UNCLE LINO has quickly risen to the top of the Mid-Atlantic rankings! He was the leader of the region’s second- and third-crop sires, and second on the 2025 general list (with Mid-Atlantic-sired runners) after top-5 rankings 2023 and 2024. His 24 stakes performers include nine in 2025, including stakes winners NATURE’S CANDY, MAGGIE’S GIRL, TIME TO ROCK and DIGITAL ONE, and stakes-placed $600,000-plus earner FAR MO POWER, 3-year-old CRAB DADDY, etc. He has 72% winners/starters, dozens of six-figure earners, and at least two stakes winners in each of his first five crops. A combination of precociousness with a classic pedigree, he is by champion and Sire of Sires UNCLE MO out of a half-sister to Preakness S.-G1 winner SHACKLEFORD. His second dam, Broodmare of the Year Oatsee, produced four other stakes winners including Gr. 1 LADY JOANNE. UNCLE LINO was a winner at 2 and followed the California road to the Triple Crown with on-the-board finishes in the Gr. 1 Santa Anita Derby and Gr. 3 Robert B. Lewis. He set a track record in Los Alamitos’ Cali­fornia Chrome S., getting 11⁄16 miles in 1:40.82. He won or placed in six of eight starts, earning $316,160.