Jenna McNiven loves the swagger of Twin B Louborghini
by Dave Briggs
Jenna McNiven believes Hip #64 Twin B Louborghini, selling Monday (Nov. 3) at the Standardbred Horse Sales Company’s yearling sale in Harrisburg, PA, could be a truly special horse. The son of Sweet Lou out of Avia Hanover not only has the pedigree, he also thinks pretty highly of himself.
“He thinks he’s pretty special,” said McNiven, the farm manager of her family’s Twinbrook Farms in Embro, ON. “He literally has from the day he was born. He’s always thought he’s a pretty, pretty big deal. And he’s got everything — the looks, confirmation, the pedigree, the attitude. He’s the whole package and everybody that walks in the barn falls in love with him.
“They have to believe in themselves, and he always has. And I think as soon as you pull him out of the stall, everyone can see that he just has a presence about him, that he’s so proud of himself.”
Twin B Louborghini is one of 13 yearlings produced by Twinbrook selling in Harrisburg. They are also selling nine more yearlings for other clients.
Last year, Twinbrook was the third leading yearling consignor in Harrisburg by average, selling 15 yearlings for a total of $878,000 and an average of $58,533.
This year, the farm kept three of its top Ontario-sired yearlings home to sell at the London Classic Yearling Sale just due to the unpredictability of cross-border tariffs in the spring around the time the sales entries were due. McNiven said the original plan was to sell those yearlings – Twin B Kingsley (f, King Of The North—Affair Hall), Twin B Sheila (f, Bulldog Hanover—In The Pink) and Twin B Smokeshow (f, Muscle Mass—Showstopper) — in Harrisburg.
Otherwise, it’s business as usual in Harrisburg this year for one of Ontario’s top boutique breeders. The farm’s Harrisburg consignment is made up almost entirely of American-sired horses.
McNiven said she really likes Hip #40 Twin B Wildfire, a Huntsville colt out of Twin B Fabulous that is out of a sister to Wheels On Fire, the 2021 O’Brien Award-winning Older Pacer of the Year.
“He’s really nice,” McNiven said. “He and the Louborghini colt, if you pull both of them out of the stall you won’t find many better looking horses than those two. [Twin B Wildfire is] just a gorgeous animal.”
McNiven also said buyers need to check out Hip #57 Twin B Dream Big, a Stay Hungry filly out of American Dreamgirl.
“She a really racey, really beautiful filly,” McNiven said. “It’s hard not to like her when you see her… My Girl EJ and Lou’s Perlman are [in her family] with the third dam… The third dam herself made close to a million and then she’s the dam of Reflect With Me, a Breeders Crown champion. It’s a really good filly family. That’s what I like about it. There are a lot of great fillies in it.
“Those are our three big ones that I think will attract a lot of attention in our consignment,” McNiven said.
As far as attention and Twinbrook goes, few horses can top the fact the farm raised 2024 Horse of the Year Twin B Joe Fresh.
Though the pacing mare was bred by Brittany Farms, Twinbrook purchased her unraced dam, Fresh Breeze — in foal to the Roll With Joe filly that would become Twin B Joe Fresh — for $21,000 at the 2019 mixed sale in Harrisburg.
It was McNiven that found the mare at the sale and encouraged her parents to buy Fresh Breeze. Twinbrook foaled the mare and raised the filly they named Twin B Euchre. In 2021, they sold Twin B Euchre to trainer Chris Ryder and partners for $65,000. Ryder changed the name, but kept the homage to Twinbrook to the eternal thanks of the McNiven family.
Now McNiven is hoping Twinbrook will sell the next Twin B Joe Fresh this week in Harrisburg.
