Warrior's Reward, a graded stakes winner and sire of stakes winners
- Details
- December 1, 2021
- By Staff Writers
DELTA, Pa.--Warrior's Reward, Pennsylvania's leading active sire in 2020 who stands at WynOaks Farm in Delta, sired stakes winners at eight tracks, including Saratoga and Del Mar, last year.
His first crop of Pa-breds will be 2 year olds in 2022 and will begin racing.
Warrior's Reward, by Medaglia d'Oro out of For All You Do, by Seeking the Gold, a G1 winner, was an outstanding race horse who won four races, placed second five times and third twice from 17 starts and earned $565,716.
He broke his maiden in 2009 at Gulfstream as a 3-year-old in his first start and went on to win an allowance race at Churchill Downs, to finish second in the G3 Northern Dance Stakes at Churchill, third in the G2 Dwyer Stakes at Belmont and second in the G2 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga.
The following year, he won the G1 Carter Stakes at Aqueduct and was second in the G2 Churchill Downs Stakes, third in the G3 Phoenix Stakes at Keeneland and the fifth in the G1 Breeders' Cup Sprint.
He finished his racing career by hitting the board in six graded stakes at five different track.
As a sire, Warrior's Reward has sired 17 stakes winners, including his most recent winner, She's My Warrior, who won the $100,000 Norther Lights Debutante Stakes at Canterbury Park on Sept. 8.
He is the sire of 31 lifetime black type runners, including G1 winner Exclusivo.
He is the sire of four horses that have won over a half a million dollars, and his top lifetime winners include graded stakes winners Night Ops, Warriors' Club and Axelrod.
In 2019 at sales, his 2-year-olds sold for up to $370,000.
Warrior's Reward covered 115 mares in 2019.
"We're pretty excited not only about the crop size, but the quality of the foals," said Donny Brown, one of Warrior's Reward's owners.
"Pennsylvania has one of the best state bred programs in the country, and this should help assure the breeders who supported Warrior's Reward a handsome return," said Brown.
Warrior's Reward will stand for $5,000, with special consideration to mares foaling in Pennsylvania.
For more information, contact WynOaks Farm at 153 W. McKinley Rd., Delta, PA 17314, phone: 717-456-5666 or toll free: 1.866.WynOaks, or Donny Brown's cell, 717-554-6731.
Well Spelled has 61 percent winners from starters this year, and is 67 percent lifetime winners from starters.
Later the same year, he first won the G3 Jersey Shore Stakes at Monmouth and then the Gallant Bob Stakes at Parx with a 106 Beyer Speed Rating.
Well Spelled stamps his foals with his muscular, strong build, and passes on his super temperament.
Alan was proven correct as he won his first two races, one a stake, with devastating ease.
This means he moves his mares WAY UP.
In the last four years, Charly has serviced over 225 broodmares.
Here at Hilltop Farm, we are fortunate enough to have seen many promising young stallions down this road but it’s not every year that we get to see a product of our own breeding program from foaling, through their young horse years, to stallion licensing and the arrival of their first foals.
The historic Dressage at Devon was Louisville’s first horse show, he commandingly won the Dressage at Devon Foal Championship.
While each milestone from a foal to stallion licensing was exciting, the 2021 season was extra special!
Lord Shanakill, a precocious sprint turf specialist in England and France, had tremendous speed and won in distances from 6 furlongs to a mile.
Graded stakes-placed at 2 when third behind Honor Code in the G2 Remsen, he was second by a nose to his stablemate V. E. Day the next summer in the G1 Travers Stakes.
He is the richest son of top sire Hard Spun to stand at stud, with a record of 3-4-3 for earnings of $1,994,460.
"It was a great sale," said Marshall Silverman of New Freedom, Pa.,, who,, as agent, sold six. "Fasig-Tipton did a great job. There was plenty of money there. It was a super, super sale. There was a low RNA.
