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Few stallions in the world have attained the heights of WinStar Farm's remarkable More Than Ready. A champion sire in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and a world-renowned stallion who has made an indelible mark on the breed, More Than Ready was euthanized this morning due to the cumulative effects of old age, the farm announced today. He was 25 years old. His passing ends one of the most remarkable stallion careers in history.

“More Than Ready was an amazing horse who touched everyone he came in contact with,” said Elliott Walden, president, CEO, and racing manager of WinStar Farm. “He may not have been the biggest horse in the barn, but he more than made up for it in class, balance, and character. His expressions said it all. We will greatly miss him at the farm.”

A breed-shaping stallion, More Than Ready's accomplishments are otherworldly. One of the youngest stallions in history to attain 100 stakes winners and 1,000 winners, More Than Ready, who was champion juvenile sire in the U.S. in 2010 and the leading sire of 2-year-olds in Australia in 2007-08 and again in 2008-09, enjoyed undeniable, record-breaking success as a stallion.

He has sired graded stakes winners in 12 countries, Grade 1 winners in seven, and has more black type winners than any North American sire in history with 216. Having racked up more than $219 million in worldwide progeny earnings, More Than Ready has sired 100 graded stakes winners, 30 Grade 1 winners, and 13 champions.

More Than Ready is the only sire to have an Eclipse Award champion each year from 2017 to 2020. His Rushing Fall was named champion female turf horse in 2020; Uni (GB) was honored as the 2019 champion turf female; and Roy H. earned back-to-back champion male sprinter titles in 2017-18.

Further testament of his ability to sire versatile runners at the industry's highest levels, More Than Ready is the number-one sire of Breeders' Cup winners in history with seven wins in the marquee event, accomplished with six different winners of four different races at both sprint and route distances. Uni (GB) won the 2019 Mile; Roy H captured the 2018 and 2017 Sprint; Rushing Fall won the 2017 Juvenile Fillies Turf; Regally Ready annexed the 2011 Turf Sprint; More Than Real won the 2011 Juvenile Fillies Turf, and Pluck was triumphant in that year's Juvenile Turf.

A dual-hemisphere shuttler and perhaps the most shuttled stallion ever, More Than Ready made an impact all around the globe, shuttling between WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., and Vinery Stud in Australia. He stood his initial season in Australia in 2001 and his last southern hemisphere crop are yearlings this year.

More Than Ready's lifetime leading earners—all of them Grade or Group 1 winners—include More Joyous (NZ), an earner of $4,506,154 and an eight-time G1 winner; Roy H, who banked $3,139,765; Eagle Way (AUS), an earner of $2,955,998; and Rushing Fall, who earned $2,893,000. Also among his chief earners are Group 1 Golden Slipper winners Phelan Ready (AUS) with earnings of ($2,809,560), and Sebring (AUS), an earner of $2,365,522.

In 2022, More Than Ready is represented on the racetrack by Emmanuel, winner of the G2 Pennine Ridge Stakes and placed in the G1 Blue Grass Stakes; Consumer Spending, winner of the G2 Wonder Again Stakes and placed in the G1 Belmont Oaks; and Jean Gros, winner of the G2 New Zealand Trophy in Japan. His offspring remain in demand in the auction ring as well, as evidenced by a sale-topping $1.2 million colt at this year's OBS March Sale.

Poised to carry on his legacy, More Than Ready's sons are distinguishing themselves at stud, and include Daredevil, the sire of Kentucky Oaks winner Shedaresthedevil, and Preakness Stakes winner Swiss Skydiver. As a broodmare sire, More Than Ready is represented by 88 stakes winners and 15 Grade 1 winners, including 2022 Grade 1 winner Regal Glory.

Before elevating to greatness as a stallion, More Than Ready was a top-class racehorse. Trained during his racing career by Todd Pletcher for owner James Scatuorchio, More Than Ready captured the seven-furlong G1 King's Bishop Stakes at Saratoga in 2000 at three and he also won that year's G2 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream Park. In a stellar juvenile season in 1999 in which he won five of seven starts, More Than Ready won the G2 Sanford Stakes by 9 ¾ lengths and the G3 Tremont Stakes by 4 ½ lengths. All told in his career, he amassed earnings of $1,026,229 and retired to stud with a record of 17-7-4-1.

More Than Ready began his stallion career at Vinery Stud in Lexington Ky., for the 2001 breeding season, and he was relocated to WinStar Farm ahead of the 2013 season.

Bred in Kentucky by Woodlyn Farm Inc., More Than Ready is by Southern Halo out of the winning Woodman mare Woodman's Girl, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Bail Out Becky and from the family of Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Stephanie's Kitten. He was sold by his breeder at the 1998 Keeneland September Sale for $187,000 to Edward Rosen, agent.

Larry McGinnis, longtime stallion manager at WinStar Farm, said of the legend's passing, “To me, he was more than a great stallion, he was a great friend. It was an honor to take care of such a remarkable horse. I will miss him.”

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Brody's Cause, one of only two horses to win both of Keeneland's top races for 2- and 3-year-olds on dirt since Round Table in 1957, has been acquired by Rodney Eckenrode to stand at Equistar Training and Breeding in Annville, Pa., in 2023. A multiple Grade 1 winner and grade 1 sire, Brody's Cause will stand for $3,500.

The 9-year-old son of Giant's Causeway formerly stood at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky.

Brody's Cause ranks in the top 20 nationally on the third-crop sires list in 2022, led by his 4-year-old daughter Kalypso . Winner of Santa Anita's Grade 1 La Brea Stakes at the end of 2021, Kalypso has won or placed in nine stakes in 14 starts, six graded, for earnings of $601,878.

