Smooth Like Strait, a Grade 1 winner who finished second in 2021 Breeders' Cup Mile, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at War Horse Place in Lexington, Ky., for the 2024 breeding season, BloodHorse reports.
The 6-year-old son of Midnight Lute finished his career with seven wins in 26 starts for earnings of $1,813,863, running as a homebred for Cannon Thoroughbreds.
Trained by Michael McCarthy, Smooth Like Strait broke his maiden at two, then earned his first graded victory in his subsequent start, winning the Grade 3 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes at Del Mar with a front-running trip. Following a trio of graded scores during his 3-year-old campaign, Smooth Like Strait's 4-year-old season was highlighted by a score in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile Stakes.
That win kicked off a run where the horse finished second in six of his next seven starts – all graded stakes – which included a runner-up effort in the Breeders' Cup Mile at Del Mar.
Smooth Like Strait is out of the winning Flower Alley mare Smooth as Usual.
He will stand for an advertised fee of $3,500 for his debut season at stud.
Read more at BloodHorse.
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