Darley America Announces 2023 Stallion Roster, Including Newcomers Speaker’s Corner, Mystic Guide – Horse Racing News

A complete of 11 stallions will stand at Darley’s Jonabell Farm in 2023, together with two new additions: G1 winners Speaker’s Corner and Mystic Guide. Fee and retirement plans for G1 Forego winner and future Darley stallion Cody’s Wish might be made after the Breeders’ Cup.

Darley Sales Manager, Darren Fox, mentioned, “We’ve been very fortunate in the last two years to have produced five high-level performers and it’s even more gratifying that they are all homebreds. Following last year’s retirement of Essential Quality and Maxfield, to again be able to add more top-caliber horses is very, very exciting.”

Speaker’s Corner retires because the quickest son of Street Sense with a prime Beyer Speed Figure of 114. Bred alongside the identical cross as fellow Darley stallion Maxfield, he’s out of the Bernardini mare Tyburn Brook, a daughter of Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner Round Pond. As a juvenile, he gained an particularly sizzling maiden race at Belmont that featured 5 future Stakes winners, together with Graded winners Greatest Honour and Bourbonic, plus Arkansas Derby runner-up Caddo River.

At three, he posted three of his seven profession triple-digit Beyers, together with a 109 at Belmont which equaled the highest Beyer earned final yr by all three 2021 Eclipse Champion three-year-old male finalists: Life is Good, Essential Quality and Medina Spirit.

At 4, he gained his first three begins, all Graded Stakes, together with the G1 Carter Handicap the place he registered a 114 Beyer. Only Flightline has recorded a better quantity up to now three years. Speaker’s Corner additionally notched victories within the G2 Gulfstream Park Mile and the G3 Fred W. Hooper. He will enter his first season at stud at a payment of $20,000.

2021 Dubai World Cup winner Mystic Guide, whose retirement was introduced earlier this yr, will stand at a payment of $15,000 in 2023. Mystic Guide’s 4 profession victories additionally included the G2 Jim Dandy Stakes as a three-year-old, a race additionally gained by present Darley stallions Medaglia d’Oro, Street Sense and Essential Quality.

Trained by Mike Stidham, Mystic Guide was by no means off the board in 9 profession begins. He served discover that he was ready to tackle the world’s finest in Meydan’s signature $12,000,000 race when annexing the G3 Razorback Handicap at Oaklawn by six lengths whereas posting a 108 Beyer. Following his victory in Dubai, Mystic Guide was rated primary on each the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings and the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll.

Fox went on to say, “Optimism abounds currently in the Thoroughbred industry. The sales are strong, purses are strong, and close to home, we experienced unprecedented demand during the 2022 booking season. With all these positives, only one of our stallions will see a fee increase for 2023 and that’s Midshipman, who continues to go from strength to strength in his stud career.”

Medaglia d’Oro’s stud payment might be $100,000 for the second yr in a row. He continues to supply runners on the highest degree and is the sire of twenty-two Graded Stakes horses in 2022. Only Into Mischief has sired extra this yr. Medaglia d’Oro’s prime performers this yr embody Hong Kong Horse of the Year Golden Sixty, now a winner of 21 of 24 profession begins (and almost $15 million in prize cash), together with six G1 victories.

Medaglia d’Oro stays poised to proceed this success subsequent yr as his 2023 crop of juveniles is his best-bred crop ever. In the gross sales ring, his progeny as soon as once more attracted the eye of patrons exemplified by seven-figure choices on the yearling and two-year-old gross sales in 2022.

The ultra-consistent Midshipman will see his payment rise to $20,000 for 2022. A perennial supply of Stakes horses, his tally on this class is not any fewer than 19 for 2022 and his 16% profession Black Type horses to runners is among the many finest within the enterprise. In reality, no stallion underneath $60k can prime it.

Eclipse Champion Essential Quality and a number of G1 winner Maxfield will stay at $75,000 and $40,000 respectively for his or her second years at stud following full first-year books in 2022. Linchpin stallion Street Sense can even stay at $75,000 following one more profitable yr each on the monitor and on the gross sales.

See beneath for the whole 2023 Jonabell Farm roster:

For extra data, please name a member of our gross sales staff on (859) 255-8537.