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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Darby Dan Farm’s Flameaway To Shuttle To Chile’s Haras Dadinco

Flameaway, Darby Dan Farm's multiple graded stakes-winning son of Scat Daddy, is shuttling to South America to stand at Haras Dadinco in Chile for the upcoming Southern Hemisphere breeding season, it was announced today.

In the deal brokered by Matt Bowling Bloodstock and Sullivan Bloodstock, Flameaway will stand alongside Aragorn, Newfoundland and Van Nistelrooy, among others.

“We are thrilled to partner with Haras Dadinco,” said Ryan Norton, stallion director at Darby Dan Farm. “Flameaway was a versatile racehorse and he has a stallion's pedigree. He generated a lot of interest in this, his first season at stud, and we believe it's an exciting situation for our young stallion, as well as for Southern Hemisphere breeders.”

An ultra-consistent near-millionaire earner of $911,634 for owner John Oxley and trainer Mark Casse, Flameaway was a stakes winner each year he raced from ages two to four, winning on traditional dirt, turf, and synthetic surfaces at distances from 4 1/2 furlongs to 1 1/16 miles. All told, he won five stakes, including the Grade 3 Dixiana Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland and Saratoga's Skidmore Stakes at two after breaking his maiden on debut.

The following season, he captured the G3 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, defeating subsequent Grade 1 winners Catholic Boy and Vino Rosso. He also won the Kitten's Joy Stakes on turf at Gulfstream Park and the Challenger Stakes at Tampa, retiring having finished first or second in nine of 18 lifetime starts.

At stud, Flameaway proved popular at Darby Dan, breeding 183 mares in his first Northern Hemisphere season.

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