Group 2-placed winner Freud, a full brother to multiple Group 1 winner and Central Kentucky sire Giant's Causeway, has been retired and will enter stud in 2002 at Lakland North near Hudson, New York.

The three-year-old son of Storm Cat out of the multiple Grade 2-winning Rahy mare Mariah's Storm will stand his initial season for $5,000.

Bred in Kentucky and campaigned exclusively in Europe, Freud won one of 12 starts with two seconds and one third and earned $44,016. His lone victory came going a mile at the Curragh this season and that win earned him a trip to the Irish Two Thousand Guineas (Ire-G1), where he finished seventh behind stablemates Black Minnaloushe, Mozart (Ire), and Minardi.

Freud, who also finished third in the Cork and Orrery Stakes (Eng-G2) at Royal Ascot, is one of three winners produced by Mariah's Storm.

Giant's Causeway, who began his stud career at Coolmore Ireland in 2001, is scheduled to stand next year at Coolmore's Ashford Stud near Versailles, Kentucky.—Tom Law