Whiskey Wisdom

STALLION

OF THE WEEK

SEPTEMBER 9

Whiskey Wisdom creating a buzz

by James Scully

WHISKEY WISDOM (Wild Again) is one of the most promising young

stallions in Canada and was well represented over the weekend

with three stakes winners.

On Sunday at Woodbine, Moonshine Justice and Just in Case

Jimmy each came away with stakes wins, the juvenile Moonshine

Justice improving to three-for-four overall (three stakes wins)

with a victory in the C$136,125 Simcoe S., and the three-year-old

Just in Case Jimmy recording an easy triumph in the C$134,125

Elgin S. At Fort Erie the day before, his two-year-old daughter

Wisdomisgold earned her first black-type score with a two-length

win in the C$75,000 Juvenile S.

Whiskey Wisdom is a big (nearly 17 hands), impressive looking

horse who could run. Trained by Roger Attfield, the Kinghaven

Farms colorbearer won his lone start at three and didn't make his

second career outing until August of his four-year-old season. He

reeled off a couple of allowance wins at Woodbine, shipped to

Virginia to capture the Damascus H. at Colonial Downs and then

made his graded bow in the 1997 Fayette S. (G3).

The dark bay crushed his foes that afternoon, drawing off to a

12-length victory, and the unbeaten colt shipped to Hollywood

Park for the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). Whiskey Wisdom finished

third (disqualified to fourth) to Skip Away, and he was retired

to Windfields Farm near Oshawa, Ontario, with a 6-5-0-0 career mark.

The son of a Breeders' Cup Classic winner, Whiskey Wisdom is

out of the stakes-winning Primarily (Lord at War [Arg]), who

hails from a strong family and has proven to be a tremendous

broodmare. She's the dam of Primaly (Alydeed) and Poetically (Silver

Deputy), Canada's champion two-year-old fillies in 1997 and 2000,

respectively. Primarily is out the Grey Dawn II mare Mostly, who

was a half-sister to Grade 1 heroine Miss Huntington and the dam

of a pair of stakes winners herself.

Whiskey Wisdom may start generating more interest South of the

Border. The 11-year-old was Canada's leading freshman sire in

2001, the leading Canadian second-crop sire in 2002 and a top 5

Canadian sire in 2003.

The up-and-coming stallion stood the 2004 season for a live

foal fee of only C$3,500.