Breaking Lucky to Stand at Pleasant Acres Stallions
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Breaking Lucky at Blue Star Racing
Canadian classic winner Breaking Lucky will stand the 2021 breeding season at Pleasant Acres Stallions near Ocala, Fla., with a fee of $5,000, the farm announced Nov. 9. He began his stallion career at Blue Star Racing in Louisiana for the 2020 breeding season.
"Our mission has always been to expand Florida's breeding program by offering exceptional stallion bloodlines," said Joe Barbazon, owner of Pleasant Acres Stallions. "Bringing Breaking Lucky to Pleasant Acres Stallions is a huge win for all of us in the state. This successful graded stakes-winning millionaire is the the only son of Lookin At Lucky to be standing in Florida and we are proud to have him at Pleasant Acres Stallions."
Breaking Lucky hails from the red-hot sire line of Lookin At Lucky and comes from an impressive female family. His dam, graded stakes-placed Shooting Party (by Sky Classic), broke her maiden in her first race. She was second in the Garden City Breeders' Cup Handicap (G1T) and third in both the Pebbles Handicap (G3T) and Nassau County Stakes (G2). She had already produced two winners from her first two foals to race when she foaled Breaking Lucky, who went on to win $1,196,376. Shooting Party is the dam of four winners including Quake Lake, the dam of Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) winner Country House —who is also by Lookin At Lucky—and the Gallorette Stakes (G3T) winner Mitchell Road.
Campaigned for most of his race career by Gunpowder Farms and later by the partnership of West Point Thoroughbreds, Reeves Thoroughbred Racing, Eric Young, and R. A. Hill Stable, Breaking Lucky won the 2015 Prince of Wales Stakes—the second leg of Canada's Triple Crown—at Fort Erie while defeating multiple grade 1 winner and 2015 Sovereign Award champion 3-year-old Shaman Ghost . In 2016, he won the Seagram Cup Stakes (G3) at Woodbine.
Breaking Lucky went on to place in the Clark Handicap (G1), Whitney Stakes (G1), and Stephen Foster Handicap (G1) behind Horse of the Year Gun Runner . He was on the board in 10 graded stakes and two other black-type races, while campaigning in two countries during his racing career.