Through July of 2012, FREUD has sired 29 black-type stakes winners that have won 70 events identified as "stakes" - including graded races on dirt, turf, and synthetic. These 70 stakes victories have been scored at 19 tracks in four countries and one commonwealth in two hemispheres, ranging from 5½ furlongs to 1½ miles. By surfaces, 39 have been on dirt, 26 on turf, and 5 on synthetic. By age, 11 have been won by...Read More

New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) Champion Turf Female HESSONITE (0,310) - one of two 2011 NYTB champions sired by FREUD and seven by her sire nominated for 2011 NYTB championships - showed significant improvement from a year ago with a 4¼-length victory in Saratoga's 0,000 Irish Linnet Stakes on Friday, July 27. The next day on a showery Saturday at Saratoga, Freud's dirt-sprinting son, PETE'S PARLEY (8,200), scored his first wet track win with a...Read More

In a stakes-caliber and near track record performance, Dennis A. Drazin's DRIVEN BY SOLAR (5,387) romped to a 3¼-length victory over 10 rivals going 5½ furlongs at Saratoga on Sunday, July 22, as the dirt stakes-placed son of FREUD scored his first turf tally in his second grass outing. Placing second and third behind him at equal weights were two multiple open turf sprint stakes winners, including a five-time turf sprint graded winner. Favored Driven...Read More

Moneyball Racing's 2-year-old FREUD filly, MY SMARTNESS, started her career auspiciously with a debut win over eight rivals in a Belmont maiden special contest at 5½ furlongs on Saturday, July 14, running greenly despite setting a 58-and-change five-furlong fraction and finishing "with good determination." The favored filly was the first of two Freud maiden special winners that afternoon, preceding Douglas Maroun's JACOB'S DREAM, who romped "ridden out" to a seven-length victory over nine rivals going...Read More

Five winners from four crops by FREUD won at four distances on dirt and turf during the 12-day span of June 25 - July 6, and Freud stakes winners UNCLE T SEVEN (3,365) and HESSONITE (0,310) placed second in stakes on dirt and turf (graded) respectively during that same span. Scoring on Belmont turf were Freud's open stakes-winning KARAKORUM ELEKTRA (3,253) and Freud's emerging grass miler MISSYSMOONLITMAGIC, and these were followed on Belmont dirt by...Read More

Dirt, turf, synthetic, the saga continues. Six-figure-earning FREUD runners PRESSING ISSUE (7,177) and ALRIGHT NOW (1,380) scored on wet dirt tracks at Fort Erie on June 12 and at Mountaineer on June 18 respectively, and SLEEPY FREUD led a 1-2 finish by Freud 3-year-olds in a ,000 Belmont turf maiden special on June 17. Then on June 20, another son of Freud, SECRETSOFTHEMIND, won a maiden special on Presque Isle Downs' synthetic Tapeta track by...Read More

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With three stakes runner-ups at Belmont and Arlington Parks and a feature allowance winner at Penn National - all during the 15-day span of May 25 to June 9 - annual progeny earnings for FREUD in 2012 topped -million in the first half of the season for the fifth consecutive year. In cumulative progeny earnings, Freud has sired the earners of more than .2-million and has the highest average earnings per starter (over ,000) and...Read More

Highlighting three multiple-margin winners by FREUD on Saturday, May 19 and Monday, May 21 was Presque Isle Downs Saturday evening feature winner MEI LANI CAPRI (7,912), who cruised to a three-length allowance victory on the all-weather Tapeta surface in 1:09.93 for six furlongs. The speedy 5-year-old mare was making her 2012 debut for owners Barbara Crawford and Sycamore Lane Stable and immediately established her dominance by setting an opening quarter-mile split of 21.78, after which...Read More

Mid-May of 2012 marked a new milestone for FREUD, whose New York-conceived offspring in the Northern Hemisphere went over -million in cumulative purse earnings, putting him among rare company in the history of New York stallions. Counting Freud's progeny performances world-wide, including Australia and South America, available data indicates earnings of more than .1-million, with totals of 195 winners and 29 stakes winners. Although Freud recently has been "shuttling" to Argentina following conclusion of his...Read More

Two Freuds have bullet works during the under tack show then sell for 3 times the session average on Wednesday, April 25.

