Castle Village Farm - Racing Partnerships

It’s an exciting time for Castle Village Farm! We went shopping at the yearling sales at Saratoga, Keeneland and Timonium, and now we have three new partnerships available:

Plaudit Partnership (Silver Music Colt)

The Plaudit Partnership (named for the 1898 Kentucky Derby winner) owns Talking Blues, a gray or roan yearling (born 2006) by Silver Music out of Time to Chat, by Gallant Hour, purchased by Castle Village Farm at the July, 2007 Saratoga Open Yearling Sale.

Talking Blues is a full brother to Time to Rap, a winner of over $168,000 on the New York circuit, and is from a Pinebourne Farm family that our trainer Bill Turner has had great success with.
Talking Blues is a late May foal, so we’ll want to give him some time before we set him down for serious training in the spring of 2008.

The initial capital of the partnership, in units of $1,000, will be between $40,000 and $60,000 and will cover purchase of the horse(s), start-up expenses, expenses involved in choosing the horse(s) – travel to the sales, vet exams, etc. – and training expenses through at least December 31, 2008, assuming the full $60,000 is raised.

Manuel Partnership (Bowman’s Band colt)

The Manuel partnership, named for the 1899 Kentucky Derby winner, will own the New York-bred chestnut colt by Bowman’s band out of Herb’s Prospect, by Claim. Bowman’s Band is an exciting first-crop sire, who won over $1.3 million on the track, including the Grade II Meadowlands Breeders Cup Handicap. Our colt has a very strong pedigree, being inbred 3x5 to the great stamina influence Ribot.

Our colt is also a half-brother to two good stakes-placed New York runners, Nun on the Run, winner of over $150,000, and Good Prospect, a three-year-old who’s already placed in the New York Stallion Stakes and in the Sleepy Hollow Stakes, the most important race for NY-bred two-year-olds. Good Prospect is trained by Castle Village Farm trainer Leah Gyarmati.

Partnership units in the Manuel partnership are $1,000, and if the target capital of $75,000 is raised, that will cover all expenses through the end of the colt’s two-year-old year.

New Providence Partnership (Brahms Colt)

We’re especially excited to have a yearling that we’ll be pointing for Woodbine Race Course, near Toronto. With this colt, we’re hoping to build on the success of our initial Canadian partnership, now concluded, which scored wins with Doubly Hard and Through Thicknthin.

The New Providence Partnership, named for the first Canadian Triple Crown winner, will train and race the bay Kentucky-bred thoroughbred colt of 2006 by Brahms out of Viola’s Honor by Allen’s Prospect, purchased by Castle Village Farm at the September, 2007, Keeneland Yearling Sale.

Our new Brahms colt, although relatively inexpensive, meets all of Castle Village Farm’s criteria for buying yearlings. He’s a well-built, handsome horse, and his dam has already produced a very competitive racehorse (her first foal to race, the four-year-old Knockin Boots, by Clever Trick, already has three wins and over $50,000 in earnings; her next foal is a two-year-old who has yet to start). His second dam, Savannah’s Honor, was a Grade III winner in both France and the US and was Grade I-placed. In addition, our colt is from the immediate family of Magna Graduate, a Todd Pletcher-trained Grade II winner and earner of over $2,200,000.

The colt’s pedigree is particularly suited to Woodbine’s polytrack synthetic surface. Results at North American tracks over the past 18 months have shown that turf pedigrees do very well on synthetic tracks, and our colt has turf on both sides of his pedigree. His grandsire is the great turf sire Danzig, and he’s inbred 3x4 to the wonderful Canadian sire Northern Dancer, through Danzig and Storm Bird.

Units in the New Providence partnership are CAN$1,000, and our target capital of CAN$45,000 should carry the colt through his two-year-old year.
All three colts have already been sent to Jim Crupi’s New Castle Farm, in Ocala, where they’re being be taught the basics of having a rider on their backs and getting used to the business of being a race horse. Jim Crupi is one of the premier “pinhookers,” buying yearlings and selling them at the two-year-old sales. He also trains yearlings for a number of major clients, including New York trainer Bruce Levine, and he developed Castle Village Farm’s stakes-placed filly, Fighting Speedy, after we claimed her.

Full details on all of these exciting new partnerships are available in their business plans and partnership agreements, which you can get from us by either email or regular US Mail. Please phone us toll-free at 1-888-989-7223, or email Managing Partner Steve Zorn at sjzorn@pipeline.com.