When his first crop debuted in 2020, Brody's Cause was represented by five stakes performers, four graded, from 26 starters: Sittin On Go, who captured Churchill Downs' G3 Iroquois Stakes; stakes winner Kalypso, also second in the G1 Starlet Stakes; G2 Best Pal Stakes runner-up Girther at Del Mar; Smiley Sobotka, second in Churchill's G2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes and two-time stakes-placed Gospel Way. In 2021, his 2-year-old son Enbarr broke his maiden in the Capote Stakes at Los Alamitos in his second start. This year, the 2-year-old filly Hurricane Debbie won first out at Keeneland in April by eight lengths. Of his eight black-type runners, seven were 2-year-old stakes performers.

Brody's Cause has 2022 progeny earnings in excess of $1.6 million, which places him among the top 10 on the Mid-Atlantic sire rankings.

In eight career starts, Brody's Cause won two Grade 1 races and finished a fast-closing third in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile behind champion Nyquist. Trained by Dale Romans, he got his first win going one mile at Churchill at age two and came back three weeks later to capture Keeneland's G1 Claiborne Breeders' Futurity at 1 1/16 miles.

Following the Breeders' Cup, he was aimed for the classics after capturing Keeneland's 1 1/8-mile G1 Blue Grass Stakes. After finishing seventh of 20 in the Kentucky Derby and sixth of 13 in the Belmont Stakes, he was retired with a record of three wins and a third in eight starts, for earnings of $1,168,138.

A $350,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase, Brody's Cause is from the family of Secretariat and Cure the Blues. His dam, stakes-placed Sweet Breanna, is by the Mr. Prospector stallion Sahm. His second dam, graded winner Sweet Roberta, was second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. The family traces back to Quick Cure (his fourth dam), dam of Grade 1 winner and sire Cure the Blues. She, in turn, is out of Speedwell (by Bold Ruler), a half-sister to Somethingroyal, the dam of Secretariat (by Bold Ruler).

Brody's Cause has 43 current 2-year-olds and in 2021 covered his largest book of 147 mares.

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Thoroughbred owners, if your Ontario-bred has been competing in the claiming ranks at Woodbine or Fort Erie, please check the Thoroughbred Improvement Program website for a list of sales credits eligible to be used on a yearling at the Canadian Premier Yearling Sale, on Wednesday, Aug. 31.

The sales credits currently on the website include those earned through Aug. 23 and the list will be updated Monday to include the results from Woodbine through Sunday, Aug. 28.

On Monday, the sales credits will be posted on each sales barn during yearling previews. If you are stopping by to look at a horse, please check in on your sales credits.

On sale day, a final list including the racing from Fort Erie on Monday and Tuesday, will be available at the Ontario Racing booth.

Ontario Racing staff will be on hand to answer questions about the Sales Credits and TIP in general.

Click here to view the current Sales Credit List and for more information on how sales credits are accrued.

For additional questions or details about transferring Sales Credits, please contact the Program Coordinator at tbprogram@ontarioracing.com.

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The 55th Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association Summer Sale is in the books!

Topping the venue for $85,000 was Hip 80, a colt from the first American crop of top-notch Irish stallion Sir Prancealot. Bred and consigned by Griffin Place LLC, the half-brother to 2021-22 stakes winner Slack Tide was purchased by PT Syndicate #11 of San Mateo, Calif.

The sale's leading consignor, Terry and Mary Lou Griffin's Griffin Place LLC, also sold for themselves or as agent Hip 46, a Midshipman colt out of Washington champion Bella Mia for $76,000 and Hip 34, a son of hot freshman sire Sharp Azteca, was a $70,000 purchase. Both colts went to Dave Staudacher of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The Buckley couple also consigned Hip 56, a Grazen colt purchased for $62,000 by the successful longtime local partnership of John and Janene Maryanski and Gerry and Gail Schneider; Hip 4, a Grazen filly – the top-priced distaffer at the 2022 venue at $47,000 – out of multiple Washington champion Lady Rosberg, brought a bid of $47,000 from California trainer Andy Mathis; and Hip 24, a Tapizar filly who went to prominent local trainer Blaine Wright, as agent, for $46,000.

All told, the Griffins brought 10 yearlings to the sale and sold them for a $474,000 gross and $47,400 average.

Also bringing a top bid was the $40,000 the Birklid family's Suntop Farm received for their Coast Guard half-brother to impressive 2022 stakes-winning juvenile Runnin Out of Days from PT Syndicate #1.

Three yearlings sold for $35,000 each: Hip 13, a colt from the last full crop of Harbor the Gold, consigned by Neal and Pam Christopherson's Bar C Racing Stables Inc., was bought by Roy Schaefer of Port Angeles; Hip 59, a colt consigned by Dr. Duane and Susan Hopp's Castlegate Farm was purchased by trainer Michael Puhich as agent; and, also consigned by the Christophersons, a Stanford filly sold to the Maryanskis and Schneiders.

A total of 22 yearlings brought a bid of $20,000 or more.

Eighty-five yearlings were cataloged, and after nine were withdrawn, 76 went through the sales ring with 68 selling for a $1,219,700 gross, up 7.6 percent from the 2021 sale.

The $17,677 average was up 24.7 percent from 2021's $14,175 and the median rose 20 percent to $12,000.

The sale also provided new homes for 11 broodmares, with Dana Halvorson, as agent, signing for Hip 205 for $7,000. The seven-year-old daughter of Atta Boy Roy was sold through Blue Ribbon Farm, as agent for Timothy Donohue, as a three-in-one package which included her suckling colt by 2022 Washington leading sire Conveyance, who the mare was also bred back to.

Check the WTBOA website at www.washingtonthoroughbred.com for complete sale results.

Preliminary sale results are subject to change.

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