2025 Maxfield -Sharma Individual Foal

Active Individual Foal



Birth Year:
2025 
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Why We Bought This Horse

  • We acquired Sharma at the Keeneland January 2025 sale and she was in foal to Maxfield.  Sharma was covered on April 21, 2024, by Maxfield and checked in and confirmed in foal post sale to us.   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 $47,292

  • Mare Lease $16,667
  • Stallion Fee - $0
  • Vanning Expense - $1,000
  • Boarding Fee Estimate - $23,000
  • Insurance - $3,125
  • Vet Estimate - $2,500
  • Registration Fees (Jockey Club and State Fees) - $1,000

We have mined the Godolphin consignment for our friends at Wasabi Ventures Stables & Stallions at several previous winter mixed sales, because that perennial Eclipse Award-winning owner/breeder has so many mares that they inevitably wind up letting some future stars escape their grasp. One of the mares that Wasabi was out-bid on two years ago was a mare named Omkara, who sold for $160,000 to Stone Farm while carrying a foal by Cairo Prince. As mentioned in the TDN recap of that day’s sale:

Omkara is a daughter of stakes-winner Kareena (Medaglia d'Oro) and her half-sister Padma (Tapit) was second in the Cash Run S. at Gulfstream Park on New Year's Day. Her second dam is multiple graded-stakes winner India, a half-sister to the dam of To Honor and Serve and Angela Renee.
“It's a super active female family,” Hancock said of the mare. “There are so many daughters producing in that family. There are some good runners on the page and it's a great family. So we thought we would take a swing.”
Banahan admitted he had fielded some questions about why Godolphin would sell a half-sister to a recent stakes-placed runner.
“We own three more fillies out of the mare,” Banahan said. “You can't keep them all. We want to keep the quality as high as we can. So we are going to have ones that we have to offload.”
(From https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/godolphin-mares-star-as-keeneland-january-continues-to-produce-strong-results/)

The appeal of the female family of Omkara (by Ghostzapper) is just as applicable to her half-sister Sharma (by Quality Road), and also includes Kareena’s multiple G1-winning half-brother Mozu Ascot. Although Padma never achieved any greater heights than that 2nd-place finish in the Cash Run Stakes mentioned in the quote above, she is now carrying her first foal by Darley’s established sire Street Sense. Meanwhile, Kareena’s ‘22 daughter of Uncle Mo (Kapoor) has been breezing regularly for Bill Mott and Godolphin at Payson, with a ‘24 filly by Tapit to follow, and Kareena was bred back to Constitution for ‘25.
In light of all that, we were pleasantly shocked the Wasabi was able to acquire Sharma for just $50,000, especially with a $40,000 stud fee in her! (We blame the fact that it was late in the day on a soft day at the sale for everyone else being absent or snoozing.)
Padma’s mating to Street Sense will provide a foal similarly-bred to Sharma’s in utero offspring by Maxfield, given that Street Sense is the sire of Maxfield. Street Sense has already worked repeatedly with this family, having sired Grade 1-placed black-type winner Elnaawi and the ‘24 Grade 3-winning juvenile filly La Cara on Sharma’s page. Maxfield is especially intriguing for Sharma because his dam is by Bernardini, and Bernardini is the sire of the aforementioned Grade 1 winners To Honor and Serve and Angela Renee from this female family.
We also love Maxfield generally speaking. His win in the G1 Breeders’ Futurity was breathtaking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcT1vl4D0po
and he’s an incredible physical specimen with perhaps the best walk you’ll ever see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-MxArIxCKQ
Maxfield’s first crop of yearlings (this foal out of Sharma will be from his third crop) sold like gangbusters in ‘24, averaging just under $200k with a pair of million-dollar individuals selling to Coolmore and John Stewart, respectively.
All of which added up to an expectation that we’d have to bid a lot higher than $50,000 to purchase Sharma, and which makes her an enormous bargain at this price!

2025 Maxfield -Sharma Individual Foal




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