Service Stripe, sire of 14 stakes winners, has relocated for the 2009 breeding season to James and Laura Jackson’s Belair Farm in Highland, Michigan.

Ro Parra of Millennium Farms in Lexington will retain majority ownership in Service Stripe, who will stand for $2,000. The Jacksons will manage the stud career of the Deputy Minister horse out of multiple stakes winner Wedding Picture, by Blushing Groom (Fr).

Kentucky-bred Service Stripe stood the 2008 season at Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, Pennsylvania. A half brother to Grade 3 winner and sire Winged Victory, Grade 3-placed stakes winner and sire Where’s the Ring, and stakes winner Puzzled Look, Service Stripe is the sire of 137 winners from 202 starters among 320 foals in nine crops of racing age. His runners have compiled $10,074,276 in purse earnings through Wednesday.

Multiple stakes winner Service Stripe is the sire of 14 stakes winners, including Cashier’s Dream, the winner of the 2001 Spinaway Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. Other top progeny sired by Service Stripe include Secret Romeo, a Michigan-based sire who concluded his racing career with 17 stakes wins and earnings of $865,790, and nine-time stakes winner Born to Dance, a career earner of $577,519.

 “With the rebirth of racing in the Detroit area at Pinnacle Race Course, we decided to move Service Stripe to Michigan, where he was a stakes winner himself and a sire of many stakes winners, including promising young stallion Secret Romeo,” Parra said. “We have always had mares and racehorses with James and Laura in Michigan and are optimistic that Pinnacle will spur a rebirth in the breeding program there. Service Stripe is a perfect fit and we are pleased to offer him to Michigan breeders next year and beyond.”

Service Stripe concluded his four-year racing career in 1996 with ten wins in 22 starts and $130,043 in purse earnings. He earned his first stakes win in the 1994 Best of the West Handicap at Remington Park, and also captured the ’96 Pontiac Handicap at Detroit Racecourse.

Parra said Millennium Farms will continue to support Service Stripe by sending mares to him to foal in Michigan.

“We are happy to have Service Stripe back in Michigan,” James Jackson said. “He will be very well received by breeders here, as people remember him as a stakes-winning racehorse and are familiar with many of his stakes runners. We’ll be supporting him with many of our own mares, and promoting him enthusiastically to Michigan breeders.”

The Jacksons recently completed a lease-to-purchase agreement for Belair Farm, which was previously operated by Betty Tripp, widow of longtime Michigan horseman Ed Tripp.