2018 NEW STALLIONS GUN RUNNER HEADING TO STUD AFTER PEGASUS WORLD CUP ARROGATE PICKS UP TORCH FOR UNBRIDLED S SONG

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1 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, NEW STALLIONS GUN RUNNER HEADING TO STUD AFTER PEGASUS WORLD CUP ARROGATE PICKS UP TORCH FOR UNBRIDLED S SONG LORD NELSON GETS DELAYED START TO SECOND CAREER GUN RUNNER Photo by Susie Raisher

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3 DRF.COM/BREEDING DAILY RACING FORM Saturday, December 9, 2017 PAGE 3 GUN RUNNER ADDS DEPTH AT THREE CHIMNEYS Barbara D. Livingston Gun Runner, by Candy Ride, will make one final start in the Pegasus World Cup before heading to stud at Three Chimneys Farm. By Nicole Russo After Gun Runner gamely turned back Collected to win the Breeders Cup Classic at Del Mar, co-owners Three Chimneys Farm and Winchell Thoroughbreds were reminded that they had yet to announce the horse s plans for We meant after the party, Three Chimneys Goncalo Torrealba promptly responded to the crew gathered for the post-race press conference. Great answer, trainer Steve Asmussen said with a laugh. But now, the party is almost over. Gun Runner, a virtual lock to be voted Horse of the Year, is wintering at Fair Grounds in New Orleans as he targets the $16 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational in late January. That will mark his final career start, after which he will head to Three Chimneys Farm in time for the Northern Hemisphere breeding season that begins in mid-february. One of the continent s most anticipated new stallions of 2018, Gun Runner will debut for an advertised fee of $70,000. There was initially a lot, a lot, a lot, of talk, according to Torrealba, about campaigning Gun Runner for a full season as a 5-year-old, potentially concluding with the 2018 Classic at his home track, Churchill Downs. But once he won the 2017 Classic with a Beyer Speed Figure of 117 those discussions changed, with the risk and economic factors ultimately too prohibitive to consider running him beyond the Pegasus. The Pegasus, slated for Jan. 27, falls just two days after the Eclipse Awards ceremony at Gulfstream Park. I ll be sad not to see him race next year, because, frankly, he s doing phenomenal, said Ron Winchell, who operates Winchell Thoroughbreds with his mother, Joan. It s not easy to put something away that is working so good. He doesn t have any nagging problems, he s 100 percent sound, healthy. The economics [are a factor], plus the fact he s accomplished about all he can accomplish he really doesn t have anything to prove at this point. Regardless of the Pegasus result, Gun Runner s team Continued on page 4

4 PAGE 4 Saturday, December 9, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING Continued from page 3 America s Turf Authority Since 1894 will look back on his career with pride. The consistent son of Candy Ride currently sports a career mark of from 18 starts and earnings of $8,998,500. He posted his first Grade 1 score against older horses in last year s Clark Handicap, and this summer and fall ripped through top-level tallies in the Stephen Foster Handicap by seven lengths, Whitney by 5 1/4 lengths, and Woodward by 10 1/4 lengths before the Classic. His four other graded stakes victories are led by the 2016 Louisiana Derby. His notable stakes placings include a runner-up effort to Arrogate in the Dubai World Cup, a second in the 2016 Breeders Cup Dirt Mile, and a game third-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, not wilting after running on a hot pace. He doesn t owe us anything, Asmussen said. Gun Runner represents the first partnership between the Winchell family, which campaigned and holds an interest in leading sire Tapit, and Three Chimneys, under the leadership of the Brazilian Borges-Torrealba family, which acquired a controlling interest from farm founder Robert Clay in Three Chimneys acquired Gun Runner as a yearling in a package deal from breeder Besilu Stables. The latter had purchased his dam, Grade 2 winner Quiet Giant, out of the record-breaking dispersal of the stock of the late Edward P. Evans at the 2011 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. The following spring, Besilu principal Benjamin Leon bred the mare to Candy Ride. The resulting foal, Gun Runner, was originally slated to be sold at auction as a 2-yearold, but the colt caught the eye of Ron Winchell, and a partnership was forged. I have been fortunate enough to own several great horses, but Gun Runner is clearly at the top of my list, Winchell said. He is the horse of a lifetime. His brilliance was recognizable early and improved with every season. His consistency, soundness, and race recovery were comparable to none. These traits should serve him well as a Debra A. Roma Gun Runner wins the Breeders Cup Classic as part of a 2017 campaign expected to conclude with Horse of the Year honors. stallion. Kentucky-bound stallion prospects who made their final starts in the Breeders Cup immediately headed for their respective farms in order to take advantage of the opportunity to be showcased to domestic and international breeders in town for Kentucky s major mixed-market sales in November. This presented a hurdle for Gun Runner, who was to remain in training. But since the colt got a week of downtime following the Classic, his schedule was adjusted to give him an abbreviated window of showing. Instead of spending the week walking Asmussen s shed row at Churchill Downs, he instead spent it about an hour away in Lexington at Three Chimneys, accompanied by a team led by assistant trainer Scott Blasi, so as not to upset his routine. He shipped from there to Fair Grounds. We wanted to do what s best for the horse, said Grant Williamson, director of stallion nominations and sales at Three Chimneys. He knows those guys, those guys know him very well. They ve been with him for three years. We were making changes anyway, bringing him to the farm, you don t want to make too many chances at once. Williamson said breeders were impressed by Gun Runner s physical condition and level of energy following the Classic. You really want to get people in the door to see him in the flesh, because when you run a race like that, and he comes off the van and looks the way he looks, it makes a big impression on people, he said. Racetrack accomplishments aside, Gun Runner is bred to be a stallion. His sire is Argentinian champion Candy Ride, a son of Ride the Rails who came to the United States to win the Pacific Classic. Perennially among the nation s top 10 sires, Candy Ride is showing promise as a sire of sires. His son Twirling Candy was the second-leading freshman sire of 2015, behind only record-setting Uncle Mo, and has continued to produce, represented by graded winners Danzing Candy, Finley sluckycharm, and Morticia this year alone. Sons Sidney s Candy and Misre- Continued on page 6 John J. 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6 PAGE 6 Saturday, December 9, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING GUN RUNNER ADDS DEPTH AT THREE CHIMNEYS Continued from page 4 membered have both sired graded stakes performers. Candy Ride has two other sons coming to stud in Kentucky this year in unbeaten Grade 1 winner Mastery at Claiborne Farm and graded winner Unified at Lane s End, alongside his sire. Gun Runner s pedigree is an outcross to every good North American mare, Torrealba said. Candy Ride, I think he belongs to America now. He s a marvelous outcross to Tapits, to A.P. Indys, you name it. Gun Runner also has a chance to carry on the family line of 2005 Horse of the Year Saint Liam, among the several stakes-performing half-siblings to Quiet Giant. Saint Liam stood only one season at stud before a freak, fatal accident in which be broke his leg rearing while being led to his paddock. His lone crop of 98 foals included 10 stakes winners and another eight stakes-placed runners, led by 2011 Horse of the Year Havre de Grace and graded stakes winners Buddy s Saint, Liam s Dream, and Upgrade. I am a big believer in top families, and with two Horses of the Year in his first two dams, one could make a case that there is no more active or relevant pedigree in the stud book today than that of Gun Runner, Torrealba said. Asmussen has often referenced Saint Liam while discussing Gun Runner s career trajectory, noting that the 2005 champion was a laterdeveloping horse who won his first Grade 1 at age 4 and had his best season at age 5. Gun Runner obviously is bigger, stronger [in 2017], everything that his pedigree indicated would happen, Asmussen said. Being a Candy Ride out of a Giant s Causeway mare, he s half to Saint Liam, who was best as an older horse, had to obviously come to fruition. And he s a bigger, stronger, better version. That s a lot of travel this year, lot of fast races, and I think he s better than he s ever been. David Fiske, longtime manager for Winchell Thoroughbreds, also has given credit to broodmare sire Giant s Causeway, who stands at Coolmore s Ashford Stud, for Gun Runner s toughness and durability. Coolmore ran a whole ad campaign about Giant s Causeway being The Iron Horse, and I think that s where [Gun Runner] gets it from, Fiske said. He s just as tough as they come. He s like one of those guys in a movie you knock him down, he gets right back up and goes, Bring it on! While most of the family is later-developing, Williamson noted that Gun Runner displayed some of the precocity that is valued in the American bloodstock market. The colt won his first two career starts as a juvenile, then finished fourth in a salty edition of the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, running on a wet track, which is responsible for his only two unplaced efforts. We have reason to think he can get earlier types of horses, Williamson said. He did show up at 2, and he s just had a constant development each year. Williamson also pointed to Gun Runner s physical build and conformation as an indicator of future success in the market. He s a beautiful horse. He s bigger than people think we sticked him at 16.2 hands, Williamson said. He s a very clean-limbed horse. He s got great balance. He uses himself phenomenally well. When you watch him walk, he really does have a great low action, which you see translates to him on the racetrack. He s got a phenomenal stride. He s a very even horse all through his motions. I think he s so balanced he s going to fit a lot of mares, which is always important. As for those mares, Winchell and Torrealba said they both plan to launch Gun Runner s stud career by supporting him with top mares from each of their respective broodmare bands. Torrealba, specifically, said that he will breed the dams of champion La Verdad and Grade 1 winner Twirling Candy to the young stallion, along with Breeders Cup Distaff winner Stopchargingmaria and Grade 1 winners Malibu Prayer and Pure Clan. Gun Runner will be a major addition to the young stallion roster at Three Chimneys. Only two of the six stallions on the roster Sky Mesa and Caleb s Posse currently have foals of racing age. Champion Will Take Charge and Strong Mandate both have yearlings who were well received this sale season, while Belmont Stakes winner Palace Malice and Fast Anna have their first weanlings this year. It s gaining its legs right now, Williamson said of the roster. Gun Runner is obviously a very significant addition to it, but it was already heading in the right direction. I feel that the yearlings we saw go through this year were kind of indicative of what we ve been seeing since they were foals. You stand horses with those kind of physicals, that s what you hope to produce, and the market responded. That s what we re trying to do. We ve got to be very deliberate in our selection process, he continued. You re projecting four or five years out, which is the challenge. With Gun Runner, the party at Three Chimneys may be just getting started. additional reporting by Joe Nevills Connect with Daily Racing Form on Twitter and stay up to date with news, videos, photos, and TAPRIZE (Tapit - Fun House, by Prized) A son of perennial leading sire Tapit Full brother to Eclipse Award 2014 Champion 3 Year Old Filly, UNTAPABLE (Earnings: $3,926,625) R Star Stallions 5255 N. 350 E., Anderson, IN Inquiries to Leigh Ann Hopper, Phone (765) $2,500 Live Foal

