In her first start back after a seven-month break, Whiskey Decision stepped up to the ranks of graded stakes winners with a comfortable two-length score in Saturday’s Eatontown Stakes (USA-G3) at Monmouth. In doing so, she took the measure of a couple of nice fillies in Maggie Go, a Group 2 winner from Argentina, and multiple stakes winner Ozara, who was coming in off a smart win in the Monroe Stakes at Gulfstream Park. Now the winner of half her eight lifetime starts, Whiskey Decision has earned $305,887 for breeder-owners Fred W. Hertrich III and John D. Fielding.
Whiskey Decision is the latest graded or Group winner from the family of 1978 American co-champion filly It’s in the Air, the first champion sired by two-time American champion sire Mr. Prospector and the winner of five Grade 1 races at ages 3 and 4. Foreshadowing Mr. Prospector’s extraordinary accomplishments as a broodmare sire, It’s in the Air was also a fine broodmare, producing a trio of stakes winners (headed by French Group 2 winner Bitooh, by Seattle Slew) and several other daughters who bred on to good effect. Her descendants include Grade/Group 1 winners in Australia, England, Japan, and the United States.
Note Musicale, an unraced daughter of the great European sire Sadler’s Wells, proved the best of It’s in the Air’s daughters as a broodmare. She is the dam of Musical Chimes (by In Excess) who followed up a win in the classic Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (French One Thousand Guineas, FR-G1) in 2003 with wins in the 2004 John C, Mabee Handicap (USA-G1) against her own sex and the Oak Tree Breeders’ Cup Mile Stakes (USA-G2) against males. Note Musicale also produced Music Note, who won five Grade 1 races including the 2008 Coaching Club American Oaks (USA-G1) before producing 2021 Dubai World Cup (UAE-G1) winner Mystic Guide (by Ghostzapper) and 2021 Penn Mile Stakes (USA-G3) winner Gershwin (by Distorted Humor). Music Note is still in production and most recently produced a 2025 colt by Nyquist,
Music Note’s full sister Contralto is the dam of El Gran General (by Street Sense), a stakes winner in Panama, and her unraced half sister Music Room (by Unbridled’s Song) has two graded stakes producers to her credit. The first, Distorted Music (by Distorted Humor), is the dam of 2025 Arkansas Derby (USA-G1) winner Sandman (by Tapit) and of 2022 Chilukki Stakes (USA-G3) winner She Can’t Sing (by Bernardini). The other, Funny Song (by Distorted Humor), produced Whiskey Decision as her first foal before giving birth to the 2022 More Than Ready filly Bridgeport (twice placed from six starts), the unraced 2023 filly Cowgirl Paradise (by Not This Time), and a yearling filly by Not This Time.
Produced from A Wind Is Rising (by 1960 Wood Memorial Stakes winner Francis S., by Royal Charger), It’s in the Air is a half sister to Morning Has Broken (by Prince John), the second dam of 1994 European champion 3-year-old filly Balanchine and multiple Irish Group 1 winner Saoirse Abu, so this is a family that has had a remarkable amount of success at the top level given its relatively small numbers. Whiskey Decision would have to step up her game considerably to join the family’s roster of Grade/Group 1 winners, but with a Grade 3 win to her credit, one can be sure she will receive excellent opportunities to add to the luster of her pedigree as a broodmare when the time comes for her to go to the paddocks.
Whiskey Decision is the latest graded or Group winner from the family of 1978 American co-champion filly It’s in the Air, the first champion sired by two-time American champion sire Mr. Prospector and the winner of five Grade 1 races at ages 3 and 4. Foreshadowing Mr. Prospector’s extraordinary accomplishments as a broodmare sire, It’s in the Air was also a fine broodmare, producing a trio of stakes winners (headed by French Group 2 winner Bitooh, by Seattle Slew) and several other daughters who bred on to good effect. Her descendants include Grade/Group 1 winners in Australia, England, Japan, and the United States.
Note Musicale, an unraced daughter of the great European sire Sadler’s Wells, proved the best of It’s in the Air’s daughters as a broodmare. She is the dam of Musical Chimes (by In Excess) who followed up a win in the classic Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (French One Thousand Guineas, FR-G1) in 2003 with wins in the 2004 John C, Mabee Handicap (USA-G1) against her own sex and the Oak Tree Breeders’ Cup Mile Stakes (USA-G2) against males. Note Musicale also produced Music Note, who won five Grade 1 races including the 2008 Coaching Club American Oaks (USA-G1) before producing 2021 Dubai World Cup (UAE-G1) winner Mystic Guide (by Ghostzapper) and 2021 Penn Mile Stakes (USA-G3) winner Gershwin (by Distorted Humor). Music Note is still in production and most recently produced a 2025 colt by Nyquist,
Music Note’s full sister Contralto is the dam of El Gran General (by Street Sense), a stakes winner in Panama, and her unraced half sister Music Room (by Unbridled’s Song) has two graded stakes producers to her credit. The first, Distorted Music (by Distorted Humor), is the dam of 2025 Arkansas Derby (USA-G1) winner Sandman (by Tapit) and of 2022 Chilukki Stakes (USA-G3) winner She Can’t Sing (by Bernardini). The other, Funny Song (by Distorted Humor), produced Whiskey Decision as her first foal before giving birth to the 2022 More Than Ready filly Bridgeport (twice placed from six starts), the unraced 2023 filly Cowgirl Paradise (by Not This Time), and a yearling filly by Not This Time.
Produced from A Wind Is Rising (by 1960 Wood Memorial Stakes winner Francis S., by Royal Charger), It’s in the Air is a half sister to Morning Has Broken (by Prince John), the second dam of 1994 European champion 3-year-old filly Balanchine and multiple Irish Group 1 winner Saoirse Abu, so this is a family that has had a remarkable amount of success at the top level given its relatively small numbers. Whiskey Decision would have to step up her game considerably to join the family’s roster of Grade/Group 1 winners, but with a Grade 3 win to her credit, one can be sure she will receive excellent opportunities to add to the luster of her pedigree as a broodmare when the time comes for her to go to the paddocks.
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