Grade 1 winner City Zip, who was retired after a ninth-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Mile (G1) at Belmont Park, will stand his initial season for $7,500 at Gus Schoenborn Jr.'s Contemporary Stallions near Coxsackie, New York. The three-year-old son of Carson City out of Baby Zip, by Relaunch, was retired to Contemporary after winning nine of 23 career starts with five seconds and four thirds for $818,225 in earnings. He won eight stakes events during his career, including a sweep of Saratoga Race Course's three major juvenile stakes in 2000.

City Zip won the Sanford (G2), Saratoga Special (G2), and Hopeful (G1) Stakes in succession, the latter in a dead heat with Yonaguska. He also won the Tremont Stakes (G3) during his juvenile campaign.

City Zip won four stakes as a three-year-old, including the Amsterdam Stakes (G2) at Saratoga and Jersey Shore Breeders' Cup Stakes (G3) at Monmouth Park.