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GREAT HORSES
FOALED AND NURTURED AT PIN OAK LANE
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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.
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January 2009
Albert the Great, G1 winner and sire of 2008 G1 TVG Breeders’
Cup and 2009 G1 Donn Handicap winner, Albertus Maximus, is now
the leading sire in the Mid-Atlantic |
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Albert the Great, now represented by four G1 winners in his
first two crops, including G1 TVG Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and G1
Donn Handicap winner, Albertus Maximus, and G1 Wood Memorial
winner, Nobiz Like Showbiz. Albert the Great, himself, was the
G1 winner of over $3 million during his racing career. |
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January 2009
Albert the Great son, Albertus Maximus, wins the TVG Breeders’
Cup Dirt Mile and on January 31, 2009, annexes the G1 Donn
Handicap |
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On October 25, 2008, at Santa Anita, Albertus
Maximus won the G1 TVG Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile defeating a
stellar group of sprinters, including the millionaires, Pyro,
Well Armed and Surf Cat, in the very fast time of 133.41. On
January 31, 2009, Albertus Maximus won the G1 Donn Handicap,
defeating leading handicap horses, including Einstein (BRZ) and
Arson Squad. Albertus Maximus joins Nobiz Like Shobiz as the
second outstanding son of Albert the Great produced in his first
few crops. Albertus Maximus is now headed to Dubai in the hope
of capturing the Dubai World Cup this spring. |
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January 2009
Coastal Storm leads PA sires that began their stud careers in
the state |
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With leading 2008 earner, COASTAL SOLACE, the
winner of over $140,000, Coastal Storm becomes the leading sire
of Pennsylvania stallions who began their stud careers in the
state. The royally bred son of Storm Cat is a leading stallion
in Pennsylvania and has sired the winners of nearly $2 million
in his first three crops, including the one-two finishers in the
$100,000 W. V. Vincent Moscarelli Memorial Breeders’ Cup
Classic. |
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January 2009
Pin Oak Lane Farm introduces a leading second crop sire, Zavata,
by Phone Trick |
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Zavata, the graded stakes winner of the Saratoga Special and
Tremont Stakes and the sire of fourteen first-crop two-year-old
winners, will stand his first year in Pennsylvania in 2009.
Zavata was ranked in the top ten on the 2002 Experimental Free
Handicap, ahead of such sires as Empire Maker, Wildcat Heir,
Peace Rules and Posse. |
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January 2009
Lite the Fuse leads all Pennsylvania sires with PA sired
offspring old enough to race |
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Lite the Fuse, Pennsylvania’s perennial leading
sire with over 50 winners in 2008, including two-time Saratoga
stakes winner and G1 placed, Ferocious Fires, and I Can’t Fefuse,
led all Pennsylvania sires with offspring old enough to race in
the state in 2008 with earnings over $2 million. Lite the Fuse
now has 22 stakes winners and earnings approaching $20 million
lifetime. |
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January 2009
Millennium Farms’ Santana Strings, multiple graded stakes
winner, to stand at Pin Oak Lane in 2009 |
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Santana Strings, Saratoga graded stakes winner of
nearly $600,000, will stand his first season at stud at Pin Oak
Lane Farm. The Wheaton son won or placed in eleven stakes. He
won the G2 Amsterdam Stakes, defeating Breeders’ Cup sprint
winner, Silver Train. Santana Strings exhibited blazing speed
winning the Alysheba Breeders’ Cup stakes in 1:08.52. |
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January 2009
Buddha, Pennsylvania’s leading third-crop sire (top fifteen
nationally), stands his second season in Pennsylvania |
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Budda, winner of the Wood Memorial and
Pennsylvania’s leading third-crop sire (top fifteen nationally),
is also Pennsylvania’s leading sire of 2008 winners with 74,
repeat winners with 30 and the co-leader by juvenile winners
with 8, will stand his second season in Pennsylvania in 2009.
Buddha’s lifetime auction yearling average is over twelve times
his 2009 stud fee. |
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January 2009
Shark to stand his first season at Pin Oak Lane Farm |
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Shark, the royally-bred Danzig son, whose dam,
champion Surfside, the winner of nearly $2 million, and whose
second dam, champion Flanders, was the winner of over $800,000,
will stand his first season at stud at Pin Oak Lane Farm.
Shark, himself a multiple stakes placed performer, broke his
maiden in 1:09.56 by three and one half lengths and brings an
unusually strong pedigree to Pennsylvania‘s stallion colony. |
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January 2009
Siphon (BRZ) represented by two more graded stakes winners in
2008 |
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Siphon (BRZ), Pennsylvania’s leading sire of 2008 graded stakes
winners was represented by classic contender, Z Fortune, winner
of the G3 LeCompte stakes, and Delosvientos, winner of the G2
Brooklyn Handicap. Siphon (BRZ) has now sired 36 lifetime
winners of $100,000 or more. |
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January 2009
Pin Oak Lane Farm to stand Up Front Charlie and Straight Up
Lindy in Maryland in 2009 |
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The passage of the gaming bill in Maryland and
it’s soon to be implementation has prompted Pin Oak Lane Farm to
stand the exceptional pacer, Up Front Charlie, as well as the
impeccably bred trotter, Straight up Lindy, in the state of
Maryland. Both of these stallions should be standouts in a
greatly enhanced Maryland Standardbred racing program which
should begin in 2011.
Up Front Charlie, p,2,1:52.4; 3,150.1, the very
fast son of Dragon Again and winner of over $300,000, is from
the great race mare, Lovin Yankee, who was bred and raced by
Yankeeland Farms of Frederick, Maryland.
Straight Up Lindy, from the champion mare, Rum
Boogie, and by leading New York sire, Conway Hall, brings to
Maryland one of the great trotting pedigrees. His $132,000
yearling price tag is an indication of his exceptional
appearance. |
January 2009
Graded stakes winner, More Smoke, stands his second season at
stud in Pennsylvania |
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The royally-bred graded stakes winner, More
Smoke, winner by 14 ½ lengths of Kenneland’s Lafayette Stakes,
will stand his second season at stud at Pin Oak Lane Farm. More
Smoke hails from the powerful Mr. Prospector male line and
champion and top sire, Smoke Glacken (38 stakes winners). More
Smoke also comes from the female family of dual 2008 classic
winner, Big Brown. |
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