Hold Me Back, a Top 10 Second-Crop Sire in North America in 2015, has been sold and moved to Irish Hill Century Farm in Stillwater, where the son of Giant’s Causeway will stand the 2016 breeding season for a fee of $5,000 S&N.
“Hold Me Back is a young stallion that is getting solid runners, and he’s an absolutely gorgeous physical by a leading sire of sires in Giant’s Causeway,” said Bowling Bloodstock’s Matt Bowling, who brokered the deal along with Sullivan Bloodstock. “I believe Hold Me Back presents tremendous value for New York breeders.”
Campaigned by WinStar Farm and trainer Bill Mott, Hold Me Back was a Grade 2-winning, multiple Grade 1-placed 3-year-old on the racetrack. He earned his biggest career win in the $500,000 Lane’s End S. (G2) while on the Kentucky Derby trail in 2009. The grand-looking son of Giant’s Causeway was also runner-up in the Blue Grass S. (G1) and Travers S. (G1), and he went on to win the Dominion Day S. (G3) as a 4-year-old.
Hold Me Back earned $872,610 before retiring to stud at WinStar, where he’s stood since 2011. The 10-year-old is out of the multiple stakes-producing Unbridled’s Song mare Restraint, and his second dam is two-time Canadian champion Avowal.
The Top 10 Second-Crop Sire of 2015 was led by Jet Black Magic, Hold Me Back’s graded stakes-winning 2-year-old filly from a year ago. Jet Black Magic was a dominant winner of the $400,000 Delta Downs Princess S. (G3) last November, and heads into 2016 on the Kentucky Oaks (G1) Trail.
For more information, please contact Irish Hill Century Farm at (518) 584-1515, or visit www.IrishHillCenturyFarm.com.
