Keepmeinmind and Fire At Will Welcomed at Sequel Stallions

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00:00Sequel New York has welcomed two exciting new stallions this year.

00:06Loud Bands Keep Me In Mind, a Grade 2 winning 2-year-old, has the looks to keep alive the

00:11legacy of his late sire, while Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Champion Fire At Will brings

00:17an exciting turf pedigree to the state.

00:21For the 2023 breeding season, Sequel New York has two exciting new stallions.

00:26Keep Me In Mind being one of them, as well as Fire At Will, who we got even more recently.

00:31Keep Me In Mind, a Grade 2 winner at 2 years old.

00:35Keep Me In Mind had a great 2-year-old campaign.

00:39He was really the first of the Loud Bands to make national notoriety, along with, of

00:48course, Simply Ravishing.

00:50His second start was in Grade 1 company, where he unfortunately met Essential Quality, who

00:56he would run second to.

00:59His next race would be a month later in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, and for him to race

01:03the way he did, running third to Essential Quality and Hot Rod Charlie, but beating horses

01:08like Rumbauer, who would later win the Preakness, and horses like Jackie's Warrior, who are

01:13Eclipse champions, it was really a significant accomplishment for the whole team, both the

01:18ownership as well as the stallion side.

01:21Keep Me In Mind was still in phenomenal shape, and the decision was made to enter him into

01:26the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill, which was a Grade 2 that he would ultimately

01:31win to break his maiden.

01:33One of the major similarities between Keep Me In Mind and Loud Band were the fact that

01:38they both broke their maidens in Grade 2 company.

01:42Keep Me In Mind just happened to do it a little bit sooner than Loud Band did.

01:46He's a more elegant, refined version of Loud Band that shares a lot of his best traits.

01:51He's got the big hip, but he's also a leggy, stretchy horse that you would expect from

01:57the Uncle Mo line.

01:59Anytime you bring a stallion into your farm, you want to look at, one, the race record,

02:04two, the physical, as well as the pedigree.

02:10Fire at Will was trained by Mike Maker, who is an absolute legend with turf horses.

02:15In speaking to Mike Maker, he shared with us that Fire at Will was actually the fastest

02:18two-year-old he's ever trained on the turf, which just speaks a lot to the precociousness

02:25and the speed that Fire at Will had.

02:28Fire at Will broke his maiden on the dirt at Saratoga in a stake race before transitioning

02:33over to the grass, where he would ultimately become the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Champion.

02:39As a stallion farm, it's always exciting to bring in successful two-year-old race horses,

02:43because they tend to produce early success in their offspring, which is always wonderful

02:49both for the owners, the breeders, as well as the sellers like us here in Florida.

02:54So Fire at Will is standing at Sequel New York in partnership with Three Diamonds Farm,

02:58which is owned and managed by Kirk and Deborah Wyckoff.

03:02They're tremendous supporters of the New York bred program, and it just seemed like the

03:06perfect fit for this Breeders' Cup Champion to come to Sequel New York, to really put

03:10it all together and see what we can create together.

03:14One of the things that we find to be extremely important is the physical.

03:19Fire at Will does not look like a typical Danzig line type of horse.

03:23Instead, he's a very elegant, leggy, stretchy, streamlined horse that had great movement

03:30on the track and really displayed efficiency when he ran.

03:34Three Diamonds Farm has made lots of friends in the horse racing industry, and they're

03:38really all coming together to support Fire at Will to make him a tremendous stallion

03:43that we believe he can be.

03:46He's getting support from consignors as well as commercial breeders.

03:50One of the most exciting aspects of Keep Me In Mind at Sequel New York is the ownership

03:56and their participation in making this stallion great.

04:00It's the same owners that brought us Lauban.

04:02With the success of Lauban, the ownership group had a lot of confidence and decided

04:06to invest even more heavily into the success of Keep Me In Mind.

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