2024 Rock Your World - Yesshewill Individual Foal

Why We Bought This Horse

2/5/24: Yesshewill foaled a healthy colt, who has been nicknamed "York"

• Yesshewill was covered on March 1, 2023, by Rock Your World and checked in and confirmed in foal on April 14, 2023.   Our anticipation is that this foal will be Maryland-bred.
• This is a 2023 Individual Foal Offering and is subject to the WVS Individual Foal Program Addendum to the Wasabi Ventures Stables Thoroughbred Management Agreement.   https://share.getcloudapp.com/o0uRqxQ6 
•   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 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. 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 $33,100

• Mare Lease $10,000
• Stallion Fee - $7,500
• Vanning Expense - $2,000
• Boarding Fee Estimate - $12,000
• Vet Estimate - $2,000
• Registration Fees (Jockey Club and State Fees) - $600

We were excited to send Yesshewill to the freshman sire Rock Your World in 2022, and we were so impressed with the foal that Yesshewill produced from that mating that we decided to send her right back to Rock Your World again for her foal of 2024.

Unbeaten in his first two starts on turf, Rock Your World was a brilliant, wire-to-wire winner of the G1 Santa Anita Derby over eventual Derby 1st-place finisher Medina Spirit in his third start (and dirt debut). A $650,000 yearling purchase selected by David Ingordo, Rock Your World has the physical to match that price tag, and the pedigree. Bred by trainer Ron McNally and his wife, from a family they’ve cultivated for generations, Rock Your World is a son of rising sire-of-sires Candy Ride, out of a mare by Empire Maker, with a second dam by Giant’s Causeway.

That pedigree shares similarities with Candy Ride’s historic freshman sire son Gun Runner, who is out of a mare by Giant’s Causeway, with a second dam by Empire Maker’s grandsire Fappiano — which bodes well for Rock Your World’s chances as a stallion. (Candy Ride’s other sons at stud include the upwardly-mobile Twirling Candy.) But even more so than just the fact that Rock Your World’s and Gun Runner’s pedigrees contain some similarities, this mating between Rock Your World and Yesshewill is reminiscent of those which produced both of Gun Runner’s G1-winning first crop 2YOS:-Likely Eclipse Champion 2YO filly Echo Zulu is by Gun Runner out of a mare by Menifee, and so inbred 4×4 to Storm Cat (whereas this foal will be 4×2 to Storm Cat’s son Giant’s Causeway).-G1 winner Gunite is by Gun Runner out of a mare by Cowboy Cal, and so inbred 3×3 to Giant’s Causeway.

Additionally, Gunite has Olympio in his bottom line, just like Rock Your World does, and Gun Runner himself has Lyphard in his bottom line, as does Yesshewill (and therefore as will the foal from this mating).

Even with the foregoing, TrueNicks only gives this mating (Candy Ride and his sons with Giant’s Causeway mares) a “D”, but the five stakes winners it has produced (from 68 winners) include Horse of the Year Gun Runner, G1 winning 2YO and now young stallion Pinehurst, and G2 winners Liora, Heavenly Sunday (in 2023) and Rideforthecause — so that really feels above average, despite the weak rating.

On proclivities, Candy Ride and his sons (including Rock Your World) tend to have 2YO form and then continue improving with maturity into classic types, whereas Giant’s Causeway was much the same. And of Yesshewill’s siblings, Stormello was a late-season 2YO and early 3YO, My Best Brother was a summer 3YO, Gala Award was an early-season 3YO, Cherry Lodge was graded placed at 2 before developing into a stakes winner later, and her winning sister Atlantic Voyage is the dam of Canadian champion 2YO and 3YO Curlin’s Voyage. So this mating is a nice case of like-to-like as far as that goes.

Rock Your World is a tall, scopey horse with loads of leg and substance, and Yesshewill is a nicely-made, medium-sized mare; we expected that to work together well physically and that’s just what they did with their first foal — and we have every hope they’ll do it all over again this time!