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8 PAGE 8 Saturday, December 9, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING ARROGATE BRINGS PROMISE OF TRUE DIRT SPEED By Nicole Russo It s about a 10-minute drive from Taylor Made Farm, where Unbridled s Song once reigned supreme, to Juddmonte Farm, where Arrogate now occupies a spacious, deeply bedded stall in the stallion barn. Leif Aaron knows those winding roads along Tates Creek on the south side of Lexington well. He began his career in the Thoroughbred industry as a groom at Juddmonte 17 years ago, and worked in a variety of capacities including pedigree research, stakes filly recruiting, and investment portfolios over several years at Taylor Made, which stood Unbridled s Song and sold a mare named Bubbler to Clearsky Farm. This year, Aaron rejoined Juddmonte to manage the careers of its stallions, including the son of Unbridled s Song and Bubbler, a tall gray who eerily resembles his late sire. I think he s very similar to Unbridled s Song overall, especially when you look at his coloring, his size, the quality he brings to the table, Aaron said. This guy is a bit shorter in the back, maybe a little bit, with a little bit more leg. [The impression he gives is] he s a speedster, and it s amazing he could carry that speed like he could. Arrogate, who leads all North American runners with $17,422,600 in career earnings, is among the latest champions to emerge from the sire line of Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled. The stallion, champion son of Fappiano, has been profoundly influential, particularly in American classic-distance races, despite his premature death in 2001 at age 14. Unbridled sired a winner of every Triple Crown race, with 1996 Kentucky Derby winner Grindstone emerging from his first crop as Unbridled s Song, running on a bar shoe, finished a creditable fifth as the favorite. He was followed by 2000 Preakness Stakes winner Red Bullet and 2003 Belmont Stakes victor Empire Maker, a Juddmonte homebred. Empire Maker is responsible, via his classic-placed son Pioneerof the Nile, for Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year American Pharoah and classic-placed champion Classic Empire. Another classic-placed son of Empire Maker, Bodemeister, sired Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming in his first crop. Grindstone s son Birdstone won the 2004 Belmont Stakes, and his first-crop sons Mine That Bird and Summer Bird accounted for two-thirds of the 2009 Triple Crown series. Another son of Unbridled, Broken Vow, has been a quiet stalwart, with Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies winner and champion Champagne Room his most recent standout. Barbara D. Livingston Arrogate will stand his first season at stud at Juddmonte Farm for a $75,000 fee. It s hard to come up with that true dirt speed, Aaron said. That s what a lot of Americans want, dirt speed and the ability to go a classic distance. Unbridled s Song stood at Taylor Made from his retirement in 1997 until his death in 2013 and was the family operation s flagship stallion. He is the sire of Eclipse Award champions Arrogate, Midshipman, and Will Take Charge; Canadian champion Embur s Song; a trio of Breeders Cup Distaff winners in Unbridled Elaine, Unrivaled Belle, and Forever Unbridled; and Breeders Cup Dirt Mile winner Liam s Map, among his many other stakes performers. And yet, Unbridled s Song s sons have been only moderately successful at stud to date. Juddmonte homebred First Defence sired its champion Close Hatches; Midshipman sired the consistent campaigner Lady Shipman; and Even the Score turned out a pair of Grade 1 winners in Dullahan and Take the Points. Arrogate is one of several accomplished young sons of Unbridled s Song to go to stud in recent years. Champion Will Take Charge, standing at Three Chimneys, has been well received with his first crop of yearlings at sale; Liam s Map, standing at Lane s End, has weanlings this year. Continued on page 10

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10 PAGE 10 Saturday, December 9, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING ARROGATE BRINGS PROMISE OF TRUE DIRT SPEED Continued from page 8 We re really seeing the best sons of Unbridled s Song to go to stud yet, Aaron said. That side of the line is ready to take off. Arrogate was bred by Clearsky Farm, which sold him at the 2014 Keeneland September yearling sale for $560,000. Juddmonte purchased him to fit its new California string, having decided to re-expand into that region after a hiatus following the death of Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel. Juddmonte tapped another Hall of Famer, Bob Baffert, as trainer, but, recalled Juddmonte manager Garrett O Rourke, Our breeding program didn t quite produce the sort of horses that Bob trained, and [owner Prince Khalid Abdullah] said, Well, buy some horses then. Baffert scouted out Arrogate working with bloodstock agent Donato Lanni, in conjunction with O Rourke. Not only do we have a short list, but then we send it back to Prince Khalid, and he has the final thing, Baffert said during Arrogate s 3-year-old campaign. If he s all right with the pedigree he made it known that he not only wants to try to get a good horse, but a good stallion with good pedigree. So he fit you know, we had to check all the boxes. Juddmonte purchased 16 yearlings at three editions of the Keeneland September sale from 2013 to In October 2015, Baffert called O Rourke to update him on the unstarted son of Unbridled s Song. I said, Garrett, I think I ve found one that s going to pay for all of them. I said, I think we ve stumbled onto a really good horse, Baffert said. He showed run as a 2-year-old, and he had some shin problems. He was a big, tall horse, so Garrett says, You know what, just give him the time. Don t worry about it. Arrogate made his debut in April of his 3-year-old season, finishing third at Los Alamitos. He won next out at Santa Anita, which would kick off a seven-race win streak. He followed the maiden score with a pair of allowance victories at Santa Anita and Del Mar before Baffert launched him into the deep end, shipping cross-country for a wide-open edition of the $1.25 million Travers Stakes. The field included classic winners Exaggerator and Creator, plus future Grade 1 winners Gun Runner and Connect. It was Arrogate s coming-out party. He romped by 13 1/2 lengths and finished the 1 1/4 miles in 1:59.36, smashing General Assembly s 37-year-old track record. I rode his father he looks so much like TOP INCOMING STUD FEES IN KENTUCKY In the early part of this century, stud fees for incoming Kentucky stallions were soaring. Horse of the Year Ghostzapper (Adena Springs) entered stud for $200,000 in 2006 a debut fee it would take a decade, and a Triple Crown winner, to match while champions Smarty Jones (Three Chimneys) and Bernardini (Darley) cashed in on their racetrack accomplishments to the tune of $100,000. But the crash and subsequent recession of late 2008 hit the Thoroughbred bloodstock and sales industry hard, and with a selective market trending toward proven stock, debut stud fees became one of the clearest markers of those effects. Two-time Horse of the Year Curlin (Lane s End), one of the most accomplished runners of recent years, debuted for only $75,000, and no Kentucky stallion in the next five years debuted for more than $35,000. Arrogate, at $75,000, and Gun Runner, at $70,000, enter a market that again has warmed to new stallions. Here is a year-by-year look at Kentucky s top incoming stud fees of the past decade. YEAR STALLION FARM STUD FEE 2009 Curlin lane s End $75, Zensational hill n Dale 25, blame Claiborne 35, lookin At Lucky Coolmore/Ashford 35, quality Road lane s End 35, uncle Mo Coolmore/Ashford 35, union Rags lane s End 35, animal Kingdom Darley 35,000* 2015 Will Take Charge three Chimneys 30, american Pharaoh Coolmore/Ashford 200, frosted Darley 50, arrogate Juddmonte 75,000 *First Kentucky season for Animal Kingdom, who entered stud the prior Southern Hemisphere season in Australia his father, jockey Mike Smith said after the Travers. He was an unbelievably talented horse, and his son might be even more talented. It s crazy. He just did a mile and a quarter, and as you can see galloping out, I had trouble getting him to stop. We headed for home, and he picked it up when I asked him. I was amazed how he lengthened his stride the last sixteenth of a mile and opened up. From there, the rest is history, Arrogate ran down California Chrome to win the $6 million Breeders Cup Classic, then crushed the two-time Horse of the Year when winning the inaugural $12 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational. He then turned in a virtuoso performance in the $10 million Dubai World Cup. After breaking slowly, he rallied past Gun Runner in the stretch to win by 2 1/4 lengths. That series of indelible performances, despite losing his final three career starts, made Arrogate a highly anticipated stallion prospect, with his $75,000 introductory fee the highest of the year in North America. Juddmonte announced prior to the Breeders Cup that the Classic would mark Arrogate s final career start deciding to pass on a bid for a Pegasus repeat in January in favor of allowing the horse time to let down and adjust to farm life, and giving breeders more time to view him. The good horsemanship way to do it is to retire him after the Breeders Cup, let the horse let down, relax, and from the marketing point of view, the right thing to do is allow the breeders to view the horse so they may select the absolute best mates for the horse based on the evaluation of his good looks and conformation, O Rourke said at the time. Obviously, if you only arrive at the farm in February, that will make the decision more difficult for breeders. Arrogate s book size has been set at 142 for his initial season. Juddmonte, which breeds to race, has been preparing for his arrival for months by carefully consider- Continued on page 12

