Country Life stuck around to the end of the 2025 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Old Sale to pick up a well-muscled New York-bred filly by racehorse sire FLAMEAWAY (by Scat Daddy, sire of Triple Crown winner Justify). Out of a winning Speightstown mare named Thicker Than Water, the Flameaway filly cost $25,000, and bargain-minded partners who dreamed of Saratoga afternoons with a New York-bred quickly contacted us. We sold 10 shares at No Markup, $2,500 for 10% interests. Blending her parents’ names, partners voted to name her AQUA BLAZE.
She comes from a deep, fast family. Her second dam, Contessa Halo, produced speedster sire KANTHAROS, winner of the Saratoga Special, Grade 2, for 2-year-olds. She also produced ITIGAI, who won the Grade-3 Mr. Prospector Stakes, also a sprint.
AQUA BLAZE is in training at Merryland Training Center, and will be sent to trainer Mike Trombetta’s Laurel string by late summer.
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*Breezed from the gate 4 furlongs in :50 2/5ths on 8/10.
In action early at the 2025 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Old sale, Country Life Farm bid $75,000 for Hip #7, a quick-looking juvenile filly by champion sprinter MITOLE. This is a filly we were well acquainted with. She was foaled at Country Life in 2023 for her owner, trainer Mike Trombetta. He sent her to his team in Florida at Best A Luck Farm to prepare her for this sale. Trombetta trains her half-brother, Bucaro, winner of the Fitz Dixon Memorial Juvenile Stakes. This is a family of quick-maturing runners.
We sold out 10% interests at $7,500 in the filly before we had left the sales grounds. Her partners voted to name her As the Bell Toles, a clever combo on her sire Mitole and her dam, Bells of War. She came home to Merryland for some R&R for a few weeks, then quickly joined Trombetta’s Laurel stable. Her workouts this summer have been very promising, and her exercise riders speak highly of her athleticism and quickness. (see update above)
As the Bell Toles is a Maryland-bred, Virginia-certified, Breeders’ Cup-nominated racing prospect.
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With the lucrative purses available for Virginia-bred racehorses, Country Life Farm in 2024 sent one of our nicest young mares — MISS NONDESCRIPT — to foal at the Middleburg, Virginia, operation of horseman Chris Gracie. As a stakes-winning daughter of our War Front stallion MOSLER, MISS NONDESCRIPT delivered a colt — since named Indyscript — who we are anxiously looking forward to campaigning at Colonial Downs as a 2-year-old of 2026.
In order to assemble a racing partnership of 10 members, we needed to have MISS NONDESCRIPT’s 2024 colt appraised at public auction. Sired by A. P. Indy’s son TAKE CHARGE INDY, the colt was sold at the 2025 Keeneland January Mixed Sale. We bought out the Breeding Partnership on a $23,000 bid. Several partners re-upped in the racing partnership, at $2,300 for a 10% interest.
Being a Virginia-bred, Indyscript colt is poised to take advantage of the restricted stakes races at Colonial Downs. He is also eligible to earn owner bonuses for wins in the Mid-Atlantic, and 50% owner bonuses in open races at Colonial Downs for finishing 1st through 4th.
The partners combined the names of his sire and dam. INDYSCRIPT will be broken in September of 2025 at our Merryland Training Center.
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IN FOAL TO MAXIMUS MISCHIEF, sire of this summer’s Grade-1 Metropolitan Handicap winner RAGING TORRENT (future LANE’S END FARM stallion). Two shares remain at $4,000 each, plus expenses through August of 2025 from effective date of LLC (Jan. 1, 2025). Country Life purchased RESPONSE TIME for $40,000 out of the Digital Fasig-Tipton December sale (see her catalog page and video here). She was a tough-as-hickory campaigner who won or placed in four stakes, earning just shy of $500,000 in 33 starts (winning on dirt and turf).
