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Cairo Prince, Collected Headline Airdrie Stud’s 2022 Roster

Brereton C. Jones's Airdrie Stud has announced the farm stud fees for the 2022 breeding season.

Cairo Prince, the leading sire of 2-year-old winners in America, will stand the season at a fee of $15,000. Amongst his 23 2-year-old winners is the undefeated stakes-winner Cairo Memories, who will enter as one of the race favorites in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. The leading sire of his stallion crop by both stakes winners and graded stakes winners, Cairo Prince is approaching $6 million in 2021 earnings.

Also standing for a fee of $15,000 is the farm's popular young stallion, Collected. A Grade 1-winning son of leading sire City Zip, Collected has been represented by no fewer than 20 individual six-figure sales horses from his first crop of yearlings in 2021. An earner of nearly $3 million on the racetrack, Collected has bred books of 156, 155 and 103 mares during his first three seasons at stud.

Exceedingly popular Grade 1 Champagne Stakes winner Complexity will stand his second season in 2022 at his introductory fee of $12,500. Booked full at 158 mares in his initial season, the striking son of the hot young sire Maclean's Music ran one of the highest speed figures of 2020 when taking the Grade 2 Kelso H in 1:33 4/5 , earning a 110 Beyer. The $375,000 Mike Ryan yearling purchase was bred by the perennially successful Stonestreet Farm.

Airdrie's young roster is rounded out by the Grade 1-winning duo of Preservationist and Divisidero – both set to be represented by their first weanlings this November – as well as the talented and precocious McCraken, and a mixture of proven and ascending sires in Upstart, Include, Summer Front, Creative Cause and American Freedom.

“I believe Airdrie has earned the reputation as a stallion farm that will stand behind our product and put our breeders in position to profit in the sales ring or on the race track,” said Airdrie's Bret Jones. “As always, we will be supporting our young and exciting roster with the full force of our broodmare band and take great pride in making the same investment in our stallions that we ask of our customers. The commercial breeder knows that we will not flood the market with excessively high booking numbers and racehorse owners know that our stallions throw runners. We are extremely bullish on this year's roster and look forward to working with the incredible breeders that have long supported Airdrie.”

Following is the complete list of advertised fees for Airdrie Stud's 2022 stallion roster.

American Freedom – $6,000
Cairo Prince – $15,000
Collected – $15,000
Complexity – $12,500
Creative Cause – $7,500
Divisidero – $5,000
Include – $5,000
McCraken – $5,000
Preservationist – $10,000
Summer Front – $7,500
Upstart – $10,000

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Creative Cause Colt Leads Summer Sale Breezers

A 2-year-old colt by American-based sire Creative Cause is bound for the stable of trainer Simone Brogi after Nicolas de Watrigant of Mandore International Agency went to €100,000 to secure the colt on behalf of Middleham Park Racing and partners during the opening session of the Arqana Summer Sale on Wednesday. Lot 8, out of the winning Proud Citizen mare Fight With Pride, represented a good pinhook for Willie Browne of Mocklershill, having cost $12,000 at Keeneland September last year. The colt was bred by Brereton Jones and his son Bret Jones, who own Airdrie Stud in Kentucky and stand the sire and also stood the damsire. He was the top-priced lot of the early breeze-up portion of the session, where 70 youngsters were offered, with 48 sold (68.6%) for an aggregate of €721,500. The average for the 2-year-olds was €15,031, and the median €8,500.

“He's a lovely looking colt, the horse of the sale if you ask me,” said de Watrigant. “He was meant to go to the breeze-up in May, but after a setback he came here. I've bought him for an association between Middleham Park Racing, Tim Palin, a client of Simone Brogi's, Thomas Bernereau and Pierre Pilarski, whose colours he will run in. He'll be trained by Simone Brogi.”

Also among the leading juveniles offered on Wednesday was Knockanglass Stable's Night Of Thunder (Ire) colt out of Clowning (Distorted Humor) (lot 81i), who was bought by Jean-Pierre Deroubaix of F.B.A for €70,000, having been bought back for €48,800 from Arqana's breeze-up sale at Doncaster and having originally been a 75,000gns yearling. He was bought for Jurgen Sartori, who is making a return to racing having also bought Group 3 winner No Limit Credit (Ger), also by Night Of Thunder, for €480,000 at Arqana December last year. Lot 81i will go into training in Germany. Like the top-priced breezer, he comes from an American family; he is out of an unraced daughter of dual Grade I winner Flashing (A.P. Indy), who has produced the French listed winner and group placed Floodlight (Medaglia d'Oro).

Edging the Creative Cause colt for top lot of the sale was a gelded son of Zarak (Fr), a first-season sire who was a Group 1 winner on the flat but those headline-making son on Wednesday was catalogued as a 2-year-old store. That is because he is the first foal out of the listed-placed jumper Boreal Du Berlais, and from a quality family in that realm. Lot 214 was bought by Paul Basquin from Haras du Saubouas for €110,000. Two additional 2-year-old stores reached the six-figure mark: lot 234, a son of Authorized (Ire), and lot 192, a son of No Risk At All (Fr), each fetched €100,000.

The session was largely comprised of the breeze-up and store 2-year-olds, but also contained a small group of 3-year-old stores and horses in training. A total of 169 horses were sold on the day (73%) for €3,517,500, at an average of €20,814 and a median of €14,000.

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Hush of a Storm Aiming for Blue Grass

Hush of a Storm (Creative Cause), a scratch from Saturday's GIII Jeff Ruby Steaks despite having won that event's local prep, could make his next start in Keeneland's GII Toyota Blue Grass S. next Saturday. “We hope to run in the Blue Grass,” trainer Bill Morey said Sunday morning from Keeneland. “When we scratched, we brought him here yesterday afternoon.” The $75,000 OBS April grad has won his last three starts, all on the Turfway Tapeta, including the John Battaglia Memorial S. Feb. 26.

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Hush Of A Storm Takes Detour From Turfway To Keeneland For Blue Grass

Joseph P. Morey Jr. Revocable Trust's Hush of a Storm, a winner of three consecutive races, could make his next start Saturday in the 97th running of Keeneland's $800,000 Toyota Blue Grass (G2) in Lexington, Ky. The race is worth 170 qualifying points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) on a 100-40-20-10 basis to the top four finishers.

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“We hope to run in the Blue Grass,” trainer Bill Morey said Sunday morning at Keeneland. “When we scratched (out of Saturday's Jeff Ruby Steaks-G3 at Turfway Park), we brought him here yesterday afternoon.”

A son of Creative Cause, Hush of a Storm was the 4-1 second choice on the morning line for the Jeff Ruby off a victory in the Feb. 26 John Battaglia Memorial. In that race, he defeated eventual Ruby winner Like the King.

Morey said Hush of a Storm is scheduled to work Monday morning. Santiago Gonzalez, who has been aboard for all three of Hush of a Storm's victories, would have the mount in the Toyota Blue Grass.

According to stakes coordinator Tiffany Bourque, here is the prospective field for the race:

$800,000 TOYOTA BLUE GRASS (G2) – Essential Quality (trainer Brad Cox), Hidden Stash (Vicki Oliver), Highly Motivated (Chad Brown), Rombauer (Michael McCarthy), Sittin On Go (Dale Romans). Possible: Hush of a Storm (William Morey), Keepmeinmind (Robertino Diodoro).

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