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12 PAGE 12 Saturday, December 9, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING ARROGATE BRINGS PROMISE OF TRUE DIRT SPEED Continued from page 10 ing its broodmare band for example, with the private purchase of Paulassilverlining, a multiple Grade 1 winner this year, in March. Beyond that, Arrogate will be limited to 120 outside mares, in order to foster supplyand-demand dynamics that will benefit breed-to-sell operations, who can feel secure that they won t bring a weanling or a yearling to a sale that is inundated with Arrogate s stock. When you re a breeder and go to a sale with an Arrogate foal, they re gonna get rewarded, Aaron said. It s one reason why we ve gotten such a nice book of mares so far. It helps with management. Arrogate landed a major coup when perhaps the most accomplished broodmare prospect in North America this season, two-time Eclipse Award champion Songbird, was booked to him. Mandy Pope, who has assembled a high-end broodmare band in recent years, purchased the Medaglia d Oro filly for a near-record $9.5 million at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale. Other prominent breeders who have expressed support for Arrogate include Samantha Siegel, who has booked multiple Grade 1-winning homebred By the Moon; and Glen Hill Farm, which has committed its stakes-winning Storm Cat mare Sly Storm. Arrogate will be one of two active stallions at Juddmonte s Kentucky farm in 2018, joining another gray, the stalwart Mizzen Mast, in the barn. The latter has been by his lonesome since Juddmonte sold First Defence in The international operation, which has a five-horse roster at its Banstead Manor Stud in England, has retired two accomplished runners to Kentucky in recent years, but they have stood at other farms in order to get other American breeders involved for the best chance of success. European champion Noble Mission, a full brother to Frankel, stands at Lane s End, with Juddmonte retaining an interest. Eclipse winner Flintshire stands at Hill n Dale for the partnership of that farm, Juddmonte, China Horse Club, and SF Bloodstock. If you look at the stallion rosters at a lot of the big stallion farms in the U.S., you ll see that most of those operations didn t actually race the majority of the horses themselves, O Rourke said earlier this year. You have to go out and buy them, and we re not willing to do that. We race our own horses; we have to be patient in allowing the horses to be good enough in their racing careers to come back. Looking at our rosters over the years, it s about every five to seven years that we come across a really top horse we can stand at stud. That s on average. Sometimes you ll get two or three in a row and then get a gap. We re having a little bit of a gap at the moment, and hopefully we re ready to get two or three in a row. Obviously, we have a very important one. DRF s exclusive SirePoweredResults Now sortable by Beyer Speed Figure DRF.com/breeder-results

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14 PAGE 14 Saturday, December 9, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING FOR LORD NELSON, A LONG ROAD TO STUD By Joe Nevills A stallion open house at Spendthrift Farm is often a laid-back affair. Expensive decisions are made by breeders as they inspect the horses and plan their matings, of course, but the business is broken up by laughs, handshakes, and catered sandwiches. The stakes are relatively low for the stallions themselves in the moment as they stand, walk, and go back to their stalls. For Lord Nelson, just getting to that point was a triumph. The trials of the 5-year-old Pulpit horse have been well documented over the past year, starting last fall when a cut on his leg developed into an infection that forced his withdrawal from the 2016 Breeders Cup Sprint and his retirement to Spendthrift Farm. Set at a 2017 fee of $25,000 under a standard stands-and-nurses contract and for $30,000 as part of the Share the Upside program, Lord Nelson was poised for a well-supported debut season at stud. However, the onset of laminitis in both his front feet forced Spendthrift to cancel his book in January. He spent a redshirt season under careful monitoring by Spendthrift staff, which worked closely with top Kentucky clinics Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital and Hagyard Equine Medical Institute. Slowly, the team rebuilt Lord Nelson s hooves and treated his infection with antibiotics. I think this is a horse who is always likely to be at a little bit greater risk for issues than another horse, but so far so good, said Ned Toffey, Spendthrift s general manager. After a lot of gradual, small, incremental increases in exercise, we ve got him to the point where he s going out into a small paddock for several hours a day, and he s handling that really well. His condition improved at such a satisfactory rate that Spendthrift announced in October that Lord Nelson would make his belated debut at stud for the 2018 breeding season. He was showcased publicly to breeders for the first time in November, walking gingerly on modified rocker shoes and kept to a limited schedule out of his stall to avoid overtaxing his still-recovering frame. There was still plenty of work to be done for Lord Nelson as a patient, but his development from an ailing horse into a viable stallion prospect earned the respect of many that saw him. I thought he looked fantastic at Spendthrift when I saw him during the November sale, said George Adams of Maryland-based Housatonic Bloodstock. I Barbara D. Livingston Numerous health setbacks delayed Lord Nelson s debut breeding season until wasn t sure exactly what to expect, and obviously his feet still aren t perfect, but he looked to be in great condition otherwise, and he s still a very attractive, wellbalanced horse. Toffey said a number of special measures would be in place to ensure Lord Nelson s safety during his first season. The first will be reining in Lord Nelson s book. The stallion will once again be advertised at $25,000, but only under a stands-and-nurses contract. Toffey said it was difficult to ask breeders to commit to a long-term plan like Share the Upside when Lord Nelson s capability to handle a full workload was still unknown. Share the Upside is an incentive program started by Spendthrift Farm in which breeders can earn a lifetime right to an incoming stallion by breeding to him for an agreed-upon number of seasons and producing a live foal each time. Breeders would have activated their lifetime breeding right for Lord Nelson after two seasons. However, breeders who bought into Share the Upside seasons on Lord Nelson last year were put at the front of the line for the stallion s limited book in Toffey said there had been a few defectors, but the vast majority of breeders who were on board last year have remained on board after seeing him this fall. We re pretty optimistic about the fact that he should be able to breed mares this year, Toffey said. Right now, the plan is to sell 80 seasons, and then depending on how he handles that kind of book, we may supplement it with more seasons that we may sell or use ourselves. It s tough to sell a season and tell someone they can t breed, so we re trying to be conservative with the numbers, and want to make sure we do the right thing for the horse and not put too much stress on him, he continued. We ll try to keep him close to one or two covers per day, and if he s handling things well, we may add some of our own mares in there. One early adopter who will be back is Adams, who planned to send the winning Broken Vow mare I m Engaged to Lord Nelson in 2017, and once again penciled in the mare to be part of his first book in Adams was sold on Lord Nelson follow- Continued on page 16

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16 PAGE 16 Saturday, December 9, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING FOR LORD NELSON, A LONG ROAD TO STUD Continued from page 14 ing his victory in the Grade 1 Triple Bend Stakes at Santa Anita in June 2016 and informed Spendthrift of his intent to buy a Share the Upside season when they became available. The farm kept him updated on the horse s condition after his injury, and Adams sent I m Engaged to Ashford Stud resident Declaration of War when Lord Nelson s season was canceled. They told the Share the Upside folks before they d announced it publicly that the horse wasn t going to breed last season, Adams said. So I was prepared for it, and didn t feel like it came out of left field. Obviously, it was disappointing, but it s great that they did the right thing by the horse. Missing out on the chance to earn a lifetime breeding right to Lord Nelson was a downer for Adams when he heard the stallion would not be offered through Share the Upside in 2018, but he said the time and convalescence did not change his pedigree or race record. Even though I m a commercial breeder and did have a moment where I wondered if missing the year would hurt Lord Nelson s first foals at the sales, I think he s been in the news enough that people haven t forgotten about him, Adams said. Plus, as good looking as he is, he should have beautiful foals. Actually, with Spendthrift limiting his book because of his health, that might help out those of us who are breeding to him a bit in the sales ring when the time comes. Mare selection will be a key element of Lord Nelson s first book. Toffey said the farm will aim for his mares to be veterans of the breeding process, especially early in the season, to reduce risk in his covers. I m Engaged, for example, would meet Lord Nelson for her seventh mating. He s not the type that needs to be fighting with tough maiden mares, so we ll insist the mares be in very good heat and stand very well, Toffey said. He s in a shoe that gives him a tremendous amount of cushion, and he s going to stay in a specialized shoe, certainly through breeding season. While Lord Nelson has shown the physical development and interest that suggests he will be ready for the breeding shed, Toffey said the stallion has not yet covered a test mare, and likely will not until January, but that schedule would be standard procedure regardless of the horse s history. In relative terms, it wasn t that long ago that we were in quite serious condition with this horse, Toffey said. We re trying to put as much time between that and doing anything as stressful as breeding. Tentatively, it would be sometime in mid-january that we would test-breed, and that s not an uncommon time for us to test-breed our stallions anyway. If he was a horse that just came to us after the Breeders Cup and he were here settling in, that s roughly the time we would be looking at doing it anyway. By that time, we ll probably have another one or two settings on him from a shoeing standpoint, Toffey continued. Lately, with every new shoeing, he s improved in growing more foot and getting closer to something approaching normal. We ll try to get him to that point. I don t think we re being overconfident.

