Within the fall of 2015, Corinna Wildermuth and accomplice Lauren Roche bought a yearling filly named Shirocca for $67,856 at Germany’s Baden-Baden Premier Yearling Sale. After their seek for a modestly priced broodmare prospect in america grew to become exhausting to seek out, Wildermuth returned to her native Germany to choose one out herself. Shirocca proved to be a great funding when her McKinzie colt offered for $235,000 to En Fuego Stables Nov. 9 throughout Ebook 3 of the Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale.
Hip 1602 was bred by Areion Thoroughbreds (Roche and Wildermuth), named after four-time German champion sire Areion, who sired 53 black-type winners, and the Greek mythology horse “Arion,” the offspring of Poseidon and Demeter. Hip 1602, which introduced the highest worth for a weanling at Saturdays session, was consigned by Warfare Horse Place, the place Areion retains their two broodmares. The bay colt is the third foal from Shirocca, dam of two foals of racing age, each winners.
Shirocca is by So You Assume , the winner of 10 group 1 races throughout two hemispheres with earnings of $8.6 million. Standing at Coolmore Australia for an marketed payment of AU$77,000, he has sired greater than 30 grade/group 1 winners worldwide.
“I all the time cherished So You Assume,” Wildermuth mentioned. “We noticed that filly (Shirocca), and he or she was additionally out of a full sister (Swish) to Breeders’ Cup (Turf) winner Shirocco. We mentioned, ‘Hey that is it, it is a German household, a Breeders’ Cup winner in New York, let’s pursue this one.’ That is how we ended up with this filly.
“I believe the mare’s in all probability a bit of bit extra turf pedigree and stamina,” Wildermuth mentioned about Shirocca. “So, we’re attempting to additionally get a bit of velocity or grime sires, whereas additionally attempting to determine what actually matches up with the mare bodily. So, we ended up on McKinzie.
“He had three-digit Beyers, and once we noticed him once we inspected him at Gainesway, we actually appreciated his physique, and we may see him as nice match with the mare. We’re tremendous completely happy.”
(L-R) Dieter Wildermuth, Margitta Wildermuth, Lauren Roche, and Corinna Wildermuth with yearling Shirocca on the 2015 Baden-Baden Premier Yearling Sale
McKinzie stood his first yr at stud in 2021 at Gainesway for $30,000, and can stand in 2025 for an marketed payment of $75,000. He has two grade 1 winners from his first crop in Chancer McPatrick , winner of the Champagne Stakes (G1) and Hopeful Stakes (G1), and Scottish Lassie , winner of the Frizette Stakes (G1) by 9 lengths.
McKinzie additionally was answerable for the second- and third-highest-priced weanlings at Saturday’s session. Hip 1861, a McKinzie colt out of the stakes-winning Speightstown mare Hip Hop N Jazz, introduced a ultimate bid of $210,000 from Kinsman Farm. Eaton Gross sales, agent, consigned.
And earlier Hip 1795 from Gainesway’s consignment, a McKinzie half brother to stakes winner Britain’s Kitten, introduced $195,000 from Huge Bear Bloodstock.
Wildermuth mentioned Shirocca is again in foal to French-bred stallion and former Chad Brown trainee Sacred Life , who will stand the 2025 season at Warfare Horse Place close to Lexington for an marketed payment of $2,000.
“We’re enthusiastic about that breeding,” mentioned Wildermuth. “He was a great horse, he ran in opposition to Raging Bull right here in a grade 1 at Keeneland. I simply really feel like he is a great racehorse, and we’re looking for stallions that work with the extra ‘turf-ish’ pedigree.”
Wildermuth was fast to credit score the care her horses obtain at Warfare Horse Place from the proprietor Dana McCreary and her staff. Farm supervisor Rafael Zambrano in reality prepped McKinzie as a yearling when he was yearling supervisor at Summer season Wind Farm, which bred McKinzie.
Hip 1602 at three days outdated, a colt by McKinzie who offered for $235,000 on the Keeneland November Breeding Sale
Background
When requested how Wildermuth bought into racing, she mentioned it was the good mare and 2010 Horse of The Yr Zenyatta who reignited the spark of her childhood love of horses.
“The factor that basically bought me hooked to horse racing is Zenyatta; sort of that race at Santa Anita, 2009 Breeders’ Cup; oh my god, she begins out within the again after which rolls them up.”
Quick-forward just a few years later and Wildermuth and Rouche are a part of a bunch that owned a number of graded stakes winner and Breeders’ Cup participant Dacita , who earned $1.5 million on the monitor for coach Brown and homeowners Sheep Pond Companions and Bradley Thoroughbreds.
“The primary one we invested in went to the Breeders’ Cup, so that you begin out on the high, and also you suppose it is like that on a regular basis. Then we have been sort of hooked,” she mentioned.
Future Targets
Wildermuth doesn’t plan to develop her broodmare band, however one objective is to observe her horses and do proper by the equines which have enriched her life.
“You may name us, we wish to do proper by the horses,” she mentioned. “We do not wish to simply breed a horse after which that horse falls by means of the cracks. We’re all the time attempting to ensure they arrive again to us. They may all the time have a house, as a result of we have had some heartache.”
Wildermuth is at the moment working with a bunch to implement change and observe the aftercare of horses when their time on the monitor is up.
“We have had our ups and downs and as we speak, we are the highest, actually excessive. We’re additionally conscious that in some unspecified time in the future, the low goes to come back, nevertheless it’s an thrilling business. Keeneland has finished actually nice as a gross sales firm, and the brand new management has taken it to a brand new degree.”
