One Plan,
Three Yearlings.

The Keeneland Yearling Trio is back for 2026. We will look to buy three yearlings this fall, at Keeneland, at OBS or by private purchase, sell one as a 2-year-old, and race the other two. One partnership, three horses, three chances to find a runner.

The Trio starts from a simple idea. Instead of one yearling, a Trio partnership owns three, and each one has its own path. We look for a yearling that suits the 2-year-old sales and for yearlings we want to race. With thousands of yearlings at the fall yearling sales or by private purchase, there is room to be patient and choosy.

As always: no markup if you come in before the purchase. You pay exactly what the horses cost. We don't sell horses. We buy and manage them FOR you.

This colt has as good a pedigree as you will find at this level of the sale. He is a half-brother to Kameko, winner of the QIPCO 2000 Guineas (G1), out of a graded stakes winner, by a sire who has already produced two Grade 1 winners.

He is average in size, which is normal for the Kitten's Joy line. What likely kept some buyers away is that the dam has not produced many winners. There is a caveat: about half of her foals raced in Europe, where there are none of the minor tracks we have here, fields of 10 to 15 are common, and small purses mean many horses never run for a maiden win. Read with that in mind, the page looks very different.

We are thrilled to have him. Every horse carries risk and has to live up to what the pedigree says he can be. We kept to a broad list and our numbers, and this colt is the result.

We were thrilled to acquire this very forward-looking Olympiad colt. What attracted us most to him may be the part that kept his price down: there are no graded stakes horses in his first 3 dams, Outfoxed, Savingtime and Daylight Time. That is something a lot of buyers looking to spend money use as a litmus test, but it is also where horses can fall through the cracks. The 3rd dam was a solid but average Florida mare. However, she then produced an open stakes horse in Savingtime (by one of our favorite sires, Kantharos). She was a stone cold runner and went on to produce 3 foals, whom she stamped with that same quality: stone cold runners. All 3 of her foals were winners from unheralded Florida sires. 2 stakes horses from 3 foals, all winners. This is the type of family that Ironhorse is built on and pursues. We hope that through the breaking process this colt shows the same mindset as his dam and 2nd dam, and that we have a chance to bring a real racehorse to the 2-year-old sale or the races.

We wanted a Bucchero in this Trio. He is the 2025 New York Sire of the Year and the sire of Book'em Danno, and this is his first crop sired in New York.

How we chose her. Our bloodstock advisor, John Dowd, looked at the two Bucchero yearlings we liked most at the OBS yearling sale, then went to the farm to see ours. He liked her best of the three. She has never been through a sale.

Her family. Her dam, Iguazu Falls, has had one runner so far: a half sibling by Complexity who won a maiden special weight first time out at Monmouth Park this summer. Iguazu Falls is a half-sister to Sequist, third in the Darley Alcibiades (G1) at Keeneland, and their dam, Secret Garden, won the Polla de Potrancas (G1) in Peru.

Where she comes from, and her price. She was bred in Ironhorse's own breeding program, and we want you to know that up front. John Dowd evaluated her independently, and her price was set under his valuation. It reflects that she skips the sale, so there are no sales commissions and no sale prep. She also skips the strain of the sales grounds and goes straight on to being broken.

Why we can do this. Going forward, our breeding program will produce more Buccheros than any other breeder, by a wide margin, and more each year than Fasig-Tipton's New York sale can take with its 350 stalls. Some of the best of them will never see a sale ring. We raised her, so we know how she has been handled and how she has acted since the day she was born, which is more than any buyer learns from a few walks at a sale. Every horse we bring you from our program gets the same two checks: John Dowd as the independent evaluator, and a price that leaves out the costs of a sale.

Why our choices line up with yours. Ironhorse Racing Stable earns money in exactly two ways, 10 percent of a horse's purse earnings and 10 percent of disposition when a horse is claimed or sold, and there is no markup at purchase. A horse that cannot run does nothing for us, so we only bring you horses we believe in. We will always tell you where a horse came from, who judged it and what it cost.

If not NOW… When?

Email info@ihracing.com or call us. We'll walk you through everything.

Racehorse ownership is offered for the enjoyment of the sport and involves risk, including loss of capital. Historical results for specific named horses do not predict future performance. Full partnership documents available on request. Questions? info@ihracing.com