Social Inclusion, Eastwood to Diamond B Farm

Multiple grade 1-placed Social Inclusion  and graded-placed winner Eastwood  will join the stallion roster for 2019 at Glenn and Becky Brok's Diamond B Farm, near Mohrsville, Pa., it was announced Oct. 30.

Social Inclusion, a 7-year-old son of Pioneerof the Nile , is being relocated from John Sykes' Woodford Thoroughbreds near Ocala, Fla., where he entered stud in 2017. He will stand next year for $5,000.

"He was a super impressive racehorse ... we are always trying to get good sire power in Pennsylvania and I think we've succeeded in identifying a horse like him," said Glenn Brok. "He's got a great disposition. He's a big horse, standing 16.3 hands; he's got a lot of bone, with a big hip and shoulder. He's built like a horse that can get you both speed and distance."

Campaigned by Rontos Racing Stable, Social Inclusion broke his maiden at first asking by an impressive 7 1/2 lengths. In his next start he set a 1 1/16-mile track record of 1:40.97 at Gulfstream Park in an allowance race in which he beat future champion older horse Honor Code  by 10 lengths. At 3, Social Inclusion finished third in the TwinSpires.com Wood Memorial Stakes (G1), third in the Preakness Stakes (G1), and third in the Woody Stephens Stakes (G2). He went on to retire with a 3-1-3 record in nine starts and earnings of $450,800.

Social Inclusion was bred in Kentucky by Robert Tillyer, Martin Keogh, and Dr. Chet Blackey out of grade 2-placed winner Saint Bernadette, a daughter of Saint Ballado, who has produced another stakes-placed winner and two other winners out of four to race.

"The outcross of the Saint Ballado mare on the female side makes it easy to nick," Brok said. "He's an exciting, good individual." 

Eastwood, an 8-year-old son of Speightstown , will enter stud next year at Diamond B Farm, where he'll stand for $2,500.

Bred in Kentucky by Fred Hertrich III, Eastwood brought $240,000 as a weanling from Chris Baccari. The colt won in his first two starts, taking his debut at Belmont Park by 2 1/4 lengths and then gutting out an allowance win over future multiple stakes winner Moonlight Song. Baccari offered Eastwood through the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Summer Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale where Town & Country Farms acquired him for $800,000, the session's second-highest price. 

Eastwood went on to compile a 4-2-2 record out of 12 starts and finished second in the Los Angeles Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita Park. He retired with $265,545 in earnings.

The young stallion is out of the Deputy Minister mare Fifth Avenue Ball, who is a half sister to grade 1-placed stakes winner Shop Till You Drop (by Thunder Gulch), stakes winner In Rome (Saint Ballado), and multiple graded-placed winner Clays Awesome (Awesome Again ).