Concert Tour, a multiple Grade 2 winner who ran in the 2021 Preakness Stakes, has been sold to begin his stallion career in Korea.
The 4-year-old son of Street Sense arrived in Korea on Sept. 23, according to Korea Racing Association records, and he will stand as property of the Korean Thoroughbred Breeders Association.
Owned by Gary and Mary West and trained by Bob Baffert and later Brad Cox, Concert Tour retired with three wins in eight starts for earnings of $881,303.
Concert Tour started his career on the west coast in the barn of trainer Bob Baffert, where he won on debut in January of his 3-year-old season in a wire-to-wire Santa Anita Park maiden special weight. He immediately jumped into graded stakes competition and found success in the Grade 2 San Vicente Stakes.
The colt was then shipped to Oaklawn Park for the rest of his Kentucky Derby prep races, where he once again led at every call to dominate the G2 Rebel Stakes by 4 1/4 lengths. He then finished third as the favorite in the G1 Arkansas Derby.
Concert Tour had the points to enter the 2021 Kentucky Derby, but his connections elected to skip the race and point for the Preakness, in order to give the colt more time to recover from his uncharacteristically poor Arkansas Derby effort. He was never a factor in the Preakness, and he finished ninth in what would be his final start of the year.
The colt would return in 2022 under the Brad Cox shedrow, and he finished last in the listed Fifth Season Stakes at Oaklawn Park in his seasonal bow. He ran second in an Oaklawn allowance optional claiming race later in the meet, then he finished fifth that spring in a Keeneland optional claimer in his final career start.
A homebred for the West operation, Concert Tour is out of the winning Tapit mare Purse Strings, whose two foals to race are both winners. Champion Stardom Bound is in his extended family.
Among the notable U.S. horses on the KTBA stallion roster are Any Given Saturday, Colonel John, Gemologist, Girolamo, Nitrous, Overanalyze, and To Honor and Serve.
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