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Darby Dan Farm has set 2024 stud fees for its roster of 12 stallions that will stand the upcoming breeding season, led by Flameaway, a leading first-crop stallion this year, who will stand for $15,000 S&N, and Dialed In, who will also stand for $15,000 S&N. In addition, the roster features Higher Power and Modernist, who will both stand for $10,000 S&N.

Flameaway, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Scat Daddy, is currently the fourth-ranked First-Crop Sire with progeny earnings of more than $1.2 million. The sire of 15 first-crop winners overall, including a new maiden special weight winner in New York Oct. 13 in Reagan's Flame, Flameaway is the co-leading First-Crop Sire by black-type winners with two. His top runner is undefeated three-time stakes winner Dreamfyre, a leading contender for next month's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) at Santa Anita.

A front-running winner of the Surfer Girl Stakes (G3) on turf at Santa Anita in her most recent start, Dreamfyre also annexed the Sorrento Stakes (G3) at Del Mar by a dominating 3 ½ lengths in her second start and broke her maiden in winning the Everett Nevin Stakes at Pleasanton by 3 ½ lengths in her career debut. A $140,000 OBS Spring Sale graduate, Dreamfyre has already banked $285,000. Flameaway is also represented in his initial crop by She's Fire, victorious in the Fitz Dixon Jr. Memorial Stakes at Presque Isle Downs, and stakes-placed Bella Haze, runner-up in the $500,000 Juvenile Fillies Stakes at Kentucky Downs.

With interest from breeders peaking, Flameaway will have limited season availability at $15,000 as Breeders' Cup results could warrant a change in fee.

Dialed In, Champion Freshman Sire of 2016 and a perennial leading sire of his crop ever since, is represented this year by Defunded, winner of the Hollywood Gold Cup Stakes (G1) and the Californian Stakes (G2), both at Santa Anita. In addition to his graded stakes scores, Defunded was runner-up in both the $3 million Pegasus World Cup (G1) and most recently in the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes (G1), and third in the Santa Anita Handicap (G1) en route to amassing earnings of $1,058,500 this year, alone. Dialed In's Gambling Girl, a stakes winner last year at two, finished second in this year's Kentucky Oaks (G1) and third in the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1). Dialed In has been represented by Grade 1 winners each of the last four years, and he boasts progeny earnings in excess of $43 million.

Higher Power, a Grade 1-winning millionaire by Medaglia d'Oro from a deep Pin Oak family, is represented in 2023 by first yearlings that have sold for up to $150,000, $120,000, $100,000, etc. A dominant 5 ¼-length winner of the $1 million Pacific Classic (G1), Higher Power posted three triple-digit Beyers during his racing career, including a 107 Beyer in the Pacific Classic. He will be represented by his first 2-year-olds in 2024.

Modernist, a multiple graded stakes winner by Uncle Mo, welcomed his first foals in 2023. A front-running winner of the $400,000 Risen Star Stakes (G2) as a 3-year-old, Modernist was a strong 2 ½-length winner of the $150,000 Excelsior Stakes (G3) as a 4-year-old. He is produced from the Bernardini mare Symbolic Gesture, a half-sister to both Sweet Catomine, Champion 2-Year-Old Filly and winner of the 2004 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), and Life is Sweet, winner of the 2009 Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic (G1).

The 2024 Darby Dan Farm roster is as follows:

Stallion	S&N Fee
Bee Jersey	Private
Copper Bullet	$7,500
Country House	$7,500
Dialed In	$15,000
Flameaway	$15,000**
Higher Power	$10,000
Leofric	$7,500
Modernist	$10,000
Tale of Ekati	Private
Tale of Silence	Private
Tapiture	$7,500
Title Ready	Private

**Subject to change

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Americanrevolution, 5-year-old son of Constitution and winner of the $750,000 Cigar Mile Handicap (G1), has been retired from racing and will stand the upcoming breeding season at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y. The New York-bred champion will stand his initial season at stud for $12,500 S&N.

“This is the best horse to retire in New York in a very long time,” said Rockridge Stud's Lere Visagie. “We all know we need top-class horses standing in New York to keep mares home. The winner of one of New York's most historic Grade 1's for older horses is the way to do it. We can't wait to get started.”

First or second in six stakes, Americanrevolution was a four-time stakes winner by a combined 30 ¼ lengths as a sophomore at four different racetracks. Trained by Todd Pletcher, Americanrevolution scored his biggest victory in the prestigious Cigar Mile, defeating a contentious field that included Grade 1 winners Code of Honor and Olympiad, recording a Beyer Speed Figure of 105. Prior to that impressive victory, he annexed the New York Derby by a dominating 7 ¼ lengths, the Albany Stakes by five lengths, and demolished his competition with an 11 ¾-length triumph in the $300,000 Empire Classic at Belmont Park, earning a co-career-best 108 Beyer in the eye-catching win.

