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Midshipman to stand at Darley

Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 8:08 PM

MIDSHIPMAN

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Midshipman, the 2008 champion two-year-old male, has been retired from racing and will stand at Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum’s Darley America in Lexington in 2011.

A stud fee for the multiple Grade 1-winning Unbridled’s Song colt will be announced at a later date.

Midshipman won a pair of Grade 1 races, the Del Mar Futurity and the Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, en route to his 2008 champion honors for Racing Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert. Overall, he won five of eight starts with a second- and a third-place finish and earnings of $1,584,600.

“Midshipman defeated the best of his generation while proving himself on both dirt and synthetic surfaces,” Darley Chief Operating Officer Oliver Tait said. “We couldn't be more excited to have a champion two-year-old with his kind of looks and pedigree joining our roster in 2011.”

Bred in Kentucky by Robert and Janice Mcnair’s Stonerside Stable, Midshipman is out of multiple Grade 2 winner Fleet Lady, who is the dam of Grade 2 winner Fast Cookie. He is from the family of champions Salse and Carnauba. Darley began racing Midshipman when it acquired Stonerside from the McNairs.

Saeed bin Suroor took over training duties from Baffert when Midshipman began his three-year-old season in the colors of the Maktoum family’s Godolphin Racing.

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Posted by: Bill, Evansville, IN on September 09, 2010 at 10:04 AM

Robert is right on!

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Posted by: Robert, Louisville, KY on September 08, 2010 at 03:01 PM

Anthony....Unbridleds Song gets some nice horeses, but he more often then not sires unsound horses that cannot train on and cannot get past 5 to 10 starts before retirement. Two Year old stakes winners is misleading as very few of them go on to do anything as 3 and 4 year olds. His offspring are not hearty horses and Kerry was correct in stating yest another son going to stud after only a few starts. This does not help the breed. He may be advertised at $150,000.00 but that doesn't mean that is what the farm will take. His progeny back up Kerry's opinion.

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Posted by: Anthony, Versailles, KY on September 07, 2010 at 10:33 PM

waste of a sire?.....hahah ignorance is bliss....check his stud fee and progeny next time you get a minute will you kerry

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Posted by: Kerry, Saratoga, NY on September 07, 2010 at 09:42 PM

What a surprise! Another Unbridle's Song retired after five starts. When are these morons going to stop breeding to this waste of a sire. This horse trancends unsoundness. If we are going to perpetuate this breed, we have to STOP breeding unsound horses. Wake Up!

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