NEWS
Dual classic winner Real Quiet relocating in Pennsylvania
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:42 PM
Real Quiet, the 1998 champion three-year-old male and dual classic winner, is relocating to Penn Ridge Farm in Middletown, Pennsylvania, for the 2008 breeding season.
The 12-year-old Quiet American horse out of the winning Believe It mare Really Blue will stand for $10,000 at Penn Ridge, which is co-owned by Mike Jester, Real Quiet’s syndicate manager, and Joe Besecker.
Real Quiet stood for $5,000 last season at Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, Pennsylvania.
Real Quiet is the sire of 182 winners from 299 starters, including five graded stakes winners, in five crops of racing age. The bay horse’s top progeny include 2007 TVG Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) winner Midnight Lute, multiple Grade 1 winner Pussycat Doll, Grade 1 winner Wonder Lady Anne L, and Grade 3 winner Silent Pleasure.
Real Quiet’s progeny have earned $12,343,190 through Tuesday.
Trained by Bob Baffert for Mike Pegram, Real Quiet earned an Eclipse Award in ’98 after outrunning runner-up Victory Gallop to win the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1). Real Quiet’s Triple Crown bid ended with a runner-up finish by a nose to Victory Gallop in the Belmont Stakes (G1).
Kentucky-bred Real Quiet concluded his three-year racing career in 1999 with six wins in 20 starts and $3,271,802 in earnings. He also posted Grade 1 victories in the 1997 Hollywood Futurity (G1), and the ’99 Pimlico Special Handicap (G1) and Hollywood Gold Cup (G1).