Here’s your ticket to commercial Kentucky stallions. There is NO MARKUP from her auction price. Monthly board expenses for a 10% interest in the RESPONSE TIME LLC run between $300-$400 (Insurance, veterinary fees, vanning, etc., are billed as incurred and are included in that monthly estimate). Stud fees are payable on a Live Foal basis.
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Updated August 2025: Trouville is a multiple stakes-placed, hard-knocking mare who ran 39 times and earned $298,237 in her career. Her sire, Will Take Charge, is by Unbridled’s Song, a huge influence in the mare’s pedigree. Her dam, Night Drive, is a half-sister to the dam of Grade-1 winner and $1.6-million-earner OCTAVE, by Unbridled’s Song.
Trouville was purchased for $115,000 at the Keeneland November sale in 2024 in foal to Champion Forte. Forte was a popular first-crop covering stallion with mares in foal to him averaging $162,875.
After we bought her at Keeneland, we shipped her directly to Chris Gracie’s Middleburg, Virginia, farm to foal. She delivered a chestnut colt by Forte on February 11, 2025. That colt is now eligible for the lucrative Virginia-bred bonuses (34% breeder bonus for 1st-3rd finishes across the U.S.).
After foaling her Forte colt in Virginia, Trouville was sent to Kentucky to be mated with City of Light, the sire of Eclipse 2-Year-Old Champion Fierceness.
Shares at No Markup sold out quickly: $11,500 for a 10% interest.
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Purchased for $70,000 and quickly sold out at $7,000 per share, DIAMONDQUIST was part of the supplemental catalog at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Yearling Sale on October 1, 2024. This balanced, athletic now 2-year-old filly is by one of the nation’s leading young sires: Uncle Mo’s son NYQUIST. With a total of seven Grade-1 winners, NYQUIST is regarded as a prolific sire of talented 2-year-olds. They include 2024 Eclipse Champion juvenile filly IMMERSIVE. NYQUIST’S 2025 Stud Fee was $175,000. His yearling average through the 2025 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale is a whopping $575,000.
After the yearling sale, DIAMONDQUIST spent a few weeks at our Merryland Training Center learning her early lessons on the racetrack. We then sent her down to the Middleburg Training Center to trainer Chris Kolb to become Virginia-Certified. She completed her six-month residency in Virginia then joined trainer Mike Trombetta’s string at Laurel. This highly regarded young filly is training forwardly and we anticipate her racing debut sometime the fall of 2025.
The opportunities for DIAMONDQUIST are exciting. Not only is she eligible to the lucrative restricted Virginia-Certified program, but her registration with the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund opens up rich races for her from Kentucky Downs to Keeneland to Turfway to Ellis Park.
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Updated August 2025: Speed in broodmares is always important. In the young mare Truancy, we found speed. In her first four races, all in New York, she ran Thoro-Manager Speed Figures of 8, 7, 6, and 7. The closer to zero, the faster. She was smokin’ fast, and trainer Barclay Tagg pointed her for stakes races before she suffered a soft tissue tendon injury and was retired. She earned $135,350 in her brief racing career.
Country Life bought her from a racing outfit at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton December sale for $55,000 and sold out her 10% interests at $5,500. Out of the stakes winning Successful Appeal mare Successfully Sweet, Truancy is a 1/2-sister to Grade-3 winner and $558,000-earner Confrontation.
The attraction of young Kentucky sires factored into our decision for her first mating. She was bred to Gun Runner’s Grade-1 winning son Cyberknife in 2024, to whom she produced a handsome bay colt on Feb. 4, 2025. She was bred back to freshman sire Charge It, a son of Tapit at Gainesway Farm, for foaling season of 2026.
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When we bought Maybe I Will for $100,000 at the 2024 Keeneland January Mixed Sale, we added yet another fine young racemare to the Country Life Breeding Partnership portfolio. Looking for “live” families, we found one in Maybe I Will. Her dam, the Henny Hughes mare My Due Process, had produced a 2022 filly by Omaha Beach named Cayucos. That filly debuted the summer of 2024 and promptly placed in the Generous Portion Stakes at Del Mar. Other siblings in this “live” family out of My Due Process include a 2024 colt by Into Mischief’s son Authentic, a 2025 filly by Gun Runner’s son Gunite, and for 2026, a mating to Justify’s son Arabian Knight.
