Grade 1 winner Midnight Storm will relocate to Milky Way Farm in Temecula, Calif., for the 2023 breeding season.
The 11-year-old son of Pioneerof the Nile previously stood at Taylor Made Stallions in Nicholasville, Ky., where he entered stud in 2018.
A brilliantly fast Grade 1 winner trained by Phil D'Amato, Midnight Storm won seven graded stakes races, both on grass and dirt, and he earned $1,783,110. His victories include the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile, and Grade 2 Del Mar Derby, Seabiscuit Handicap, Eddie Read Stakes, Del Mar Mile Handicap, and San Pasqual Stakes, as well as the G3 Native Diver Stakes. He also finished third in the 2016 Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita Park.
With two crops of racing age, Midnight Storm has sired 34 winners with progeny earnings of more than $2.2 million. He is led by Great Escape, who recently won the G3 Canadian Derby, while setting a stakes and track record.
Midnight Storm has been represented by sales yearlings commanding as much as $550,000.
He will stand the 2023 breeding season for an advertised fee of $4,000, live foal guarantee.
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