17 DRF.COM/BREEDING DAILY RACING FORM Saturday, December 9, 2017 PAGE 17 KENTUCKY FARMS CALLING ON FAMILIAR SIRELINES Barbara D. Livingston Classic Empire, the 2016 champion juvenile male, will kick off his stallion career at Coolmore s Ashford Stud for a $35,000 fee. By Nicole Russo The Thoroughbred industry is a landscape of dynasties and history. That is evident in this year s Kentucky class of sires, with major farms tapping into lines that have worked for them in the past by standing young stallions aside their sires or close relations, or securing sons from rising sirelines. Classic Empire fits the pattern for Coolmore in more ways than one. The colt is the sixth of the last eight Eclipse Award champion juveniles to enter stud at the international outfit s Ashford Stud in Kentucky, following Lookin At Lucky (2009), Uncle Mo (2010), Hansen (2011), Shanghai Bobby (2013), and American Pharoah (2014). American Pharoah, who went on to win the Triple Crown, is by Pioneerof the Nile, also the sire of Classic Empire. Coolmore announced days following Classic Empire s runner-up effort in the Preakness Stakes which turned out to be his final career start that it had inked a deal to stand the John Oxley colorbearer upon retirement. The colt concluded his career with 5 wins in 9 starts for earnings of $2,520,220. He was unanimously named 2016 s Eclipse Award champion 2-yearold male after a campaign highlighted by wins in the Breeders Cup Juvenile and Grade 1 Breeders Futurity. But in his 3-year-old debut, Classic Empire finished third in the Grade 2 Holy Bull Stakes as the heavy favorite and came out of the race with a foot abscess. He displayed discomfort in his back, and at least twice refused to train at Palm Meadows training center. Trainer Mark Casse sent Classic Empire to the quieter Winding Oaks Farm in Ocala, Fla., where he was trained as a young horse. After breezing several times there, the colt won the Arkansas Derby, making him the morning-line favorite for the Kentucky Derby. He finished a creditable fourth with a troubled trip in the full field. Classic Empire dueled Derby winner Always Dreaming into submission in the Preakness and was clear by three lengths in the stretch, but was caught by Cloud Computing at the wire for a head loss. Off that effort, Classic Empire was expected to be favored in the Belmont Stakes, but was withdrawn from consideration the week of the race with a hoof abscess. After refusing to breeze at Saratoga in August and again exhibiting back discomfort he was sent back to Winding Oaks, with an eye on making the Pennsylvania Derby in late September. He never breezed there. Unfortunately, we just ran out of time to get him to the Breeders Cup Classic, Casse said. I could never get him completely over his foot abscess, and it wasn t possible to train him the way I needed in order to bring him back at the highest level, which is where he deserved to be. He s an extremely talented horse that can do anything, and he overcame a lot of adversity to achieve what he did. I still believe he was the most talented horse of his generation. Classic Empire, a half-brother to stakes winners Anytime Magic and Uptown Twirl, is from the family of Grade 1 winner and prominent sire Harlan s Holiday, whose sons at stud include leading juvenile sire Into Mischief and Shanghai Bobby, now a freshman at Ashford. Classic Empire s brilliance on the track is reinforced with a pedigree full of black type, Ashford director of sales Charlie O Connor said in a press release. We couldn t be more excited to be standing him. Classic Empire debuts for an advertised fee of $35,000 ranking him third in incoming fees behind only Arrogate and Gun Runner. He keys a trio of newcomers at Ashford which also welcomes Grade 1 winners Cupid, by leading sire Tapit, Continued on page 18

18 PAGE 18 Saturday, December 9, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING KENTUCKY FARMS CALLING ON FAMILIAR SIRELINES Continued from page 17 and Practical Joke, by Into Mischief, to its Kentucky farm. The three look to give breeders a range of options. While Classic Empire was precocious, he was a multiple Grade 1 winner at route distances and a prominent classics contender. Cupid has been described by trainer Bob Baffert as a tweener a mile to a mile and an eighth, and Practical Joke has done his best work around one turn. Cupid, a multiple Grade 2 winner as a 3-year-old, won this year s Gold Cup at Santa Anita, giving him a résumé-boosting Grade 1 victory for Coolmore, which purchased him for $900,000 as a yearling. Practical Joke won last year s Grade 1 Hopeful and Grade 1 Champagne stakes, and finished third in the Breeders Cup Juvenile. This year, he has competed creditably in longer-distance races, highlighted when he was beaten less than a length in the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational. However, his best performances have come around one turn, including a 1 3/4-length win in the Grade 1 H. Allen Jerkens at Saratoga. To cut back all the way to seven-eighths after a tough race in the Haskell, I m so proud of this horse, trainer Chad Brown said after the victory. He s so versatile. It was his third race in seven weeks. He s our iron horse. After finishing fourth in the Breeders Cup Dirt Mile, Practical Joke closed his career with a third-place finish in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile in December before heading to Ashford. Multiple graded stakes winner Tom s Ready also concluded his career in the Cigar Mile, finishing fifth, before retiring to Spendthrift Farm. Spendthrift will debut a trio of newcomers in 2018, with multiple Grade 1 winner Gormley standing alongside his sire, Malibu Moon, and multiple Grade 1 winner Lord Nelson making his long-awaited debut. Although Tom s Ready has done his campaigning on dirt, he is by the popular turf and shuttle sire More Than Ready, making him an attractive prospect for Spendthrift, which launched a stallion operation in Australia in Lord Nelson is a son of the late Pulpit, whose branch of the A.P. Indy line is responsible for Tapit, as well as fellow classic sire Lucky Pulpit. Pulpit has another son entering stud in Kentucky this year in Grade 3 winner American Freedom at Airdrie, while Tapit s multiple Grade 2-winning son Mohaymen will debut at Shadwell Farm. Grade 1 winner Connect begins his Emily Shields Connect, a Grade 1-winning 4-year-old by Curlin, will stand at Lane s End in career at Lane s End, the same farm that launched the career of his sire, Curlin. Lane s End also will stand Grade 2 winner Unified alongside his sire, Candy Ride, who has two Grade 1 winners entering stud this year in Gun Runner at Three Chimneys and Mastery at Claiborne. Mastery, unbeaten in his brief career before injury forced his retirement, is from the family of prominent sires Jump Start and Miswaki. Curlin will have another son entering stud this year in Keen Ice, who recorded 10 graded wins or placings, highlighted by his 2015 Travers score over Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and a third-place finish to American Pharoah in the Belmont Stakes. He also was third behind Arrogate and California Chrome in the 2016 Breeders Cup Classic. Calumet, which has developed an eclectic stallion roster with a variety of international influences, also adds Brazilian-bred Bal a Bali, by Put It Back; French-bred Behesht, by Sea The Stars; Mr. Z, by Malibu Moon; English-bred Producer, by Dutch Art; and War Correspondent, by War Front. Bal a Bali won the 2014 Triple Crown and was Horse of the Year in Brazil. He later overcame laminitis to become a Grade 1 winner in the United States. Bal a Bali has as much heart as you could ask for from a stallion prospect, Calumet s Jak Knelman said. To be such a dominant 2-year-old and 3-year-old, and then to overcome laminitis and return to be a multiple Grade 1 winner really shows how much grit and determination he has as a racehorse. As he won from five furlongs up to 12 furlongs, with his preferred distance at a mile, he has the ability to sire a speedy 2-year-old while giving his progeny every chance to win at the classic distance. Multiple group stakes performer War Correspondent is a full brother to Declaration of War and is from the immediate family of Union Rags, both successful young sires. Grade 1-placed Mr. Z is out of a full sister to champion Chief Bearheart and is from the female family of Mr. Prospector. Medaglia d Oro features prominently in the ranks of North America s elite sires, with his stud fee rising to $250,000 following a season in which his seven Grade 1 winners included a pair of Breeders Cup victors. Darley has thus called up his Group 1-winning son Astern to shuttle for his first Kentucky season after launching his stud career this year at its Australian farm. Breeders Cup Dirt Mile winner Battle of Midway will be one of the last significant sons of the late Smart Strike retiring to stud, as the colt heads to WinStar Farm. WinStar stands Pioneerof the Nile, whose versatile Grade 1 winner Midnight Storm enters stud across town at Taylor Made, as a Taylor Made/WinStar venture. Other stallions retiring to major Kentucky farms this season include Grade 1 winner Klimt (by Quality Road) at Darby Dan, and multiple graded stakes winner Bird Song (Unbridled s Song) at Gainesway. Bird Song is a close relation to Gainesway s multiple classic sire Birdstone, being from the same sireline and out of a half-sister to the stallion.