Hip #714 had the co-fastest quarter work on Thursday 4/19 going 2 furlongs in 20 3/5 seconds. Bred by McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds, LLC, the filly was foaled in New York on March 20 and purchased by Antigo Farms as a short yearling in the OBS Winter Mixed January Sale of 2011 for...Read More

FREUD was the dominant stallion factor among the New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2011 champions - announced on April 2 - having sired multiple champion and Horse of the Year GIANT RYAN (now 6,841) and Turf Female Champion HESSONITE (2,310), a 2011 3-year-old who beat out older foes for her title. No other stallion was represented by more than one NYTB champion for 2011, and Freud is the only stallion currently based in New York...Read More

All in the Family: Bisnath and Shivananda Parboo - By Jim Freer

27 Mar 2025 11:46 AM Originally published in the March 31, 2025 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine

Speedy Giant Ryan Tries the all-weather track for First Time in Dubai Golden Shaheen

Dubai, UAE, 28 March 2025 - A winner of six straight races in the United States including the Grade 1 Vosburgh Invitational at Belmont Park before having that skein stopped with an eighth-place finish in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs last November, Shivananda Parbhoo's Giant Ryan will be making his first start since that defeat on Saturday when...Read More

Shivananda Parbhoo's Grade 1-winning GIANT RYAN - one of two Grade 1 dirt victors sired by FREUD - recently shipped to Dubai to prepare for the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen, a -million 1,200-meter (about six furlongs) straightway event that is part of the March 31 Dubai World Cup card. Giant Ryan is among 12 starters and five Grade 1 or Group 1 winners named for the Saturday sprint, which is being sponsored by Gulf...Read More

Three FREUD runners recently scored their second 2012 victories, as 4-year-olds COOPER'S STORM and WEE FREUDIAN (0,947) tallied at Turf Paradise and Aqueduct on successive Saturdays, March 3 and 10 respectively, and 5-year-old mare FREUD'S NOTEBOOK (6,094) romped by 7¾ lengths at Aqueduct on the Ides of March (15). One - Freud's Notebook - already is a stakes winner, and the other two appear heading in that direction. Among Freud's 10 winners world-wide in 2012...Read More

Led by 2011 Grade 1 and Grade 2 winners GIANT RYAN and FUTURE PROSPECT, more offspring of FREUD made the ballots for the New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2011 championship voting than did offspring of any other stallion - regardless of where other sires of nominees stand. Seven runners from Freud's crops of 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 earned a total of nine nomination slots for six different championship divisions: 2-Year-Old filly, 3-Year-Old male,...Read More

Through February of 2012, FREUD has sired 29 black-type stakes winners that have won 69 events identified as "stakes" - including graded races on dirt, turf, and synthetic. These 69 stakes victories have been scored at 19 tracks in four countries and one commonwealth in two hemispheres, ranging from 5½ furlongs to 1½ miles. By surfaces, 39 have been on dirt, 25 on turf, and 5 on synthetic. By age, 11 have been won by...Read More

Peruvian turf champion ZEIDE ISAAC again proved his class when the son of FREUD registered his fourth group victory, his sixth "clasico" win, and his 11th tally overall by beating ten rivals in the Group 3 Clasico Baldomero Aspillaga at Hipoddromo de Monterrico in Lima on Sunday, February 19. Racing under the royal blue colors of Stud Manning, the versatile 7-year-old broke from the 10th post in the 2,000-meter metric equivalent of a 1¼-mile turf...Read More

Scoring his third consecutive Fair Grounds turf victory in eight weeks, MR. VEGAS (0,331) led by daylight from the outside post in the graded Colonel E. R. Bradley Handicap at about 1 1/16 miles on Saturday, January 21, becoming the 29th stakes winner sired by FREUD. It was the seventh win for Andrews T and S Racing's 5-year-old, who can win on the lead or from off the pace, secured this time by running his fourth quarter-mile in a sensational 23.56 seconds...Read More

In a year during which both were represented by Grade 1 winners and stakes-winning offspring on dirt, turf, and synthetic, full brothers GIANT'S CAUSEWAY and FREUD also distinguished themselves by being the only full brothers ranked among North America's 60 leading sires (living or dead) in 2011 progeny earnings. Other fascinating facts gleaned from Thoroughbred Times' list of leading North American sires by 2011 general earnings world-wide (issue dated January 14, 2012, page 39) include:

1). Giant's Causeway, whose 2011 graded/group winners in...Read More

Versatility of runners by FREUD was evident during Friday-Saturday-Sunday (November 25-26-27) following Thanksgiving, as MR. VEGAS (3,475) and LADY'S LUNAR LUCK won two-turn turf allowances at Fair Grounds and Aqueduct respectively, and FREUDIAN DILEMMA and LORD SIGMUNDO captured 5.5-furlong dirt sprints at Parx Racing and Finger Lakes respectively. Five-length winner Lord Sigmundo, front-running allowance winner Freudian Dilemma, and the peripatetic Mr. Vegas (grass winner at Saratoga, Belmont, Aqueduct, Arlington Park, and Fair Grounds) were the 25th, 26th, and 27th...Read More

