Get Away Farm - Florida Thoroughbred Horse Farm

Go Drill - He Gets His 14th Winner of 2019!

Drill is racking up the winners - he just got his 14th this year! His runners often win by daylight, and they have the speed to outduel their competition!

As a G1SW and MGSW, Drill’s stamping his foals with the class he showed as a racehorse. We’ve spoken to breeders who are very happy with their Drill horses; and those who have purchased them at auction are also finding that these horses are runners!

If you have a late foaling mare or one you’ve just brought home from the track, consider breeding to Drill in 2019. Some of the industry’s greatest horses were May foals - including the famous Northern Dancer!

It’s never too early to make plans for 2020. Simply submit your mare and we’ll be in touch with you shortly.

Sweet Kayden was much the best in an 8 1/4-length romp, while racing a flat mile in 1:36.92. [Gulfstream; 4-25-19].

R Prerogative aired by 6 3/4 lengths, while racing 5 1/2 furlongs [Tampa Bay; 4-24-19].

Sky Chaser: 10 1/4 length winner, while racing 6 furlongs [Gulfstream, 4-20-19].

Drillit - 1 1/16 mi dirt; John W. Galbreath Memorial Stakes - won by 16 1/4 lengths [Thistledown; 10-13-18].

Check out our previews of our OBS Winter Mixed Sale hips, selling Wednesday, January 30! Mares in foal to G1SW & hot 2018 Florida Freshman Sire Drill, G1 sire Two Step Salsa, and Curlin’s GSW son Ocean Knight!

You won’t want to miss these hips! Here are some highlights:

Hip 469, Sophia Salsa, by Two Step Salsa! Family of G1SW Delaware Township, in foal to Curlin's GSW son Ocean Knight! Selling Weds! https://www.obssales.com/jancatalog/2019/469.PDF

You'll love our Hip 489, Two Step Flor, at OBS Winter Mixed Sale! Selling Weds! Young Two Step Salsa mare, earner of over $230,000. Family of producers & stakes winners! This mare is in foal to G1SW & hot 2018 Florida Freshman Sire, Drill! https://www.obssales.com/jancatalog/2019/489.PDF

Here's a great preview of our Hip 502 selling Weds at the OBS Winter Mixed Sale! Nice daughter of Pulpit, already the dam of 2 winners! Dam and grand dam *both* GSW! In foal to G1SW & hot 2018 Florida Freshman Sire, Drill! https://www.obssales.com/jancatalog/2019/502.PDF

You’ll want to bid on this yearling colt, hip 488! He’s a 3/4 brother to G1SW Dance With Fate! Selling Wednesday at OBS Winter Mixed Sale! https://www.obssales.com/jancatalog/2019/488.PDF

Ocean Knight offers breeders an exceptional opportunity to access a GSW son of Curlin in Florida!

Winner of the G3 Sam F. Davis S., Ocean Knight is one of Curlin’s sons that had the ability to win a graded stakes on the Kentucky Derby Trail!

Ocean Knight has the correct conformation and racing class to make him a very attractive option for breeders who want to tap into the classic Curlin sire line!

Learn more about Ocean Knight, his race record, and his quality dam line. Submit your mare!

Homesteader a Great Producer for Get Away Farm

Our mare Homesteader certainly has been a great producer for us! She is the dam of 3 stakes winners (Conquest Two Step, Sheikh of Sheikhs and Homemade Salsa)! Pictured here as a foal in 2015, our filly Homemade Salsa ran great in the $50,000 Cincinnati Trophy Stakes on February 9! She was beaten only 1 1/4 lengths for the win, and looks to be in solid form again for 2018. We’re expecting big things from her this year!

Two Step Salsa Builds on His Best Year at Stud!

2017 was Two Step Salsa’s best year at stud!  Top 10 #FloridaSire, best year progeny earnings of $1,909,980; 3 SW, 1 G1SW, 57 winners!

2018 has started out really strong with Two Step Salsa already siring 7 winners! Plus his undefeated G1SW El Salsero has run out of competition in Puerto Rico - where will he run next? Will he come to the United States to show off his incredible speed?

Two Step Salsa’s top performers like Lynnie B and Salsita show the class and determination their sire demonstrated as a graded stakes winner!

Looks like Two Step Salsa is building off his best year at stud with another terrific year ahead! Be sure to follow Get Away Farm on Twitter for more Two Step Salsa news!

