Cheering For Airdrie Stud

The clear second choice in my ranking of stud farms is the very interesting Airdrie Stud. This smaller operation has two of my top five sires, Cairo Prince and American Freedom.

Airdrie is the work of former Kentucky Governor Brereton Jones. They are located in Midway, Kentucky. There motto is “Think About It”. This group seems to be thinking “outside the box”. Who else has a sire (Preservationist) who did not break his maiden until he was 5 years old.

Cairo Prince is a son of Pioneerof the Nile who has a great run a lower priced sire that has produced great results. He has been a reasonable source of stamina and turf horses. The more I studied CP the more I liked him.

American Freedom is a grandson of AP Indy through Pulpit. The female side of his pedigree brings in Pleasant Colony. AF could be the next CP.

Here is the Airdrie roster:

1. Cairo Prince – $15,000 by Pioneerof the Nile
2. Upstart – $10,000 by Flatter
3. Summer Front – $10,000 by War Front
4. Creative Cause – $7,500 by Giant’s Causeway
5. American Freedom – $5,000 by Pulpit
6. Include – $5,000 by Broad Brush
7. Collected – $17,500 by City Zip. entered 2019, weanlings sold well
8. Complexity $12,500 by Maclean’s Music, entered 2021
9. Preservationist – $10,000 by Arch, entered 2020
10. McCraken – $6,000 by Ghostzapper, entered 2019
11. Divisidero – $5,000 by Kitten’s Joy, entered 2020
12. Mark Valeski – sent to Arkansas 2020
13. Proud Citizen – deceased 2016

former Airdrie sires were Indian Charlie, Silver Hawk, Harlan’s Holiday, and Majesticperfection

This is an interesting group of sires. I think I will be a big fan of McCraken this year and Preservationist next year. Divisidero could be a very productive turf sire.

Let’s build a group of Airdrie Stud horses to cheer for:

1. Shad Nation – Cairo Prince by Medaglia d’ Oro – $80,000 – Liz Crow – really big 2nd dam, interesting pedigree
2. Speed Alley – Cairo Prince by Giant’s Causeway – $80,000 – Spedale Family, I really like this family as the buyer, strong pedigree
3. American Pure – c – American Freedom by Pure Prize – $40,000 – now Glasmans, strong dam
4. Amalgamator – c – American Freedom by First Tour – $100,000 – O’Connor – another flipped by a pinhooker
5. Frat Pack – c – Upstart – by Warrior’s Reward – $400,000 – Crow – a Liz Crow empty mare special, not what I would buy, but let’s watch
6. Trademark – c – Upstart by Creative Cause – $42,000 – BBN Racing – another double Airdrie horse, not many pedigrees I like with this sire
7. Dancin Dee – f – Creative Casue by Teofilo (Galileo) – $95,000 – Greathouse – lots of Euro pedigree
8. Loco – c – Creative Cause by Afleet Alex – $40,000 – Taproot – solid Alydar 2nd dam
9. xxxxxxxxxx – f – Summer Front – $250,000 – Steve Young – expensive SF, let’s watch
10. Run Curtis Run – c – Summer Front by Forest Wildcat – $45,000 – Sean Perl – nice NY bred
11. Truly Inclusive – f – Include by Shakespere -$12,000 – David Hix – Theatrical and Jade Hunter add stamina to the pedigree
12. xxxxxxxxxxxx – f – Include by Kitten’s Joy (Patricias Kitten) $6,000 – 2nd dam produced Divisidero

This will be another fun group to watch. I will pay more attention to Upstart and Creative Cause in the future.