Calculator Retired to Stud at Indiana's Breakway Farm

Grade 1-placed grade 3 winner Calculator has been retired to stud at Breakway Farm near Dillsboro, Ind., and is available for select mares at $1,500, the farm announced May 20.

The 8-year-old son of In Summation  was bred in Florida by Ocala Stud, which sold him to California trainer Peter Miller for $132,000 at the 2014 Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training. Raced by Miller with owner Richard Pell, Calculator won or placed in eight graded stakes. At 2, he was the runner-up in the Del Mar Futurity (G1) and FrontRunner Stakes (G1). At 3, he won the Sham Stakes (G3), but it was his only start that year because of an ankle fracture. He came back at 4 to place in the Carter Handicap (G1), Churchill Downs Stakes (G2), and San Carlos Stakes (G2). Calculator raced until he was 7, compiling a 5-6-6 record from 28 starts and earning $694,273.

Though Pell hoped to continue racing Calculator this year, the horse wasn't returning to form following a long layoff, and the decision was made to retire him. He was purchased for stud duty by Ledgerwood Farms and Breakway Farm, according to Tara Mathias, the manager of Breakway Farm, which her family owns and operates.

"He is a total outcross for the majority of the mares that reside in Indiana," Mathias said of the decision to stand Calculator. "He is bringing in new blood to help enhance an already good regional program."

As a son of In Summation, Calculator hails from the In Reality sire line through Relaunch, Honour and Glory, and In Summation's sire, Put It Back. The stallion has no inbreeding in his first four generations and has 5x5 inbreeding to Mr. Prospector and In Reality.

Calculator is from a highly productive family nurtured most recently by Vernon Heath's Centaur Farm, which bought the stallion's second dam, Christy Love, as a yearling for $87,000. Christy Love didn't become a winner but as a mare produced three black-type winners with her first three foals: grade 3 winner Atticus Kristy (Atticus) and stakes winners Fiery Dancer (Atticus) and Distorted Reality (Distorted Humor ). These three runners were all raced by Centaur for all or most of their careers and collectively earned more than $1.23 million for Heath.

Back to Basics, Calculator's dam and a daughter of Alphabet Soup, didn't race, but she has also been a star broodmare for Ocala Stud, having produced four winners from six to race. She is the dam of a second black-type winner in Arms Runner (Overdriven), who won the Desert Code Stakes on the turf at Santa Anita Park and has earned $125,292.