2017 Two Year Olds Drive Two Step Salsa to His Best Year at Stud!

This coming two year old (pic is from November 2017) is training well and she looks the part! Could be a top two year old performer for Two Step Salsa in 2018! This Florida-bred is Time to Two Step, owned by Peter and Chris Halsall.

His two year olds have helped make 2017 Two Step Salsa’s best year at stud! Two Step Salsa as of December 11, 2017 is the #3 Two Year Old Sire in Florida! He has had 14 two year old winners and 3 two year old stakes winners (including a Grade 1 two year old stakes winner) in 2017! His 2017 two year old earnings currently stand at $561,154!

More hot two year old news: Two Step Salsa sired a $220,000 two year old (Two Steps Faster) that sold at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Sale in 2017! 

Two Step Salsa has sired 55 total winners this year, with total progeny earnings of $1,820,910 so far! 

2018 looks bright again for Two Step Salsa! 2018 fee is $5,000. 

Hip 286, ch. c. Drill-Homesteader, by Pioneering

By MGSW Drill, winner of the Del Mar Futurity (G1) and co-ranked 12th with Eclipse Champion Sprinter TRINNIBERG, ahead of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'LL HAVE ANOTHER, millionaire Florida Derby-G1 winner TAKE CHARGE INDY, etc. MGSW at 3 of G2 San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita and the G3 Lazaro Barrera Memorial Stakes at Hollywood Park. This colt is from Drill's first crop.

This colt's dam is the multiple stakes-producing mare Homesteader, dam of GSW Conquest Two Step and SW Sheikh of Sheikhs. Homesteader herself was a stakes performer; 2nd Whimsical  S.-R  (PIM,  $15,000),  Primonetta  S.  (LRL,  $12,000),  3rd  Ski-pat  S.  [L]  (PIM,  $8,250). She is by Storm Cat's half brother by Mr. Prospector, Pioneering.

You'll want to come see this colt at Barn 4 at Fasig-Tipton. He sells on Tuesday, July 11. He's part of the Stuart Morris consignment. Take a look at his pedigree and remember that he is the half brother to a GSW and one other SW. Drill was a G1SW two year old, and both of the dam's SW were winners at two. This colt has every chance to be precocious and come out running next year.

Learn more about Drill here. And read more about Homesteader and how Get Away Farm acquired her, and her stellar broodmare career.

Hip 612 by Two Step Salsa,  OBS June 2017

Looking for a fast, quality two year old? Take a look at this nice colt by Two Step Salsa! Lots of black type on the page and he had a really nice breeze, too! Don’t miss him selling Wednesday, June 14 at OBS!

Hip 399 by Two Step Salsa; OBS June 2017

This is an awesome Two Step Salsa filly that has a SW and 9 winners under her first two dams! Check out her breeze video and don’t miss her, selling Wednesday, June 14 at OBS!

Hip 79 by Two Step Salsa; 2017 OBS June Sale

Here’s a nice two year old by Two Step Salsa out of a young Giant’s Causeway mare. 2nd dam is a SW; 3rd dam is a GSP full sister to Gold Meridian. Check out his breeze video here!

Hip 34 by Two Step Salsa OBS June 2017

This colt, Hip 34, has a great way of going! Take a look at his breeze video! You’ll be impressed! Two Step Salsa on the top and Rockport Harbor, who was an accomplished 2 yr old himself, on the bottom! 

Been a great 10 years at Get Away Farm! This year we sold a Two Step Salsa filly for $220,000. Plus Drill’s second crop is looking great, as did his first, which are yearlings this year!

We’ve had great success with our mare Homesteader, who is the dam of GSW Conquest Two Step (by Two Step Salsa) and SW and GSP Sheikh of Sheikhs, plus 3 other winners! :)

Two Step Salsa is a perennial Top 10 Florida sire who has recently surpassed $6,000,000 cumulative progeny earnings! He has sired 4 SW, 2 GSW, including G1SW Dance with Fate.

We’d like to thank all of the people who have helped us enjoy our first decade of success! As your full-service thoroughbred farm in Florida, we offer breeding, foaling, breaking, training, sales prep and more!

Looking forward to our next 10 years, and we owe so much to all of you! Thank you!

Some great highlights from this past decade include the top runners sired by Two Step Salsa, including 4 BTW and 4 BTP:

G1SW Dance with Fate

GSW Conquest Two Step

SW Two Step Time

SW Master Mick

Classic Salsa

Salsita

Two Step Flor

Flaring, etc.

