“You Couldn’t Hold Her”: Renowned Equestrian’s Latest Update Behind $1,667,857 Worth Horse’s Grade 1 Stakes Victory

In equestrian sports, not just the athletic prowess of the equine partners but also their breed is taken into account during the major stake races. The breed is the bloodline from which the horse’s characteristics, future attributes, and market value are defined. The horses that have strong bloodlines of good performers and winners have high regard.

Hence, the breeders of these horses are considered among the best in the equitation circuit. Along similar lines, the Hurstland Farm located at Midway, Kentucky, is also regarded among the best in the business. They have a long history of breeding and are known to produce many graded stakes winners. On the same note, Alfred Nuckols from Hurstland Farm spoke about the six-year-old gelding who made many heads turn its way through his performance in the recent stakes race.

Equestrian reveals about the grade 1 stakes winner

Hurstland Farm has been under the ownership of the Nuckols family for over a century and has a global reputation for breeding and selling quality thoroughbred horses. According to Paulickreport, they have bred the recent Grade 2 Kentucky Turf Cup winner Get Smokin.

The $1,667,857 worth of Get Smokin is the son of Get Stormy and Hookah Lady. The colt was sold to Mary Sullivan for  $11,000 at Kentucky’s October yearling sale in the year 2018.

For Mary Sullivan, he was the charming luck who was in his second career race and won a stakes race on her birthday.

Hookah Lady, the mother of the six-year-old gelding, her family has a long connection with the Nuckols family. They brought Sally Catbird as a broodmare prospect. They bred her daughter Clever Bird, who produced Clev Er Tell the winner of Louisiana Derby and Arkansas Derby.

In the generation line came the third dam Smart Queen whose full sister produced Hookah Lady. Nuckols remembered Hookah Lady as a little headstrong. Speaking on her he said, “She had a ton of speed, but you couldn’t hold her. She would go as fast as she could for as far as she could“. With Get Smokin making furious performances on the track, Nuckols mentioned that if you want to breed a sales horse, then breed a racehorse.

Get Smokin equestrian career

Get Smokin started his career in the year in the year 2019. His first race was a maiden special weight race of five and a half furlongs at Saratoga, where he secured third place.

In his second race, he claimed victory in a mile race at Belmont. Later on, he moved to stakes races where secured second place in the Grade 2 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes at Saratoga and the Grade 3 Kitten’s Joy Stakes at Gulfstream Park. He also secured the same position in Grade 3 Diana Beach at Gulfstream Park.

Get Smokin got his first stakes win in October 2020 at Grade 2 Hill Prince Stakes at Belmont Park. Later on in his career, he won two more stakes stakes races in Grade 3 Tampa Bay and Seek Again at Belmont.

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In his entire career, Get Smokin has 27 starts to date of which he won 6, placed second in 7, and third in 2. This year’s total earnings to date is $1,171,365 from six races. Get Smokin comes from a reputed pedigree and the bloodline has produced many graded race winners.

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