Beauty of the Sea

Bucchero (Kantharos), whose half-dozen stakes winners to date include GI Woody Stephens Stakes hero Book'em Danno, will be available for inspection at an open house at Ironhorse Stallions on Dec. 13 at 58 Dunn Road, Stillwater, New York, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The only New York-based stallion to be represented by a Grade I winner this season and the current leading stallion in the state by progeny earnings, Bucchero is the sire of 100 individual winners, including Beauty of the Sea, successful three times in stakes company and...

Bucchero (Kantharos), the sire of the current 2-year-old stakes winners Book'em Danno and Mattingly and of the stakes-placed and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint fifth-place finisher Shards, will take up residence at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds for the 2024 breeding season for a fee of $7,500. After breeding 471 mares while standing for five seasons at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Florida, Bucchero will join a powerhouse New York stallion lineup alongside Central Banker and Solomini. "Traditionally, New York breeders have not had the opportunity to breed to a new...

Sent off at overlaid odds of 13-1 from a 5-1 morning line, Ironhorse Racing Stable's Beauty of the Sea (Bucchero) was given a perfect ride by Jairo Rendon and held off My Sweet Affair (Twirling Candy) and Love Appeals (Speightstown)--each scratched out of Friday's rained-off Coronation Cup S.--to become the first black-type winner for her Florida-based stallion, also campaigned by Ironhorse. Nicely drawn in gate two, the Florida-bred broke with them, but eased back to sit just behind a strong pace set by Coronation Cup entrant Bosserati (Holy Boss) with...