Bidding opens for the Jockeys and Jeans stallion season sale to benefit Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund on Starquine.com Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, at 9 a.m. ET. It ends Thursday, Jan. 12, at 9 p.m.. ET. Preview starts Jan. 9.
Donating Kentucky farms include Airdrie Stud, Calumet Farm, Claiborne Farm, Crestwood Farm, Darby Dan Farm, Hill 'n' Dale, Spendthrift Farm, Taylor Made Stallions and, new this year, Darley, Gainesway Farm and Walmac Farm.
Among the list of attractive stallions are 2015 champion sprinter and proven stallion, Runhappy who is owned by flamboyant philanthropist and major PDJF donor Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale, and stands at Claiborne Farm. Others are Spendthrift Farm's Mitole, 2019 champion sprinter, Darley Stud's Frosted, who earned a 123 Beyer in winning the Met Mile, Darby Dan Farm's multimillionaire Kentucky Derby-winning Country House, Gainesway Farms classic winner and millionaire Tapwrit, a son of Tapit, and Calumet Farms Oxbow, sire of Hot Rod Charlie, winner of over $5 million.
The sale features some 70 stallions from Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, California, Texas, and Oklahoma.
“Big farm or small, we thank them all,” said Jockeys and Jeans president Barry Pearl. “There are many other valuable seasons and one for every pocketbook. And ours is the only season sale whose entire proceeds goes to those special humans; brave jockeys who gave a big part of their lives to racing.”
All funds raised by the all-volunteer group goes to PDJF, which pays a monthly stipend of $1,000 to the some 60 jockeys who suffered career-ending injuries, with some 40 either quadra or paraplegics. .
The sale itself has raised some $500,000 of the $2.6 million raised for PDJF since being Jockeys and Jeans was founded by five former jockeys in late 2014.
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