2025 Up to the Mark - Prosperity Individual Foal

Why We Bought This Horse

• Prosperity was covered on May 13, 2024, by Up to the Mark and checked in and confirmed in foal on May 27, 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 sometime in its weanling or 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 $55,933

• Mare Lease $8,333
• Stallion Fee - $25,000
• Vanning Expense - $2,000
• Boarding Fee Estimate - $18,000
• Insurance - $0
• Vet Estimate - $2,000
• Registration Fees (Jockey Club and State Fees) - $600

The recently acquired Juddmonte-bred Prosperity comes from a family that has demonstrated a large degree of versatility and success with the Storm Cat sire-line.  As such, we believe she makes an excellent mare to send to likely Eclipse Champion Turf Male Up to the Mark as part of his initial book at Lane's End in 2024.

Despite his success as a turf horse, Up to the Mark has an undeniable dirt pedigree, being a son of leading sire Not This Time (also the sire of Eclipse Champion, Travers winner and promising young stallion Epicenter, and himself a son of Giant's Causeway, the best racing and sire son of Storm Cat) out of a mare by leading sire Ghostzapper (winner of the Met Mile and BC Classic), who is herself a full-sister to a dirt sprint stakes winner, the pair of them, in turn, out of the wickedly fast G1 Test winner Capote Belle.  Given that he himself was a winner at 6 furlongs on dirt in his debut before eventually scoring top-level wins on turf at 8 furlongs, 9 furlongs and 10 furlongs, plus an excellent placing against the highest company at 12 furlongs, Up to the Mark possessed a dazzling amount of versatility in addition to his obvious quality and turn of foot. We think he has every shot to make it, and the package he brings to stud makes him strong value at his first-year $25,000 fee.

Not This Time is a rising star in the stallion ranks, and from just six starters so far out of mares by Tapit, he has sired the blazingly fast G2W Arzak (a graded winner on both turf and synthetic), while Tapit's sire Pulpit is the broodmare sire of Not This Time's 2023 G1W Sibelius (a dirt sprinter) -- highlighting the versatility of this sire-line yet again.

Meanwhile, Prosperity is a half-sister to the multiple graded winner and G1-placed millionaire Fulsome (best around a mile on dirt), to the multiple-stakes placed Citrus Burst (a turf sprinter) (both by Into Mischief), to G3-placed Mr. Darcy (best around a mile on dirt, by Into Mischief's sire Harlan's Holiday), and to the G3-placed Rimprotector (a turf marathoner).  Her multiple French stakes-winning dam Viviana also produced a pair of multiple G1Ws in Sightseek (dirt) and Tates Creek (turf) -- so there's that versatility again.

As noted, Fulsome, Citrus Burst and Mr. Darcy are all sired by Storm Cat-line stallions like Up to the Mark, while the European Champion 2YO filly and multiple classic winner Special Duty appears under Prosperity's second dam and is a daughter of yet another Storm Cat-line stallion in Hennessy.

So this is a proven pedigree cross from both angles and therefore should be extremely productive for Prosperity's foal, and the distance/surface versatility of both sides should hopefully give this foal plenty of options when it reaches the races.

Physically, Up to the Mark is an incredibly well-balanced, medium-sized stallion who should fit a wide range of mares, including the leggy, rangy Prosperity -- and we can't wait to see the foal that this match produces in 2025!