{"id":17346,"date":"2013-12-14T20:51:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T01:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=17346"},"modified":"2013-12-13T23:30:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T04:30:23","slug":"2014-freshman-sire-profiles-fort-larned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=17346","title":{"rendered":"2014 Freshman Sire Profiles – Fort Larned"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fort Larned<\/p>\n

E Dubai \u2013 Arlucea, Broad Brush<\/p>\n

Enters Stud 2014 at Adena Springs for a fee of $15,000<\/p>\n

Fort Larned was slow to develop as a racehorse.\u00a0 In tens starts at ages two and three he won three times yet earned less than $100,000.\u00a0 Something popped when he turned four and by the end of the season he would bank over three and one half million dollars and be an Eclipse finalist.\u00a0 He began the season winning a listed stakes at Tampa Bay Downs but followed that up with a win in the G3 Skip Away Stakes at Gulfstream Park.\u00a0 He added victories in the Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap G3 and the Whitney Invitational G1 over the summer before finishing third in the Jockey Club Gold Cup G1, his final prep for the Breeders\u2019 Cup Classic.\u00a0 He took that race in wire to wire fashion battling the length of the stretch with Mucho Macho Man (who of course would go on to win the 2014 version of that race).\u00a0 Fort Larned ran a 117 Beyer Speed Figure in that run.\u00a0 His exploits were good enough for him to finish runner up in Eclipse voting behind Horse of the Year Wise Dan in the Champion Older Horse category.\u00a0 Fort Larned\u2019s five year old campaign got off to a bumpy start \u2013 literally.\u00a0 He started as the heavy favorite in the Gulfstream Park Handicap G2 and demolished the field to cross the wire first but along the way lost his jockey and was disqualified.\u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t return to the winner\u2019s circle until June when he stormed home the winner of the Stephen Foster Handicap G1 over a strong field.\u00a0 He prepped for a return to the Breeders\u2019 Cup in a listed stakes at Churchill Down which he won easily but could not replicate his victorious form from a year earlier in the big dance.\u00a0 Fort Larned retired with ten wins from twenty five starts and over four and one half million dollars in the bank.<\/p>\n

Fort Larned is a son of E Dubai, a regally bred G2 winning son of Mr. Prospector \u2013 Word of War, Lord At War.\u00a0 E Dubai entered stud with high hopes attached to his stellar pedigree and solid race record and while he has not been a homerun success story he\u2019s done well as a breed to race sire at the right price.\u00a0 He currently stands in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 Fort Larned is the only grade one winner sired by E Dubai but he has sired over 30 stakes winners and champions in Italy, Panama and Slovakia.\u00a0 Fort Larned\u2019s dam Arlucea is a young daughter of Broad Brush.\u00a0 From seven foals she has produced two stakes placed runners in addition to Fort Larned, including Izarra, a daughter of Distorted Humor who hit the board in two G1s as a two year old and was highly thought of before retireing due to injury.\u00a0 Fort Larned\u2019s second dam is the dual champion Bayakoa.\u00a0 Bayakoa won twelve American G1 races in her career (which started in Argentina) and almost three million dollars.\u00a0 She became only the second horse to win back-to-back Breeders\u2019 Cup races, taking the Distaff in 1989 and 1990.\u00a0 Bayakoa only produced four foals as a broodmare and none of them had half of her talent on the racetrack but in addition to Arlucea she also produced G1 producing mare Trinity Place. Fort Larned is inbred 4×5 to Nashua and 5×5 to Fleet Nasrullah.<\/p>\n

E Dubai started his sim career at a very high rating and has sired 10 G1 winners already in the game but none since 2009.\u00a0 In fact during that time period he has only sired three graded winners from 207 runners.\u00a0 The graded winners he have sired have come mostly from Northern Dancer-line mares with a special preference for mares by Storm Cat and his sons.\u00a0 This holds true to form for E Dubai\u2019s real life statistics, he has produced stakes winners from both Storm Cat-line mares but also Danzig-line mares and Dixieland Band-line mares.\u00a0 So obviously these and other branches of the Northern Dancer-line should be considered for Fort Larned.\u00a0 Fort Larned is also free of Seattle Slew so that line should be considered as well.\u00a0 A.P. Indy mares have crossed very well in real life with Mr. Prospector line stallions (and vice versa) so that is a strong cross to consider.\u00a0 If a breeder wanted to double up on the Mr. Prospector daughters and granddaughters of Unbridled could be considered.\u00a0 A son of Mr. Prospector\u2019s son Fappiano it would put the inbreeding further back and the cross of Mr. Prospector-line studs with Unbridled-line mares has been quite successful in real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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