Leading Northeastern juvenile sire and second-crop sire HONEST MISCHIEF picked up new black-type stakes winners on dirt and turf when SPIRIT OF NEW YORK and OH won the Bertram F. Bongard at Belmont at the Big A, September 20, and Lady Finger S. at Finger Lakes, September 22, respectively. Both 2-year-olds were favored.

Oh won the battle and almost lost the war, but had enough left in the tank to capture the $116,000 Lady Finger Stakes for 2-year-old New York-bred fillies Monday at Finger Lakes.

Michael Dubb, The Elkstone Group, Winners Win and Mark Parkinson’s Spirit of New York staved off a late bid from Black Volt to capture Saturday’s $150,000 Bertram F. Bongard, a six-furlong outer turf sprint for New York-bred 2-year-olds, at Belmont at the Big A.

Newgrange, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Violence, will stand at Sequel New York beginning with the 2026 breeding season, the farm announced Sept. 12.

MISCHIEF LADY and FRIEND OFTHE DEVIL – first-crop 3-year-olds by HONEST MISCHIEF – swept the New York Stallion Stakes’ Cupecoy’s Joy and Spectacular Bid divisions at Belmont at the Big A on June 14 and 21 respectively, becoming the first offspring of one sire to win both divisions in a dozen years. Both were favored in their six-furlong contests for New York-sired 3-year-olds bred anywhere, and both won decisively.

Hip 584 OBSMAR, a daughter of Honest Mischief bred by Sequel Stallions New York, landed the top price for a juvenile by a New York-based sire on a bid of $425,000 from Joseph DiRoco Thursday. Photo courtesy of Sequel Bloodstock.

Honest Mischief, a son of Into Mischief, was New York's leading freshman sire and a top-10 freshman in North America in 2024.

'TDN Rising Star' Mullion (Into Mischief) sired his first foal when Maggiore (Speightstown) gave birth to a filly, announced Sequel New York in a release Saturday evening.

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The 8-year-old stallion standing at Sequel Stallions in Hudson, N.Y., enjoyed a lucrative double Dec. 14 as his progeny captured both ends of the New York Stallion Series stakes for state-bred juveniles at Aqueduct Racetrack which were worth a combined $1 million.

ARIGATOU GOZAIMASU (f, 2, Honest Mischief–Woodflower, by Woodman) took over leaving the chute in this first start and raced under pressure down the backstretch. Opening up by several lengths on the far bend, the bay poured it on down the lane to win easily by 8 1/2 lengths.