War Front's Mosler to Country Life Farm

War Front  's multiple stakes-winning son Mosler retired from racing and will stand the 2017 season for a $4,000 fee at Josh and Mike Pons' Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md.  

Owned by a syndicate comprised of Country Life, Adele Dilschneider, and Seth Hancock's Cherry Valley Farm, Mosler is the first son of War Front to stand in the Mid-Atlantic region. Winner of the 2015 Elusive Quality Stakes and the 2016 Laurel Dash Stakes, he had five wins in 18 starts, and earnings of $341,396.

Bred by Cherry Valley in Kentucky, Mosler was the highest-priced War Front yearling of 2012 when he brought $1,050,000 at the Keeneland September yearling sale. He raced for Dilschneider and Hanock, and carried Dilschneider's silks to three wins on dirt in New York before Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott switched him to turf. As a 4-year-old at Belmont Park, Mosler captured the Elusive Quality by two lengths, covering seven furlongs in 1:20 ⅗ on the turf. He also placed in the Highlander Stakes (gr. IIT) at Woodbine Racetrack. 

In 2016 Mosler took the Laurel Dash Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths, covering six furlongs in 1:08.26, defeating multiple graded stakes winner Ben's Cat. Mosler made his final start Oct. 8 in the Woodford Stakes (gr. IIIT), in which he finished unplaced.

Mosler is the second foal out of the Cherry Valley homebred mare Gold Vault, by Arch. Gold Vault's first foal, Contested, won the 2012 TVG Acorn Stakes (gr. I), the Test Stakes (gr. I), and the Eight Belles Stakes (gr. III). An earner of $633,754, Contested was sold for $2,300,000 at the 2012 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall mixed sale. Gold Vault's third foal, a full-brother to Mosler, was purchased at the 2014 Keeneland September yearling sale in the name of MV Magnier for $2,200,000, the co-highest-priced yearling of the sale. Named Air Vice Marshall, he placed in the Bet365 Superlative Stakes at Newmarket (gr. IIT). Gold Vault currently has a yearling filly and a weanling colt, both by Ghostzapper  . Gold Vault is a half-sister to grade I winner and sire Pomeroy  .  

"Mosler is inbred 2-by-4 to Danzig," Country Life's Mike Pons said. "War Front is by Danzig. Arch is out of Aurora, by Danzig, from that great King Ranch family of champion Althea, of Courtly Dee. It's a great outcross to all the A.P. Indy blood in this region—all the Malibu Moon mares, the Jump Start mares. And he's a big War Front, standing 16.1 hands. He'll fit all types of mares."

Country Life will show Mosler at the farm's annual stallion show, scheduled for for 12 p.m. ET Nov. 5, and in the Laurel Park paddock at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 10.