ALBERTA STALLION CHANGES FOR THE 2010 BREEDING SEASON
Suave Prospect to New Mexico
SUAVE PROSPECT, who has sired 29 stakes horses, is being relocated from Vern Hrycuik and John Vanderligt's farm near Wanham, Alberta, Canada to Steve Prather's Doubletree Farm near Hobbs, New Mexico. His 2010 fee is $4,000.
A two-time graded stakes winner in Florida, 17-year-old SUAVE PROSPECT has sired 16 stakes winners, 78% winners from starters, and the earners of $16.4 million. His 2009 added-money winners include Awintersdream, Fearless Leader and Suave Jazz. Suave Prospect won the What a Pleasure (gr. III) and Preview (gr. III) Stakes, and ran second in eight added-money races, including the Florida Derby (gr. I). He is a half-brother to two stakes winners and a full brother to the dam of Kentucky stallion Successful Appeal and 2008 Canadian grade II turf winner True to Tradition. He is out of the stakes-winning Staff Writer mare Debonair Dancer.
HIGHLAND RUCKUS has retired in 2009 at his home at Paddockhurst Stables in Nisku, Alberta. HIGHLAND RUCKUS is a son of Bold Ruckus out of Arctic Vixen and was a black type winner of $484,308. He has sired 15 black type winners including champion Highland Legacy, Timboruck, Viva Ruckus, Uncas Ruckus, and Highland Mood. He also sired the recent winner of the 2009 Three Year Old Filly Stakes, Eye Scarey. His progeny have a total of 179 winners of 704 races and earnings of $9,131,221. HIGHLAND RUCKUS is 24 years old.
BRASS MINISTER passed away in 2009 at the age of 21 years. BRASS MINISTER had stood stud at Al and Bunny Noren's Heart Valley Farm in Wanham, Alberta. BRASS MINISTER had 6 black type winners including well known Alberta race horses Lambeau Field, A Shaky Start and Sister Brass.
The stallion CAPPUCHINO by Capote ~ Tara Roma, by Lyphard sadly passed away at only 10 years old during September due to complications from an intestinal infection. CAPPUCHINO was a Multiple Grade 3 winner of over $500,000 by Champion 2-year-old and Grade I Breeders' Cup Juvenile Stakes winner Capote out of a Grade 2 stakes winner and Grade 1 stakes producer. CAPPUCHINO had stakes wins at 2, 3, 4 & 5 from five furlongs to 1 1/16 miles and retired sound after 32 starts. His first foals are only three year olds of 2009 and he is already the sire of Belmont MSW winner Mocha Shake from 1st crop. CAPPUCHINO stood at Highfield Stock Farm in Okotoks, Alberta.
The stallion DR.ADAGIO was humanely euthanized last June due to complications from laminitis. DR.ADAGIO stood stud at Peaceful Valley Stables in Alberta and was 21 years old. Dr. Adagio was a Kentucky-bred horse by Cure the Blues out of Istria by Silly Season. His progeny includes 3 black type winners and 6 black type placers and he has five 2 year olds and 1 yearling that have yet to reach their potential. A well known Alberta race horse by Dr. Adagio is Diamond Doc out of Brass to Diamonds. Diamond Doc recently won the 2009 Sales Stakes at Northlands and currently has $100,078 in earnings.
The stallion EXPLICIT passed away at his Winsome Acres home in Sylvan Lake, Alberta. EXPLICIT was on the list of Leading Canadian Sires of 2008 by winners with 56 starters, 25 winners and progeny earnings of $798,822. He was a multiple graded stakes winner of $603,190 and was a son of Distant View, Champion miler by Mr. Prospector. EXPLICI`T entered stud in 2003 and was brought to Winsome Acres to stand stud at the start of the 2008 season.
JUST A CAT, by Storm Cat out of Rita by Alydar passed away in 2009 at his Calmar Stables and Ranch home in Calmar, Alberta. JUST A CAT held the title of leading 2001 Alberta Freshman Sire by number of juvenile winners (17 starters/8 winners). JUST A CAT was a stakes winner of $144,139 in his short career on the track. He is the sire of 2 blacktype winners and 92 winners of 257 races with total progeny earnings of $3,253,402 including the successful Alberta runner Pretty Beaucat, black type placed in three Alberta stakes races and earner of $103,828 to date.
(Posted November 17, 2009)