How many horses have won allowance contests on dirt and turf in October? WEE FREUDIAN (3,047), a 3-year-old son of FREUD owned by Maura Sternklar's Clear Stars Stable, might be the only one, having accomplished that feat with back-to-back scores over mostly older rivals going six furlongs on Belmont turf on October 10 and on Belmont dirt on Wednesday, October 26. In the earlier race, Wee Freudian broke from the third post among 12 starters...Read More

Versatility among offspring of FREUD highlighted Belmont's New York Showcase Day on Saturday, October 22, when again he had two Showcase Day stakes winners: 4-year-old GENERAL MAXIMUS (9,640) in the six-furlong Posse Hudson and 3-year-old filly HESSONITE (2,310) in the 1 1/16-mile Justenuffhumor Ticonderoga on yielding turf. Freud is the only sire of two stakes winners on either the 2010 or 2011 New York Showcase Day cards and the only New York-based stallion of 2010...Read More

Displaying the intimidating speed that she had showed while breaking her maiden by 6 1/2 lengths at Saratoga in August, THE FUNKY EXPRESS set a new stakes record in Delaware Park's 5 1/2-furlong Small Wonder Stakes for 2-year-old fillies on Saturday, October 15, as the FREUD flash won by 2 1/4 lengths. The fleet filly was favored among eight starters and was challenged immediately by a recent stakes winner whom she put away shortly after...Read More

Stakes-winning FREUD 3-year-old fillies SENTIMENTAL LASS (6,400) and HESSONITE (7,310) had closing runner-up finishes behind favorites in Belmont's seven-furlong Le Slew Stakes on Wednesday, October 5 and one-mile Pebbles Stakes on turf on Columbus Day Monday, October 10, respectively - both defying double-digit odds in open black-type competition. Both were the youngest competitors in their events. May-foaled Sentimental Lass, who had captured Belmont's 0,000 Maid of the Mist Stakes for owner J Z B Racing...Read More

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Extending what might be 2011's longest win streak with what might be 2011's fastest muddy six furlongs, Shivananda Parbhoo's GIANT RYAN (6,841) led gate to wire in Belmont's Grade 1 Vosburgh Invitational on Saturday, October 1, becoming the third stakes winner and second graded winner for FREUD in eight days. In four of Giant Ryan's six consecutive victories in 2011, he has broken first or second, and his gate quickness served him well in the...Read More

In a five-day span, FREUD-sired runners FUTURE PROSPECT (5,263) captured Turfway Park's Grade 2 WinStar Kentucky Cup on Polytrack on Saturday, September 24, and PRETTY BOY FREUD (1,722) scored his first stakes tally by 6½ lengths in Belmont's Corma Ray Stakes on Wednesday, September 28, as Freud gained unique status. Future Prospect, owned and trained by Dodson H. Skaggs and an earlier stakes winner on dirt at both Saratoga and Belmont, registered his fifth win...Read More

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Future Prospect gave Dodson Skaggs his first graded stakes winner in 42 years as a trainer when the 7-year-old gelding left General Quarters behind in the stretch to capture the 9,999 WinStar Kentucky Cup (gr. II) at 18-1 odds at Turfway Park Sept. 24 .

"It's a pretty good feeling," an emotional Skaggs, 76, told TVG immediately afterward. "This ol' horse has been really good to me."

Skaggs once had a stable numbering as many...Read More

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Horse of the Year in Europe and two-time leading sire in the U.S., Giant's Causeway is rightly hailed as Storm Cat's most important son. It was the turn of Giant's Causeway's less lauded brother, Freud , to step into the limelight September 24, however, his son Future Prospect capturing one of the weekend's most notable events, the WinStar Kentucky Cup (gr. II) .

Born the year after Giant's Causeway, Freud's contrasts with his brother...Read More

Boosted by winners from 5 1/2 furlongs to 1 1/8 miles - four on dirt, one on synthetic, one on turf plus an open stakes-placer on yielding turf - during September 10-21, the progeny earnings for FREUD topped .75-million for 2011 and -million cumulatively from seven crops of racing age. Freud's six recent winners and one stakes-placer (in a 0,000 open event) beat favorites in all but one of their efforts.

Freud's only winner not beating...Read More