Top New York sire and multiple Grade 2 winner Mission Impazible retired from stud duty and will take up residence at Old Friends in Kentucky. Barbara Livingston Photo.
Multiple Grade 2 winner and leading New York sire Mission Impazible has been pensioned and retired to Old Friends in Georgetown, Kentucky.
The 17-year-old son of Unbridled’s Song stood his entire career at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson, including the 2024 season for a private fee.
Bred by Summer Wind Farm, Mission Impazible was purchased by Twin Creeks Racing Stables for $200,000 at the 2008 Keeneland September yearling sale. Trained by Todd Pletcher, Mission Impazible won three of 21 starts and earned $1,284,949. He won or placed in nine graded stakes including victories in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby in 2010 and Grade 2 New Orleans Handicap in 2011. Mission Impazible finished second in the Grade 1 Donn and Stephen Foster Handicaps.
Retired to Sequel Stallions New York, Mission Impazible quickly emerged onto the breeding scene when his first-crop son, Silver Mission, won Belmont Park’s historic Tremont Stakes by more than 6 lengths in a time that equaled Hall of Fame member Buckpasser’s clocking.
Mission Impazible’s second crop included his speedy daughter Pure Silver, winner of Saratoga Race Course’s Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes by 9 1/2 lengths under top weight as a 2-year-old. The next two crops also produced North American black-type stakes winners led by hard-hitting Espresso Shot, the earner of $516,625 who won stakes at 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Mission Impazible was the leading Northeastern first-, second-, third-, fourth-, fifth and sixth-crop sire from 2016 to 2021, respectively. He sired the earners of almost $15 million to date.
“Mission Impazible made his mark as both an accomplished racehorse and well-respected sire,” Sequel Stallions New York said in a statement. “We wish him the best during his retirement.”
