2027 Straight No Chaser - Queen Mum Individual Foal

Why We Bought This Horse

• Queen Mum was covered on May 12, 2026, by Straight No Chaser and she was checked into foal on May 26th. Our anticipation is that this foal will be Kentucky-bred.

  • This is a 2026-2027 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 between of his/her weaning from the mare and the yearling sales, 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 $55,200
  • • Mare Lease $4,000
    • Stallion Fee - $10,000
    • Vanning Expense - $1,000
    • Boarding Estimate - $23,000
    • Sales Expense Estimate - $7,000
    • Vet Estimate - $9,000
    • Registration Fees (Jockey Club and State Fees) - $1,200

Queen Mum was a black-type runner herself and hails from royal lines. She’s been knocking on the door as a producer, and will get another commercial shot in 2026 with the first-year Eclipse Champion Straight No Chaser at WinStar.

Like many of Speightstown’s descendants, Straight No Chaser was a wickedly fast and talented runner, and he was named 2024’s top sprinter off the back of victories in the G1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint and G2 Santa Anita Sprint Championship. He also scored in the G3 Maryland Sprint Stakes the preceding season as a 4YO, and at 6YO he was successful in the G2 Riyadh Dirt Sprint. All told, he won seven of his 14 starts, on dirt and turf, for earnings of over $2.6 million.

We were very pleasantly surprised at how leggy and stretchy Straight No Chaser was when we first saw him in person this past November. Rather than the more typical, compact, sprinter-type physique that one might have expected, Straight No Chaser is a tall, long, leggy physical, which should make his foals very well-suited to the commercial market when the time comes.

In addition to his own qualifications, we like Straight No Chaser as a match for Queen Mum for a few reasons. First off, her own precocity (she was black-type placed at 2YO and all three of her foals to race have placed at 2) will be a nice complement to Straight No Chaser’s later-maturing tendencies — though he was very fast, he was not especially precocious, in keeping with many from the Speightstown sire-line. Queen Mum will also fit him well physically as a good-sized mare with substance.

Then there’s the fact that Queen Mum’s highest-earning foal so far is a daughter of the Speightstown son Munnings, and her half-sister is the dam of a Munnings filly named Cougar Cocktail, who is now two-for-two for Brittany Russell and looks like a future stakes filly. Plus there are a G3-placed black-type winner by Munnings and a champion by the Gone West grandson El Corredor under Queen Mum’s second dam — so the Speightstown line is one that has clicked with this family before.

And finally, the cross of Speightstown-line stallions with Awesome Again-line mares like Queen Mum has produced eight black-type winners, half of them graded, which is good for a “B” on TrueNicks.

All of which adds up to what should be a successful pairing for Queen Mum this spring!