Grade 1 winner Free Drop Billy will relocate to Iowa State University for the 2024 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $2,500.
The 8-year-old son of Union Rags previously stood at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he entered stud in 2019.
From two crops of racing age, Free Drop Billy has sired 20 winners with combined progeny earnings of more than $1.2 million. His top runner is Free Drop Maddy, a four-time stakes winner with earnings of $278,800.
During his own on-track career, Free Drop Billy won two of 11 starts and earned $662,470, highlighted by a victory in the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity during his 2-year-old season. That campaign also featured runner-up efforts in the G1 Hopeful Stakes and G3 Sanford Stakes, while his 3-year-old season featured in-the-money efforts in the G2 Blue Grass Stakes and Holy Bull Stakes, and the G3 Gotham Stakes.
Bred in Kentucky by Helen K. Groves Revokable Trust, Free Drop Billy is out of the Grade 3-placed Giant's Causeway mare Trensa, whose other foals of note include multiple Group 1 winner Hawkbill and the dam of Grade 2 winner Emmanuel. His second dam is the Grade 1 winner Serape, and third dam Mochila is multiple Grade 1-placed.
Free Drop Billy is available for viewing by appointment.
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