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Combatant Retired To Rockridge Stud In New York For 2022 Season

Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap winner Combatant (Scat Daddy – Border Dispute by Boundary) has been retired and will stand at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y., beginning with the 2022 breeding season.

The Hronis Racing color-bearer was sold to Brian Levings of Levings Racing in a deal brokered by Matt Bowling of Bowling Bloodstock, Colt Pike, and David Ingordo.

“I've had fun on the racing side and decided to dip a toe in the stallion market,” Levings said. “New York has a strong program and has shown that stallions from the Empire State can have a bright future.”

“A Grade 1 winning son of Scat Daddy is a great complement to the New York stallion market and a perfect fit for our program,” says Rockridge's Lere Visagie.

Combatant is currently being syndicated and will stand for $7,500 LFSN his first year. The stallion will remain in Kentucky through the end of the Keeneland September Sale for any Kentucky breeders interested in the New York program.

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Slumber To Stand 2021 Breeding Season At Rockbridge Stud In New York

Top 25 freshman sire Slumber (Gb) (Cacique (Ire) – Sound Asleep by Woodman) will join the stallion roster at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y., beginning with the 2021 season.

Slumber, full-brother to successful European sires Dansili (Gb) and Champs Elysees (Gb), was a Grade 1 winner in New York (Manhattan S.), and won or placed in 13 stakes races in the U.S. and England – 11 of which were group/graded stakes (five G1 races).

Slumber's first crop are 2-year-olds of 2020. With only six runners to date, he already has a first-crop stakes winner, Fluffy Socks, a homebred for Head of Plains Partners trained by Chad Brown. Winner of the Selima Stakes at Pimlico on Oct. 3, Fluffy Socks was second to stablemate Ingrassia in the Chelsey Flower Stakes at Belmont Park on Nov. 1 in her most recent start.

Slumber previously stood at Calumet Farm in Kentucky.

“We are honored to have Slumber join us at Rockridge,” says owner and operator Lere Visagie. “This horse already has a stakes winner with a very modest first crop, and that kind of stallion can really be useful in New York.”

Slumber's fee is listed as private for 2021 and the stallion is available for inspection at any time.

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Frank Conversation Shuttling To Chile For Southern Hemisphere Season

Frank Conversation, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Quality Road (out of Rushen Heat by Unusual Heat), will shuttle to Haras Santa Sara in Santiago, Chile for the 2020 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.

Frank Conversation just completed his second year at stud at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y.

“We're thrilled with the quality of his first crop of foals, and would love to see international success for the horse,” says Rockridge Stud's Lere Visagie. “An opportunity to shuttle just seemed like a no-brainer.”

The deal was brokered by Bowling Bloodstock and Sullivan Bloodstock.

“We've had great success in the past with Santa Sara, most recently having sent Goldencents there,” says Matt Bowling of Bowling Bloodstock. “They take very good care of the horses and we think Frank will be well-received there.”

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Frank Conversation to Shuttle to Chile

Multiple graded stakes winner Frank Conversation (Quality Road–Rushen Heat, by Unusual Heat) will shuttle to Haras Santa Sara in Santiago, Chile for the 2020 Southern Hemisphere breeding season. The 7-year-old stallion just completed his second year at stud at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, New York.

“We’re thrilled with the quality of his first crop of foals and would love to see international success for the horse,” said Rockridge Stud’s Lere Visagie. “An opportunity to shuttle just seemed like a no-brainer.”

The deal was brokered by Bowling Bloodstock and Sullivan Bloodstock.

“We’ve had great success in the past with Santa Sara, most recently having sent Goldencents there,” Matt Bowling of Bowling Bloodstock said. “They take very good care of the horses and we think Frank will be well-received there.”

Frank Conversation won the GII Twilight Derby and GIII El Camino Real Derby in 2016 for Reddam Racing and trainer Doug O’Neill. He was also third in that year’s GI Hollywood Derby.

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