Oakwood Stud in County Offaly, Ireland has reported that semen from its top pacing stallion, Foreclosure N, will be made available in Australia and New Zealand shortly.
Kody Charles of KTC Bloodstock in Perth, Australia has been friends via Facebook with Derek and James Delaney of Oakwood Stud for years and they finally met face-to-face in 2015.
“When we first got Foreclosure N in Ireland,” Derek Delaney explained, “Kody contacted me to say he has his dam in Australia and he had a keen interest in him and had followed his success as a sire in the USA. He asked about shipping his frozen semen to use for some of his mares and we stuck a deal to also make it available for outside mares, too.”
This will be the first time that KTC Bloodstock, which is run by Kody with his mom and dad and Brittany, have been involved with shipping semen overseas and they are very excited to see his foals on the ground next year in Australia and New Zealand.
"This is a new venture for KTC Bloodstock,” said Kody Charles. “We are very pleased to be selected as agent for the frozen semen of Foreclosure in Australia and New Zealand.
“It has been a dream of ours for some time to get involved in a stallion, Kody explained, “and I can't think of no better stallion to get involved in at our first attempt. He is already competing with the best in the states and already has the points on the board from his first small crop. I think he will a big plus for local breeders. He will be supported by our own mares and frozen semen will be available in Australia and New Zealand for a fee of $2,500 including GST."
Foreclosure N, (Rocknroll Hanover - Pleasing Package A - Fake Left) was bred in USA and foaled in NZ, then shipped back to USA as yearling, raced in the USA and Canada, then bred one crop with 21 foals in the USA.
His oldest foals are now age four and have earned over $1 million through their three-year-old season. He finished sixth on the top 20 sires for average earnings for three-year-old pacers in 2017 and sired the Ohio Sires Stakes Championship winner, Drunk On Your Love p,3 1:51.1f. He was also recently honoured as the top Ohio-bred Three-Year-Old Colt Pacer of the year in 2017 and earned $328,286 to date.
Foreclosure N’s richest daughter is Rosemary Rose p,3 1:51.4h $255,692, and holds the track record for three-year-old fillies at Northfield Park with her record mile of 1:51.4 and won multiple legs of the Ohio Sires Stakes and won the Grand Circuit event, the Courageous Lady.
World renowned driver Tim Tetrick had this to say about Foreclosure N:
“I think this stallion has a very good opportunity at stud,” Tetrick said. “He is already having fantastic results from a small crop in the USA. I really liked him as a racehorse. He was a real professional on the track that tried hard every inch of the mile. He had a great gait with a great attitude and really wanted to do his work and was one super-fast horse.”
Foreclosure N was sold to Oakwood Stud in 2015 and bred mares in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England and now is going to be breeding foals in Australia and New Zealand, so it’s fair to say he’s well-travelled once again in his career.
“Our first crop here in Ireland from Foreclosure N are now two,” Derek Delaney said. “and in training they look superb and the feedback from trainers is phenomenal at this early stage.”
For more information about getting semen to Australia and New Zealand for Foreclosure N, please contact either Oakwood Stud at oakwoodstud.ie or KTC Bloodstock at ktcbloodstock.com.au.
(Oakwood Stud)