Command Post Retired to WynOaks Farm in Pennsylvania
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Command Post at Gulfstream Park
Command Post , a stakes-placed son of Harlan's Holiday, has been retired and will stand the upcoming breeding season at WynOaks Farm in Pennsylvania at a fee of $2,000 with a stands and nurses guarantee.
Campaigned by Gary and Mary West and trained by Jason Servis, Command Post hit the board in all but one of his seven starts. He won three times and finished a troubled third to multiple stakes winner Phat Man and multiple graded stakes-placed Talk Logistics in the 2017 Long Branch Stakes at Monmouth Park en route to earnings of $104,110.
"We are excited to add Command Post to our stallion roster," said WynOaks Farm’s Barbara Wheeler. "He has an exceptional pedigree and he has a lot to offer Pennsylvania’s breeders. We believe he’s going to be very well received."
The late Harlan's Holiday, who died in 2013, was a three-time grade 1 winner and earner of more than $3.6 million. As a stallion, he has sired 95 black-type winners and six champions, including 2012 Eclipse champion 2-year-old colt Shanghai Bobby and 2014 Canadian champion 2-year-old filly Conquest Harlanate.
Bred in Kentucky by Dattt Farm out of the Lemon Drop Kid mare Danzig's Humor, Command Post hails from a female family rich in black type. Danzig’s Humor is out of the grade 1-placed, graded stakes winner Danzig's Beauty, making her a half sister to multiple graded stakes winner, track-record holder, and influential sire Distorted Humor (Forty Niner), who has sired 155 black-type winners to date and was the leading North American sire in 2011. Danzig's Humor is also a half sister to graded-placed, stakes winner Dancing Gulch (Gulch) and to winner Danzig's Dreamer, the dam of graded stakes winner and stakes producer Liam's Dream.
Command Post is one of five winners from five to race produced by Danzig's Humor. The mare also has produced One Way, Venezuela's champion 2-year-old colt of 2017, and Venezuelan listed stakes winner Freely.
WynOaks Farm also stands Warrior's Reward and Weigelia . Breeders can view all three stallions during a stallion show Nov. 24, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT.