2025 Oscar Performance - Mad Grace Individual Foal

Why We Bought This Horse

• Mad Grace was covered on May 9, 2024, by Oscar Performance and checked in and confirmed in foal on May 23, 2024.   Our anticipation is that this foal will be Kentucky-bred.
• This is a 2024-2025 Individual Foal Offering and is subject to the WVS Individual Foal Program Addendum to the Wasabi Ventures Stables Thoroughbred Management Agreement.     
•   Highlights of the program:
  • Fixed Price on the Offering - No Ongoing Bills
  • Limited Exposure - Like WVS Racing Programs, there is no chance for Future Expenses. If the Foal offering loses money, WVS absorbs those costs
  • Finite Time - The Foal Offering will be liquidated at the time of his/her weaning from the mare, so you know when an offering ends.  Because you are not buying the mare, you have a finite time period of commitment (e.g. 6 to 18 months)
  • Reduced Risk - WVS will only open a Foal Offering once a mare has checked in foal to the chosen stallion
  • Perpetual Breeders Bonuses - Even after the foal is sold, a Club member can continue to earn breeding bonuses for the racing life of the horse.
  • You can watch a video about this program by visiting here. 

The BASE PRICE of this foal is $49,433

• Mare Lease $3,333
• Stallion Fee - $22,500
• Vanning Expense - $2,000
• Boarding Fee Estimate - $18,000
• Vet Estimate - $3,000
• Registration Fees (Jockey Club and State Fees) - $600

Mad Grace was a hard-knocking, versatile racemare who won nine of 41 lifetime starts. She scored on dirt from 7 furlongs to 1-1/16 miles and on turf going as far as 1-3/8 miles. She also placed in her lone synthetic surface try. Her durability and versatility are complemented by a strong, deep pedigree: she’s a half-sister to multiple G3 winner Hence and black-type placed Conquest Stormy, as well as to the dam of black-type winners (both G3-placed as well) Inconclusive and Hard to Figure, and her A.P. Indy dam is a half to the multiple G3 winner Pico Teneriffe (dam of champion Marchfield and black-type winner Congor Bay), to the G3 winner Salmon Ladder, to the black-type winner Capote’s Prospect, and to the dam of G2 winner Minister Eric (who is also the second dam of G1 winner Devil May Care and G2 winner Regal Ransom).

All of which is a long way of saying that we think Mad Grace has every right to be an excellent broodmare for our friends at Wasabi, and we’re committed to giving her the best chance to prove that. As such, after she delivers her first foal in 2024 by first-year stallion Aloha West, she’ll head right back to Mill Ridge Farm and visit their up-and-coming young star Oscar Performance for her second cover.

We’ve spoken repeatedly of our desire to send young mares to a proven stallion at least a time or two during their first few years in the breeding shed, in order to give the mare’s owner the best handle on that mare’s ability as a producer. With two crops now of racing age, Oscar Performance has proven that he can get a good horse, and he looks poised to step forward in the coming years.

He himself was strictly a turf runner — but a very good one! At 2 he won the G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, at 3 the G1 Belmont Derby and G1 Secretariat, and at 4 he added the G1 Woodbine Turf Mile. As a son of repeated leading turf sire Kitten’s Joy and out of a mare by turf champion Theatrical, this tendency was not unexpected.

But from his first two crops, Oscar Performance has proven a far more versatile sire than one could have anticipated. Although ‘23 G3W 2YO Endlessly and the black-type winners Act the Fool and Andthewinneris have excelled on grass, Oscar Performance’s G2-winning daughter Red Carpet Ready is a dirt sprinter, and black-type winner Tumbarumba has also proven graded caliber on dirt.

The versatility shared by both Mad Grace and Oscar Performance’s progeny is the highlight of this match for us, but it’s also worth nothing that a pair of Oscar Performance’s black-type winners have second dams by A.P. Indy, which will also be the case with his foal from Mad Grace. Meanwhile, Oscar Performance’s single foal so far out of an English Channel mare is a winner — and given the success of the English Channel over Kitten’s Joy cross, plus the fact that those two were the best American turf sires of the last decade, we think this cross is a promising one (TrueNicks agrees and calls it an “A++”). We also don’t hate that this foal will be inbred 3x4 to the aforementioned turf star Theatrical, who was a great racehorse and solid stallion in Kentucky with a worldwide influence.

Physically, Mad Grace is not as small as some English Channels, but will definitely benefit from the size and scope which Oscar Performance brings to the equation, and we are extremely excited at the potential of the foal from this pairing!