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Over $3 million earned since 2001. That's how much my clients have earned from buying horses through Sean Clancy Bloodstock. Along with that total came two Eclipse Awards, four timber championships, a champion novice title, a champion 3-year-old title and countless Sport of King maiden victories. And still going strong – Bubble Economy earned nearly $100,000 in 2010, Dictina's Boy finished second in the Marcellus Frost and Noel Laing and newcomer Quiet Approval won twice in the spring and finished fourth in a Grade I stakes. As for 2011, Tattersalls purchase Cornhusker won at first asking, Dictina's Boy finished second in the Temple Gwathmey. Champion novice from 2009, Left Unsaid, returned to dazzle in a training flat race at Middleburg and finish second in the Frost at Nashville. Derby starter Mr. Hot Stuff, full brother to Travers winner Colonel John, stamped himself as one of the best young horses in the game, winning a maiden at Fair Hill and a tough allowance at Penn National. Well Fashioned won a filly and mare stakes at Callaway Gardens, Organisateur finished second in the Grand National and Union Army won a maiden at Aiken. Share Out broke his maiden on the Laurel turf. Sean Clancy Bloodstock swept half the card at the sport's biggest meet, Far Hills in 2009. The Fields Stable's Left Unsaid continued his ascent to the top of the novice division by winning the Foxbrook for trainer Tom Voss. House horse Dictina's Boy returned from a summer freshening to win the Appleton Stakes for Voss and Riverdee Stable (that's us). Arcadia Stable's Hope For Us All dominated the Gladstone to clinch the 3-year-old championship. Three wins on the biggest day. A year before, we split two wins at the International Gold Cup with two wins at Far Hills. As for the history . . . Good Night Shirt is certainly the flagship of my bloodstock business. I got lucky, stumbled on him at Fair Hill Training Center and he’s done the rest. Along with him (my first champion), I’m proud of the other stakes winners Left Unsaid, Bubble Economy, Rare Bush, Hope For Us All, Dictina's Boy and the gamers Corruption, Dynability, Dancewel, Mark The Shark, Vain Vixen, Rescigno . . . all of them. Obviously, buying flat horses off the track to become jumpers is my specialty but I also work as the American agent for the Irish Sales Company, Goffs, and have purchased yearlings and 2-year-olds in training for clients. Irish import Sit A Spiel, purchased at the Goffs Dundalk 2-year-old sale last April, finished second in his two career starts last summer. Cary Jackson's Conceit, picked out by his trainer Tim Keefe and I, broke his maiden in style at Pimlico this spring and returned to finish third in an allowance race over the Pimlico turf. In October 2010, I bought two horses at Tattersalls Horses in Training Sale, Embezzle hit the board on the flat at the point-to-points while Cornhusker won at first asking. The 2009 season produced another river of winners including Left Unsaid, Mark The Shark, Rare Bush, Dictina's Boy, Hope For Us All, Bubble Economy, Good Night Shirt and Rescigno. Flat or jumps, they win. In 2010, Bubble Economy, Quiet Approval, Final Straw, Dictina's Boy, Left Unsaid and others have continued the road to $3 million in earnings. In 2011, Cornhusker, Dictina's Boy, Mr. Hot Stuff, Brave Prospect, Worried Man and others contributed success to our past-performance list. Thoroughbred Take A Partner was retrained and sold into Olympic Gold Medalist Joe Fargis' barn; he has earned ribbons at some of the country's best horse shows during the year. Riverdee's show division produced Take A Partner as well as Just Blue, Border Agent and Kissin Conquest who have won or placed in jumper classes from Culpeper to Virginia Horse Center. Riverdee also campaigned Dutch Warmblood, Holiday, champion and reserve champion in the HITS Culpeper series Summer 2009. I look at horses every day; either in the flesh or on paper. Completing the superfecta are my 75-year-old father (of Maryland Hunt Cup-winner Buck Jakes fame), my brother Joe and my wife Anne. Overall, the goal is to purchase horses and compete horses internationally, on the flat and over jumps. – Sean |
