Racing in a starter handicap at a 1 1/16 on the Tampa Bay turf, KATIE'S A LADY was sent from the gate and wired the field to win by over 5 lengths. She is trained by Kathleen O'Connell for owner Double D Stable, LLC. Breeder: Don Alberto Corporation

Topped by fees for Mind Control  , who enters stud this year, and Slumber  , sire of 2022 graded stakes winner Sy Dog  and multiple graded stakes winner Fluffy Socks , Rockridge Stud announced Jan. 13 its 2023 stallion roster. The Hudson, N.Y., farm will host a stallion show Jan. 28 from noon to 2 p.m. ET, with attendees eligible for free seasons in a raffle.

WENTRU Tops at Keeneland Finale Wentru (Tourist) (hip 1571), a 5-year-old gelding coming off a win in the GIII Valedictory S. at Woodbine in December, will be joining the barn of trainer Will Walden after selling for a sessiontopping $200,000. Frank Taylor made the winning bid on the dark bay, who was supplemented to the auction as part of the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment, and signed the ticket as Will Walden Racing Stable.

Stallion Spotlight offers stud farm representatives a chance to address breeders and answer questions as they plan their future matings.

In this edition, Rockridge Stud's Erin Robinson discusses Tourist, a Breeders' Cup Mile-winning son of Tiznow who moves to New York for the upcoming 2023 breeding season.

A homebred for Judy Hicks, CHARLEE O wired the field to win by 1 1/4 going 6 1/2 furlongs on the all-weather track at Turfway Park for her 2nd win lifetime  She is trained by Brian Waltz.

DOCTOR DAVIS broke his maiden in a MSW at Laurel this summer. He has been on the board at Laurel and KY Downs since then and today added his 2nd win in allowance company at Turfway. Racing 6 furlongs he relaxed far back early then swung 6 wide for a 1-length victory. Lifetime Record: 7-2-0-1, $91,070.
O-Team Hanley; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Arnaud Delacour

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Multiple grade 1 winner Mind Control  , most recently winner of the Cigar Mile Handicap Presented by NYRA Bets (G1) will enter stud at Rockridge Stud in New York under the management of Irish Hill Farm, Dutchess Views Stallions, Hidden Lake Farm, and Rockridge Stud, the colt's ownership group announced Dec. 21.

HALEIGH B raced 7 furlongs at Laurel to graduation. Off the favorite, she waited behind horses and then swung wide for the win by 2 1/2 lengths. The 4 year old filly is owned by SAB Stable Inc. and trained by  Brittany T. Russell. She was bred by Dark Hollow Farm.

TOERIS  broke her maiden at Santa Anita and followed that up with a stakes placing in the Jimmy Durante Stakes (Gr. 3)at Del Mar last fall. Moving to the east coast after a long break, she ran 3rd in allowance company and today won going a mile in an AOC on the turf at Gulfstream - sneaking up the rail for the win. She is owned and was bred by Team Valor International & Gary Barber and is trained by Mark E. Casse

TOURIST, a grade 1 winning son of Tiznow who earned $2,170,340 and holds the record for running the fastest Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T) in 2016, is being relocated to Rockridge Stud near Hudson, N.Y., for the 2023 season. He will stand for $3,500 next year.

Racing a mile and 70 this time, KHALI'S DREAM went off the favorite and wired the field for his 3rd win allowance company win. He is a homebred for the Wachtel Stable and is trained by Chris J. Englehart.

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The trio of co-toppers at the Saratoga auction was rounded out by a filly by Malibu Moon (hip 14), who was purchased by Carolyn and David Cannizzo's Willow Brook Stables. Consigned by Vinery Sales, the weanling is out of graded-placed Stopspendingmaria (Montbrook) and is a half-sister to stakes winner No Mo' Spending (Uncle Mo) and to stakes-placed Blewitt (Uncle Mo). She was bred by Rockridge Stud, Ascendant Farms and Spendthrift Farm. Rockridge Stud purchased Stopspendingmaria for $32,000 at the 2019 Keeneland January sale.

MARVELOUS MAUDE, only off the board once in her 10 race career, closed fast to gain her first black type racing 2nd in the John Hettinger Stakes at 1 1/8 on the turf at Belmont at the Big A. 
 Lifetime Record: 10-4-3-2, $293,750. O-Michael J. Dubb, The Elkstone Group, LLC & Michael J. Caruso; B-Beechwood Bruckner LLC (NY); T-Chad Brown

Multiple Graded stakes winner FLUFFY SOCKS overcome a difficult start which left her last in the field to close well for a 2nd in the G2 Ballston Spa S. on Travers day.  Earlier this year she had a 2nd in the Matchmaker S (G3), a 3rd in the Modesty Stakes (Gr. 3) and was on the board in the Eatontown Stakes (G3).  FLUFFY SOCKS is a homebred for Head of the Plains and is trained by Chad Brown

