Grade 3 Winner Wit To Enter Stud In Louisiana After Keeneland April Sale

Son of Practical Joke will stand at Whispering Oaks Farm following $100,000 purchase.

Joe Nevills, Paulick Report

Multiple Grade 3 winner Wit will enter stud at Whispering Oaks Farm in Carencro, La., for next year's breeding season after selling for $100,000 at the Keeneland April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale.

The 5-year-old son of Practical Joke was offered as a stallion prospect at Friday's auction, and bloodstock agent Andrew Cary signed the ticket for the Louisiana-based partnership of Whispering Oaks and Coteau Grove Farms.

Cary said the partnership stands Grade 1 winner No Parole in Louisiana, and the group was looking to add another member to its roster for the 2025 breeding season.

"He's a horse that was incredibly talented, Grade 1 talent, danced all the dances," Cary said. "I'm tickled to death. He's a big, beautiful horse, a $575,000 yearling. Practical Joke is going from strength to strength, and it's the Into Mischief sire line. We're going to support him very strongly, and hopefully make him a champion stallion in Louisiana."

Wit retired with four wins in 13 starts for earnings of $648,000, racing for owners Repole Stable, St. Elias Stable, and Gainesway Stable. Todd Pletcher trained the horse, and he was consigned at the sale by Gainesway, agent.