NEWS
Sawtooth Mountain to Circle G Farms in Oklahoma
Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:33 AM
Stakes-placed winner Sawtooth Mountain has been retired from racing and will stand the 2012 Thoroughbred breeding season for owner Wayne George at Circle G Farms in Atoka, Oklahoma.
By champion two-year-old Johannesburg, out of the stakes-producing Quiet American mare American Jewel, will stand for $1,000, with special consideration to approved mares.
Sawtooth Mountain ran second in the Coolmore Hurricane Run El Gran Senor Stakes in Ireland as a two-year-old, then returned to the U.S. and won an allowance at one mile and 70 yards on the dirt at Aqueduct during his four-year-old season.
In all, Sawtooth Mountain won four races and earned $121,013 over four seasons of racing. He is a halfbrother to stakes winner Awsugahnow, and is from the immediate family of Horse of the Year Point Given.
"Sawtooth Mountain had the conformation to attract a seven-figure bid from leading horseman J.J. Pletcher as a yearling, was precocious enough to be a stakes-placed winner at two for Aidan O'Brien, and was versatile enough to win sprinting and routing on both dirt and turf," George said. "His sire Johannesburg has 46 stakes winners and counting, including Scat Daddy, the nation's leading freshman sire of 2012. It's hard not to be optimistic about Sawtooth Mountain's chances at stud."
The deal was brokered by New Jersey-based bloodstock agent Michael Slezak.
