Bucchero (Kantharos), whose half-dozen stakes winners to date include GI Woody Stephens Stakes hero Book'em Danno, will be available for inspection at an open house at Ironhorse Stallions on Dec. 13 at 58 Dunn Road, Stillwater, New York, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The only New York-based stallion to be represented by a Grade I winner this season and the current leading stallion in the state by progeny earnings, Bucchero is the sire of 100 individual winners, including Beauty of the Sea, successful three times in stakes company and also Grade III-placed in 2024. He is also the leading American-based general sire of all-weather runners, including Ironhorse homebred Cyclonite, who recently won for the second time in four synthetic tries at Kempton Park in England.
Having begun his stallion career in Florida before covering his first mares in the Empire State in 2024, Bucchero has been booked to better than 100 mares for his first season at Ironhorse Stallions. Ironhorse is supporting the 12-year-old with no fewer than 10 mares purchased at Keeneland November and Tattersalls December.
“We have had a strong response from individual breeders, both in state and those moving mares for the first time into the New York program, along with some larger breeders who have purchased lifetime breeding rights that we have made available on a limited basis, it is an exciting time to be breeding in New York,” said Harlan Malter, managing partner of Bucchero and Ironhorse Stallions.
During the open house, visitors will have an opportunity to meet John Dowd, head of operations and bloodstock for Ironhorse Stallions. Light refreshments will be served.
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