by Ed DeRosa

The Visualiser, a Grade 3-placed winner and half brother to multiple stakes winner Monsoon Rain, will stand the 2010 season at Dr. Warren and Linda Center’s Mighty Acres in Pryor, Oklahoma, for an advertised fee of $1,500.

The Visualiser will be just the second stallion by his sire, Giant’s Causeway, to stand in Oklahoma. His dam, the stakes-winning Holy Bull mare Smokey Mirage, is a half sister to Grade 1 winner High Fly and a full sister to multiple Group 3 winner Estimraar.

John Ferguson purchased The Visualizer on behalf of Godolphin Racing for $1-million at the 2004 Keeneland September yearling sale

The Visualiser won three of 23 starts lifetime, placing ten other times and earning $136,072 during a five-year career. He finished second in the 2006 Canadian Derby (Can-G3) at Northlands Park in his third start for Swift Thoroughbreds, who acquired The Visualizer from Godolphin after he won one of five starts as a two-year-old for trainer Saeed bin Suroor in England. Center Hill Farms raced The Visualiser this year, and the six-year-old was winless in four starts for trainer Michael Dini.

Ed DeRosa is news editor of Thoroughbred Times