The 2019 U.S. Harness Horse of the Year, Shartin N, will be bred in 2023 to Capt Midnight, according to Kountry Lane Standardbreds of Indiana.

Currently, Shartin N (Tintin In America-Bagdarin-Live Or Die) has a yearling filly by world champion Captaintreacherous and is due to foal this month (pictured above), the resulting foal also sired by Captaintreacherous.

In a glittering harness racing career, the world champion mare won 46 of her 68 lifetime starts and $2,667,563 in purses -- an average of $39,228 per start. She produced a jaw-dropping world record performance to win the $183,500 Lady Liberty at The Meadowlands in August 2019, carving out the mile in 1:46.4. She also became the fastest Standardbred horse ever bred in New Zealand. A month later, Shartin N set another world record for mares on a five-eighths track when she was clocked in 1:48 at Harrah’s Philadelphia in a $30,000 Open Pace.

A son of Captaintreacherous out of the American Ideal mare It Was Fascination, Capt Midnight p,2,1:49.4s; 3,1:48.3s, BT 1:47.2m ($662,286) stands stud at Premier Aces in Indiana for a fee of $5,000 in 2023. His first two breeding seasons were booked full and closed.

“Capt Midnight was a talented two and three-year-old racing against the best of his class, Tall Dark Stranger and Papi Rob Hanover,” said Tony Alagna, Capt Midnight’s trainer. “With his pedigree, conformation and natural ability, he will make his presence felt in Indiana and equally on the national scene as well."

(With files from Kountry Lane Standardbreds)