Artiscape 2-year-olds continue having a banner year
Oct 10th, 11
One of the very best values in the business is a breeding to Artiscape, or the purchase of one of his yearlings. The “millionaire-maker” offers New York eligibility--and still possesses the ability--to get you a colt or filly for the top level of stakes action.
His most recent 2-year-old stakes winner, Escape The News p,2,1:50.3 ($126,596), won his division of the $333,400 International Stallion Stakes during Red Mile Grand Circuit action in 1:50.3, one of the fastest miles by a freshman pacer this season. (Watch video)
In his prior start, Escape The News finished second by just a head to $1,000,000 Metro winner Simply Business, and in the start before that defeated another Artiscape 2-year-old stakes winner, Glass Prince p,2,1:55.1 ($111,279), in a NYSS at Yonkers.
Artiscape’s 2011 2-year-old crop is approaching a million dollars in earnings this season, and includes 22 winners in 2:00 or faster, with many of those marks taken over New York’s half-mile tracks.
In addition to Escape The News and Glass Prince, his freshman crop includes Shelliscape p,2,1:52 ($180,096), a stakes winner who finished second to Economy Terror in Lexington (in 1:50.4), and Union Man Hanover p,2,1:54.3h ($87,713), a NYSS winner who just won the Fall Harvest stake at Yonkers on October 8.
With seven millionaires and a “Horse of the Year” already to his credit, and a bevy of stakes and classics winners, an Artiscape colt or filly would make a welcome addition to anyone’s racing stable. Be sure to take a long look at his yearlings at Harrisburg!
See all of Artiscape’s current top performers