Slumber, winner of the Grade 1 Manhattan in 2015, will stand the 2021 season at Rockridge Stud in Hudson. Susie Raisher/NYRA Photo.
Grade 1 winner Slumber, already the sire of a stakes winner in his first crop, will relocate from Kentucky to stand the 2021 season at Rockridge Stud in Hudson.
Slumber, a 12-year-old son of Cacique out of the Woodman mare Sound Asleep, will stand for a fee listed as private and is available for inspection at any time.
Bred by Millsec Ltd. and initially campaigned by Juddmonte Farms, Slumber started his career in his native England before coming to the U.S. for the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby in 2011. Slumber eventually became one of North America’s top older turf horses, competing almost exclusively in graded stakes from fall of 2013 to the spring of 2016. Slumber won or placed in 13 stakes in the U.S. and England – 11 of which were group/graded events – and won the Grade 1 Knob Creek Manhattan Stakes at Belmont Park in 2015.
“We are honored to have Slumber join us at Rockridge,” said Lere Visagie, Rockridge owner and operator. “This horse already has a stakes winner with a very modest first crop, and that kind of stallion can really be useful in New York.”
Slumber started his stud career at Calumet Farm and sired 16 foals in his first crop. He’s already the sire of a winner from six starts – Heads of Plains Partners’ homebred Fluffy Socks.
A winner going 1 mile on the grass at Kentucky Downs in his second start, Fluffy Socks followed up that victory with a victory in the $150,000 Selima Stakes on the Preakness Day undercard at Pimlico Race Course and a narrow second last time out in the $100,000 Chelsea Flower Stakes at Belmont Park.
Slumber ranked 25th on the North American freshman sire list with $187,850 in progeny earnings through Tuesday.
