Virginia Key

2026 Mating Plans: Blue Heaven Farm's Adam Corndorf

VIRGINIA KEY (2015, Distorted Humor--Our Khrysty, by Newfoundland), will be bred to Into Mischief   The crown jewel of our broodmare band, this graded-stakes placed homebred out of graded-stakes winner Our Khrysty and a half-sister to GISW Grace Adler and GSW and MGIP Pyrenees. She is the dam of two seven-figure yearlings, including GISW Tappan Street. We are going back to the well with the sire of Tappan Street, Into Mischief. It just makes too much sense. The Into Mischief--Distorted Humor cross has been incredibly successful--Life is Good, Practical Joke, Citizen...

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Virginia Key and Our Khrysty at Blue Heaven Farm
The Producers: Part 2, Street Appeal and Square Deals

Last week in this new series, we put the spotlight on some of the trends--or lack thereof--among the mares that make up the Grade I-producing ranks of 2025 and spent time with multiple Grade I winner and 'TDN Rising Star' Locked (Gun Runner)'s dam, Luna Rosa (Malibu Moon). We asked her connections about her story and the thoughts behind her matings. This week, we do the same with the dams of two Grade I-winning 3-year-olds of 2025: GI Curlin Florida Derby star Tappan Street (Into Mischief) and GI Toyota Blue...

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Monday's Racing Insights: Well-Bred Son Of Gun Runner, Out Of Our Khrysty Makes Ellis Debut

2nd-ELP, $100K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:19 p.m. ET. The seventh highest-priced Gun Runner to be taken home for $975,000 by Lael Stables during Keeneland September last year is now making her debut at Ellis on Monday. Sent to trainer Cherie DeVaux, GLORY ME is out Blue Heaven Farm's GSW Our Khrysty (Newfoundland), who acquired her for $600,000 at the 2011 Fasig-Tipton Fall Sale while she was in foal to Tiznow. The productive mare counts among her offspring GISW & $2-million buy Grace Adler (Curlin) and recently retired GSW...

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