Wiseman's Ferry

Maven · Postby **Maven** » Tue May 08, 2007 5:57 pm

Anyone else super-impressed with his physical? Great looking stallion with a ton of presence. A little hot though...

His foals have looked the part too with mediocre mares.

TBLADY · Postby **TBLADY** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:42 am

A few yrs back while looking over NY sires I got the chance to look at what Empire Stud had to offer. At the time there was only Wiseman's Ferry and CRAP-A-Ccinno.

Wf was by far head and tails above the other young stallion. He was a far classier animal. Being a NY breeder I find it hard to make any plans a yr in advance as the stallions shuffle around like they are going out of style. (lol maybe they did...hence the moves on many of them) I was happy however to see WF move to KY and not to some developing state bred program.

I felt he was a nicely built stallion with a very nice pedigree and his foals that season were big correct and just as handsome as the old man!

His first crop are now 2 yr olds? Is that correct?

JimP · Postby **JimP** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:46 am

I was very impressed with WF when I saw him last summer at Castleton Lyons. He had a lot of presence about him. He was just an all around pleasing stallion with a nice conformation.

rudydee · Postby **rudydee** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:29 pm

WF's 2 year olds had better come out running.
You can get to him for 4K now.

Maven · Postby **Maven** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:33 pm

I think he's setting up to be a great value for breeders this year. I cant help but think he has everything needed to be a good stallion. They SHOULD come out running. He's speed on top of speed. Only question mark is the caliber of mares he received in his first few crops being in New York.

Pete · Postby **Pete** » Fri May 11, 2007 11:12 pm

Hi Maven and RudyDee,

RudyDee,

You could get to Distorted Humor in his 4th season for about $4,000 too. It's true of any stallion that they're get need to come out running and I suspect that Castleton-Lyons is just looking to keep numbers up for Wiseman's Ferry.

Maven,

Wiseman's Ferry is a good looking horse and several NY breeders purchased shares in him on conformation as much as anything else.

I wasn't impressed with his race record in North America. He backed off most any top quality horse he faced. He defeated Sarava before that one moved up a few races before he Belmont. He did beat The Judge Sez Who, an honest sort but I like to see more quality in the opposition.

That said, Distorted Humor backed off Wild Rush in the Met Mile and it didn't hurt him much.

Regards,

Pete