Brilliant three-year-old filly Prolific Fire provided the highlight of the Little Brown Jug meeting at Delaware for her sire Catch The Fire when she scored a crushing win in a stakes record 1:51 in the $116,140 Ohio Breeders Championship. Starting from the second row, Prolific Fire settled down third before assuming control going past the […]
The Captaintreacherous millionaire Catch The Fire (1:46.8), whose frozen semen is available to ‘down under’ breeders this season from Pete and Chantal McMullen’s Somerset Farms in Queensland, has made an impressive start to his siring career in North America. Of his first crop of 50 foals, 44 have raced for an 88 percent strike rate. […]
Catch The Fire, a 1:46.8, $1.5 million winning son of Captaintreacherous who is standing at Pete and Chantal McMullen’s Somerset Farms near Brisbane, was the dominant force in the opening round of the Ohio Sires Stakes for two-year-olds at Northfield Park on Sunday (July 13). The Catch The Fire filly She’safirewoman led for the last […]
Unique Catch, a two-year-old colt by the Captaintreacherous horse Catch The Fire, scored his most important harness racing success in the $50,000 Ohio Fairs Championship at Northfield Park on Saturday (Oct 19). After receiving a perfect trip, Unique Catch was extricated to the outside at the three-quarter pole and finished resolutely to win by a […]
Guard The Fire, a two-year-old harness racing filly by new Somerset Farms, Queensland import Catch The Fire, set a fresh lifetime mark of 1:54.4 when she led most of the way in a $20,000 division of the Buckeye Stallion Series at Delaware, Ohio recently. She scored by five lengths. GUARD THE FIRE REPLAY Other […]
Prolific Fire, a classy two-year-old filly and one of the first crop of Catch The Fire, who is standing at Pete and Chantal McMullen’s Somerset Farms in Queensland, hoisted a fresh lifetime mark of 1:53.6 and scored her most important harness racing success in the $66,800 Ohio Breeders Championship at the half-mile track at Delaware, […]
The fast American import Catch The Fire (1:46.8), who is slated to stand his second ‘down under’ season at Pete and Chantal McMullen’s Somerset Farms in Queensland, gained a massive boost to his stocks with the success of the two-year-old colt My First Fire in a $US65,000 division of the Ohio Sires Stakes at Northfield […]
Catch The Fire 1:46.8 ($1.4 million), the exciting, young stallion standing his second season at Pete and Chantal McMullen’s Somerset Farms in Queensland, sired important Stakes harness racing winners in Ohio last weekend. Prolific Fire, a two-year-old filly, led throughout to score her first success in a $65,000 Ohio Sires Stakes division in 1:57 at […]
Fifty percent of the first crop of two-year-olds of Catch The Fire (1:46.8), the second fastest harness racing son of Captaintreacherous, have raced in North America this season. Of the 50 foals, Catch The Fire has left 25 starters including seven winners with six inside 2:00. The fastest of his progeny so far are the […]
The brilliant, young Captaintreacherous horse Catch The Fire 1:46.8 ($1.5 million), who is standing this season at the Somerset Farms stud, of Pete and Chantal McMullen, was represented by his first two-year-old winner when Princess Vanessa emerged successful in a heat of the Kentucky Proud Series on Sunday, June 2. The filly, who is only […]
Pete McMullen’s enthusiasm for the Interdominion Series in his home state may have taken a dip after the first round of heats saw him take the reins five times for a single placing in the sulky. However, the way the new addition to his stallion ranks, Catch The Fire (Captaintreacherous), has been received at McMullen’s […]
Exciting, young Captaintreacherous stallion Catch The Fire and the Rocknroll Hanover horse A Rocknroll Dance, who both stand at the Somerset Farm near Brisbane of Peter and Chantal McMullen, created harness racing headlines in two different countries on Saturday (September 16). Catch The Fire, who is embarking on his first season ‘down under’, provided the […]
CIRCLEVILLE, OH. – The Ohio Selected Jug Sale was a flurry of bidding activity, paving the way for the highest gross in the sale’s storied history, which enjoyed a double digit increase of 10.7 percent from last year’s auction. The sale also saw the highest priced harness racing yearling sold in the state of Ohio […]
The record-breaking win of the Captaintreacherous harness racing mare Encipher in the $2.1million Eureka has given his son Catch The Fire, who is standing his first season at Somerset Farms, near Brisbane, of Pete and Chantal Turpin, a substantial shot in the arm. Catch The Fire, who holds a record of 1:46.8, is the fastest […]
The Sunshine State of Queensland has undergone significant growth in recent times, quickly establishing itself as the most progressive harness racing jurisdiction in the southern hemisphere. The likes of the rich QBred scheme and Winter Constellations Carnival have put ‘down under’ harness racing on notice, making the state the envy of its neighbours and attracting […]
Delaware, OH — After pulling “double duty” for two years with racing and breeding, Catch The Fire (Captaintreacherous) has officially been retired from harness racing to stand as a stallion at Sugar Valley Farms in Delaware, Ohio. After receiving over 200 applications from mares in 2022, Catch The Fire bred a full book and returned to the races […]