the owner of Journeyman Stud in Ocala, is hoping the colt can continue to make his presence felt in the sales ring as he begins his stud career...

Deputy Glitters looks to impress Florida once again

Brent Fernung got a firsthand look at Deputy Glitters’ racing ability at the Tampa Bay Derby (G3) at Tampa Bay Downs in 2006, when the horse defeated Grade 1 winner and 2-5 favorite Bluegrass Cat by two lengths...

Circular Quay aims to impress Florida breeders

Stallions who want to stand at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala should follow the advice of Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis and “just win, baby.” Brent Fernung said he uses four sets of criteria to evaluate potential stallions – race record, sire, female family and looks – but if a horse lacks accomplishments on the racetrack, it’s not necessary to look at the other three areas...

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