A draw for a free service to the Little Brown Jug winner Lou’s Pearlman 1:47.4 ($1,242,987) valued at $5,000 is being offered to breeders by Tourello Standardbreds, Sheffield, Tasmania, who will distribute his frozen semen in Australia this season.
Retired as the second richest and third fastest stallion sired by the champion Sweet Lou, Lou’s Pearlman attracted a full book of 150 mares in his first season at the renowned Hickory Lane Horse Farm in Ohio this year.
A foal of 2018, Lou’s Pearlman raced in top company throughout his career, winning 20 races and being 16 times placed from 74 starts for $1,242,987 in stakes.
As a two-year-old he won five of his 11 starts and took his record of 1:49.1 winning the $119,100 Bluegrass Stake at The Red Mile. He also captured two legs of the Pennsylvania Sires Stake.
The following season Lou’s Pearlman notched a further eight wins and banked a season’s high $593,519 racing against top horses the calibre of Perfect Sting 1:48.2 ($1.8m), Charlie May 1:47.2 ($2m), Hellabalou 1:48.8 ($1m) and Southwind Gendry 1:47.4 ($1.2m).
He put an exclamation mark on his career when he won the elimination and final of the prestigious $661,800 Little Brown Jug in 1:52.4 after sitting parked outside Perfect Sting for the last lap.
Among his other successes at three were the $235,000 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Final in race record time, the $100,000 Max Hempt Consolation and the $83,700 Keystone Classic.
Returning as a four-year-old he won four races and $117,000, while his final campaign yielded $332,250 highlighted by a second in the $600,000 Breeders Crown and placings in the $455,100 Canadian Pacing Derby and the $185,000 Hoosier Park Pacing Derby.
Lou’s Pearlman won on all-sized tracks, winning in 1:52.4 at Delaware’s half-mile oval, 1:48.4 at Pocono Downs’ five-eighths track and 1:47.4 at The Meadowlands’ one mile circuit.
Lou’s Pearlman boasts a pedigree to match his obvious racing ability.
His sire Sweet Lou (1:47) was a champion with stake earnings of $3,484,251 and was the 2023 USA Sire of the Year and the leading Australian and New Zealand sire of two and three-year-olds.
Lucy’s Pearl 1:50.1 ($341,243), the dam of Lou’s Pearlman, was the 2023 USA Broodmare of the Year. She has left four foals for four winners – all inside 1:52 – and they have earned an amazing $2.5 million between them.
Besides Lou’s Pearlman, she is also the dam of last year’s Breeders Crown two-year-old filly champion My Girl EJ 1:48.8 ($1,052,060).
The next dam, Remember When 1:50.3 ($917,523), left 12 foals for nine winners including the Breeders Crown two-year-old champion Reflect With Me (1:48.2), while the third dam, Best Of Memories, ranks as the dam of the Little Brown Jug winner, Inter Dominion champion and leading sire Mr Feelgood 1:49 ($1.2million).
Lou’s Pearlman is a member of the celebrated Miss Duvall family, that which produced champion racehorses and sires such as Western Ideal, Tall Dark Stranger, Captaintreacherous, Art Major, Downbytheseaside and Bettor’s Wish.
Lou’s Pearlman is a young stallion with the bloodlines, racing performance and conformation to commend him to the most discriminating breeder. His service fee is $5,000 including GST and the HRA stallion levy.
To enter the draw for the service to Lou’s Pearlman send a message with your email and postal address, together with the name of the mare to be served to phone 0412 287 024 or info @tourellostandardbreds.com.au https://www.facebook.com/tourello.standardbreds.
Entries close on October 25. The draw will take place on October 27 and the result will be posted on the Tourello Standardbreds Facebook page and the winner will be contacted by phone and email.
