Americanrevolution , winner of the $750,000 Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) at 3 and a son of top stallion Constitution , has been retired from racing and will stand the upcoming breeding season at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y. The New York-bred champion will stand his initial season at stud for an advertised fee of $12,500, stands and nurses.
“This is the best horse to retire in New York in a very long time,” said Rockridge Stud’s Lere Visagie. “We all know we need top-class horses standing in New York to keep mares home. The winner of one of New York’s most historic grade 1s for older horses is the way to do it. We can’t wait to get started.”
First or second in seven stakes, Americanrevolution was a four-time stakes winner by a combined 30 1/4 lengths as a sophomore at four different racetracks. Trained by Todd Pletcher, Americanrevolution scored his biggest victory in the prestigious Cigar Mile, defeating a contentious field that included grade 1 winners Code of Honor and Olympiad . Prior to that impressive victory, he annexed the New York Derby by 7 1/4 lengths, the Albany Stakes by five lengths, and demolished his competition with an 11 3/4-length triumph in the $300,000 Empire Classic at Belmont Park.
He lost his five starts in 2022-23, but ran well in defeat on several occasions, including when second in the 2022 Stephen Foster Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs and also in the Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. His last start was a sixth-place finish in the Sept. 30 Lukas Classic (G3) at Churchil Downs.
All told, he registered five triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures and banked $1,282,810 in a stellar career for CHC and WinStar Farm.
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“With Belmont being renovated, we feel it is time to re-enter the New York market,” said Elliott Walden, WinStar Farm’s president, CEO, and racing manager. “WinStar Farm and CHC Inc. are staying in and committing 10 good mares to Americanrevolution to help launch his career in New York. We hope to breed another Funny Cide, one of the best New York-breds of all time.”
By Constitution—sire of Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Tiz the Law from his first crop and the No. 1 Sire of 2-year-olds this year—Americanrevolution is produced from the winning Super Saver mare Polly Freeze and hails from an active black-type family that includes grade 1 winners Cross Traffic , Stop Traffic , and multiple graded stakes winners Gouldings Green and Silver Dust , as well as grade 3 winner Forza Di Oro . Americanrevolution was a $275,000 acquisition by CHC and Maverick Racing out of the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton New York Bred Select Yearling Sale in Saratoga. He was bred by Fred Hertrich III and John Fielding.
Americanrevolution will stand as a partnership between WinStar Farm, CHC, Rockridge Stud, Taylor Made Stallions, Mill Creek Farm, and Fortune Farm, in a deal brokered by Matt Bowling of Bowling Bloodstock.
“Collaboration, we have found, is the key to getting these stallions off the ground running,” Visagie said.
Americanrevolution will be available for viewing at WinStar Farm in Kentucky throughout the November Breeding Stock Sale at Keeneland and during the farm’s stallion shows.
This press release has been edited for content and style by BloodHorse Staff.
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