00:07We're just getting started on Mage's third year. First two years have been great. He's
00:12bred 170 mares that first year with these young stallions. It's all about giving them the
00:17opportunity and he'll have that opportunity. We've bred some of the absolute best mares on
00:22the farm to him. I don't know that we've ever bred a stronger group of the erdry mares to a
00:26first-year stallion than we have with Mage. So he's got every chance in the world
00:30and I could not be happier with with the babies that we're getting. From that
00:35first crop we really took the biggest swing that we could on him. We've bred the
00:40dam of Zandon. We've bred the dam of Antiquarian. We've bred the dam of Chunk of
00:45Gold. We've bred the dam of Taxed. So many of the mares that have really been good to
00:51us over these last several years were the ones that went went into that first book
00:56We've had that great support from the syndicate in addition to obviously what
01:00we're sending. Ramiro himself, I think we all know how much Ramiro loves this horse,
01:06went out for his individual clients bought four or five really really quality mares.
01:10So there's there's a lot of people behind this horse. The foals that he sold in
01:15November are probably the best endorsement for for what he's throwing. He had a
01:19great Keeneland November sale, averaged over 125,000 for that sale, had 12
01:24individual six-figure foals. They really do look like their their derby-winning
01:29sire and I take that as an excellent sign. When we did the deal on Mage we knew he
01:33was a brilliant Kentucky Derby winner. We did not know that his dam would be
01:38historic and that's what Puka is. Dornock is a brilliant horse. Baeza is a
01:44brilliant horse. A mare that has had three grade one winning sons and not just that,
01:49the classic type sons. That's pretty well uncharted territory. What I love about Mage
01:56is Mage was that classic type obviously, but he also won first out 28th of his
02:02three-year-old year going seven furlongs when he's going 45 seconds for the half on
02:07the on the lead. It takes a very special horse to get that latest start and and put
02:13it all together by by early May. Mage digs down deep, urged onto the wire, onto the
02:19wire to win the Derby! I think Mage is a is a really a bigger version of his sire.
02:25He's grown to 16-1. To us he's just an ideal size and make for a stallion and a
02:31beautiful horse who's throwing beautiful babies. Frankly I think he has the highest
02:35ceiling of any stallion we stand. You know he goes with so many different mare
02:39types. We're breeding 20 of our own mares to him this year. We're breeding Believe
02:44You Can, who won the Kentucky Oaks for us, has had a couple of graded stakes
02:48horses. We all know it's a gamble to breed to a third-year stallion, but at 15,000
02:53to me it's it's a great gamble. And then you have the benefit of actually seeing
02:59what the foals look like to give you an incredible amount of optimism.
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