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MARVELOUS MAUDE, never off the board in her career, cleared her second-level New York-bred allowance condition last out at Belmont June 23 and handled her first foray into open company with aplomb Saturday. Backed as the 7-5 chalk for high-profile connections, the dark bay hugged the fence early while off the pace. She switched out and was given her cue into the second bend, came wider still into the lane and could not be contained from there as she bested fellow Empire-bred Finest Work (Outwork) by a length. The winner is out of a half-sister to MGSW Fear the Cowboy (Cowboy Cal). She has a 2-year-old halfsister by Freud and a foal full sister. Her dam was bred back to Slumber for 2023. Lifetime Record: 8-4-2-2, $250,750. O-Michael J. Dubb, The Elkstone Group, LLC & Michael J. Caruso; B-Beechwood Bruckner LLC (NY); T-Chad Brown. 

Multiple Graded stakes winner FLUFFY SOCKS had a 3rd in the Modesty Stakes (Gr. 3) and was on the board in the Eatontown Stakes (G3) earlir this year. Today she was hung wide but got the place position in the  Matchmaker Stakes (Gr. 3) at Monmouth. She is a homebred for Head of the Plains and is trained by Chad Brown.

KHALI'S DREAM won off by over 5 length racing 6 furlongs in a MSW at Finger Lakes. He overcame a slow start to lead by the first quarter and draw steadily clear. He is a homebred for the Wachtel Stable and is trained by Chris J. Englehart.
 

WHAT'S UP SWEETS is owned and trained by Raymond J. Paquette, III and was bred by Circle Bar H LLC in Oklahoma. Racing a mile on the dirt and Horseshoe Indianapolis, she waited and then blew her field away winning by 10 1/4 under a hand ride.

MGSW FLUFFY SOCKS came 4 wide in the stretch but could not catch the winner in the Modesty S G3 on Oaks Day at Churchill. She is a homebred for Head Of Plains Partners (KY) and is trained by Chad Brown.

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A winner last out of the G2 Sands Point S at Belmont, FLUFFY SOCKS shipped west to start in the American Oaks G1 on opening day at Santa Anita. The race was originally scheduled for the turf and when run on the dirt it was downgraded from a G1 to a G2. Still, nothing to sneeze at. She trailed initially and then split horses to get up for 3rd and add more black type to her resume.  

Bred in Kentucky by owner Head of Plains Racing, Fluffy Socks is by Slumber (GB) out of the Kitten's Joy mare Breakfast Time. With her win in the G2 Sands Point, the 3-year-old filly has one win in five starts in 2021, for a lifetime record of 11-4-3-2and career earnings of $466,880.

Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y., has announced its 2022 roster and stud fees.

The group is headlined by proven second-crop sire Slumber, the sire of a 3-year-old graded stakes winner and a 2-year-old stakes winner in 2021; and newcomer Combatant, a Grade 1-winning son of Scat Daddy.

Al Khali (Medaglia D'Oro) – $2,500 LFSN
A Shin Forward (Forest Wildcat) – $2,500 LFSN
Combatant (Scat Daddy) – $7,500 LFSN
Disco Partner (Disco Rico) – $4,000 LFSN
Frank Conversation (Quality Road) – $3,500 LFSN
Slumber (Cacique) – $7,500 LFSN

Rockridge will host a stallion show and open house on Saturday, Jan. 29, from noon – 2 p.m. Lunch buffet will be served.

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3rd-Belmont, $90,000, Msw, 10-24, 2yo, 7fT, 1:22.19, fm, 4 lengths.
SY DOG (c, 2, Slumber {GB}--My Love Venezuela, by Scat Daddy) gave his sire a third winner in the space of the last eight days with a promising debut tally at Belmont. Sy Dog settled last but one before improving one spot nearing the turn. The homebred traveled full of run for Jose Ortiz into the final three furlongs, was angled out into about the five path off the final corner and stormed down the center of the track to graduate by four good-looking lengths at an overlaid 38-5.

Slumber's daughter Fluffy Socks won the GII Sands Point S. Oct. 16, while Marvelous Maude won a state-bred allowance Oct. 21.
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $49,500.
. O-Head of Plains Partners LLC
 B-Head of Plains Partners & Madaket Stables (KY)
 T-H Graham Motion

Maybe they gave SLUMBER (GB) the wrong name.  His progeny are AWAKE!

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9th-Belmont, $80,000, (S), Alw, 10-21, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 1:41.22, fm, 1 length.
MARVELOUS MAUDE (f, 3, Slumber {GB}--Wait Your Turn, by Warrior's Reward) closed to be third after a troubled beginning debuting over a mile on this turf June 11 and graduated in a washed-off Saratoga state-bred maiden heat Aug. 19 before just missing when second by a head back here on the lawn Sept. 26. Away as a 3-2 chalk in this spot, the dark bay settled in seventh at the hedge behind fractions of :24.79 and :48.22, closed in on the leaders starting around the eighth pole and edged past Home for Christmas (Shanghai Bobby) in the final sixteenth for a one-length success.

