Pedigree Query

hi guys

Stormy Atlantic looks like he's stepping up to the next level...

...consider this.

He's had a nice and consistent degree of success...then some months ago his G3-winning (and G2-placed) son Indian Ocean looked like he was making a BIG name for himself (in California)...and appeared to be the kind of horse that had G1-caliber written all over him. His future looked bright (maybe an understatement)...but he was unfortunately injured and retired to stud...

...recently Stormy Atlantic's brilliant two-year-old son What's Your Edge seems to have picked up the torch. He is undefeated and 2 for 2 (breaking his maiden at Saratoga first time out then coming back and easily winning, in wire-to-wire fashion, the $200,000 Monmouth Park NATC Futurity by 2+ lengths...going 6 furlongs on the dirt in 1:08 4/5). It was another 10 lengths back to the third place finisher...

...then today, Stormy Atlantic's two-year-old daughter She Says It Best won the G2-Alcibiades (going 1 1/16 miles on the dirt) at Keeneland...also in wire-to-wire to fashion...easily defeating post-time favorite Ex Caelis by a widening 2 1/2 length margin. It was another 2 lengths back to the third-placer finisher...and 14 1/4 back to the fourth place filly (in the field of 11).

I'm seeing horses that are brilliant...and clearly some of the them can go on, and look and act like they might be special.

Certainly the three recent runners named above have some real talent.

Thoughts?

Respectfully

FOS, I agree wholeheartedly. I think this is really one to watch. Seems to be siring a lot of talent and may be on the path to siring a really big runner.

My only reservation with him -- purely from an aesthetics standpoint -- is that I really don't like his head.

Laurie

SA has a roman head, that he inherited from his ancestors way back in his latter generations, but it will not hinder him from becoming a leading stallion.

In my opinion, the family of Stormy Atlantic (the Moccasin branch) is one of the most brilliant in the studbook and obviously the family has produced top sires even if this branch of the family is lesser known for them. I think he has every reason to become a top sire in the next few years and there's a lot to like in getting a daughter by him as well. I remember when everyone was saying his journey to the Bluegrass was a mistake... but he's proving people wrong and doing it well. I wouldnt be surprised to see Bandini carry on this family's legacy in the shed either.

STORMY ATLANTIC dk.b. H 1994
Storm Cat---Hail Atlantis, by Seattle Slew

4 crops RA
302 foals RA
5 GR SW
17 SW
05 Fee 15,000

Positive Stats
Starters/ foals 63 %
AWD 6.44

Negative Stats
Winners / foals 42 %
Progeny Average Starts 10
Winners / Starts 17 %
Average Earnings / Starts 4,173
AEI 1.52 CI 1.47

He is definetely worth his stud fee. You should be able to make that back easily with his offspring.

Hill N Dale thinks he's worth an extra $5000 raising his fee to $20,000.

hi austique

At $20,000 I suggest that SA is excellent value...especially knowing that he's got a couple of potential super-star 2-yo's performing right now...plus his first Ky crop will run in 2006.

I expect that if a couple of his current two-year-olds (examples: undefeated stakes-winner What's Your Edge and G2-Alcibiades winner She Says It Best) continue to impress and/or pull-off a G1 win, that the farm might increase his stud fee (pre-2006 or during the 2006 breeding season) to above $20,000.

I expect that the best might be yet to come for both What's Your Edge and She Says It Best...and there might be some other Stormy Atlantics that capture the imagination.

Interesting that What's Your Edge is out of a full sister to the brilliant graded stakes-winning colt Forty One Carats...a two-time track-record setter and earner in exces of $800k.

Respectfully

I agree he is a good value at that and was deserving of his fee increase unlike others I might mention.

hi austique

When considering some of the increases in stud fees for 2006...coupled with what appear to be rather aggressive (or maybe optimistic is a better word) stud fees set on some first year stallions of 2006...

...Stormy Atlantic seems to look like very good value at $20k.

Respectfully

I think Stormy Atlantic is a very good buy at 20K. I wish I had something to breed to him this year. In lieu of that, I just purchased a yearling filly whose second dam is Flippers (also Stormy Atlantic's second dam.) At least I'm in the neighborhood.