Grade 3 winner Kazoo has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Bogart Stables in Houston, Ohio.

The Tabasco Cat horse out of multiple stakes winner Vennila Cream, by Valid Appeal, will stand for a private fee.

“He’s a graded stakes winner out of a mare who won multiple stakes, and that alone sums him up pretty well,” Bogart Stables owner and manager Bob Bogart said. “He’s very well balanced and is a sound horse, and I think that’s very credible.

“I remember years ago when they’d stress how sound a horse was and how long he ran when they’d advertise a stallion, and I guess that’s gone by the wayside some. But I know many breeders are looking for a hard-knocker with no physical flaws.”

Kathleen Sentkowski of Freestate Bloodstock in Maryland helped broker the deal for Kazoo, a career earner of $637,000. The chestnut horse won the 2006 Toboggan Handicap (G3) at Aqueduct for trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. and owners IEAH Stable, Curragh Stables, and Richard Schiavo.

Kazoo earned his first stakes victory in the 2002 F. W. Gaudin Memorial Handicap at Fair Grounds, and finished second in the ’06 Commonwealth Stakes (G2) at Keeneland Race Course. A half brother to stakes-placed winner Daddy Joe and Raspberry Eggcream, dam of Grade 3 winner Electrify, Kazoo concluded his eight-year racing career with ten wins from 51 starts.