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Roster and Stud Fees Set for Ocala Stud

Ocala Stud has set 2021 stud fees for its roster of 16 stallions for the upcoming breeding season, led by Girvin (Tale of Ekati), whose fee will be $6,000 S&N for his third year at stud. Ocala Stud will welcome new stallions in Grade I-winning millionaires Win Win Win (Hat Trick {Jpn}) and Seeking the Soul (Perfect Soul {Ire}), who will both stand for $5,000 S&N, and also new is the stakes-winning Dak Attack (Ghostzapper), whose fee will be $2,500 S&N.

Girvin saw his first foals arrive in 2020. He has covered 273 mares in his first two books–he was Florida’s most popular stallion of 2019, breeding 149 mares that season and he was bred to 124 mares in 2020.

Like Girvin, Awesome Slew (Awesome Again) welcomed first foals in 2020. He will stand for $4,000 S&N.

Adios Charlie (Indian Charlie), a perennial leading sire in Florida, will stand for $4,000 S&N. The Sunshine State’s No. 1 sire in 2019, Adios Charlie is a top five sire again in 2020.

Also standing for $4,000 S&N are Jess’s Dream (Curlin), who has first-crop 2-year-olds in 2020; GISW Noble Bird (Birdstone), who will be represented by first 2-year-olds in the coming year; and The Big Beast (Yes It’s True), Florida’s second-ranked first-crop sire of 2019.

Ocala Stud’s roster also includes: Ami’s Flatter ($2,500); Awesome of Course ($2,000); Battalion Runner ($1,500); Brooks n Down ($1,500); Fort Loudon ($1,500); Greenpointcrusader ($3,500); and In Summation ($2,500).

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Seeking the Soul to Stand at Ocala Stud

Charles Fipke’s Grade I-winning multimillionaire Seeking the Soul (Perfect Soul {Ire}) has arrived at Ocala Stud to take up stud duties in 2021, Fipke Stable announced on Twitter.

“I am really pleased that Ocala Stud will stand Seeking the Soul,” Fipke said. “They are one of the most important stud farms in Florida, with a great and long history of success, and I look forward to Seeking the Soul joining their roster and program. Years ago, I sent my first mare to board at Ocala Stud while breeding her to Kris S. in Florida, so I am well aware of their history and record of success. I will send my champion Forever Unbridled to Seeking the Soul–that’s how much I believe in the horse. He’s a Grade I winner from the family of Personal Ensign.”

A three-time graded stakes winner, Seeking the Soul’s crowning achievement came when capturing the GI Clark H. in 2017. Trained by Dallas Stewart, he added the GII Stephen Foster S. over the same Churchill track the following spring and retired with $3,470,153 in earnings over 32 starts. A stud fee will be announced at a later date.

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Seeking the Soul Retired

Charles Fipke’s homebred Seeking the Soul (Perfect Soul {Ire}–Seeking the Title, by Seeking the Gold), winner of the 2017 GI Clark H., has been retired from racing after suffering a tendon injury last month. Although stud plans have not yet been announced, Fipke said he plans to support the 7-year-old stallion.

“He’s at my farm in Paris, Kentucky, where he was born, and is recuperating nicely under the eye of farm manager Elke Krohn,” Fipke said Monday. “He’s a lovely horse, a Grade l winner who was genuine on the track and earned $3.5 million, and he’s got an incredible family that was developed by Ogden Phipps. I will support him with some of my best mares, you can be sure of that.”

In addition to the Clark, Seeking the Soul won the 2018 GIII Ack Ack S. and the 2019 GII Stephen Foster S. He was second in the 2018 GI Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and in the 2019 GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational. On the board in 20 of 32 starts, Seeking the Soul won seven times and retires with earnings of $3,470,153.

“He just loved to run,” trainer Dallas Stewart said. “You can’t teach a horse that. That’s how the best of them are, they either have it or they don’t. You put a saddle on him, and he wanted to go. He was a tough horse on the track, and he was unlucky a few times in his races, but he had a mind on him and never got discouraged no matter what. He was a real racehorse.”

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