STALLION
OF THE WEEK
SEPTEMBER 9
Whiskey Wisdom creating a buzz
by James Scully
WHISKEY WISDOM (Wild Again) is one of the most promising young
stallions in Canada and was well represented over the weekend
with three stakes winners.
On Sunday at Woodbine, Moonshine Justice and Just in Case
Jimmy each came away with stakes wins, the juvenile Moonshine
Justice improving to three-for-four overall (three stakes wins)
with a victory in the C$136,125 Simcoe S., and the three-year-old
Just in Case Jimmy recording an easy triumph in the C$134,125
Elgin S. At Fort Erie the day before, his two-year-old daughter
Wisdomisgold earned her first black-type score with a two-length
win in the C$75,000 Juvenile S.
Whiskey Wisdom is a big (nearly 17 hands), impressive looking
horse who could run. Trained by Roger Attfield, the Kinghaven
Farms colorbearer won his lone start at three and didn’t make his
second career outing until August of his four-year-old season. He
reeled off a couple of allowance wins at Woodbine, shipped to
Virginia to capture the Damascus H. at Colonial Downs and then
made his graded bow in the 1997 Fayette S. (G3).
The dark bay crushed his foes that afternoon, drawing off to a
12-length victory, and the unbeaten colt shipped to Hollywood
Park for the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1). Whiskey Wisdom finished
third (disqualified to fourth) to Skip Away, and he was retired
to Windfields Farm near Oshawa, Ontario, with a 6-5-0-0 career mark.
The son of a Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, Whiskey Wisdom is
out of the stakes-winning Primarily (Lord at War [Arg]), who
hails from a strong family and has proven to be a tremendous
broodmare. She’s the dam of Primaly (Alydeed) and Poetically (Silver
Deputy), Canada’s champion two-year-old fillies in 1997 and 2000,
respectively. Primarily is out the Grey Dawn II mare Mostly, who
was a half-sister to Grade 1 heroine Miss Huntington and the dam
of a pair of stakes winners herself.
Whiskey Wisdom may start generating more interest South of the
Border. The 11-year-old was Canada’s leading freshman sire in
2001, the leading Canadian second-crop sire in 2002 and a top 5
Canadian sire in 2003.
The up-and-coming stallion stood the 2004 season for a live
foal fee of only C$3,500.