Purchased in foal to Omaha Beach, Maybe I Will delivered a Jan. 30, 2024, filly by that leading son of War Front. We bred her back to Bolt d’Oro that spring, and on Feb. 6, 2025, she foaled a bay colt by that popular son of Medaglia d’Oro. For the foaling season of 2026, Maybe I Will is pregnant to leading second-crop sire sensation Vekoma.
Maybe I Will deserves every chance to succeed as a broodmare. Her four wins include the $100,000 Hastings Stakes, in which she ran a career-best ThoroGraph speed figure of “6.” When we offered 10% interests at no markup at $10,000 each, there were no “Maybe’s” about Maybe I Will, and she sold out quickly.
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Stakes winning mare KENDA was purchased for $70,000 at Keeneland November ’23 in foal to Speightstown’s speedy freshman son OLYMPIAD. She won a stakes at Santa Anita and her first foal by Gun Runner has run single digit speed figures in his races and could be stakes-quality himself. This speed-on-speed mating with Olympiad should produce a fast foal in 2024.
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This 9-year-old Speightstown mare named IN IT FOR THE GOLD is in foal to 2020 Kentucky Derby winner AUTHENTIC. Purchased for $75,000 at Keeneland November, 10% shares are $7,500. She won a Maiden Special Weight in New York and ran an “8” on the dirt and a “9” on the turf. Her 2023 colt by Maxfield sold for $240,000 one hip before we bought his dam.
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Since being purchased by Country Life Farm for $42,000 at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Yearling Sale, DIVINE WORKS has taken us on quite a ride. She made her racing debut at Saratoga in August of 2024, running a very game second to a talented future stakes filly. Off that promising effort, she tried stakes company in the Maryland Million Lassie. She finished out of the money, and we gave her three months of R&R at Merryland Farm over the winter. She broke her maiden in March at Colonial Downs for a $93,000 purse, and in July, was beaten a mere half-length in a $90,000 Colonial event, which brought her earnings over the $100,000 mark.
DIVINE WORKS is a Maryland-bred, Maryland Million-eligible, Virginia-certified, Breeders’ Cup nominated filly by Country Life stallion Divining Rod. This filly’s dam is a 1/2-sister to Grade-1 Kentucky Oaks winner CATHRYN SOPHIA, who earned over $1,229,000 in her career with 5 stakes wins. Ten shares sold out quickly at $4,200 each.
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We purchased War Value, a 7-year-old mare by War Front, in foal to G1 Florida Derby winner Known Agenda (by Curlin), for $35,000 at the Keeneland November Sale. She’s out of the stakes-placed A.P. Indy mare Value Stream, who is a 1/2-sister to G3 winner and sire Buffum, stakes-winner Stormy West and full sister to stakes-placed Renaissance Lady (herself the dam of G3 Tempted Stakes winner Oxy Lady).
Shares are $3,500 for a 10% interest. She’ll foal in Maryland and be bred back to a KY stallion in 2023.
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We purchased this pretty Kitten’s Joy filly at the Fasig-Tipton July Select Yearlings Sale in Kentucky for $32,000. She comes from a stellar female family loaded with blacktype. On the Friday after the sale, it was announced that Kitten’s Joy had passed away at the age of 21 due to a heart attack. The 7-time leading turf sire leaves a legacy of stakes winners, with 48% of those being graded winners. Maybe this filly will be his next…
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The format for our Breeding and Racing Partnerships is simple:
1. Generally, each horse is divided into 10 Shares;
2. No Markup from wholesale purchase at auction;
3. Monthly expenses between $200-$400;
4. 60% Majority Rule;
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