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Daredevil to Stand at Lane’s End for 2021

One of the top second-crop sires Daredevil (More Than Ready–Chasethewildwind, by Forty Niner) will relocate to Lane’s End Farm for the 2021 breeding season. The GI Champagne S. victor will stand for $25,000.

Sire of 3-year-old sensations Swiss Skydiver and Shedaresthedevil, Daredevil is third on the North American-based, second-crop sire behind only American Pharoah and Constitution with just over half as many starters.

Daredevil is the only first-crop sire to ever sire an individual winner of the GI Kentucky Oaks and the GI Preakness S. in the same year. Swiss Skydiver is only the sixth filly to win the second leg of the Triple Crown in its 145 years. Shedaresthedevil was her sire’s first Classic winner in 2020 and led home the exacta for her sire in the most prestigious 3-year-old fillies race of the year. These two Grade I winners from just 74 starters in 2020 represent a 2.78%, Grade I winners to starters. Behind only Galileo worldwide at 3.6% and ahead of North American-based super sires War Front (1.5%), Speightstown (1.35%), More Than Ready (1.27%), Tapit (.83%) and Into Mischief (.77%) in 2020.

After standing his first four years at stud at WinStar, Daredevil was sold to The Turkish Jockey Club. Daredevil covered 97 mares in his first season in Turkey this year, the biggest book of any stallion in the country. Daredevil will stand at Lane’s End as property of the Jockey Club of Turkey.

“We are extremely honored that the Jockey Club of Turkey is entrusting us with the continuation of Daredevil’s stallion career in America,” said Bill Farish. “What he has accomplished is nothing short of remarkable. I would like to personally thank Murat Sancal for his ongoing efforts, the board members of the TJK, and especially the President Mr. Serdal Adali. This is the beginning of a very fruitful relationship with them and we are very grateful.”

Daredevil is in quarantine in preparation for his departure to Kentucky. He will arrive at Lane’s End near the end of November and be available for inspection shortly after.

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Cline To Join Fasig-Tipton Inspection Team For 2021

Mike Cline, an industry veteran for more than four decades, will join the Fasig-Tipton yearling inspection team this spring for the company's 2021 selected yearlings sales.

Cline recently retired from his long-time role as farm manager of famed Lane's End Farm. Hired in 1979 at Lane's End inception, he was the only farm manager in Lane's End's history until his retirement this past summer.

Working closely with the Farish family, Cline oversaw the rise of Lane's End to its prominent position today as one of the world's leading stud farms. His tenure saw the development of breed shaping stallions like A.P. Indy, Kingmambo, and Smart Strike, as well as current leading sires Candy Ride, Curlin, Lemon Drop Kid, Mineshaft, Union Rags, and Quality Road.

In the sales arena, Cline was intricately involved with the selection and growth of Lane's End yearling consignments, which are perennially ranked at the top of the North American consignor ranks.

“The Thoroughbred industry has great confidence in the Fasig-Tipton process for our selected sales,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning. “We are thrilled to add an exceptional and respected horseman like Mike Cline to our inspection team. He will bring vast experience and an outstanding eye for quality horses.”

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Paul Pompa Jr. Dies At 62; Campaigned Big Brown, Connect

Paul Pompa Jr., a prominent Thoroughbred owner and breeder best known as the co-owner of Big Brown, winner of the 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, died on Friday at the age of 62. Daily Racing Form's David Grening indicated the New Jersey resident's death may have been from an apparent heart attack.

Pompa entered Thoroughbred ownership in 2000 and enjoyed considerable success, campaigning at least 15 graded stakes winners including Connect, winner of the G1 Cigar Mile Handicap in 2016 and now standing at Lane's End in Versailles, Ky.

Other major winners include multiple graded stakes winners Backseat Rhythm (G1 Garden City); Zakocity, D'Funnybone, Night Prowler and most recently Regal Glory, a homebred by Animal Kingdom who won the G3 Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf Stakes on Sept. 12.

But it was Big Brown that put Pompa on the map as a Thoroughbred owner. President of Truck-Rite Corp. in Brooklyn, N.Y., Pompa purchased the Boundary colt for $180,000 from Eddie Woods, agent, at the 2007 Keeneland April Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training. He named him Big Brown, a nickname for UPS, a major client of his trucking company.

After a first-out win at Saratoga while trained by Patrick Reynolds, Pompa sold majority interest in the colt to IEAH Stables and Big Brown won six of his next seven starts, including the G1 Florida Derby, G1 Kentucky Derby, G1 Preakness Stakes and G1 Haskell Invitational Stakes for trainer Rick Dutrow. His only career defeat came when turning in a puzzling effort while being eased in the G1 Belmont Stakes while going for a sweep of the Triple Crown.

In recent years, Pompa had horses with Chad Brown, Todd Pletcher and Linda Rice. Some were homebreds, some purchased at auction and he also claimed a few that he called “action horses.”

Five years after Big Brown entered stud, Pompa paid $150,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Yearling Sale for a Curlin colt consigned by VanMeter Sales that would be named Connect. Winner of two races in his juvenile season for Brown, Connect would go on to win the G2 Pennsylvania Derby at 3 and then beat older horses in the Cigar Mile in 2016.

Connect came back to win the G3 Westchester Stakes the following year in a prep for the G1 Metropolitan Mile Handicap, but a suspensory injury sustained in training prompted his retirement.

Known for having an even keel when it came to the ups and downs of ownership, Pompa told Daily Racing Form's Grening, “One day you have the favorite for the Met Mile. The next day, the horse will probably never run again. That's pretty much the way owners live.”

Upon learning the news of Pompa's death, Pletcher told Grening: “Devastating loss for everyone, great man, great owner. He always saw the bright side of everything.”

Pompa is survived by his wife Elisa and sons Paul III and Michael. Arrangements were pending.

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Noble Mission, Full-Brother To Frankel, Sold To Stand In Japan

Noble Mission, a full-brother to the great Frankel and sire of Grade 1 winner Code of Honor, has been sold to stand in Japan, per a statement from the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders' Association.

The release states that the 11-year-old son of Galileo will ship to Japan in late November, and he will take up residence at Shizunai Stallion Station in December, following import quarantine.

Noble Mission stood his first six seasons at Lane's End in Versailles, Ky., where he was advertised in 2020 for a fee of $20,000. He is best known as the sire of Code of Honor, the winner of the Grade 1 Travers Stakes and Jockey Club Gold Cup, and runner-up in the 2019 Kentucky Derby hailing from his sire's first crop.

Other notable runners among Noble Mission's 73 winners include Spanish Mission, a Group 2 winner in England, and stakes winners Life Mission and Laafy.

A British homebred for the Juddmonte Farms operation, Noble Mission is out of the Group 3-placed stakes-winning Danehill mare Kind, making him a full-brother to the undefeated European champion Frankel, and a half to Group 3 winner Bullet Train and stakes winner Joyeuse.

Noble Mission won nine of 21 starts for earnings of $2,202,887, including the Group 3 Gordon Stakes as a 3-year-old, and the Tapster Stakes at four. He took his game to another level at five, earning Europe's Cartier champion older horse honors in 2014 on a campaign that included victories in the G1 Champion Stakes in England, the G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud in France, and the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup in Ireland. He also finished second in the German G1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis – Bayerisches Zuchtrennen to add even more international flavor.

The Japan Bloodhorse Breeders' Association is a regular buyer of U.S. stallions and stallion prospects, with a roster of expats that currently includes Animal Kingdom, Declaration of War, Creator, Eskendereya, Cape Blanco, Aldebaran, David Junior, Came Home, and Squirtle Squirt.

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