NEWS
War Chant to shuttle to Chile
Posted: Sunday, June 08, 2008 7:08 PM
by Michael Burns
War Chant, winner of the 2000 Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1), will shuttle to Eduardo Matte’s Haras De Pirque in Chile for the Southern Hemisphere season after completing the Northern Hemisphere breeding season at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Kentucky.
An 11-year-old by Danzig out of champion Hollywood Wildcat, War Chant stands for $20,000 at Three Chimneys Farm. Through June 7, War Chant has sired seven graded or group stakes winners and 16 stakes winners in five crops of racing age with progeny earnings of $10,780,713.
Prominent South American breeder Jorge Cardemil, of Chilean-based Haras Carioca, facilitated the arrangement.
“We are very excited that Mr. Cardemil has arranged for a private group of breeders, which includes Haras De Pirque and himself, to breed their mares to War Chant,“ said Case Clay, president of Three Chimneys. “Therefore, the vast majority, if not all of the mares, will be privately bred.”
War Chant also posted victories in the 2000 Oak Tree Breeders’ Cup Mile (G2) and ’00 San Rafael (G2) Stakes and finished second in the ’00 Santa Anita Derby (G1) at Santa Anita Park.
Michael Burns is a South America-based Thoroughbred Times correspondent
