In The Arsenal p,2,1:49.4; 3,1:49.1, an eight-year-old, million-dollar-winning son of American Ideal, will stand his second season at Leatherstocking Equine in New York.
His stud fee remains at $2,500.
Returning breeders from 2019, whose mares produced a live foal in 2020 by In The Arsenal, will be eligible to book the same mare, or another mare, at a discounted rate of $2,000.
In addition, at the conclusion of the 2020 breeding season, the syndicate will hold a Facebook Live drawing to pick one successful breeder where the stud fee will be free for one lucky person, drawn by lot.
In The Arsenal earned $1,035,898 racing against some of the fastest pacers on the planet. He recorded 18 wins over the course of his career and found victory in a nearly a third of his starts.
Well known for his blistering speed at two, a season in which he won a leg of the Bluegrass at the Red Mile in 1:49.4, In The Arsenal also won the Lawrence Sheppard Memorial at Yonkers Raceway. In fact, in a span of five weeks, he won both his two-year-old stakes at Lexington, the Historic at Chester Downs, and the Matron at Dover Downs.
The aforementioned stretch was followed by a brutal 10-hole brush to the lead in his Breeders Crown elimination where he went on to cut the fractions in :26.3, :54.3 and 1:23 before finishing just a length back in third in 1:50.3. The following week, In The Arsenal finished second in the Breeders Crown final, again from Post 10, despite being interfered with in the early going.
In The Arsenal was then immersed in one of the toughest group of three-year-old pacing colts in recent memory. Not only was he born the same year as 2015 Horse of the Year Wiggle It Jiggleit, but In The Arsenal also competed against Freaky Feet Pete, Artspeak, Dudes The Man, Lost For Words, Dealt A Winner and Wakizashi Hanover.
In The Arsenal defeated several of the aforementioned pacing colts while winning his Meadowlands Pace elimination in 1:49.1, where he stepped away from the field with an incredible :25.3 last quarter.
Several weeks prior to his Meadowlands Pace elimination win, In The Arsenal won an elimination and the final of the Art Rooney at Yonkers, his elimination of the North America Cup at Mohawk Racetrack, as well as a division of the Bluegrass at the Red Mile in October. Despite having locked bridles with some of the gamest individuals of the decade, In The Arsenal still finished the season with over half a million in earnings and was ‘1-2-3’ in 11 of 17 starts in 2015, with seven wins.
In The Arsenal is from the multiple stakes winning mare Ladyotra, p,2,1:53.2 ($115,627), whose production and immediate family is loaded with speed and money winners.
For more information regarding bookings and breedings, contact David Hanson at the Leatherstocking Equine Group, New Berlin, NY. Email [email protected] or call 607-847-9996.
Be sure to ask if your mares qualify for significant quantity and special situation discounts.
(With files from the In The Arsenal Syndicate)