The finest contingent of impeccably-bred Delaware-sired and Maryland-sired yearlings to be sold at one time in 2008 will go under the auctioneer's hammer on Friday, Oct. 17 at the fourth annual Winbak Farm Select Yearling Sale at Winbak Farms' flagship location, near Chesapeake City, Md.
The list of 43 colts and fillies included 40 by Delaware's most prominent stallions and three Maryland sired. The sale will begin at 2 p.m.
Each season since the inception of the lucrative Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) program, the First State's juvenile stakes have been dominated by two of Winbak Farm stallions, pacer Badlands Hanover and trotter CR Commando. Winbak Delaware stallions have sired almost all of the rich $100,000 finals for two- and- three-year-olds competed at Dover Downs and at Harrington Raceway.
A glance at the impressive Winbak sale roster finds 17 by extremely productive sons of Western Hanover. There are10 by Badlands Hanover, four colts and six fillies and seven by Shotgun Scott, three colts and four fillies. Powerful Toy, a stakes winning son of Jate Lobell is represented by four colts and two fillies. Million dollar-winning Three Olives, a son of Jennas Beach Boy, offers three colts and two fillies and there is one colt by Three Wizzards, a Breeders Crown winning son of legendary Albatross.
Of the most impressive roster of 11 Delaware-sired trotting yearlings even sold, eight of them are fillies. Of six progeny of all-time leading trotting stallion, CR Commando, a world champion at two, five are fillies. Political Briefing, another outstanding two-year-old stakes winner, has three fillies along with two colts.
For those looking for a Maryland-sired pacing bred, one of them is a Bonnie And Clyde daughter of Camluck stakes winning juvenile Canbeawinner, and two yearlings are by JK Outlaw, a colt and a filly, complete the sale catalogue.
An added advantage for those purchasing a Winbak Delaware-sired or Maryland-sired yearling, is each Winbak-sire yearling is also eligible to the Maryland Standardbred Race Fund (MSRF) stakes.
A reminder, the DSBF stakes program offers six events for each yearling at two and then again at three. Each season has two $20,000 preliminary legs and two $100,000 finals plus consolations in each of the four divisions for both trotters and pacers at both Dover Downs and at Harrington Raceway.
(Winbak Farm)