Chris Bernhard

Grade I-stakes winner Mixto (Good Magic--Musical Mystery, by Concerto) will take up stud duty at Hidden Lake Farm in Stillwater, New York in 2026, according to a farm release Sunday. The deal was brokered by The Stallion Company. Mixto will stand as the property of a syndicate for $10,000 live foal stands and nurses. "Champion 2 year-old Good Magic is off to a great start as a sire of sires with Grade I-winning sons Muth, Mage and Dornoch at stud," said Hidden Lake Farm's Chris Bernhard. "To have a Grade...

Graded stakes winners Disarm (Gun Runner--Easy Tap, by Tapit) and Confidence Game (Candy Ride {Arg}--Eblouissante, by Bernardini) will take up stud duty at Hidden Lake Farm in Stillwater, New York in 2026, according to Hidden Lake's Chris Bernhard Thursday. The acquisition was brokered by The Stallion Company. Disarm's stud fee is set at $7,500. Confidence Game will stand for $5,000. Both stallions will stand as property of a syndicate, LFSN terms apply. "We are very excited to jump back into the New York Stallion arena with graded stakes-winning millionaire by...

The focus switches to breeding stock with the return of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Fall Sale, which will be held at the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion today. A total of 236 broodmares/broodmare prospects and New York-bred weanlings have been cataloged for the single-session sale, which gets underway at 10 a.m. To view the catalog, click here. After being KO'd by COVID in 2020, the sale returned in 2021, generating $3,657,800 in revenue for 163 head sold. Heading last season's sale was a filly by Catalina Cruiser, that realized top price of...

The town of Stillwater, New York, just outside Saratoga Springs, is often called the 'turning point of the American Revolution.' It was there that one of the critical battles in the Battle of Saratoga was won and so it is fitting that the new stallion in town, standing at Barry Ostrager's Questroyal North, is Fog of War (War Front--Say {Ire}, Galileo {Ire}). This son of War Front and winner of the GI Summer Stakes at Woodbine at two will stand as the property of Peter Brant's White Birch Farm Inc....