2026 Prince of Monaco - Croquembouche Individual Foal

Why We Bought This Horse

• Croquembouche was covered on March 3, 2025, by Prince of Monaco and checked in and confirmed in foal on April 1, 2025.   Our anticipation is that this foal will be Kentucky-bred. 
• This is a 2025-2026 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 targeted to be liquidated sometime in its yearling year, so you know when an offering ends.  Because you are not buying the mare, you have a finite time period of commitment (e.g. 12 to 20 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.

The BASE PRICE of this foal is $88,200

• Mare Lease $20,000
• Stallion Fee - $30,000
• Vanning Expense - $1,000
• Boarding Estimate - $22,000
• Sales Expense Estimate - $5,000
• Vet Estimate - $9,000
• Registration Fees (Jockey Club and State Fees) - $1,200

There will be 50% available and you can buy between .25% and 10%.

1% would cost $882 PLUS $5 for The Wasabi Aftercare Fund

Speightstown, out of a young Medaglia d’Oro mare from a wickedly fast female family. This is probably Speightstown’s best cross, as the other successful runners bred that way include Grade 1 winners Rock Fall, Olympiad and Competitionofideas. Prince of Monaco’s pedigree and fantastic physical led him to be purchased by “the Avengers” group at Saratoga for just shy of a million dollars.

Debuting over 5 furlongs at 2 for Bob Baffert, Prince of Monaco won by 8 and was named a TDN Rising Star. In his second start, he set a stakes record in the Grade 3 Best Pal Stakes, earning a 103 Beyer Speed Figure, and he then triumphed in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity as a 1/9 shot, making him the only Grade 1-winning juvenile colt sired by Speightstown over that stallion’s long and successful stud career.

Prince of Monaco returned at 3 to finish a close 2nd in both of Saratoga’s historic, Grade 1, 7-furlong sophomore sprints, namely the Woody Stephens and the H. Allen Jerkens. His Ragozin numbers in both of those races were better than the winners’. He retired with three wins and two 2nds from six starts, and figures to have a huge chance to join Speightstown’s successful stallion sons.

He has an excellent physical to go along with his brilliant race record (as you’d expect with that yearling price tag), and he’ll fit Croquembouche for a variety of reasons.

Physically, she’s an elegant, good-sized mare with plenty of scope and substance, meaning they’re a great case of like-to-like (she sold for $170,000 as a yearling, herself, which was almost 50% higher than Twirling Candy’s average yearling price that season — testifying to her good looks).

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TrueNicks calls this an “A+” on the basis of three black-type winners from just 33 runners on the Gone West/Candy Ride cross, including G1 winner Town Cruise, so we don’t hate that.

And Croquembouche’s family has worked very well with Prince of Monaco’s Gone West sire-line in the past, too: her dam is a half-sister to Quality Road’s Eclipse Champion and Breeders’ Cup winner Caledonia Road (QR being a grandson of Gone West just like POM), and the multiple black-type winner Citizen Advocate (by Gone West’s son Proud Citizen, and also the dam of G2 winner Crimson Advocate) is under the next dam. Croquembouche’s ‘23 half-brother is also sired by Quality Road, so we will be looking for that colt (named Woodster) to do big things, too.

So all signs here point to a successful commercial pairing to start of Croquembouche’s breeding career strongly!