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20 PAGE 20 Saturday, December 9, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING DORTMUND PART OF A MARYLAND RESURGENCE Barbara D. Livingston Dortmund, a multiple Grade 1-winning son of Big Brown, will make his stallion debut for $7,500 at Bonita Farm in Darlington, Md. By Joe Nevills Kentucky traditionally sees the most stallions enter its ranks each breeding season, but the migration of prospects from the racetrack to regional farms can fluctuate depending on the health of each state s program. Breeders and buyers at auction have taken notice of the Maryland-bred program s growth in recent years, helped by The Stronach Group s investment in Laurel Park and a lucrative incentive program for owners and breeders of Maryland-breds who race in the state. With the death of stalwart Not For Love, Maryland will have plenty of new contenders for the position of new cornerstone sire. Maryland s stallion roster will see at least eight new members during the upcoming breeding season, led by multiple Grade 1 winner Dortmund, who will debut at Bonita Farm in Darlington for an advertised fee of $7,500. The 5-year-old son of Big Brown won 8 of 16 starts for earnings of $1,987,505, highlighted by wins in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Futurity and Santa Anita Derby and a third in the 2015 Kentucky Derby. We ve got a lot going on in Maryland right now, said J. William Boniface of Bonita Farm. The breeder and owner bonuses are escalating, and the purse structure is escalating. We re excited to have a stallion of his caliber start in Maryland. Maryland s ready for him. Dortmund is one of three stallions slated to debut at Bonita Farm in 2018, joining Alliance and Kobe s Back. Alliance, an unraced 3-year-old Harlan s Holiday colt and half-brother to champion Tepin and Grade 2 winner Vyjack, will stand for $4,000. Kobe s Back, a multiple Grade 2-winning son of Flatter, will be advertised at $3,000. Elsewhere in the state, Grade 2 winner Madefromlucky, a son of Lookin At Lucky, will stand at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City for $5,000. Holy Boss, a Grade 2-winning son of Street Boss, will debut at Anchor & Hope Farm in Port Deposit. Divining Rod, a Grade 3-winning, classic-placed Tapit horse, will stand at Country Life Farm in Bel Air for $5,000. He will stand for the partnership of Roy and Gretchen Jackson, who raced him, as well as Country Life Farm and Kentuckybased Gainesway. Blofeld, a Grade 2 winner by Quality Road, will stand at Murmur Farm in Darlington for $4,000, while Editorial, a winning half-brother to champion Uncle Mo by War Front, will reside at Roland Farm in Chesapeake City for $3,500. Florida A pair of Grade 1-winning stallions will stand their first season at Ocala Stud in Ocala for $5,000 Noble Bird, a son of Birdstone, and Greenpointcrusader, a son of Bernardini. Mylute, a classic-placed runner by Midnight Lute, will stand at GoldMark Farm in Ocala, while Gentlemen s Bet, a Grade 1-placed stakes winner by Half Ours, debuts at Journeyman Stud for $3,000. Grade 3 winner Ocean Knight, by Curlin, will stand at Get Away Farm in Lowell for $4,000. California The biggest splash in California s new stallion ranks came from Shaman Ghost, Continued on page 21

21 DRF.COM/BREEDING DAILY RACING FORM Saturday, December 9, 2017 PAGE 21 Continued from page 20 a Grade 1 winner who also took the 2015 Queen s Plate. The son of Ghostzapper will spearhead a campaign by owner Frank Stronach to expand his interests in the state, where he owns Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields. A farm was still to be determined for Shaman Ghost, but he was announced at a fee of $10,000. Multiple Grade 2 winner Danzing Candy will take the first stride toward proving Twirling Candy as a sire of sires when he debuts at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel for $5,000. Tommy Town Thoroughbreds in Santa Ynez will have three new stallions on its 2018 roster Stanford, a Grade 2-winning son of Malibu Moon who will stand for $5,000; War Envoy, a Group 2-placed War Front horse advertised at $5,000; and Saburo, a half-brother to Canadian champion Miss Mischief by Medaglia d Oro who will stand for $3,000. Straight Fire, a multiple Grade 1-placed Dominus colt, will stand at Legacy Ranch in Clements, while Grade 2 winner Texas Ryano, by Curlin, will enter stud at Ballena Vista Farm in Ramona. Both will stand for $3,500. New York The partnership of Stonestreet Stables and Sequel Stallions in Hudson, N.Y., will stand Union Jackson during the upcoming season for $5,000. The Curlin horse is a Grade 3-placed multiple stakes winner. Market Rally, an Unbridled s Song colt who won the Group 3 UAE 2000 Guineas, will take up residence at Irish Hill Century Farm in Stillwater for an advertised fee of $3,000. Canada Colebrook Farms Stallion Station in Uxbridge, Ontario, will debut a pair of stallions for the upcoming season. Passion for Action, a Grade 2-winning Speightstown horse, will stand for $3,000 Canadian for the upcoming season, while Perfect Timber, a Grade 1-placed Perfect Soul horse, will be advertised at $2,500. Arpista, a winning son of Quality Road, will stand at Horsepower Farm in Shelburne, Ontario, for $3,500. Standing elsewhere After a Grade 3-winning career, the Tapit horse Iron Fist retired to Whispering Oaks Farm in Carencro, La., where he is advertised at $6,500. West Virginia s stallion ranks will add Aldrin, a winning half-brother to leading sire Tapit by Malibu Moon, who stands at O Sullivan Farms in Charles Town, W.Va., for $4,000. In the Midwest, General a Rod, a Grade 1-placed Roman Ruler horse, retired to Hidden Springs Farm in Palmyra, Ind., where he will stand for $3,500, while Grade 2 winner Airoforce, by Colonel John, will stand at Swifty Farms in Seymour, Ind., for $2,500. Kiss the Ghost, an unraced Ghostzapper colt, debuts at Poplar Creek Horse Center in Bethel, Ohio, for $1,500. The Southwest s new stallions include Proceed, a stakes-winning Desert God horse who will stand at A & A Ranch in Anthony, N.M., for $3,500. The Candy Ride son Eagle, a Grade 3 winner, will enter stud at Valor Farm in Pilot Point, Texas, for $5,000. Madd Exchange, a winning Exchange Rate horse, will stand at Whitley Ranch and Racing in Texas for $1,000. Pontiff, a winning half-brother to Pulpit by Giant s Causeway, stands at El Dorado Continued on page 22 ITOBA Stallion Season Auction On-line auction goes live January 5, :00pm closes January 8, :00pm Hosted by Starquine.com Daily stallion season updates and supporting stakes opportunities can be found on-line at: Indiana oroughbred Owner's & Breeder's Association ITOBA Stallion Season Auction Stakes Races $75,000 for 3YO fillies and $75,000 colts/geldings Donation forms available at ITOBA.com or contact info@itoba.com (317) Auction and Stakes are a benefit of ITOBA membership

22 PAGE 22 Saturday, December 9, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING DORTMUND PART OF A MARYLAND RESURGENCE Continued from page 21 Farms in Enumclaw, Wash., for $2,500. International Japan s stallion roster will include a trio of names familiar to followers of U.S. racing. Chief among them is Drefong, the 2016 Eclipse Award winner as champion sprinter, who will stand at Shadai Stallion Station. The son of Gio Ponti s career highlight came when he won the 2016 Breeders Cup Sprint at Santa Anita to clinch his award. Grade 1 winner American Patriot, a son of War Front, was purchased by Sheikh Mohammed al-maktoum s Darley operation and will enter stud at its Japanese base. The enigmatic Lani will debut at Arrow Stud after an ontrack career in which the Tapit colt was a Group 3 winner in the United Arab Emirates and classicplaced in the United States. In Ireland, Coolmore Stud will start two sons of their cornerstone sire Galileo Churchill, winner of both the Irish and Debra A. Roma Drefong, the 2016 champion male sprinter, has been exported to stand stud in Japan. English 2000 Guineas, and 2016 Breeders Cup Turf winner Highland Reel. Coolmore s Irish base also will debut Caravaggio, a multiple Group 1-winning Scat Daddy horse. Elsewhere in Ireland, El Kabeir, a Grade 2 winner also by Scat Daddy, will stand at Yeomanstown Stud.

23 DRF.COM/BREEDING DAILY RACING FORM Saturday, December 9, 2017 PAGE 23 FIRST-YEAR SIRES AT STUD IN 2018 CALIFORNIA STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE Danzing Candy 2013 Twirling Candy Rancho San Miguel $5,000 Saburo 2014 Medaglia d Oro Tommy Town Thoroughbreds 3,500 Shaman Ghost 2012 Ghostzapper TBA 10,000 Stanford 2012 Malibu Moon Tommy Town Thoroughbreds 5,000 Straight Fire 2014 Dominus Legacy Ranch 3,500 Texas Ryano 2011 Curlin Ballena Vista Farm 3,500 War Envoy 2012 War Front Tommy Town Thoroughbreds 5,000 FLORIDA STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE Gentlemen s Bet 2009 Half Ours Journeyman Stud 3,000 Greenpointcrusader 2013 Bernardini Ocala Stud 5,000 Noble Bird 2011 Birdstone Ocala Stud 5,000 Mylute 2010 Midnight Lute GoldMark Farm 2,500 Ocean Knight 2012 Curlin Get Away Farm 4,000 INDIANA STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE Airoforce 2013 Colonel John Swifty Farms 2,500 General a Rod 2011 Roman Ruler Hidden Springs Farm 3,500 KENTUCKY STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE American Freedom 2013 Pulpit Airdrie Stud 10,000 Arrogate 2013 Unbridled s Song Juddmonte Farm 75,000 Astern 2013 Medaglia d Oro Darley 15,000 Bal a Bali 2010 Put It Back Calumet Farm 15,000 Battle of Midway 2014 Smart Strike WinStar Farm 20,000 Behest 2011 Sea the Stars Calumet Farm 5,000 Bird Song 2013 Unbridled s Song Gainesway 5,000 Chivalrous 2011 Street Cry Bluegrass Equine Center 2,500 Classic Empire 2014 Pioneerof the Nile Ashford Stud 35,000 Connect 2013 Curlin Lane s End 20,000 Cupid 2013 Tapit Ashford Stud 12,500 Gormley 2014 Malibu Moon Spendthrift Farm 10,000 Gun Runner 2013 Candy Ride Three Chimneys Farm 70,000 Keen Ice 2012 Curlin Calumet Farm 20,000 Klimt 2014 Quality Road Darby Dan Farm 10,000 Lord Nelson 2012 Pulpit Spendthrift Farm 25,000 Mastery 2014 Candy Ride Claiborne Farm 25,000 Midnight Storm 2011 Pioneerof the Nile Taylor Made Farm 12,500 Mohaymen 2013 Tapit Shadwell Farm 7,500 Mr. Z 2012 Malibu Moon Calumet Farm 7,500 Practical Joke 2014 Into Mischief Ashford Stud 30,000 Producer 2009 Dutch Art Calumet Farm 5,000 Tom s Ready 2013 More Than Ready Spendthrift Farm 6,000 Unified 2013 Candy Ride Lane s End 10,000 War Correspondent 2010 War Front Calumet Farm 7,500 Wildcat Red 2011 D wildcat Buck Pond Farm 7,500 LOUSIANA STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE Iron Fist 2012 Tapit Whispering Oaks Farm 6,500

