Multiple Grade 3 winner Mustanfar has been retired from racing because of a soft tissue injury to his left, front ankle and will enter stud at Shadwell Farm in Lexington for the 2008 breeding season.
The six-year-old Unbridled horse will stand for $3,000.
A Shadwell homebred trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, Mustanfar concluded his racing career with five victories from 27 starts and $625,010 in earnings. The chestnut horse won the 2004 Sycamore Breeders’ Cup Stakes (G3) at Keeneland Race Course and the Lexington Stakes (G3) at Belmont Park.
Mustanfar also placed in six additional graded stakes races, including a third-place finish in the 2005 Gulfstream Park Breeders’ Cup Handicap (G1).
McLaughlin said Mustanfar did not always enjoy the best racing luck.
“Really, he has always run well,” McLaughlin said. “But it’s just been one thing or another. He’s never really had a bad race.”
A half brother to multiple stakes winner Tadris, Mustanfar is out of the placed Lyphard mare Manwah, a half sister to English multiple Group 1 winners and sires Nayef and Nashwan and English multiple Group 2 winner and sire Unfuwain.
Notable family members include English champion Height of Fashion (Fr) and 2007 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) winner Lahudood (GB).