Y63 Festivus - How'd you do?

[Nini Panini]

I only bred 22 foals last year and was a little worried I bred too few and the slide wouldn't be kind to me. Thankfully I did breed one freak, and he's my favorite foal of the crop!

Riptide by Maximus out of Lost in the Woods.

[Gwen Morse]

198 TB foals
1 stakes (peak)
23 allowance
82 productive
29 solid
62 claimer
1 DC

I'm hoping that getting more productives than claimers means I'm finally improving a bit.

[Brian Leavitt]

No freaks, Sadge

9 stakes
30 allowance
36 productive
13 solid
9 claimers
1 DC (Steeplechaser)

[Erin Sanderson]

Awful, as always. 356 total foals across all breeds, a whopping 1 freak again.

[Darcy McBride]

I had 1 Freak DR colt and 12 assorted TB Stakes.

[Laurel Addams]

1 freak TR filly (thank you again Carole!) and we don't speak of the rest, although my claimer numbers are down

[Nicole Marie]

17 allowance
45 productive
24 solid
45 claimer
11 different career

Fortunately, I had overwhelmingly more late bloomers than anything else, and honestly a lot of the claimers were just me breeding low quality mares to keep the filly/colt ratio okay so the fillies I wanted I could get for free.

The ones I'm most excited about are:

62 Love And Monsters, allowance progressive, bred on a lease so I'm always happy when the one foal I get from a mare is a nice one.

62 Outlawed, also bred on a lease, out of Roughian's full sister. Allowance LB so hopefully will wind up stakes.

Aftershow, Allowance LB whose 3/4 brother is a stakes winner. He peaked (freak but stakes after adjustment) at his yearling festivus so hopefully I can get a longer career from this one.

First Steam, the first Steamboat Willie ever bred, out of a mare who has given me a stakes, a productive, and now 2 allowance gallopers since she came into my ownership.

Sorry For The Delay, also from a lease, allowance LB, named after the simmy voting and festivus yesterday/today

[Cleo Patra]

REALLY pleased with my group this year! Especially my First Class babies. He rocked it.
67 Gallops:
2 freak
11 stakes
20 allowance
21 productive
9 solid
AND only 4 (FOUR) claimers! I've never had so few claimers. 2 of them are late bloomers too, so they might not even stay that bad

Progressive Freak
Long Goodbyes (TX) - ch.c.1 - First Class x Have Heart My Dear (Light Up Light Up)
Menaces (LA) - b.c.1 - Valley of Fire x Vivacia (Farseer)

Stakes Late Bloomer
Day to Day (URY) - bl.c.1 - Dissimulation x Hold Back the Dark (Kitasan Black)
Hoarse (LA) - b.f.1 - Private Affair x Sing Out Louder (Dave Matthews Band)
Lizzy (CA) - b.f.1 - Steamboat Willie x Reason to Smile (Conquerer)
Owl Give It All (CHL) - ro.f.1 - Owlpha Romeo x The Gift Is You (Courage)
Shiniest (LA) - dkb.f.1 - Valley of Fire x Look Into My Eyes (Nighteyes)

Stakes Progressive
Meet the Press (KY) - dkb.c.1 - Nighteyes x Now It Is Time (Parts Unknown)
My Troubled Mind (OK) - ch.f.1 - Kryptonite x Her Wild Kingdom (Kingdom Come)
Pool of Two Moons (TX) - dkb.f.1 - First Class x Into the Well (Among Ghosts)
Set and Forget (PLW) - ch.c.1 - Japanese Majesty x She Who Remembers (Delirium)
Spoke Too Soon (AUS) - dkb.f.1 - Be Right There x A Girl and a Zombie (Mal)
True Classic (TX) - bl.f.1 - First Class x Truly Marvelous (Brilliance)

[Shannon Hunt]

I seem to be incapable of breeding TBs that are born freak, but since several stakes bloomers in the past have turned out very nicely for me, I have no complaints! 8 stakes in multiple divisions, several of which are late bloomers/breeding shed comment, so the future looks bright.

A couple of decent-looking mixers, too, most notably a freak bloomer half-sister to my SC trotter The Groke.

[Nicole Marie]

Me this morning, heading in for a 12 hour workday after getting up at 3am for 4am festivus

[Carole Hanson]

Extremely pleased!

62 foals:
3 Freaks (!!!)-4.8%
5 Stakes-8.1%
24 Allowance-38.7%
18 Productive-29%
7 Solid-11.2%
5 Claimer-8.1%

My 3 Freaks are:
Impacts x A Special Song
Dave Matthews Band x Love Unwavering (super excited for this filly!)
Improvisational x Starfire (very excited to have a freak from the Black Comet line!)

[Carole Hanson]

1 freak TR filly (thank you again Carole!) and we don't speak of the rest, although my claimer numbers are down

I’m so excited about this filly! So pleased for you

[Lucas Davenport]

I think worst year ever................... About as bad as my Breeders Cup luck yesterday. There may be some significant reduction auctions in my near future. Is it close enough to Christmas to "Ba Humbug?"

[Brad Fabman]

Don't ask! Squat!

[John Smith]

Change from last year and total training barn composition

+ 300% in stakes (1.6%)
+10.6% in allowance gallopers (30%)
+ 7.4% in prods (39.4%)
- 8.5% solids (10.5%)
- 11% claimers (18%)

AT least trending in the right direction... and first foaled stakes - still no freaks 0 for 2 crops