Patch Adams

Multiple grade one winner Patch Adams is the leading sprinter of his crop. By Into Mischief out of a stakes winning daughter of Distorted Humor, he is bred on a sire producing cross.

Patch Adams is bred on the same Into Mischief/Distorted Humor cross as Into Mischief’s leading stallion son, Practical Joke, and a similar Into Mischief/Forty Niner cross to classic sire, Goldencents. Practical Joke sired stakes winner Mischief Joke out of a mare by Distorted Humor, and a similar pattern could be achieved through daughters of Flower Alley – himself broodmare of an Into Mischief graded stakes winner – Drosselmeyer, Maclean’s Music, Jimmy Creed, Alternation, Brethren and Khozan. Distorted Humor is a son of Forty Niner, a stallion who could also be introduced through mares by Coronado’s Quest, Roar (broodmare sire of an Into Mischief stakes winner), Trippi (broodmare sire of an Into Mischief graded winner), Sunday Break (broodmare sire of a Practical Joke stakes winner) and Twining.

The Into Mischief cross with mares from the Gone West branch of Mr. Prospector has been an extremely successful one. Daughters of Mr. Greeley have supplied Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Authentic, and he can be brought in through Whywhywhy and El Corredor; grade one winners Mia Mischief and Mischievous Alex are out of mares by Speightstown (broodmare sire of two Practical Joke stakes winners, sire of Munnings and Central Banker, another who is broodmare sire of a Practical Joke stakes winner); from a mare by Grand Slam, Into Mischief sired graded winner Strict Compliance, and he has graded winner Somebeyay out of a mare by Grand Slam son, Limehouse. Into Mischief and sons have four stakes winners out of mares by Elusive Quality (who is broodmare sire of a Practical Joke stakes winner), as well as a graded winner out of a mare by his son, Quality Road, and a stakes winner from a mare by another son, Smarty Jones, and Elusive Quality is also sire of Great Notion, Omega Code and Exclusive Quality, and there are already two Into Mischief line stakes winners out of mares by Proud Citizen, including one by Practical Joke. Other sons of Gone West to have stood in Florida include Dance Master, Bahamian Squall and Double Honor. – Alan Porter