by Jeff Lowe

Grade 1 winner and second-crop sire Snow Ridge will relocate to Regal Heir Farm in Grantville, Pennsylvania, for the 2008 season.

Previously based at Padua Stables in Reddick, Florida, the nine-year-old Tabasco Cat horse out of Snow Forest, by Woodman, will stand for $5,000 as the property of Joe Davis.

Davis bought Snow Ridge after the 2007 season and originally planned to stand him at Moon Lake Farm in Elm Grove, Louisiana. Davis said he would send 20 to 30 of his own mares to Snow Ridge at Regal Heir.

Snow Ridge has sired 52 winners from 69 starters who earned $1,875,972 through Wednesday. His leading runners are stakes winners Snow Lady and Snow Way.

“I think he’s going to have better and better babies,” Davis said. “I’m going out and buying as many of the babies as I can at auction, to promote him but also to help improve his mares. The mares that he got the last few years were better than he got his first two years. I think when his third crop hits the track next year, it will be his best crop so far.”

Bred in Kentucky by Mt. Brilliant Farm, Snow Ridge is a half brother to stakes winner Pavarotti, who will begin his stud career in 2008 at Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds in Florida.

Jeff Lowe is a Thoroughbred Times staff writer