Shackleford Sold to Stand at Stud in Korea
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Shackleford was the 34th leading sire by Northern Hemisphere earnings in 2019
Shackleford, the 2011 Preakness Stakes (G1) winner, has been sold as a stallion to the Korea Racing Authority, according to Ryan Norton, stallion director at Darby Dan Farm, where the 12-year-old son of Forestry stood in Kentucky.
His export to Korea was first reported Jan. 9 by radio host Steve Byk, who received news of the sale from the horse's trainer, Dale Romans.
Though his achievement in the second jewel in the Triple Crown was among the most memorable of Shackleford's 20-race career, it was just one of four key stakes victories. He later won the Churchill Downs Stakes (G2), Metropolitan Handicap (G1), and Clark Handicap (G1) as a 4-year-old in 2012. Altogether he won six races and over $3 million for owners/breeders Michael Lauffer and Bill Cubbedge.
Shackleford, who bred 78 mares in 2019, was the 34th leading sire on the general sire list by Northern Hemisphere earnings in 2019, with his progeny making more than $6 million. Out of the Unbridled mare Oatsee, he is related to four other stakes winners, three of them graded. He stood for $20,000 in 2019 and had been advertised to stand for $10,000 in 2020 prior to his sale.
Shackleford (inside) concludes his career in style with a victory in the 2012 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs
Shackleford's leading money earner is the Romans-trained Promises Fulfilled, a winner of seven of 17 races and $1.45 million. A multiple graded stakes winner, Promises Fulfilled led throughout in the H. Allen Jerkens Stakes Presented by Runhappy (G1) during the summer of 2018 at Saratoga Race Course.
Other top money earners by the sire include Malagacy ($627,920), winner of the 2017 Rebel Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn Park, and Danuska's My Girl ($362,060), who won the Rancho Bernardo Handicap (G3), Las Flores Stakes (G3), and Desert Stormer Stakes (G3) last year in Southern California.