24 PAGE 24 Saturday, December 9, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING FIRST-YEAR SIRES AT STUD IN 2018 (CONT.) MARYLAND STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE Alliance 2014 Harlan s Holiday Bonita Farm $4,000 Blofeld 2012 Quality Road Murmur Farm 4,000 Divining Rod 2012 Tapit Country Life Farm 5,000 Dortmund 2012 Big Brown Bonita Farm 7,500 Editorial 2014 War Front Roland Farm 3,500 Holy Boss 2012 Street Boss Anchor & Hope Farm 4,000 Kobe s Back 2011 Flatter Bonita Farm 3,000 Madefromlucky 2012 Lookin At Lucky Northview Stallion Station 5,000 NEW MEXICO STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE Proceed 2011 Desert God A & A Ranch 3,500 NEW YORK STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE Market Rally 2013 Unbridled s Song Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions 3,000 Union Jackson 2012 Curlin Sequel Stallions 5,000 OHIO STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE Kiss the Ghost 2014 Ghostzapper Poplar Creek Horse Center 1,500 TEXAS STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE Eagle 2012 Candy Ride Valor Farm 5,000 Madd Exchange 2011 Exchange Rate Whitley Ranch And Racing 1,000 WASHINGTON STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE Pontiff 2010 Giant s Causeway El Dorado Farms 2,500 WEST VIRGINIA STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE Aldrin 2012 Malibu Moon O Sullivan Farms 4,000 ONTARIO STALLION YOB SIRE 2018 LOCATION 2018 STUD FEE Arpista 2012 Quality Road Horsepower Farm 2,770 Passion for Action 2012 Speightstown Colebrook Farms 2,370 Perfect Timber 2009 Perfect Soul Colebrook Farms 1, CALIFORNIA STALLIONS This special edition insert will be included in Daily Racing Form on Tuesday, Dec. 26th, opening day at Santa Anita! Space Reservations: Friday, December 15 Contact your ad representative today!

