Preakness Stakes winner Early Voting has been removed from the 2024 stallion roster for Coolmore's Ashford Stud due to “an inability to breed, according to veterinary experts,” Thoroughbred Daily News reports.
The 4-year-old son of Gun Runner stood his first season at stud in 2023. TDN reports that he successfully impregnated mares during the first part of the breeding season, per a Coolmore statement, but he experienced issues at some point during the season that affected that status. An insurance claim is ongoing.
Early Voting won three of six starts and earned $1,372,500 for owner Klaravich Stables and trainer Chad Brown. From the record-setting first crop of Gun Runner, he became his sire's first classic winner last year when he won the Preakness Stakes, after earlier taking the Grade 3 Withers Stakes. He also finished second in the G2 Wood Memorial Stakes.
Bred in Kentucky by Three Chimneys Farm, Early Voting is out of the unraced Tiznow mare Amour d'Ete. His second dam is the Canadian champion Silken Cat, making Amour d'Ete a half-sister to champion and leading sire Speightstown and a full-sister to Grade 2 winner Irap.
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