News - Breeding March  29, 2024

Multiple Stakes Winner Love The Way You Fly To LACER In 2022


Multiple stakes winner and track record holder Love The Way You Fly will begin his stallion career in 2022 at Louisiana Center For Equine Reproduction.

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OPELOUSAS, LA—DECEMBER 23, 2021—Coming off a track record setting performance in his last start, multiple stakes winner Love The Way You Fly SI 116 will begin his stallion career in 2022 at Louisiana Center For Equine Reproduction. His fee has been set at $2,000, with consideration.

Racing for owner Todd Matte, Love The Way You Fly won or placed in 14 of 20 career starters and earned $205,761. He won the $30,000 Scoopies Leaving You Stakes in his last start, October 18th while setting an Evangeline Downs Track Record for 250 yards in :12.832 seconds, a 116 speed index.

Love The Way You Fly also won the Flying Breed Stakes, LQHBA Louisiana Million Invitational; was second in the LQHBA Breeders Derby(G3), Gentilly Dash, EVD Dash; and third in the Old South Derby. He was also a finalist in the Laddie Futurity [RG2), Open Me A Corona Stakes(G2), Delta Downs Louisiana Bred Derby(RG3) and Vals Fortune Teddy Abrams Memorial Stakes.

Love The Way You Fly, under jockey Juan Garcia, Jr., winning the $50,000 Flying Breed Stakes at Delta Downs.
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Love The Way You Fly's sire is the Grade 3 winning Corona Cartel stallion Furyofthewind SI 95, sire of 22 stakes winners, 1 champion. His top performers include Brace for Bernal SI 105 (champion, $322,326, Heritage Place Derby-G2, etc.), Turbulent Times SI 94 ($564,146, Golden State Million Futurity-G1, etc.), Charlies Fury SI 106 (to 5, 2021, $358,451, Bob Moore Memorial S.-G2, etc.), Quatro Menudos SI 104 ($300,386, Shue Fly S. [R]-G2, etc.), Fury of the Storm SI 93 ($292,291, New Mexico HBA S. [R]-G2, etc.), Just Another Natural SI 103 ($217,957, TQHA Sale Futurity [R]-G2, etc.), etc.

Love The Way You Fly is out of the Grade 1 Heritage Place Futurity winner Lovethewayyoulie ($456,472). The daughter of leading sire Tempting Dash is the dam of 5 ROM winners, 2 black type including multiple stakes winner Love The Way You Fly SI 116 (see above), stakes-placed Pyc Lovestruck SI 102 ($84,893), Dm Itsgoodtobeme SI 92 (2 wins, $28,680 at 2, 2021), Flyin The Red Dye SI 87 (winner at 2, 2021, $15,650), etc.

Love The Way You Fly on his way to setting a 250 yard
track record in the Scoopies Laving Your Stakes at Evangeline Downs. © Coady Photography
The second dam is the Grade 1-plaed Streakin Sixes mare Witchs Streak SI 105 ($119,078), a half-sister to stakes-placed Js Romero SI 96. She is the dam of 10 ROM, 6 winners, 3 black type including Grade 1 winner Lovethewayyoulie SI 96 (see above), stakes-placed Baby Witch SI 93 ($39,600), stakes-placed Dynasty Dinamo SI 96 ($22,767) and the grandam of RG3 winner Runaway Witch Si 97 ($106,317), etc.

For additional information or breeding contacts call Stephen Deville, LACER Breeding Manager, at (225) 202-2104.


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