Casting Couch was named Broodmare of the Year in 2003 by virtue of the outstanding success of her first three foals -- Triple Crown champion FIGHT THE DEVIL and grade I stakes winners LEADING MAN and HONORABLE INTENTIONS. This beautiful mare has a patient and easygoing disposition. She won't tolerate being bullied by her pasturemates, but gets along famously with the other mares so long as she has respect.
Casting Couch was a gift from Cricket Hill in early 2006, arriving with a By the Sword filly at her side and also with her Dune yearling filly. By the time she arrived at Coldwater Creek, her hot streak of producing stakes winners had cooled, but CCF was lucky enough to campaign her Wild Guess filly Wild Quest, who was stakes-placed for us before being sold to Rancho Conquista. Casting Couch's Dune filly, Absolutely, is currently racing for Oak Lane, and her By the Sword filly CHEMISTRY has become a grade III stakes winner for us at two. She produced her final foal, a Cast Adrift colt named Stargate, in spring 2007. Casting Couch is now pensioned and enjoying a relaxed retirement.
Unraced.
1st Dam
2nd Dam
Dam of 10 foals, 9 of racing age, 9 to race, 7 winners, 4 stakes winners:
1998: LEADING MAN, gray colt by Flander's Field. Foaled March 11. Multiple grade I stakes winner of $1,481,875. Winner of the Meet Stakes (gr. I), Dubai Millennium Futurity Classic (UAE-I), Australian Derby (Aus-I), Red Springs Handicap (gr. II), Los Angeles Handicap (gr. II), Fasig-Tipton Stakes (gr. III), White River Handicap (gr. III), West Coast Handicap (gr. III), etc. Sire; owned by Little Dragon Stables.
1999: FIGHT THE DEVIL, dark bay colt by Devil's Desire. Foaled February 20. Triple Crown winner and multiple grade I stakes winner of $2,126,450. Winner of the 2002 Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby [gr. I], Preakness Stakes [gr. I], and Belmont Stakes [gr. I]), Pimlico Handicap (gr. I), Arlington Gold Cup (gr. I), Impresario Handicap (gr. I), Key West Derby (gr. I), Arlington Derby (gr. I), Legacy Stakes (gr. I), etc. Sire; owned by Coldwater Creek Farm.
2000: HONORABLE INTENTIONS, chestnut filly by The Showman. Foaled January 28. Multiple grade I stakes winner of $974,975. Winner of the 2003 Distaff Classic Championship race 2 (gr. I), the Filly Hurdle Challenge (gr. I), Hialeah Ladies Cup (gr. II), Filly Challenge (gr. III), etc. Owned by Calypso Stables.
2001: Adrenaline Rush, bay colt by Smoke Signals. Foaled February 3. Multiple winner of $66,675. Retired. Owned by Suantrai Stables.
2002: Acting Out, gray gelding by Clan Action. Foaled March 3. Multiple grade I stakes-placed and multiple winner of $408,200. Retired. Owned by Challedon Acres.
2003: Shesanallstartoo, gray filly by Highland Rogue. Foaled March 10. Unplaced in six starts at 3. Broodmare. Owned by Equinox Farm.
2004: Wild Quest, gray filly by Wild Guess. Foaled March 13. Grade I stakes-placed winner of $169,125. Finished second in the Hummingbird Stakes (gr. II) and third in the Canadian Juvenile Fillies Stakes (gr. I). Owned by Rancho Conquista.
2005: Absolutely, gray filly by Dune. Foaled March 1. Earnings of $1,225 from three starts. Owned by Oak Lane Farm.
2006: CHEMISTRY, bay filly by By the Sword. Foaled February 28. Grade III stakes winner of $220,375. Winner of the Smugglers' Stakes (gr. III), and second in the 2008 Championships Juvenile Fillies day one (gr. I) and the Hummingbird Stakes (gr. II). She finished third in the Golden Flames Sprint (gr. I).
2007: Stargate, bay colt by Cast Adrift. Foaled April 9. Owned by Coldwater Creek Farm.
Central Casting, roan mare 1987 by Spend a Buck. Unraced. Owned by Hawksnest Haven. Dam of 8 foals, 4 to race, 3 winners, 1 stakes winner:
Melanie Francis, mare. Dam of:
Lexington, Kentucky