2025 Maclean’s Music - Queen Mum Individual Foal

Why We Bought This Horse

• Queen Mum was covered on February 15, 2024, by Maclean’s Music and checked in and confirmed in foal on March 5, 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 $75,500

• Mare Lease $4,000
• Stallion Fee - $40,000
• Vanning Expense - $2,000
• Boarding Fee Estimate - $26,000
• Insurance - $0
• Vet Estimate - $2,500
• Registration Fees (Jockey Club and State Fees) - $1,000

A brilliant winner of his only start when he was awarded an astronomical 114 Beyer Speed Figure — the highest Beyer ever earned by a first-time starter — Maclean’s Music was given a chance at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm and has made the most of his opportunities. He sired Preakness winner Cloud Computing in his first crop (conceived off a $6,500 stud fee), and has since added G1W 2YO Complexity, G1W 3YO Drain the Clock and Eclipse Champion Sprinter (a G1W at 2, 3 & 4) Jackie’s Warrior to his resume, among his 32 total black-type winners (good for a solid 5% of his foals of racing age).

What makes Maclean’s Music even more exciting at this moment is the fact that he’s about to jump from a crop of 2023 2YOs numbering 41 and conceived off of a $20,000 stud fee, to a crop of 2024 2YOs numbering 182 and conceived off of a $25,000 stud fee, which will be followed by two more triple-digit crops conceived off of $50,000 stud fees.

His 2024 2YOs include 114 that sold at yearling sales last year for an average of $117,701 (up over the prior year’s average of $100,857 for 21 sold), including individuals that brought $625k, $500k, $460k, $400k, $350k, $310k, $300k (x4), $275k (x2), $250k (x2), etc. Purchasers of Maclean’s Music yearlings in 2023 included the likes of the “Avengers” group, Stonestreet, Klaravich, WinStar, Rigney Racing, Cherie DeVaux’s Belladonna group, Mike Ryan, etc. Meanwhile, his 2023 weanlings averaged even more than those yearlings, even when counting a handful of 2024 short yearlings so far (one of which brought $300k a few weeks ago).

So we believe that Maclean’s Music is poised to take a big step forward in 2024 and 2025, and at his $40,000 stud fee heading into this breeding season, we think he offers excellent value.

His profile and his physical make Maclean’s Music an excellent choice for the newly-acquired black-type earning mare Queen Mum. Herself a debut-winning 2YO and 2nd to Monomoy Girl in black-type company in her second start, Queen Mum is out of the black-type winner at 2 For Royalty, also the dam of G1W Constellation, multiple black-type winner Truth Seeker, and two more black-type earners. The next dam was stakes winner Taft Lil Queen, dam of a pair of additional black-type winners (including a G2W), and under Queen Mum’s 3rd dam we find G1Ws Spun Sugar and Daaher (both by Awesome Again, sire of Queen Mum’s sire Paynter), G2W Arrest Me Red, G3W Best Actor, etc. Queen Mum also has a 2024 juvenile half-brother by Authentic who brought $700k from “the Avengers” group in September.

So there’s plenty of speed and precocity in there, which is exactly what Maclean’s Music also tends to bring to the table.

And physically Queen Mum is a big, leggy, strapping mare with loads of substance, and that will hopefully enhance Maclean’s Music’s own type, which is just a tad more medium-sized than sometimes is ideal for the commercial market.

This matchup also happens to be another good demonstration of why we don’t believe that it’s worth putting too much stock in the nick rating systems. TrueNicks rates this a “D” on the basis of the Distorted Humor/Awesome Again cross. But Maclean’s Music himself has three winners from four runners out of Awesome Again mares, with total combined earnings of $200k, which is better than a “D” (he has no foals out of Paynter mares prior to a 2024 2YO which obviously hasn’t run yet). And then Paynter happens to be out of a full-sister to Tiznow — and Maclean’s Music has really incredible statistics with Tiznow-line mares: 12 runners, ten winners, two stakes winners out of mares by Tiznow himself, plus another seven runners, six winners, one stakes winner out of mares by sons of Tiznow. And for good measure, if you look at Maclean’s Music with mares whose own broodmare sire was Tiznow, there’s a single runner who is a winner of $200k.

So we think all of that is reason to be extremely hopeful about this pairing for Queen Mum, and can’t wait to see what it produces in 2025!