More than Ready son to stand in Alberta

Admin • January 27, 2022

Readyforprimetime will be the only son of More than Ready to stand in Canada

Stolz Thoroughbreds has acquired the More than Ready son, READYFORPRIMETIME, to stand in Alberta for the 2022 season. Readyforprimetime is a sprinter, an allowance winner and a multiple stakes placed runner with third place finishes in the 2021 $100,000 Duncan F. Kenner Stakes (Black Type) at Fair Grounds and the 2020 $85,000 Lucky Coin Stakes (Listed) at Saratoga. Readyforprimetime will become a freshman sire in 2022 after completing his race career this year with a record of 18-4-1-4 and $198,261. The six year old stallion was sold as a yearling at the 2017 Keeneland September Yearling Sale for $220,000. 


Readyforprimetime will be the only son of More than Ready to stand in Canada. More than Ready is an international sire who represents the Halo line and stands at Winstar Farms for a $50,000 stud fee. More than Ready has more black type winners than any North American sire in history with 212 and his total progeny earnings are over $210 Million with 97 graded stakes winners, 30 G1 winners and 13 Champions. More than Ready is the number one sire of Breeders’ Cup winners in history with 7 wins and the only sire to have an Eclipse Award Champion in each of the last 4 years. The dam of Readyforprimetime is the Gone West mare, Mana Pools, a half sister to G1 winner Power Broker ($865,612).


Readyforprimetime will stand the 2022 season at Bar None Ranches Ltd. and is being offered for a limited book to approved mares only. Readyforprimetime will stand for $1250 LFSN. Inquiries to Cassandra or Dennis Stolz at 403-470-7413 or 647-274-5370 or email cassandra@stolzthoroughbreds.ca


*All earnings at time of press from Equibase

Photos above courtesy of Adam Coglianese from the NYRA

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