Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Big Brown, who ranks among North America’s leading third-crop sires and has nine stakes winners this year, will stand at Dutchess Views Farm[1] in Pine Plains in 2015. His introductory fee will be $8,500.
Currently on shuttle duty at Vinery Stud in Australia, Big Brown is due to arrive at Dutchess Views in late December and will be available for inspection by breeders in the beginning of the New Year.
“We have entered into a synergistic relationship with Dutchess Views,” said Andrew Cohen of Sunrise Stallions, which also stands Heavy Breathing at the farm. “We have been impressed with how owners and managers Michael Lischin and Anya Sheckley have handled Heavy Breathing, and we are looking forward to a great beginning in New York with Big Brown. He is the most accomplished horse ever to stand in the state and he will be an outstanding option for New York breeders.”
“We have been standing stallions in New York for 17 years. Big Brown is as exciting a stallion as I have seen come to New York,” Lischin said. “Not only has he already had numerous quality stakes horses, he also is represented by several very promising young horses that could make an impact on the national racing scene in the coming months.”
Big Brown’s versatile daughter Puca, a fast-closing third to eventual Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Lady Eli in a Saratoga maiden race on grass and a 16-length winner at Belmont Park on dirt, finished well after being blocked in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita. Trained by Bill Mott, she wound up only about three lengths behind winner Take Charge Brandi after her troubled trip.
Dortmund, a juvenile colt by Big Brown trained by Bob Baffert, proved much the best in his promising debut at Santa Anita on November 2. Nicky’s Brown Miss, a two-year-old Big Brown filly, won the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Fillies Stakes and was third in the Colleen Stakes at Monmouth Park.
Big Brown’s offspring also are making a mark around the world. His son Darwin, a $1.3 million purchase by Coolmore, finished only about a length behind European Horse of the Year Kingman while third in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes. Apollo Sonic, co-bred in New York by Cohen, finished a strong third in Japan’s most coveted race, the Group 1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby), last year.
Another son of Big Brown, Big Wildcat, is a group stakes winner and Group 1-placed in Brazil. From his early Australian runners, Big Brown already has sired stakes-placed fillies Wroclaw and Muscovado. In South Africa, Big Brown’s son Masnoon helped international trainer Mike de Kock set a record for juvenile winners for 2014 season.
Sunrise Stallions and Gary Tolchin’s Golden Goose Enterprises recently acquired a majority interest in Big Brown and decided to stand the nine-year-old son of Boundary in New York. Cohen and Tolchin both were principal owners of Big Brown during his racing career, and they also stand 2012 New York record-breaking freshman sire Frost Giant, a full brother to Heavy Breathing, at Keane Stud in Amenia.
Big Brown, the champion colt of his generation after also winning the Florida Derby and Haskell Invitational Stakes, previously stood at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Kentucky.
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