25 Wild Dude 0.6% Isabella Sings Saturday, January 21, 2017 ALL Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for star Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for star Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for starters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. ters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for starters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for star Sires are ranked in this chart by the number of horses posting a 90 or higher Beyer Speed Figure. Sires are ranked in this chart by the number of horses posting a 90 or higher Beyer Speed Figure. 90+ BEYER SPEED FIGURE 100+ BEYER SPEED FIGURES NO. NO. OF NO. NO. OF HIGHEST SIRE STUD FEE STARTERS STARTS HORSES BEYERS PERCENTAGE HORSES BEYERS PERCENTAGE BEYER HORSE Tapit $300, % % Frosted Medaglia d Oro $150, % % Bar of Gold Kitten s Joy $100, % % Divisidero Bernardini $100, % % Imperative Candy Ride (ARG) $60, % % Grand Tito War Front $250, % % Avenge Giant s Causeway $75, % % Jay Gatsby Curlin $150, % % Stellar Wind Smart Strike % % Ten Blessings Scat Daddy % % Celestine Unbridled s Song % % Arrogate Speightstown $100, % % Tamarkuz Distorted Humor $80, % % Ironicus City Zip $50, % % Alert Bay Quality Road $35, % % Blofeld Uncle Mo $150, % % Nyquist Malibu Moon $75, % % Stanford Hard Spun $45, % % Hard Aces Lemon Drop Kid $40, % % Da Big Hoss Sky Mesa $15, % % Sky Captain Harlan s Holiday % % Trouble Kid Northern Afleet $6, % % World Approval More Than Ready $60, % % Zindaya BEYER SIRE PERFORMANCE STANDINGS BEYER VERIFIED Recognizable. Meaningful. Powerful. Introducing Daily Racing Form s Beyer Sire Performance Standings. Sire lists powered by DRF s exclusive Beyer Speed Figures, not just earnings and wins. Copyright 2017 Learn how you can showcase your stallions and their progeny Beyers in this full-year digital, print and platform. DRF.com/beyerstandings Beyers Breed Buyers PAGE 20 Saturday, January 21, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING ALL Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for starters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. Sires are ranked in this chart by the number of horses posting a 90 or higher Beyer Speed Figure. 90+ BEYER SPEED FIGURE 100+ BEYER SPEED FIGURES NO. NO. OF NO. NO. OF HIGHEST HIGHEST SIRE STUD FEE STARTERS STARTS HORSES BEYERS PERCENTAGE HORSES BEYERS PERCENTAGE BEYER HORSE BEYER Tapit $300, % % Frosted 123 Medaglia d Oro $150, % % Bar of Gold 109 Kitten s Joy $100, % % Divisidero 104 Bernardini $100, % % Imperative 105 Candy Ride (ARG) $60, % % Grand Tito 104 War Front $250, % % Avenge 103 Giant s Causeway $75, % % Jay Gatsby 104 Curlin $150, % % Stellar Wind 110 Smart Strike % % Ten Blessings 106 Scat Daddy % % Celestine 107 Unbridled s Song % % Arrogate 122 Speightstown $100, % % Tamarkuz 107 Distorted Humor $80, % % Ironicus 106 City Zip $50, % % Alert Bay 103 Quality Road $35, % % Blofeld 103 Uncle Mo $150, % % Nyquist 103 Malibu Moon $75, % % Stanford 104 Hard Spun $45, % % Hard Aces 105 Lemon Drop Kid $40, % % Da Big Hoss 103 Sky Mesa $15, % % Sky Captain 98 Harlan s Holiday % % Trouble Kid 104 Northern Afleet $6, % % World Approval 106 More Than Ready $60, % % Zindaya 100 Tiz Wonderful % % Shh She s Ours 101 Indian Charlie % % A. P. Indian 107 Ghostzapper $75, % % Paulassilverlining 107 Stormy Atlantic $15, % % Stormy Liberal 100 Mineshaft $25, % % Effinex 106 Galileo (IRE) % % Highland Reel (IRE) 112 Street Cry (IRE) % % Glenville Gardens 103 Flatter $35, % % Ami s Flatter 105 Street Sense $45, % % Tower of Texas 102 Mizzen Mast $10, % % Stonetastic 104 Street Boss $17, % % Holy Boss 105 Wildcat Heir % % Wild Dude 102 Eskendereya % % Isabella Sings 105 Lookin At Lucky $17, % % Money Multiplier 109 Munnings $25, % % Om 106 Midnight Lute $20, % % Holy Lute 102 Awesome Again % % Doyouknowsomething 102 Elusive Quality $30, % % Ohio (BRZ) 99 English Channel $25, % % Heart to Heart 105 Any Given Saturday % % Hoppertunity 105 Pulpit % % Win the Space 107 Dubawi (IRE) $307, % % Mubtaahij (IRE) 106 Twirling Candy $20, % % Finley sluckycharm 102 BEYER SIRE PERFORMANCE STANDINGS 7 1.3% Hoppertunity 7 3.3% Win the Space 23.0% Mubtaahij (IRE) 106 Finley sluckycharm % 3.9% Money Multiplier 2.5% Om 0.6% Holy Lute % Doyouknowsomething % Ohio (BRZ) % Heart to Heart % Hoppertunity 105 Win the Space 107 PAGE 20 Saturday, January 21, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING ALL Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for starters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. Sires are ranked in this chart by the number of horses posting a 90 or higher Beyer Speed Figure. 90+ BEYER SPEED FIGURE 100+ BEYER SPEED FIGURES NO. NO. OF NO. NO. OF HIGHEST HIGHEST SIRE STUD FEE STARTERS STARTS HORSES BEYERS PERCENTAGE HORSES BEYERS PERCENTAGE BEYER HORSE BEYER Tapit $300, % % Frosted 123 Medaglia d Oro $150, % % Bar of Gold 109 Kitten s Joy $100, % % Divisidero 104 Bernardini $100, % % Imperative 105 Candy Ride (ARG) $60, % % Grand Tito 104 War Front $250, % % Avenge 103 Giant s Causeway $75, % % Jay Gatsby 104 Curlin $150, % % Stellar Wind 110 Smart Strike % % Ten Blessings 106 Scat Daddy % % Celestine 107 Unbridled s Song % % Arrogate 122 Speightstown $100, % % Tamarkuz 107 Distorted Humor $80, % % Ironicus 106 City Zip $50, % % Alert Bay 103 Quality Road $35, % % Blofeld 103 Uncle Mo $150, % % Nyquist 103 Malibu Moon $75, % % Stanford 104 Hard Spun $45, % % Hard Aces 105 Lemon Drop Kid $40, % % Da Big Hoss 103 Sky Mesa $15, % % Sky Captain 98 Harlan s Holiday % % Trouble Kid 104 Northern Afleet $6, % % World Approval 106 More Than Ready $60, % % Zindaya 100 Tiz Wonderful % % Shh She s Ours 101 Indian Charlie % % A. P. Indian 107 Ghostzapper $75, % % Paulassilverlining 107 Stormy Atlantic $15, % % Stormy Liberal 100 Mineshaft $25, % % Effinex 106 Galileo (IRE) % % Highland Reel (IRE) 112 Street Cry (IRE) % % Glenville Gardens 103 Flatter $35, % % Ami s Flatter 105 Street Sense $45, % % Tower of Texas 102 Mizzen Mast $10, % % Stonetastic 104 Street Boss $17, % % Holy Boss 105 Wildcat Heir % % Wild Dude 102 Eskendereya % % Isabella Sings 105 Lookin At Lucky $17, % % Money Multiplier 109 Munnings $25, % % Om 106 Midnight Lute $20, % % Holy Lute 102 Awesome Again % % Doyouknowsomething 102 Elusive Quality $30, % % Ohio (BRZ) 99 English Channel $25, % % Heart to Heart 105 Any Given Saturday % % Hoppertunity 105 Pulpit % % Win the Space 107 Dubawi (IRE) $307, % % Mubtaahij (IRE) 106 Twirling Candy $20, % % Finley sluckycharm 102 BEYER SIRE PERFORMANCE STANDINGS HIGHEST BEYER HORSE Ten Blessings World Approval PAGE 20 Saturday, January 21, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING ALL Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for starters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. Sires are ranked in this chart by the number of horses posting a 90 or higher Beyer Speed Figure. 90+ BEYER SPEED FIGURE 100+ BEYER SPEED FIGURES NO. NO. OF NO. NO. OF HIGHEST HIGHEST SIRE STUD FEE STARTERS STARTS HORSES BEYERS PERCENTAGE HORSES BEYERS PERCENTAGE BEYER HORSE BEYER Tapit $300, % % Frosted 123 Medaglia d Oro $150, % % Bar of Gold 109 Kitten s Joy $100, % % Divisidero 104 Bernardini $100, % % Imperative 105 Candy Ride (ARG) $60, % % Grand Tito 104 War Front $250, % % Avenge 103 Giant s Causeway $75, % % Jay Gatsby 104 Curlin $150, % % Stellar Wind 110 Smart Strike % % Ten Blessings 106 Scat Daddy % % Celestine 107 Unbridled s Song % % Arrogate 122 Speightstown $100, % % Tamarkuz 107 Distorted Humor $80, % % Ironicus 106 City Zip $50, % % Alert Bay 103 Quality Road $35, % % Blofeld 103 Uncle Mo $150, % % Nyquist 103 Malibu Moon $75, % % Stanford 104 Hard Spun $45, % % Hard Aces 105 Lemon Drop Kid $40, % % Da Big Hoss 103 Sky Mesa $15, % % Sky Captain 98 Harlan s Holiday % % Trouble Kid 104 Northern Afleet $6, % % World Approval 106 More Than Ready $60, % % Zindaya 100 Tiz Wonderful % % Shh She s Ours 101 Indian Charlie % % A. P. Indian 107 Ghostzapper $75, % % Paulassilverlining 107 Stormy Atlantic $15, % % Stormy Liberal 100 Mineshaft $25, % % Effinex 106 Galileo (IRE) % % Highland Reel (IRE) 112 Street Cry (IRE) % % Glenville Gardens 103 Flatter $35, % % Ami s Flatter 105 Street Sense $45, % % Tower of Texas 102 Mizzen Mast $10, % % Stonetastic 104 Street Boss $17, % % Holy Boss 105 Wildcat Heir % % Wild Dude 102 Eskendereya % % Isabella Sings 105 Lookin At Lucky $17, % % Money Multiplier 109 Munnings $25, % % Om 106 Midnight Lute $20, % % Holy Lute 102 Awesome Again % % Doyouknowsomething 102 Elusive Quality $30, % % Ohio (BRZ) 99 English Channel $25, % % Heart to Heart 105 Any Given Saturday % % Hoppertunity 105 Pulpit % % Win the Space 107 Dubawi (IRE) $307, % % Mubtaahij (IRE) 106 Twirling Candy $20, % % Finley sluckycharm 102 BEYER SIRE PERFORMANCE STANDINGS PAGE 20 Saturday, January 21, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING ALL Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for starters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. Sires are ranked in this chart by the number of horses posting a 90 or higher Beyer Speed Figure. 90+ BEYER SPEED FIGURE 100+ BEYER SPEED FIGURES NO. NO. OF NO. NO. OF HIGHEST HIGHEST SIRE STUD FEE STARTERS STARTS HORSES BEYERS PERCENTAGE HORSES BEYERS PERCENTAGE BEYER HORSE BEYER Tapit $300, % % Frosted 123 Medaglia d Oro $150, % % Bar of Gold 109 Kitten s Joy $100, % % Divisidero 104 Bernardini $100, % % Imperative 105 Candy Ride (ARG) $60, % % Grand Tito 104 War Front $250, % % Avenge 103 Giant s Causeway $75, % % Jay Gatsby 104 Curlin $150, % % Stellar Wind 110 Smart Strike % % Ten Blessings 106 Scat Daddy % % Celestine 107 Unbridled s Song % % Arrogate 122 Speightstown $100, % % Tamarkuz 107 Distorted Humor $80, % % Ironicus 106 City Zip $50, % % Alert Bay 103 Quality Road $35, % % Blofeld 103 Uncle Mo $150, % % Nyquist 103 Malibu Moon $75, % % Stanford 104 Hard Spun $45, % % Hard Aces 105 Lemon Drop Kid $40, % % Da Big Hoss 103 Sky Mesa $15, % % Sky Captain 98 Harlan s Holiday % % Trouble Kid 104 Northern Afleet $6, % % World Approval 106 More Than Ready $60, % % Zindaya 100 Tiz Wonderful % % Shh She s Ours 101 Indian Charlie % % A. P. Indian 107 Ghostzapper $75, % % Paulassilverlining 107 Stormy Atlantic $15, % % Stormy Liberal 100 Mineshaft $25, % % Effinex 106 Galileo (IRE) % % Highland Reel (IRE) 112 Street Cry (IRE) % % Glenville Gardens 103 Flatter $35, % % Ami s Flatter 105 Street Sense $45, % % Tower of Texas 102 Mizzen Mast $10, % % Stonetastic 104 Street Boss $17, % % Holy Boss 105 Wildcat Heir % % Wild Dude 102 Eskendereya % % Isabella Sings 105 Lookin At Lucky $17, % % Money Multiplier 109 Munnings $25, % % Om 106 Midnight Lute $20, % % Holy Lute 102 Awesome Again % % Doyouknowsomething 102 Elusive Quality $30, % % Ohio (BRZ) 99 English Channel $25, % % Heart to Heart 105 Any Given Saturday % % Hoppertunity 105 Pulpit % % Win the Space 107 Dubawi (IRE) $307, % % Mubtaahij (IRE) 106 Twirling Candy $20, % % Finley sluckycharm 102 BEYER SIRE PERFORMANCE STANDINGS Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for starters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. ters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for starters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for star 100+ BEYER SPEED FIGURES NO. OF HIGHEST BEYERS PERCENTAGE BEYER HORSE % Frosted % Bar of Gold 5 1.1% Divisidero 9 2.1% Imperative % Grand Tito % Avenge % Jay Gatsby % Stellar Wind % Ten Blessings % Celestine % % % % % % % % % % % % % 7.7% % 14.8% % 6.1% % 8.0% % 7.0% % 34.2% % 12.6% % % % % HIGHEST BEYER HORSE Frosted Bar of Gold Divisidero Imperative Grand Tito Avenge Jay Gatsby Stellar Wind Ten Blessings Celestine Arrogate Tamarkuz Ironicus 0.5% 1.1% 4.9% 1.0% 0.6% 1.1% 17.1% 1.0% 3.1% HIGHEST BEYER HORSE BEYER 123 Bar of Gold 109 Divisidero 104 Imperative 105 Grand Tito 104 Avenge 103 Jay Gatsby 104 Stellar Wind 110 Ten Blessings 106 Celestine 107 Arrogate 122 Tamarkuz 107 Ironicus 106 Alert Bay 103 Blofeld Nyquist Stanford Hard Aces Da Big Hoss Sky Captain Trouble Kid World Approval Zindaya Shh She s Ours A. P. Indian 1.0% Paulassilverlining 0.6% Stormy Liberal 1.1% Effinex 17.1% Highland Reel (IRE) 1.0% Glenville Gardens 3.1% Ami s Flatter 1.3% Tower of Texas 2.7% Stonetastic 1.3% Holy Boss 1.3% Wild Dude 0.6% Isabella Sings Saturday, January 21, 2017 ALL Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for star Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for star Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for starters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. ters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for starters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure in There were no filters applied for star Sires are ranked in this chart by the number of horses posting a 90 or higher Beyer Speed Figure. Sires are ranked in this chart by the number of horses posting a 90 or higher Beyer Speed Figure. 90+ BEYER SPEED FIGURE 100+ BEYER SPEED FIGURES NO. NO. OF NO. NO. OF HIGHEST SIRE STUD FEE STARTERS STARTS HORSES BEYERS PERCENTAGE HORSES BEYERS PERCENTAGE BEYER HORSE Tapit $300, % % Frosted Medaglia d Oro $150, % % Bar of Gold Kitten s Joy $100, % % Divisidero Bernardini $100, % % Imperative Candy Ride (ARG) $60, % % Grand Tito War Front $250, % % Avenge Giant s Causeway $75, % % Jay Gatsby Curlin $150, % % Stellar Wind Smart Strike % % Ten Blessings Scat Daddy % % Celestine Unbridled s Song % % Arrogate Speightstown $100, % % Tamarkuz Distorted Humor $80, % % Ironicus City Zip $50, % % Alert Bay Quality Road $35, % % Blofeld Uncle Mo $150, % % Nyquist Malibu Moon $75, % % Stanford Hard Spun $45, % % Hard Aces Lemon Drop Kid $40, % % Da Big Hoss Sky Mesa $15, % % Sky Captain Harlan s Holiday % % Trouble Kid Northern Afleet $6, % % World Approval More Than Ready $60, % % Zindaya BEYER SIRE PERFORMANCE STANDINGS BEYER VERIFIED Recognizable. Meaningful. Powerful. Introducing Daily Racing Form s Beyer Sire Performance Standings. Sire lists powered by DRF s exclusive Beyer Speed Figures, not just earnings and wins. Copyright 2017 Learn how you can showcase your stallions and their progeny Beyers in this full-year digital, print and platform. DRF.com/beyerstandings Beyers Breed Buyers COMING SOON PAGE 18 Saturday, July 29, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING PRESENTED BY ALL STARTERS Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure from Jan. 1-July 12, There were no filters applied for starters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. Sires are ranked in this chart by the number of horses posting a 90 or higher Beyer Speed Figure. 90+ BEYER SPEED FIGURES 100+ BEYER SPEED FIGURES NO. OF NO. OF PERCENTAGE NO. OF NO. OF PERCENTAGE HIGHEST HIGHEST SIRE STUD FEE STARTERS STARTS GSW EARNINGS HORSES BEYERS OF STARTERS HORSES BEYERS OF STARTERS BEYER HORSE BEYER Candy Ride (ARG) $60, $5,047, % % Gun Runner 110 Tapit 300, ,189, % % Cupid 108 Giant s Causeway 75, ,436, % % Night Prowler 99 Scat Daddy Died ,965, % % Tu Brutus (CHI) 118 War Front 250, ,635, % % Designed for War 104 Curlin 150, ,611, % % Connect 106 Kitten s Joy 100, ,131, % % Sadler s Joy 104 Quality Road 35, ,140, % % Follow Me Crev 104 Malibu Moon 75, ,313, % % Ransom the Moon 107 City Zip 50, ,625, % % Collected 111 Harlan s Holiday Died ,384, % % Neolithic 106 Uncle Mo 150, ,317, % % Rally Cry 105 Speightstown 100, ,455, % % Weekend Hideaway 99 Smart Strike Died ,016, % % Shaft of Light 101 Medaglia d Oro 150, ,492, % % Dickinson 100 Unbridled s Song Died ,271, % % Arrogate 119 Bernardini 100, ,187, % % Seymourdini 113 Ghostzapper 75, ,668, % % Shaman Ghost 112 Munnings 25, ,416, % % Om 104 Hard Spun 45, ,525, % % Taghleeb 103 Tiznow 60, ,410, % % Irap 98 Wildcat Heir Died ,056, % % Pay Any Price 107 Flatter 35, ,864, % % Flatlined 104 Lookin At Lucky 17, ,413, % % Dolphus 106 English Channel 25, ,089, % % Heart to Heart 104 Arch Died ,165, % % Patterson Cross 103 Distorted Humor 80, ,699, % % Honorable Duty 105 Mineshaft 25, ,199, % % Touchofstarquality 103 Stormy Atlantic 15, ,746, % % Stormy Liberal 103 Street Boss 17, ,498, % % Gangster 99 Eskendereya Stands in Japan ,470, % % Mor Spirit 117 More Than Ready 60, ,273, % % Roy H 111 Mizzen Mast 10, ,439, % % Green Mask 110 Twirling Candy 20, ,302, % % Danzing Candy 107 Northern Afleet 6, ,921, % % World Approval 106 Lemon Drop Kid 40, ,857, % % Beach Patrol 102 Flower Alley Stands in South Africa ,775, % % Lukes Alley 99 Artie Schiller 10, ,296, % % Macagone 102 Tiz Wonderful Stands in Korea ,975, % % Splashtastic 101 Broken Vow 25, ,135, % % Rainha Da Bateria 98 Tale of Ekati 7, ,841, % % Tale of S avall 98 Pollard s Vision 3, , % % Incensed 97 Sky Mesa 15, ,193, % % Highland Sky 96 Colonel John Stands in Korea ,546, % % Dalmore 95 Midshipman 8, ,398, % % Big Changes 94 Big Brown 7, ,572, % % Send It In 119 Disco Rico Died , % % Disco Partner 109 BEYER SIRE PERFORMANCE STANDINGS $5,047, ,189, % ,436, % % Night Prowler ,965, % % Tu Brutus (CHI) ,635, % % Designed for War ,611, % % Connect ,131, % % Sadler s Joy ,140, % Follow Me Crev ,313, ,135, ,841, % , % % Incensed ,193, % % Highland Sky ,546, % % Dalmore ,398, % % Big Changes % % Send It In % Disco Partner 109

