Timberlake to Stand at Stud for $20K at WinStar in 2025

Grade 1 winner and millionaire Timberlake, a 3-year-old son of multiple leading North American sire Into Mischief, will enter stud in 2025 at WinStar Farm, the farm announced Oct. 3. Timberlake joins Practical Joke as the only other son of Into Mischief standing in Kentucky to win a grade 1 as a 2-year-old. He will stand for $20,000 with a stands and nurses guarantee. "Being an attractive and imposing son of top sire Into Mischief, Timberlake showed tremendous precocity in winning the grade 1 Champagne and being second in the grade 1 Hopeful at 2," said David Hanley, senior vice president/bloodstock services for WinStar. "With his exceptional physical and his unique depth of pedigree, we look forward to standing him here at WinStar." Campaigned by Siena Farm and WinStar Farm and trained by Brad Cox, Timberlake became a winner in his second career start, when he won by 9 1/4 lengths going seven furlongs at Ellis Park and earned a 96 Equibase Speed Figure. In that maiden victory, he defeated future graded stakes-winning juveniles West Saratoga and Can Group. In the $500,000 Champagne Stakes (G1), Timberlake took command with a furlong remaining, drew away with authority in the final sixteenth, and won by 4 1/4 lengths. He completed the one-mile test in 1:35.90 over a sloppy (sealed) track and earned a 106 ESF, which was higher than the ESFs awarded to Practical Joke (101) and Tiz the Law (93) for their Champagne wins. Timberlake also defeated prohibitive favorite Fierceness, the subsequent Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) winner and the eventual champion 2-year-old male for 2023. Timberlake rounded out his juvenile campaign with a second in the Hopeful Stakes (G1) and a respectable fourth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Making his seasonal debut at 3 this year, Timberlake won the Rebel Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn Park by two lengths over 11 rivals in 1:44. A start later, he ran fourth in the Arkansas Derby (G1) at Oaklawn. Over the summer, he finished third in the Haskell Stakes (G1) at Monmouth Park behind leading 3-year-old and two-time grade 1 winner Dornoch. He later was fourth when cut back to seven furlongs for the H. Allen Jerkens Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. Timberlake retires with a 3-1-1 record from nine starts and earned $1,303,100. Vincent and Teresa Viola's St. Elias Stables bred Timberlake out of the stakes-placed Lookin At Lucky winner Pin Up (IRE), who is out of the multiple graded-placed Sadler's Wells mare All My Loving and, therefore, a half sister to multiple group winner Thomas Chippendale (IRE). All My Loving is a half sister to 2003 Irish One Thousand Guineas (G1) winner Yesterday and to 2001 Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1) winner Quarter Moon, both Irish champions. WinStar's Maverick Racing and Siena bought Timberlake for $350,000 out of Gainesway's consignment at the 2022 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. "Timberlake hails from a hugely productive European family that traces to Mumtaz Mahal, the great foundation mare for the Aga Khan's breeding operation," Hanley noted. "Her daughter, Mumtaz Begum, is the dam of Nasrullah, who Claiborne brought to America from England in 1950. From the Nasrullah sire line came Grey Sovereign, Bold Ruler, Secretariat, Spectacular Bid, Seattle Slew, A.P. Indy, and Nashua, who is also the broodmare sire of Mr. Prospector and Roberto. Out of another daughter, Mah Mahal, came Mahmoud, and Northern Dancer's dam, Natalma, is a granddaughter of Mahmoud."