NEWS
Pensioned sire A. P Jet dies at 21
Posted: Thursday, July 01, 2010 1:50 PM
by Jeff Lowe
Pensioned stallion A. P Jet died on June 9, four years after suffering near-fatal injuries in a fight with fellow sire Gold Token at Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag, New York.
A. P Jet, the leading stallion in New York in 2005, was 21. He was pensioned after the 2006 incident that killed Gold Token.
A. P Jet got loose from his handler that day and approached Gold Token’s paddock. Gold Token broke through a fence to fight A. P Jet. The two stallions ran alongside a paddock, and Gold Token struck a tree and died. A. P Jet underwent surgery at a clinic and was treated for more than a year before Sugar Maple decided to pension him.
The Fappiano stallion out of Taminette, by In Reality, has sired 15 stakes winners with ten crops of racing age.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ryan and Dr. K. Shiner bred the full brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Tappiano in Kentucky and sold him for $2-million in the 1990 Keeneland July selected yearling sale to Tomonori Tsurumaki of Japan.
Tsurumaki bought eventual Horse of the Year and leading sire A.P. Indy in the same sale for $2.9-million. Tsurumaki referenced his Japanese resort and automobile racetrack, Autopolis, in the names for both colts.
A. P Jet raced in Japan, winning four of 36 starts, and earned $1,411,402. Racing Hall of Fame trainer John Nerud acquired him as a stallion prospect with Kaskel and partners John Hettinger and Taylor Made Farm and stood him at Kaskel’s Sugar Maple beginning in 1997.
In 2005, A. P Jet led the New York sire list with $3,340,722 in progeny earnings.
Jeff Lowe is a Thoroughbred Times staff writer
