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Albert the Great relocated to Pennsylvania

Posted: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 4:05 PM

Albert the Great, the sire of Grade 1 winner Nobiz Like Shobiz, is relocating to Dr. William J. Solomon’s Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, Pennsylvania, for the 2008 breeding season.

Grade 1 winner Albert the Great will stand for $4,000 as property of Tracy Farmer. The Go for Gin horse out of stakes-placed winner Bright Feather, by Fappiano, previously stood at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Kentucky, since entering stud in 2002.

Albert the Great stood the previous two seasons for $7,500.

“Pin Oak Lane is a full-service outfit offering a strong stallion roster, boarding, breeding, training, and even veterinary surgical facilities,” Farmer said. “They have an excellent reputation going back 34 years, and it’s just the sort of place I want Albert the Great, who has meant so much to my wife, Carol, and me.

“And his offspring will be able to race for the lucrative Pennsylvania-bred incentives.”

Albert the Great is the sire of 76 winners, including three graded or group stakes winners, in four crops of racing age who have compiled $4,796,213 in progeny earnings through Wednesday. Nobiz Like Shobiz. a career earner of $1,544,730, won the 2007 Wood Memorial Stakes (G1).

Nick Zito trained Albert the Great, an earner of $3,012,490 who concluded his two-year racing career in 2001 with eight wins from 22 starts. The bay horse earned five of his wins in graded stakes races, including a victory in the 2000 Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1).

Albert the Great is a half brother to stakes winners Sheer Bliss and Watch the Bird and Grade 2-placed winner Crimson Hero.

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