The syndicate that owns high 10 third-crop sire Bucchero is establishing its personal stallion operation in Stillwater, N.Y., with the 12-year-old son of Kantharos filling the primary slot on the roster.
Ironhorse Stallions will likely be based mostly out of the Questroyal North Farm beginning with the 2025 breeding season. Bucchero stood this yr at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds following a five-year stand at Nice Acres Stallions close to Ocala, Fla.
“We now have great respect for the McMahon household and their historical past in New York, and each events wished to see how Bucchero would match with McMahon’s in-house stallions,” stated Bucchero’s managing associate Harlan Malter. “With Bucchero, Central Banker, and Solomini the highest three stallions in New York in 2024, it made sense to let the McMahons concentrate on their homegrown stallions and our group focus completely on Bucchero.
“All the companions concerned in Bucchero have been his greatest supporters from day one and it has been a privilege to be so closely concerned in each his racing and stallion profession,” Malter continued. “It’s the logical subsequent step to see the place Bucchero can take us. As I stated when he ran at Royal Ascot, ‘Each time we’ve got requested him to step as much as the following degree, he has delivered,’ and now he has completed it within the breeding shed.”
Bucchero has had a breakout yr in 2024, rising to the highest of the New York normal main sire standings with 69 winners, 11 black-type performers, and progeny earnings of almost $4.54 million, as of Oct. 28. He’s the one New York sire represented by a grade 1 winner yr to this point, who’s five-time black-type stakes winner and millionaire Ebook’em Danno . The three-year-old gelding notched his greatest win within the Woody Stephens Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. He began the yr with a 12 1/2-length win within the Pasco Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs and adopted with a runner-up end by a head within the Saudi Derby to Eternally Younger , who received the UAE Derby (G2) and was third within the Kentucky Derby (G1). Ebook’em Danno additionally received the Jersey Shore Stakes, was second within the Perryville Stakes (G3), and third within the H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes (G1).
Lifelong horseman John Dowd will be part of Ironhorse Stallions as head of operations and bloodstock to associate with a rising group of skilled professionals in each New York and Florida.
“Beginning Ironhorse Stallions will give us the flexibility to not solely help New York breeders as a associate in producing the very best New York-bred and -sired runners, however from a egocentric aspect, we will likely be massive consumers of New York-sired Buccheros and anticipate Ironhorse Racing Secure to focus the vast majority of its secure in New York,” stated Malter.
Bucchero will stand for $10,000 in 2025 with a “New York, New York” low cost of $2,500 to any mare who could have a 2025 foal in New York or any prior breeder to Bucchero. A restricted variety of lifetime breeding rights will likely be obtainable together with co-breeds to particularly accredited mares.