The winner's dam has an unraced 2-year-old Freud filly named Jet Set Juliet and a yearling filly by the same sire. She returned to the winner's sire this spring.
Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-1, $115,750.
O-Michael Dubb, The Elkstone Group, LLC (Stuart Grant) & Michael J. Caruso;
B-Beechwood Bruckner LLC (NY0
T-Chad C. Brown.

Racing 6 1/2  furlongs at Remington Park, BREXTON broke his maiden for Danny R. Caldwell and trainer Oscar Flores. He wired the field for the win. BREXTON was claimed out of the race and we wish his new connections great luck with him.
 

Graded SW of the Jimmy Durante Stakes (Gr. 3). FLUFFY SOCKS raced in 7th initially and then bid 4 wide to get up for 3rd in the G1 Del Mar Oaks. She is trained by Chad Brown owner/breeder Breeder Head Of Plains Partners .

Making her second start, MARVELOUS MAUDE overcame all sorts of trouble to finally come up the rail to break her maiden in her 2nd start. Her expected  1 1/16 turf race switched to 1 1/8 on the dirt due to torrential rain. MARVELOUS MAUDE is owned by Michael Dubb and The Elkstone Group and trained by Chad Brown.

GSW FLUFFY SOCKS was gaining on the winner in the Lake George G3, but had to settle for 2nd
Owner: Head of Plains Partners LLC   Breeder: Head Of Plains PartnersFluffy Socks, second in the Memories of Silver Stakes in April at Aqueduct Racetrack before a fifth-place effort in the Wonder Again, rallied from last-of-9 at the three-quarters mark to earn runner-up status for the second time in three starts, edging Tobys Heart by a neck.

"Going into this race, I thought these four horses were even," admitted Brown. "I couldn't have picked between them"

Trainer Rory Huston wasn't surprised that Groovy Surprise broke through for her first career stakes victory by winning Sunday's $75,000 Smart N Classy Handicap at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J.

But he was bewildered a bit by how it happened

Racing 6 furlongs on the dirt at Canterbury, WELL PRO wired the field to win race #2. He is trained by Tony Rengstorf for owners Rengstorf Racing LLC and Guy Grooms. He was bred in MN by Johnny Coito & Nicole DePalma, Rick & Joyce Osborne & Lee Treacy.
Lifetime: 5  2  1  0  $40,642

BIG CITY RALPH by GIANT SURPRISE raced to graduation at Monmouth last fall. The now 4-year-old gelding is on a roll, he added win #2 at Parx and made that 2 in a row at Parx racing 7 furlongs and winning by 1 1/2. He was claimed from his winning race and we wish his new connections the best in racing luck. Indeed he has done well for his new owner/trainer racing on the board twice and drawing off to win today going a mile and 70 at PARX. He was haltered again and goes to the barn of Howard Wyner. Again - good luck to all. BIG CITY RALPH was bred by Monster Racing Stable, Inc. 

Racing at Horsemen's Park in Omaha, Nebraska, FIVE ROSES LUNA wired the field to break her maiden racing 6 furlongs for owner/trainer James E. Cranwell. She won easily by 5 1/4 lengths. She had crossed the wire first in her initial start but was disqualified.

CRICK overcame a bump at the start and got graduation behind her racing 6 furlongs at PARX. She has been on the board enough to have earned almost $60,000. She is owned by Jason G. Artz and trained by  Juan Carlos Guerrero.
 

GIANT SHOES by GIANT SURPRISE won his 2nd today at Aqueduct racing a mile on the dirt, Although pinched at the start, he was able to overcome a rear position to clear the field and hold on for the win by 1/2 a length. He is owned by Marc Marc Detampel, Fergus Galvin, Fergus, Jayne Doi and Wallace Johnson and  Adrian Mansergh. He is trained by Brad Cox.
 

Bred by Clark Brewster, LITTLE BUBS broke his maiden racing a mile at Turf Paradise. The 4 year old edged clear in the stretch to win by 3 lengths. He is owned and trained by Tsosie Terrill

Very exciting wire-to-wire win for MR FANTASY. He zoomed to a 5 3/4 length graduation in his 2nd start - going 6 furlongs at Aqueduct.  The 3-year-old colt is trained by Kelly J. Breen flor owner Mr. Amore Stable. He was bred by Ron Lombardi.

Racing 1 1/18 on the turf at Tampa, JIMMY P advanced from the outside to clear the field and break his maiden. He is a homebred for Head of Plains Partners & Madaket Stables and is trained by Trainer: H. Graham Motion.