Drill has his first yearlings in 2017! Watch for them soon at the OBS Winter Mixed Sale starting Weds., Jan. 25, 2017! At the OBS Sale you can also buy mares in foal to Drill, the G1SW juvenile and promising young sire!

Please visit our new website! http://www.getawayfarm.net/

Introducing Get Away Farm’s New Website Design!

This month we updated the Get Away Farm website and thought it would be a good idea to provide a short tour if you haven’t visited the new site yet. Many of our photographs were taken by Serita Hult, a talented equine photographer. We especially thank her for the fine portraits of our stallions Two Step Salsa and Drill. [Please click on any of the above images to enlarge them.]

We are pleased to announce that we’ve updated our foal galleries with 2016 Drill and Two Step Salsa foal photos. We had some really sharp looking foals this year and it’s especially fun because Drill’s first foals were born at the farm in 2016.

Speaking of Drill, he has a new page on the website. He’s a G1SW and breeders are very excited by his first crop. He was a big hit at our 2016 stallion show.

Two Step Salsa continues to succeed as a top 10 Florida stallion. He is already nearing the million dollar mark for progeny earnings for 2016, with several months left in the year. His Two Step Time is his latest stakes winner. Two Step Salsa has had 29 winners this year as of this writing.

Next we’d like you to meet our team. Mr. Manuel Andrade is the owner of the farm and Larry Anderson is the farm manager. You may reach the farm by calling  (352) 591-1275.

And last but not least we encourage you to visit our News section often. Here we post all the race results and progeny news. It’s a great place to catch up on all of the latest at Get Away Farm!

Grade 1 winner Drill, by Lawyer Ron, offers breeders a top value opportunity. These first foals of 2016 demonstrate the quality he is transmitting to his progeny. Standing for $4,500 at Get Away Farm, Drill is a quality individual that impressed his trainer Bob Baffert. Drill’s racetrack accomplishments and his stunning good looks make him a top young Florida sire to watch.

Looking back to the 2008 Keeneland November Sale and Our Purchase of Homesteader

While most of the horse world's attention is on the Keeneland Sale this month, we wanted to take a moment and reflect back to the 2008 sale where we bought one of our foundation mares, Homesteader. 2015 has been a great year for her. Especially in light of her son Sheikh of Sheikh's big win in the Juvenile Dirt Sprint on the Breeders' Cup card on October 31, we thought it would be fun to look back at her history and what she has accomplished.

Her Story Began in Canada

Homesteader was foaled on May 1, 2003 in Ontario. She was bred by North Highland Farm and was owned during her racing career by Michael Sutherland and Nancy Clark. Homesteader was a winning, multiple stakes-placed mare trained by Gary Capuano and ridden by jockey Arnaldo Bocachica. In 2007 she finished second in the Primonetta Stakes at Laurel and the Whimsical Stakes at Pimlico. She also finished third in the Skipat Stakes at Pimlico and third in the HBPA West Virginia Stakes at Charles Town. Her race record was very consistent: Starts: 22 Firsts: 5 Seconds: 7 Thirds: 3 Earnings: $220,034. The highest Equibase Speed Figure that she earned was a very good 114.

She Became a Get Away Farm Foundation Mare in 2008

Get Away Farm purchased Homesteader at the Keeneland November Sale in 2008 for $40,000. She would go on to become an excellent producer for us.

Homesteader Produces Graded Stakes Winner Conquest Two Step

Her first stakes winner was Gr. 2 stakes winner Conquest Two Step, by our stallion Two Step Salsa. Conquest Two Step raced with the best of his generation and finished second by a neck to champion Shared Belief in the 2014 Malibu Stakes. Conquest Two Step got his most important win in the Gr. 2 Palos Verdes Stakes in February of this year.

New Stakes Winner Credited to Homesteader on Breeders’ Cup Day 2015

Homesteader continued to make headlines in May of this year when her son Sheikh of Sheikhs sold for $330,000 at Fasig Tipton. That horse lived up to his sale price with a gritty win on the Breeders' Cup card on Saturday, October 31st. In Race 2 Sheikh of Sheikhs took the Juvenile Dirt Sprint and became Homesteader's second stakes winner.

The Future Looks Bright for Homesteader’s Latest Foals

Homesteader has most recently produced 2014 and 2015 full siblings to Conquest Two Step. We're proud of you Homesteader. Thanks for all you've done for us!

Breed Them to Run, Breed Them to Win!

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