Florida sire Stack dies at 26
by Jeff Lowe
Pensioned sire Stack died in his paddock on September 27 at Jaime Rizo Patron’s Pinecrest Stables in Ocala. He was 26.
Stack sired 30 stakes winners, many of them in Peru, where he was leading sire in 1992, ’93, and ’95 and leading broodmare sire in 2003 and ’04.
The Nijinsky II horse out of File, by Tom Rolfe, stood in Peru from 1986 until 1994, when he was moved to Pinecrest. The half brother to champion Forty Niner was pensioned in 2004 because of decreased fertility.
Stack’s best runners in the Unites States include graded stakes winners Stay Forever, Stokosky, and Sierra Virgen.
Bred in Kentucky by Claiborne Farm, Stack won four of 18 career starts.
Jeff Lowe is a Thoroughbred Times staff writer