NEWS: BREEDING

Multiple graded stakes winner Forty Tales to shuttle to Peru

Tuesday, June 16th, 2015

(Edited press release)

Becky Thomas and Joe McMahon are pleased to announce that multiple graded stakes winner Forty Tales will stand the 2015 Southern Hemisphere Breeding Season at Boris Schwartzman’s Haras Barlovento in El Salvador, Peru.

The bay colt by champion juvenile sire Tale of the Cat retired with 5 wins and $666,789 in earnings and Beyer Figures of 106, 102, 100, etc. He won his only start at 2 by 2 3/4 lengths in a maiden special weight at Aqueduct for conditioner Todd Pletcher and owners Perretti Racing Stables.

A graded stakes winner at 3 from 6 1/2 lengths to a mile, he won the Grade 2 Amsterdam at Saratoga and the Grade 2 Woody Stephens Stakes at Belmont. Outside of the Big Apple, he won the Grade 3 Derby Trial at Churchill Downs and was 2nd in the Grade 2 Hutcheson at Gulfstream Park. He is out of stakes-placed Forty Niner mare, Forty Love and his first crop are weanlings of 2015.

Forty Tales who stands at Sequel Stallions New York will be shuttling for the first time after his second breeding season in the U.S. He will go into quarantine on June 27, 2015.

“We are so excited for Forty Tales to have a summer job at a leading stud farm in Peru,” said Becky Thomas. “The team at Haras Barlovento has just been great. We are grateful to Marette Farrell for giving Forty Tales another opportunity to prove himself as a sire. Given the success of the Storm Cat sire line, we are sure Forty Tales will become a highly sought after sire.”

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