Dialed In Holds Steady Atop Darby Dan Roster

Dialed In  , who has been represented this year by grade 1 winner Defunded , will continue leading the stallion roster at Darby Dan Farm, the farm announced Oct. 27 along with the 2023 fees for its lineup of 14 stallions.

The 14-year-old son of Mineshaft   will hold steady at $15,000 with a stands and nurses guarantee. The roster also features Higher Power   and Modernist   who will each stand for $10,000, as well as Mutasaabeq  , who is new for 2023 and will stand his initial season at stud for $7,500.

"We are excited to announce the Darby Dan stud fees for the upcoming breeding season," said Stuart Fitzgibbon, stallion director at Darby Dan. "Our goal is to provide breeders with a good value roster of stallions representing commercial and successful sire lines. We are delighted with the initial response to Mutasaabeq, new for 2023. By Into Mischief   out of a Scat Daddy mare, he has all the commercial attributes for the market. Grade 1-producing sire Dialed In continues to fly the flag for Darby Dan, and our younger stallions like Flameaway  , Modernist, and Higher Power have been exceptionally well-received and should ensure memorable moments for the farm going forward."

Dialed In, the leading North American freshman sire in 2016 and top five ranked in subsequent years, is the sire of six stakes winners and 14 black-type horses in 2023, topped by Defunded, who won the Awesome Again Stakes (G1) and was runner-up in the Hollywood Gold Cup (G1). He is also represented this year by stakes winners Mr. Wireless , Erase , and Gambling Girl , as well as grade 1-placed winner Get Her Number . Dialed In has sired a new grade 1 winner each of the last three years: Get Her Number  won the 2020 American Pharoah Stakes (G1), Super Stock  captured the Arkansas Derby (G1) in 2021, and Defunded this year.

Tapiture continues to rank among the leading sires once again this season and will stand for $7,500. He is the fourth-leading sire by winners in 2022 with 137, as of Oct. 27. Among his five stakes winners and 16 stakes horses this season are graded-placed stakes winner Li'l Tootsie ; stakes winners Grand David  and Remain Anonymous , and graded stakes-placed Repo Rocks , Valiancer , and Life Is Great .

Higher Power, a grade 1-winning millionaire by Medaglia d'Oro   from a deep Pin Oak family, welcomed first foals this season. He won the 2019 $1 Million TVG Pacific Classic Stakes (G1) by five lengths at Del Mar and posted eight triple-digit Equibase Speed Figures in an outstanding career, including a 113 in the Pacific Classic. Stakes-placed on dirt and turf, Higher Power also placed in the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (G1), Hollywood Gold Cup (G1), and the Awesome Again Stakes en route to banking nearly $1.6 million.

Modernist will stand his second season in 2023. He is a multiple graded stakes winner by Uncle Mo   out of the Bernardini mare Symbolic Gesture, a half sister to both Sweet Catomine, champion 2-year-old filly and winner of the 2004 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), and Life Is Sweet, winner of the 2009 Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic (G1). Victorious in the 2020 Risen Star Stakes Presented by Lamarque Ford (G2) at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots and the Excelsior Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack the following year, Modernist banked $576,300 in his racing career.

Mutasaabeq, a versatile grade 1-placed, grade 2-winning juvenile by perennial leading sire Into Mischief  , will stand his first season at stud in 2023. A $425,000 weanling purchase by Shadwell Estate at the 2018 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, Mutasaabeq broke his maiden in his racing debut at Saratoga Race Course by 4 1/2 lengths and in his next start finished third to future champion Jackie's Warrior   in the Runhappy Hopeful Stakes (G1). He returned a winner in the Bourbon Stakes (G2T) on the turf at Keeneland in his first route try, and he added the Mucho Macho Man Stakes at one mile on the main track at Gulfstream Park the following year and retired having hit the board in four of six lifetime starts. He hails from the family of this year's Curlin Florida Derby Presented by Hill 'n' Dale Farms at Xalapa (G1) winner White Abarrio  and graded stakes winners Sam Who and Cool Cowboy .

Darby Dan will once again be offering various incentive programs in 2023 to provide value to breeders, including Profit Protection, Share the Upside, Black-Type Bonanza, and Goldmine 20/20 Match Program. The 2023 Darby Dan roster is as follows: