GRADE 1 WINNER AND CHAMPION SIRE, OFFLEE WILD, TO STAND AT PIN OAK LANE

Grade 1 winner, Offlee Wild, the sire of an Eclipse Award winner in his first crop, has been moved from Darley in Kentucky to stand the 2012 season at Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, Pennsylvania.  A stud fee of $4,000 has been set for the 11-year-old dark bay son of Wild Again whose oldest foals are current 4-year olds.
Dr. William Solomon, owner and manager of Pin Oak Lane Farm, is pleased to be joining with Darley to bring Offlee Wild to Pennsylvania, “Offlee Wild, having already sired 13 stakes horses and with lifetime progeny earnings in excess of $5.2 million from 3 crops to race, will be a very important asset to the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred breeding industry.”

Offlee Wild was the leading freshman sire in the nation in 2009, represented by the Eclipse Award-winning 2-year-old filly, She Be Wild, an earner of $1,311,040 her championship season. The dark bay filly won four of her five starts at 2, culminating with the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Stakes-G1 at Santa Anita.  Other victories that year included the Arlington-Washington Lassie Stakes-G3 and Top Flight Stakes.  She also finished second, beaten a half length, in the Alcibiades Stakes-G1.  Following a third place finish in the Ashland Stakes-G1 at Keeneland in April 2010, She Be Wild fractured her left front pastern which forced her retirement.  She earned $1,355,540 in a seven-start career.

Offlee Wild has lifetime progeny earnings in excess of $5.2 million, for average earnings per runner of more than $41,000.

Offlee Wild has sired 13 stakes horses to date, nine winning or placing as juveniles.  Also from his first crop, which has yielded four stakes winners, is $285,637 earner, Heavenville, who has recorded 10 stakes wins or placings from 25 starts, and graded stakes-placed, Tremendamente Loca. Offlee Wild’s son, Dreamsrunwild, from his second crop, was a stakes winner at 2.  This year’s crop of juveniles include stakes winner, Hogy.

   
By Breeders’ Cup Classic-G1 winner and classic sire, Wild Again, Offlee Wild is out of the Seattle Slew mare, Alvear, a winning half-sister to leading sire, Dynaformer.  A winner at 2, Offlee Wild was classic bound at 3 after winning the Holy Bull Stakes-G3 at Gulfstream Park in January 2003 and finishing third, behind Peace Rules, in the Blue Grass Stakes-G1 at Keeneland.  Although unplaced in the Kentucky Derby-G1, he returned at 4 to win the mile and an eighth Massachusetts Handicap-G2 over Derby/Preakness winner, Funny Cide.  At 5, he captured the mile and a quarter Suburban Handicap-G1 over a field that included Funny Cide, Evening Attire, Pollard’s Vision and Tap Day, and the Excelsior Breeders’ Cup Handicap-G3 at nine furlongs by eight and a half lengths.  He retired with a record of six wins, three seconds and two thirds from 19 starts, for earnings of $976,325.

A half-brother to Chilukki Stakes-G2 winner Sangrita and a full brother to the dam of group winners, Rock of Rochelle and Silent Times (Ire), Offlee Wild descends from the influential On the Trail.  His third dam, On the Trail produced graded stakes winner and sire, Darby Creek Road, stakes winner and stakes producer, Regal Road, as well as Offlee Wild’s second dam, Andover Way.  A Grade 1 winner of $372,471, Andover Way produced not only $671,207 earner, Dynaformer, but also stakes winner, White Bridle, a full brother to Alvear.  Also found under Offlee Wild’s second dam is two-time champion, US Ranger, and graded/group winners, Homebound and Supremo.

 MULTIPLE GRADED STAKES WINNER, UNBRIDLED ENERGY, MOVES TO PIN OAK LANE

Unbridled Energy, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of highly successful sire, Unbridled’s Song, joins the 2012 stallion roster at Dr. William J. Solomon’s Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, PA.  The 9-year-old gray, who will stand for $3,500 live foal as the property of a syndicate, moves to Pennsylvania from Crestwood Farm in Kentucky. 
With 2011 earnings in excess of $1 million, Unbridled Energy ranks as the second leading second crop sire in the Northeast.The sire of two crops of racing age, Unbridled Energy is represented by four stakes horses this year.  Three are stakes winners, led by It’s My Party, an earner of $144,130 with a victory in the KHEY Y-96 Sprint Stakes at Sunland Park.  Unbridled Energy’s daughter, Miss Buxley, captured the Arizona Oaks this year and was second in the United Tote Derby in her most recent start.

 
A winner in his only start at 2 and a graded stakes winner at 3 and 4, Unbridled Energy earned $282,862 from eight starts.  Counted among his four wins were two stakes, both at a mile and a sixteenth, the Marine-G3 at 3 at Woodbine and the San Fernando Breeders’ Cup Stakes-G2 at Santa Anita in his only start at 4.  He was also second in Churchill Downs’s Northern Dancer Breeders’ Cup Stakes-G3.

Unbridled Energy is out of multiple stakes winner, Ataentsic, by Hold your Peace, and is a three-quarter brother to No Armistice, a multiple graded stakes placed son of Unbridled who earned $211,200 and became a stakes sire in the Mid-Atlantic region.  He is also a half-brother to graded stakes placed, Bick ($369,580).

The second dam of Unbridled Energy, the Secretariat mare, Mythographer, also produced graded/group stakes winner, Heart of Joy, an earner of $733,755 who finished second in two classics, the English and Irish One Thousand Guineas Stakes-G1.  Heart of Joy is the dam of Japanese Group 1 winner, Meiner Love, an earner of $2,628,833 and a sire in Japan.  Also found in the family are graded winners Adorable, Acaroid, Inexplicable, Midnight Cry, White Mischief and Lindzell.

GREAT HORSES FOALED AND NURTURED AT PIN OAK LANE

Pin Oak Lane, with a tradition of quality that has spanned the years, adds the international trotting stars, NO NONSENSE WOMAN and VIKING KRONOS, to our list of great horses that have been foaled and nurtured at the farm.

NO NONSENSE WOMAN, foaled in 1994, was bred by William Solomon and Massimo Bianchi, raised at Pin Oak Lane Farm and sold in our yearling consignment at Harrisburg.  She was champion three-year-old trotting filly and the winner of over $1.2 million in lifetime earning.

VIKING KRONOS, foaled in 1995 and exported as a yearling, had a sensational racing career in Europe while setting new World, European and Italian records.

They join the alumni ranks of:

NICK’S FANTASY - foaled in 1992 - won the 1995 Little Brown Jug in record time.

PARK AVENUE JOE - foaled in 1986 - winner of the 1989 Hambletonian.

NAPOLETANO - foaled in 1984 - great international trotting star and winner of over $3 million.

DELMEGAN - foaled in 1981 - champion three-year-old trotting filly of her year.

And of course, LIL E TEE, winner of the 1992 Kentucky Derby was foaled and nurtured at Pin Oak Lane Farm in 1989.

Albert the Great, multiple stakes winner of over $3 million, stands his fourth year at Pin Oak Lane

Albert the Great, sire of 4 G1 winners to date, including millionaires Albertus Maximus, winner of the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, and Nobiz Like Showbiz, winner of the Wood Memorial, currently stands his fourth year at Pin Oak Lane.  Already in 2011, Albert the Great is the sire of 8 winners, including stakes placed The Great Caper.  His progeny earnings now exceed $10 million.  Albert the Great is the sire of winners at distances from 4 ½ furlongs to 1 ¼ miles, with average earnings per starter of over $50,000.

Coastal Storm, the impeccably bred son of Storm Cat out of G1 winning Pearl City, continues as a leading sire in Pennsylvania

Coastal Storm's daughter, Coastal Solace, with nearly $460,000, joins the list of ten other Coastal Storm runners with winnings of $100,000.  Coastal Storm continues as a leading Pennsylvania sire.

Pin Oak Lane Farm's Lite the Fuse now has progeny earnings of over $21 million

Lite the Fuse, the good son of Buckaroo, out of Annie's Dream by Droll Roll, has now produced 22 stakes winners with earning of over $21 million, including the graded stakes winner, Going Ballistic, with earnings over $1,184,000.  Lite the Fuse sires nearly 80 percent winners from starters and 10 percent stakes horses from lifetime starters.  His is now the sire of 63 winners of over $100,000.