26 PAGE 26 Saturday, December 9, 2017 DAILY RACING FORM DRF.COM/BREEDING ALL STARTERS BEYER SIRE PERFORMANCE STANDINGS Data includes all North American starts that were assigned a Beyer Speed Figure from Jan. 1-Dec. 4, There were no filters applied for starters based on age, sex, distance, or surface. Sires are ranked in this chart by the number of 90 or higher Beyer Speed Figures. 90+ BEYER SPEED FIGURES 100+ BEYER SPEED FIGURES 2017 GS NO. OF NO. OF PERCENTAGE NO. OF NO. OF PERCENTAGE HIGHEST HIGHEST SIRE STUD FEE STARTERS STARTS WINS EARNINGS BEYERS HORSES OF STARTERS BEYERS HORSES OF STARTERS BEYER HORSE BEYER War Front $250, $6,729, % % Designed for War 104 Kitten s Joy 60, ,714, % % Sadler s Joy 105 Tapit 300, ,132, % % Cupid 108 Giant s Causeway 75, ,841, % % Night Prowler 99 Candy Ride (ARG) 80, ,836, % % Gun Runner 117 Scat Daddy Died ,497, % % Tu Brutus (CHI) 118 Quality Road 70, ,171, % % Follow Me Crev 104 Malibu Moon 75, ,411, % % Ransom the Moon 107 Medaglia d Oro 250, ,090, % % Talismanic (GB) 108 Curlin 150, ,343, % % Keen Ice 106 Harlan s Holiday Died ,133, % % Neolithic 106 English Channel 25, ,947, % % Heart to Heart 104 City Zip Died ,888, % % Collected 115 Smart Strike Died ,624, % % Battle of Midway 108 Hard Spun 40, ,803, % % Taghleeb 103 Lookin At Lucky 17, ,254, % % Accelerate 110 Ghostzapper 85, ,509, % % Shaman Ghost 112 Speightstown 100, ,352, % % Copper Town 106 Flatter 40, ,801, % % West Coast 112 Lemon Drop Kid 25, ,969, % % Beach Patrol 109 Bernardini 85, ,597, % % Seymourdini 113 Stormy Atlantic 15, ,745, % % Ballagh Rocks 104 More Than Ready 60, ,413, % % Roy H 111 Unbridled s Song Died ,186, % % Arrogate 119 Uncle Mo 125, ,358, % % Rally Cry 110 Wildcat Heir Died ,811, % % Pay Any Price 107 Munnings 25, ,268, % % El Deal 112 Twirling Candy 25, ,406, % % Danzing Candy 107 Distorted Humor 50, ,905, % % Honorable Duty 105 Sky Mesa 15, ,730, % % Ami s Mesa 101 Pioneerof the Nile 110, ,177, % % Midnight Storm 107 Tiznow 50, ,479, % % Irap 102 Street Boss 20, ,828, % % Gangster 99 Flower Alley Stands in S. Africa ,424, % % Bullards Alley 114 Galileo (IRE) Stands in Ireland ,778, % % Highland Reel (IRE) 108 Northern Afleet 5, ,465, % % War Story 112 Mizzen Mast 10, ,385, % % Green Mask 111 Awesome Again Private ,355, % % Awesome Slew 102 Broken Vow 25, ,542, % % Rainha Da Bateria 99 Tiz Wonderful Stands in S. Korea ,851, % % Hunter O Riley 104 Into Mischief 100, ,974, % % Practical Joke 104 Dubawi (IRE) Stands in England ,495, % % Wuheida (GB) 104 Arch Died ,644, % % Patterson Cross 103 Mineshaft 25, ,914, % % Touchofstarquality 103 Street Sense 35, ,638, % % Tower of Texas 103 Artie Schiller N/A ,002, % % Macagone 102 Eskendereya Stands in Japan ,626, % % Mor Spirit 117

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