2024 Three Year Olds

[brunanas]

Longshot Brunacini (Dortmund x Our Conquistadora) won the G3 Perryville at Keeneland over a bit unlucky Book'em Danno.
A Dortmund colt? Is this a colt who was bred in Korea, but then brought back to the US? Kind of really cool to see an offspring of the late, towering chestnut win a stakes at Keeneland.

Dortmund stood in the US for a while before moving to SK.

[BaroqueAgain1]

Hmmm. Dortmund was reported as exported Jan. 7, 2021, so I suppose he could have sired foals who would now be 3yos during his 2020 season here.
I guess it has felt like more than 3 years since Dortmund was exported.

[BaroqueAgain1]

Article on Brunacini's win, with some background on his breeding:
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... le-shocker

[Mylute]

Who Dey (Liam's Map × Pelipa) won the Best of Ohio Endurance S. (BT) at Mahoning Valley over older males.

The distance is a mile and a quarter, final time of 2:07.69.

[CoronadosQuest]

Fierceness is racing as a 4 year old, it was just announced on the BC show

[othybat_99]

Fierceness is racing as a 4 year old, it was just announced on the BC show

IMO I think this news is surprising since I honestly thought he would retire after the Classic, guess I was wrong, I'm looking forward to seeing how he runs in 2025.

[Northport]

If he wins the Classic he will step on a rock 3 days later and require an 8 month layoff but it’s fine because he also has nothing left to prove.

I’ll believe it when I see it

[CoronadosQuest]

If he wins the Classic he will step on a rock 3 days later and require an 8 month layoff but it’s fine because he also has nothing left to prove.

I’ll believe it when I see it

I guess Repole wrote this yesterday:

https://x.com/RepoleStable/status/1850665172391924109

Alert:

Even though this is breaking news, Fierceness’s stallion rights were negotiated after the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile to
@coolmoreamerica.

I am staying in with a significant share in Fierceness’s breeding rights. The plan is to win the Breeders’ Cup and beat Coolmore’s City of Troy

This negotiated deal also includes a provision for Fierceness to run back as a 4YO. Coolmore will receive 50% of Fierceness’s racing rights for his 4YO campaign.

When negotiating the deal a year ago, I was very clear with Coolmore that I wanted this horse, if healthy and sound, to run as a 4YO.

Coolmore is also of the understanding that I am clearly for, and aggressively pushing, an industry-wide mare cap of 200 mares per stallion.

Not to get too far ahead of myself, but I would love for Fierceness to start his 4YO campaign in @thesaudicup
.

Let’s go f$&king win the
@BreedersCup
!!!!!

[Tessablue]

I was just talking about this in the Breeding forum, but I do think Repole knows that if Fierceness wins the Classic, a big 4yo season could put him in the Hall of Fame. All the other major American 3yo colts are retiring or retired, and he could have his run of the division if he keeps up his form. And I think having a homebred with his silks hanging in the hall might be worth more than some extra millions.

I'm not getting my hopes up- Tiz the Law broke my heart in that regard- but I don't think it's completely impossible. Have to wait and see what happens in the Classic either way.

[Starine]

Track Phantom, Hall of Fame back in business Saturday
https://www.drf.com/news/track-phantom- ... s-saturday

[Diver52]

I was just talking about this in the Breeding forum, but I do think Repole knows that if Fierceness wins the Classic, a big 4yo season could put him in the Hall of Fame. All the other major American 3yo colts are retiring or retired, and he could have his run of the division if he keeps up his form. And I think having a homebred with his silks hanging in the hall might be worth more than some extra millions.

I'm not getting my hopes up- Tiz the Law broke my heart in that regard- but I don't think it's completely impossible. Have to wait and see what happens in the Classic either way.

So you're saying that running the table when all his compatriots are retired puts him in the HOF? I realize he didn't win the Classic, but that seems a little cynical and dissing the HOF voters.

[Tessablue]

So you're saying that running the table when all his compatriots are retired puts him in the HOF? I realize he didn't win the Classic, but that seems a little cynical and dissing the HOF voters.

That horse is already in the Hall of Fame and is named Gun Runner.

But yes, a hypothetical horse who wins the Juvenile and the Classic 2x would 100% make it into the Hall of Fame.

[KatieK101]

Per Coolmore on X, Sierra Leone to stay in training and race as a four year-old!

[Calypso]

WOW, how unexpected (and thrilling)! To get both Fierceness and Sierra Leone in 2025 - how exciting!

[Starine]

Pleasantly surprising news regarding Sierra Leone. The older horse division could be a lot of fun between he, Fierceness, Forever Young and Mystik Dan.

[CoronadosQuest]

We may actually have a decent older horse division next year?! That is exciting! So glad that Sierra Leone will be back!

[Tessablue]

LET’S GO

[Izvestia]

Pleasantly surprising news regarding Sierra Leone. The older horse division could be a lot of fun between he, Fierceness, Forever Young and Mystik Dan.

Besides the big names, I think there is some quality horses that will develop into nice 4-year-olds too.

[tachyon]

Per Coolmore on X, Sierra Leone to stay in training and race as a four year-old!

Yay!
I hope that he will be headed to the Saudi Cup next.

[Izvestia]

I hope he stays stateside, travelling overseas takes half the year to get over. Some don’t come back the same.