Grade 1 winner and veteran sire Sharp Azteca will stand the 2024 breeding season at Japan's Shizunai Stallion Farm.
The announcement was made Friday by the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders' Association.
The 10-year-old son of Freud previously stood at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., where he entered stud in 2019.
From two crops of racing age, Sharp Azteca has sired 71 winners, with combined progeny earnings just shy of $4 million. His leading runners include stakes winners Tyler's Tribe, Sharp Aza Tack, Alma Rosa, and Precious Meadow.
Sharp Azteca is out of the Saint Liam mare So Sharp, hailing from the family of Grade 3 winner and Kentucky Derby runner-up Firing Line and Grade 1 winner Bowies Hero.
During his own on-track career, Sharp Azteca won eight of 17 starts, earning $2,406,740. He won the Grade 3 Pat Day Mile Stakes at three, and he came back at four to notch a victory in the G1 Cigar Mile Handicap, along with Grade 2 scores in the Gulfstream Park Handicap and Kelso Handicap.
Sharp Azteca joins a JBBA stallion roster that also includes U.S. expats Caravaggio, Declaration of War, Noble Mission, Mischevious Alex, Animal Kingdom, Creator, Eskendereya, Cape Blanco, and Squirtle Squirt.
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