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Bird Song Sold to Saudi Arabia

Multiple graded stakes winner Bird Song (Unbridled’s Song–Bird Town, by Cape Town) has been purchased to continue his stud career in Saudi Arabia in a deal brokered by Chad Schumer of Schumer Bloodstock. The 7-year-old previously stood at Gainesway Farm, with his oldest crop being yearlings of this year.

Trained by Ian Wilkes on behalf of Marylou Whitney, Bird Song won the GII Alysheba S. and GIII Fred W. Hooper S. as a 4-year-old in 2017 and finished his career with over $500,000 in earnings. His dam, who captured the GI Kentucky Oaks in 2013, is a half to 2004 GI Belmont S. and GI Travers S. hero Birdstone (Grindstone), who also stood at Gainesway until being pensioned to Old Friends last year.

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Palace Sold to Saudi Arabia

Palace (City Zip–Receivership, by End Sweep), his sire’s only multiple Grade I winner currently at stud, has been sold to continue his career in Saudi Arabia. The deal was brokered by Chad Schumer of Schumer Bloodstock.

Trained for the majority of his racing career by Linda Rice, Palace raced at a top level into his 6-year-old season and was a leading sprinter of 2014, with victories in the GI A. G. Vanderbilt H. and GI Forego S. at Saratoga. He retired to Spendthrift Farm with 12 wins from 30 starts and earnings of $1,586,550.

From two crops of racing age, Palace is the sire of 37 individual winners, including the stakes-winning Chacha Real Smooth and Auberge, runner-up to Bast (Uncle Mo) in this year’s GII Santa Ynez S., and who cost $570,000 at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.

City Zip’s ‘TDN Rising Star’ Improbable made Saturday’s Awesome Again S. his third top-level success of 2020 and fourth overall.

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Desert Party Sold To Saudi Arabia

Desert Party (Street Cry {Ire}–Sage Cat, by Tabasco Cat), a graded/group winner at ages two, three and four, has been sold to continue his stud career in Saudi Arabia. The deal was brokered by Chad Schumer of Chad Schumer Bloodstock.

Bred in Kentucky by David Smith and Steven Sinatra, Desert Party was purchased by Paul Pompa, Jr. for $425,000 at the 2007 Keeneland September sale, then watched as his pinhook prospect topped the Fasig-Tipton Calder Sale on John Ferguson’s bid of $2.1 million less than six months later. Winner of his first two trips to the post for Eoin Harty, including the GII Sanford S. at Saratoga, Desert Party added the G3 UAE 2000 Guineas during his sophomore season and the G3 Mahab Al Shimaal in Dubai and the Donald LeVine Memorial H. in 2010. He retired with six wins from 10 starts and earnings of $928,467.

Desert Party is the sire of seven black-type winners to date, chief among them Peruvian Group 3 winner Salama, and the multiple stakes winners Heart’s Song and Aunt Babe.

Desert Party most recently stood at Godstone Farm in Pennsylvania.

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Rachel Alexandra’s Half-Brother Wooderson to Stand in Arkansas

Wooderson (Awesome Again–Lotta Kim, by Roar), a half-brother to Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra (Medaglia d’Oro), will enter stud at Burdette Thoroughbred Farm in Arkansas in 2021. The deal was brokered by Chad Schumer of Schumer Bloodstock.

Bred by Dede McGehee’s Heaven Trees Farm, Wooderson was a $400,000 purchase out of the 2016 Keeneland September Sale, the co-highest priced yearling for his sire in 2016. Trained by Todd Pletcher for Let’s Go Stable, the bay was a three-time winner from 10 starts, including a runner-up effort to future MGISW and Horse of the Year candidate Tom’s d’Etat (Smart Strike) in the 2019 Alydar S. at Saratoga.

A stud fee will be announced at a later date.

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