Rock Your World Retired to Spendthrift Farm

Rock Your World  , winner of this year's Runhappy Santa Anita Derby (G1) by leading sire Candy Ride  , has been retired from racing and will stand the 2022 breeding season at Spendthrift Farm for a fee of $10,000, stands and nurses, the Lexington farm announced Nov. 15.

"Rock Your World is a fast Santa Anita Derby winner with a wonderful blend of looks, pedigree, and sire power," said Ned Toffey, Spendthrift general manager. "He's a $650,000 yearling and you can see why. He's one imposing individual and as good-looking of a Candy Ride as you'll find. Rock Your World possesses a true classic dirt pedigree, with Empire Maker  and Giant's Causeway  as his first two broodmare sires. We believe there's a lot to like, especially through our Share The Upside program. We will begin showing Rock Your World today and I invite all breeders to come out and see him."

Rock Your World will participate in Spendthrift's renowned "Share The Upside" breeding program in 2022 for a fee of $12,500 for a two-year commitment. Breeders must breed a mare in 2022 and 2023 and have two foals total. After the breeder has the second live foal in 2024 and pays the stud fee, he or she will earn a lifetime breeding right.

Trained by John Sadler for Hronis Racing and Talla Racing, Rock Your World was unraced at 2 but broke his maiden as a 3-year-old on New Year's Day going six furlongs before stretching out around two turns to win the one-mile Pasadena Stakes in his second start—both coming over the Santa Anita Park turf course. In his third start in April, the imposing dark bay asserted himself as a leading contender for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) with a powerhouse 4 1/4-length victory over eventual Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit  in the $752,000 Santa Anita Derby, his first start on the dirt. Rock Your World stopped the clock in 1:49.17 for 1 1/8 miles, earning a 100 Beyer Speed Figure—the only triple-digit Beyer earned before the Kentucky Derby among this year's field.

Bred in Kentucky by Ron and Deborah McAnally, Rock Your World is out of the multiple stakes-winning and grade 1-placed Empire Maker mare Charm the Maker  and is a full sibling to graded stakes-placed She's Our Charm . His first three dams are all multiple stakes winners or graded stakes winners.

Rock Your World was purchased under the name Sapphire Stable from the Winter Quarter Farm consignment at the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. He retires with a record of 3-1-0 from seven starts and earnings of $612,100.