Grade 1 winner Expelled, a half brother to Grade 1 winner Exbourne and European classic-placed group stakes winner Top Socialite, has been moved from Central Kentucky to stand the upcoming 2002 season at Albemarle Stud near Free Union, Virginia.

The nine-year-old son of Explodent out of Social Lesson, by Forum, will stand his first season in the Mid-Atlantic region for $5,000. Expelled had stood his first two seasons at Wimbledon Farm near Lexington, including the 2001 season for $6,500.

Expelled is represented this year by his first crop of weanlings and six of that group sold for an average of $26,417 at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale. He is the sire of a colt out of the Cozzene mare Jeff's Type that was purchased by Sheffield Lodge Stud, agent for $65,000.

Expelled won seven of 17 career starts with one second and three thirds and earned $405,434. He started his career in France as a two-year-old with a maiden win in his first start, a victory in the Prix du Bois (Fr-G3), and a third-place finish in the Prix Robert Papin (Fr-G2). Unraced at three, Expelled was sent to North America prior to his four-year-old campaign.

Expelled won five of 13 starts in North America, including the 1997 Eddie Read Handicap (G1) at Del Mar, and finished second in the '98 Wickerr Handicap at Del Mar.

Bred in Kentucky by Prince Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms, Expelled is one of eight winners produced by Social Lesson. After beginning his career in England and finishing second in the 1989 Two Thousand Guineas (Eng-G1), Exbourne was one of America's top grass performers in the early 1990s. Exbourne won eight of 14 career starts, including the 1991 Hollywood Turf Handicap (G1), Caesars International Handicap (G2), and '92 El Rincon Handicap (G2), and earned $1,000,198.

Top Socialite, who placed in two European classics in 1985, was a five-time stakes winner after being sent to the United States and won ten of 34 career starts for $521,944 in earnings.