Grace is the most recent addition to the Three Creeks breeding program. She is a striking 17 hand, chestnut, Kentucky bred TB mare with hind stockings. Grace is an elegant and graceful (hence the name!) mover with great suspension and strength. She is responsive, gentle and easy to handle.
Is a grandson of Mr Prospector, and Grandson of Vice Recent, as well as a Great great grandson of Native Dancer. Marquetry won 10 of his 36 starts from ages 2 to 6, including graded wins in the Hollywood Gold Cup (G1), the Eddie Read Handicap (G1), the Meadowlands Cup Handicap (G1), the Mervyn LeRoy Handicap (G2) and the San Antonio Handicap (G2).
Marquetry sired two millionaires – Artax, who won an Eclipse Award in 1999 as champion sprinter and earned $1.69 million, and Squirtle Squirt, who won the same award in 2001 and earned $1.11 million. Both horses won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) during their championship seasons.
Marquetry’s progeny combined to earn more than $2 million in a year 11 times, and he produced 35 stakes winners, eight of them graded. He also was a leading broodmare sire, with his daughters producing 21 stakes winners!!!!
Marquetry, who began his stallion career at Ben. P. Walden Jr.’s Vinery near Midway, Ky. , previous stood at Stonewall Farm Stallions near Versailles , Ky.
Known as a source of speed, Marquetry has sired 35 stakes winners, 45 stakes-placed runners, and the earners of $37.3 million.
Grand Sire: Conquistador Cielo
Racing as a two-year-old, Conquistador Cielo won two races in his four starts. At age three, he blossomed into a star.
His handlers had hoped the horse would run in the 1982 Kentucky Derby but he was kept out by a leg injury that wasn't healing to the point where his trainer was satisfied it would be completely safe. In the much easier Preakness Prep, the horse won, but still his trainer skipped the Preakness Stakes to bring him along on an easier route.
Entered in the GradeI Metropolitan Handicap, Conquistador Cielo set a track-record while winning by 7 1/4 lengths against older horses, breaking Stop the Music's record set in 1973. Trainer Woody Stephens then surprised fans and racing insiders with the announcement that the horse was fit enough to race again six days later in the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown races. In the 1982 Belmont Stakes, Conquistador Cielo defeated the opposition, beating Kentucky Derby champion Gato Del Sol by 14 lengths.
Before the 1982 racing season was over, he was sold to a breeding syndicate for a then record price of $36.4 million. Conquistador Cielo's performances in 1982 earned him United States Champion 3 yr old colt, and Horse of the Year honors.
Retired to stud duty at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky . Conquistador Cielo didn't quite live up to expectations but nevertheless sired more than 60 Stakes race winners!! Among his progeny were Stakes winners Marquetry, Forty Niner Days, Alannon, Mi Cielo, Wagon Limit, and Lexicon.
Great Grand Sire: Mr. Prospector
(1970–1999) was a TB racehorse foaled in Kentucky , whose descendants have been dominant in the Triple Crown Races. He won half of his 14 career races.
Mr. Prospector also ran in the year Secretariat won the Triple Crown. Mr. Prospector's sire was Raise A Native, a son of the immortal Native Dancer. He was out of the mare Gold Digger, a daughter of Nashua who was sired by Nasrullah. A $200,000 yearling in 1971 (a significant price for the early 1970s).
Mr. Prospector won the Gravesend Handicap, the Whirlaway Handicap and managed to set track records for six furlongs (1,207 m) at Gulfstream Park and Garden State , but his racing record provided little inkling of his success as a breeding sire.
One of Mr. P's most remarkable feats was siring one winner of each of the Triple Crown races, a feat his grandson, Unbridled, has also accomplished. His Triple Crown race winners were the 2000Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus, a promising young sire; 1985 Preakness Stakes winner Tank's Prospect; and 1982 Belmont Stakes winner and Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year, Conquistador Cielo.
He was noted for brilliant speed and passed this as well as a tendency toward precocity along to his offspring. In addition to racing ability, he also has passed on his ability to sire excellent horses with several sons proving to be excellent studs including Fappiano, Woodman, Forty Niner, and Kingmambo. His sons and daughters are his living legacy and his influence will be felt on the breed for many generations to come.
Dam Sire: St Jovite
Now a 17-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Pleasant Colony, has sired 129 winners in 11 crops of racing age. His 237 starters account for $7,890,262 in progeny earnings. His nine stakes winners include 1998 San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap (G1) winner Amerique.
St. Jovite, Ireland's champion two-year-old of 1991, had
11 Starts: 6 - 2 - 0, wih winnings of $1,631,032
He won the 1992 Irish Derby (Ire-G1) and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes (Eng-G1) at Ascot en route to honors as Europe 's Horse of the Year. He also finished second in the Epsom Derby (G1) that season.
St Jovite's Sire: Pleasant Colony
Won the 1981 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) and Preakness Stakes (gr. I) He died Dec. 31, 2002 of natural causes in his paddock at Blue Ridge Farm near Upperville , Va. The 25-year-old Virginia-bred son of His Majesty was buried at Buckland Farm just a short distance from the barn where he was born. Buckland at the time was owned by Thomas Mellon Evans, who campaigned Pleasant Colony as a homebred.
Pleasant Colony won the Run for the Roses from a fast-closing Woodchopper, and in the Preakness, he overtook pacesetter Bold Ego in the final furlong. His try for the Triple Crown ended with a tiring third-place effort in the Belmont Stakes (gr. I).
Pleasant Colony's other wins that year came in the Wood Memorial (gr. I) and Woodward (gr. I) Stakes. He was retired in the fall after a fourth-place effort in the Marlboro Cup Handicap (gr. I) with six wins from 14 starts and earnings of $965,383 in two years of racing. His stakes win as a 2-year-old came in the Remsen Stakes (gr. II).
Pleasant Colony, who entered stud at the Buckland division near Lexington , became a source of stamina and soundness in pedigrees!!! He is represented by 73 stakes winners.
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