Virginia racing and breeding operation Covilar has bought a 50% curiosity in six-time stakes winner and grade 3 winner 5 Star Common , an 8-year-old son of Distorted Humor.
5 Star Common will enter stud subsequent yr at Covilar’s Owl Hole Farm close to Floyd, Va. The stallion is co-owned by Kenny Alhadeff, who acquired him for $110,000 in April 2022 throughout considered one of Fasig-Tipton’s digital gross sales for the dispersal of inventory owned by outstanding British Columbia proprietor/breeder Glen Todd.
“5 Star Common is the perfect stallion to start increasing Covilar and Owl Hole Farm,” stated Dr. Josep Bassaganya-Riera, Covilar’s founder. “Due to our partnership with Kenny Alhadeff, we’re thrilled to supply breeders a top-class stallion proper right here in Virginia. Our distinctive breeding program has already produced two crops of foals from Snapy Halo . Our breeding applications are designed to maximise efficiency, velocity, and stamina of the offspring. We consider that the addition of ‘Ike’ is a pure alternative and wonderful complement to our rising Thoroughbred breeding program.”
5 Star Common has acquired the nickname “Ike,” after United States President and five-star common Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Since buying 5 Star Common, Alhadeff has loved watching him win consecutive editions of the Longacres Mile Stakes in 2023-24 and seize the listed Tenacious Stakes at Honest Grounds Race Course & Slots and the Evangeline Mile Stakes. He gained or positioned in 19 black-type stakes at 9 racetracks. His seven stakes wins included the 2019 British Columbia Derby (G3).Join BloodHorse Each day
5 Star Common retires with a 13-6-9 document from 39 begins and earnings of $902,202.
“Successful back-to-back Longacres Miles with 5 Star Common is a spotlight of my total profession as an proprietor,” stated Alhadeff. “I’ve had the privilege of racing over 100 Thoroughbreds, and 5 Star Common’s continued show of endurance, want, and braveness has been breathtaking.
“His unbelievable stretch run within the final race earlier than retirement is finest described by legendary jockey Joe Bravo, who stated, ‘The horse willed it. He is a warrior.’ When a Thoroughbred runs from ages 2 by 8—successful yearly—it tells you one thing essential about its sturdiness and want.”
WinStar Farm bred 5 Star Common out of the successful Bernardini mare Get together of Curiosity, who’s a half sister to a number of graded stakes winner Criminologist (Maria’s Mon), to graded stakes-placed winner Rescue Squad (Dynaformer), and to stakes-placed winner and stakes producer Get together Now (Tiznow).
“5 Star Common is what all breeders needs to be in search of: velocity, soundness, distinctive seems, and a stallion’s pedigree. We now have nice confidence in his skill to go on these sought-after traits,” stated worldwide bloodstock agent Chad Schumer.
5 Star Common will stand for an introductory charge of $6,000. Owl Hole’s stallion supervisor, Craig Whitlow, stated the farm will quickly be asserting an incentive program to profit breeders in Virginia and all through the Mid-Atlantic area who personal broodmares with confirmed racing or stakes-producing skill.
