Big Brown (Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt)
(Press Release)
Sunrise Stallions released its stud fees for 2017 this week. Big Brown will stand for $7,500 and Frost Giant will stand for $5,000. Sunrise will offer Frost Giant’s full brother, Heavy Breathing (by Giant’s Causeway, out of Takesmybreathaway, by Gone West), for a fee of $2,500. Heavy Breathing’s first crop hits the track next year.
Heavy Breathing stands alongside Big Brown at Dutchess Views Farm near Pine Plains, while Frost Giant stands at Keane Stud near Amenia.
Big Brown (by Boundary, out of Mein, by Nureyev) is coming off a strong season in which his Grade 1-placed daughter Kiss to Remember won Churchill Downs’ Grade 2 Chilukki Stakes Nov. 5 prior to selling at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November sale for $500,000. Big Brown’s multiple Grade 1-winning son Dortmund ran second to California Chrome in Del Mar’s Grade 2 San Diego Handicap this summer.
The progeny of Big Brown—the only Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and Preakness Stakes winner to stand in New York other than Spectacular Bid in the twilight of his career—have earned more than $3.28 million in 2016. Ranked fourth for the season among New York-based sires after ranking as the state’s top sire in 2015, Big Brown has sired 16 black-type winners.
Frost Giant is the state’s leading sire of 2-year-olds, with more than $575,000 in earnings. Among his 13 winners is black-type winner Bobby On Fleek. Frost Giant’s number of 2-year-old winners this season is almost twice as many as second-ranked Bellamy Road, who moved to New York from Kentucky this year.
“Both Big Brown and Frost Giant have proved they can sire top runners who can earn New York breeders substantial returns on their investment through New York’s nationally leading breeding incentive program,” said Sunrise Stallions business manager Eric Bishop. “We want to encourage breeders to take part in New York’s extremely attractive program by offering our stallions at exceptionally competitive fees.”
