Anchor and Hope

Fortune Ticket (Candy Ride {Arg}), a full -brother to top freshman sire and Horse of the Year Gun Runner, will stand his first season at stud in 2022 at Anchor & Hope Farm in Port Deposit, Maryland. The 4-year-old won two of seven starts with earnings over $53,000. Fortune Ticket will stand for just 2% of Gun Runner's $125,000 stud fee, $2,500 stands and nurses. "Fortune Ticket is an exciting prospect for the great state of Maryland. He is the only son of Candy Ride in Maryland and is a...

After a devastating 2019 fire at Louis and Grace Merryman's Anchor and Hope Farm in Port Deposit, Maryland, the rebuilding process has come full circle with the arrival of Force the Pass, a Grade I-winning son of Speightstown, who will begin his first season at stud at the farm this year. Force the Pass also marks a new beginning for T. K. Kuegler's Wasabi Ventures Stallions as the first stallion to stand for the growing syndicate. Kuegler grew up listening to racing stories from his great grandfather, trainer P. J....