Graded stakes winner, Soaring Empire will enter stud in 2013 at Vinery New York, according to an announcement made by Vinery’s Dan Hayden Friday. The 5-year-old son of leading sire Empire Maker will stand for $2,500 payable when foal stands and nurses. In a separate release Friday, Vinery announced the 2013 stud fees for the stallion division in New York.
Owned by Ol Memorial Stable (Rick Pitino) and C. E. Glasscock Racing, Soaring Empire won five times and placed in another five races, eight of which were stakes over three seasons. He won his 2-year-old debut at Monmouth Park then placed in the G3 Iroquois S. at Churchill Downs in his only other race that season. As a 3-year-old, he won the Rutgers S. at Monmouth, going six furlongs in 1:08.27, and placed in the G3 Pegasus S. to eventual G1 Travers S. winner Afleet Express. Soaring Empire won the mile-long Grade 3 Hal’s Hope S. at Gulfstream in his first start at four earning a 106 Beyer Figure, then was runner-up in the Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship S. and Gulfstream Park H., both Grade 2 races, in his next two starts. Soaring Empire went on to win the Majestic Light S. at Monmouth and finished second in the Salvator Mile S.-G3. Trained by Cam Gambolati, he was retired earlier this year.
“Soaring Empire showed a lot of versatility as a racehorse, winning from 5 1/2 furlongs to 1 1/16 miles. He’s from a quality female family and is by the influential stallion Empire Maker. We are very pleased to have him in New York,” said Hayden.
A half-brother to 2012 multiple graded stakes winner Hungry Island, Soaring Empire was bred by Emory Hamilton and sold for $190,000 as a yearling at Keeneland. He is out of the A.P. Indy mare Flying Passage, and his second dam is Grade 1 winner Chic Shirine. This is the family of Champion Queena, Grade 1 winners Too Chic, Serra Lake, and Brahms, as well as graded stakes winners El Padrino, Al Khali, Somali Lemonade, Coal Play and Tara Roma.
For more information contact Dan Hayden, General Manager, (845) 724-3500 or for season inquiries contact Erin Robinson (859) 455-9388.
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Vinery announced the 2013 stud fees for the stallion division in New York Friday. All fees are payable when foal stands and nurses.
Bluegrass Cat $15,000
D’ Funnybone $3,500
Giant Surprise $2,500
Pomeroy $5,000
Posse $12,500
Soaring Empire $2,500