In 2022, Americanrevolution once again demonstrated his class and tenacity, finishing second in the Stephen Foster Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs—equaling his best Beyer performance with a 108—and was runner-up in the Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes (G1) at Saratoga in September. All told, he registered five triple-digit Beyers: 108, 108, 105, 102, 101, and banked $1,286,810 in a stellar career for CHC Inc. and WinStar Farm.

“With Belmont being renovated, we feel it is time to re-enter the New York market,” said Elliott Walden, WinStar Farm's president, CEO, and racing manager. “WinStar Farm and CHC Inc. are staying in and committing 10 good mares to Americanrevolution to help launch his career in New York. We hope to breed another Funny Cide, one of the best New York-breds of all time.”

By Constitution—sire of Belmont S. (G1) winner Tiz the Law from his first crop and the No. 1 sire of 2-year-olds this year—Americanrevolution is produced from the winning Super Saver mare Polly Freeze and hails from an active black-type family that includes Grade 1 winners Cross Traffic, Stop Traffic, and multiple graded stakes winners Gouldings Green and Silver Dust, as well as Grade 3 winner Forza Di Oro. Americanrevolution was a $275,000 acquisition by CHC Inc. and Maverick Racing out of the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton New York Bred Select Yearling Sale in Saratoga. He was bred by Fred Hertrich III and John Fielding.

Americanrevolution will stand as a partnership between WinStar Farm, CHC Inc., Rockridge Stud, Taylor Made Stallions, Mill Creek Farm, and Fortune Farm, in a deal brokered by Matt Bowling of Bowling Bloodstock. Says Visagie, “Collaboration, we have found, is the key to getting these stallions off the ground running. We have a strong group of breeders already in place, and that support should no doubt propel him straight to the top of that foal crop. He should absolutely be competitive with any first-year stallion in Kentucky as well.”

Ben Taylor of Taylor Made Stallions, says, “We are thrilled to be a part of this exciting stallion prospect—probably the most exciting stallion to retire to New York in several decades.”

“I'm thrilled to see a Grade 1 winner sired by one of Kentucky's finest stallions retiring to New York,” said Fasig-Tipton's Boyd Browning. “This highlights the growing significance of the racing and breeding industry in the state. I'm eagerly anticipating the opportunity to sell his New York offspring at our Saratoga sales.”

Americanrevolution will be available for viewing at WinStar Farm in Kentucky throughout the November Sale and during their stallion shows.

For seasons, contact Erin Robinson, 859 421-7531, or visit www.rockridgestud.com. For more information on Americanrevolution, contact Liam O'Rourke, Olivia Desch, or Ben Hanley at 859-873-1717, or visit WinStarFarm.com.

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The eighth panel of the OwnerView Virtual Thoroughbred Owner Conference held Tuesday, October 10, featured an equine surgery video and a discussion about the video with Dr. Larry Bramlage and OwnerView's project manager, Gary Falter.

The conference is hosted by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and sponsored by Bessemer Trust, Stoll Keenon Ogden, and The Green Group. This panel was sponsored by Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital.

Attendees were able to ask questions through Zoom's Q&A feature, sponsored by West Point Thoroughbreds.

The video shows the process of removing a chip from a 3-year-old Thoroughbred colt starting with the horse entering Rood and Riddle and ending with his recovery from surgery.

Dr. Bramlage said that removing a chip is not the same as most people's concept of taking a rock out of a shoe. He also explained, “The whole point behind removing the fragment is to stop the reaction of that joint to that fragment of bone. That reaction is what does the long-term damage to the joint.”

A replay of the panel and all previous panels can be viewed at bit.ly/OVVideos. There are two more Thoroughbred Owner Conference virtual panels scheduled for 2023, with the next session, Foot Care and Equine Dentistry, to be held November 7 at 2 p.m. ET. A full schedule can be found here: bit.ly/OVSchedule.

There is no registration fee for the virtual conference series, but registration is required. For more information about the owner conference, please visit ownerview.com/event/conference or contact Gary Falter at 859.224.2803 or gfalter@jockeyclub.com.

OwnerView is a joint effort spearheaded by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to encourage ownership of Thoroughbreds and provide accurate information on aspects of ownership such as trainers, public racing syndicates, the process of purchasing and owning a Thoroughbred, racehorse retirement, and owner licensing.

The need for a central resource to encourage Thoroughbred ownership was identified in the comprehensive economic study of the sport that was commissioned by The Jockey Club and conducted by McKinsey & Company in 2011. The OwnerView site was launched in May 2012.

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