The Hancock family's Claiborne Farm has announced 2023 stud fees for their stallion roster at the Paris, Ky.-based farm.
The roster is led once again by the internationally-regarded War Front. This son of Danzig continues to be an elite source for success on the racetrack and in the sales ring, led by 11 stakes winners in 2022, including Annapolis, recent winner of the Grade 1 Coolmore Turf Mile Stakes at Keeneland. War Front's consistency at the sport's highest levels has few rivals, boasting 11 percent lifetime stakes winners. His 2023 stud fee has been set at $100,000.
War Front's reputation as a sire of sires continues to grow, and that legacy expands at Claiborne Farm with Preakness Stakes winner War of Will, whose first weanlings will be on offer at this year's fall breeding stock sales. The multiple Grade 1 winner will stand his third year at stud for $25,000.
Champion racehorse Blame has emerged as one of North America's premier broodmare sires, highlighted by this year's G1 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland, where winner Forte and runner-up Loggins were both out of Blame mares. Blame leads all broodmare sires by percentage of black type winners, black type horses, and graded stakes horses. On his own accord, Blame is responsible for 42 lifetime stakes winners, including five Grade 1 winners. He will stand the upcoming season for $25,000.
Silver State will stand his second season at stud for $20,000. The grandson of Claiborne sire Danzig won six consecutive races spanning 2020 and 2021, culminating with the G1 Metropolitan Handicap while defeating 2021 Horse of the Year, Knicks Go. He retired with more than $1.9 million in earnings.
Champion sprinter Runhappy will stand for $15,000 after a season that saw him send Grade 1-placed Smile Happy to the Kentucky Derby from his debut crop of runners. His five black type winners in 2022 is among the highest of this year's third-crop sires.
Dual-surface Grade 1 winner, Catholic Boy, will stand for $15,000, while the regally-bred son of Dubawi (IRE), Demarchelier (GB), will stand for $5,000. Both stallions will have first-crop 2-year-olds running in 2023.
Mastery, the sire of recent G2 Zenyatta Stakes winner Midnight Memories, will stand for $7,500. Lea, who sired G3 Futurity Stakes winner Nagirroc and multiple stakes-winner Poppy Flower, will stand for $5,000.
Claiborne Farm will also stand Grade 1 winner Art Collector upon the conclusion of his racing career. A fee is yet to be announced for the G1 Woodward Stakes winner, who has earned over $2.3 million on the racetrack. A consistent performer throughout his racing career, Art Collector boasts 10 wins from 20 lifetime starts, and has earned seven 100+ Beyer Speed Figures, including a 107 in his Woodward victory.
See Claiborne's full stallion roster and 2023 stud fees below:
Art Collector
Bernardini – Distorted Legacy, by Distorted Humor
Fee: TBD
Blame
Arch—Liable, by Seeking the Gold
Fee: $25,000
Catholic Boy
More Than Ready – Song of Bernadette, by Bernardini
Fee: $15,000
Demarchelier (GB)
Dubawi (GB) – Loveisallyouneed (IRE), by Sadler's Wells
Fee: $5,000
First Samurai
Giant's Causeway—Freddie Frisson, by Dixieland Band
Fee: $7,500
Lea
First Samurai—Greenery, by Galileo (IRE)
Fee: $5,000
Mastery
Candy Ride (ARG)—Steady Course, by Old Trieste
Fee: $7,500
Runhappy
Super Saver—Bella Jolie, by Broken Vow
Fee: $15,000
Silver State
Hard Spun – Supreme, by Empire Maker
Fee: $20,000
War Front
Danzig—Starry Dreamer, by Rubiano
Fee: $100,000
War of Will
War Front – Visions of Clarity (IRE), by Sadler's Wells
Fee: $25,000
(All stud fees payable Live Foal Stands & Nurses)
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