Eagle Standing First South American Season in Uruguay

Top 20 active Texas sire and grade 3 winner Eagle  will be standing the Southern Hemisphere breeding season this year in Uruguay for the partnership of Haras Cuatro Cabezas and Palermo Stud, according to a June 15 report by Turf Diario.

The 11-year-old son of 2003 Argentine champion miler and prominent North American sire Candy Ride   will be managed by Pablo Nunez and Walter Abelenda.

Eagle raced as a homebred for Lane's End founder William S. Farish and won or placed in eight graded stakes while racing from 2 to 5. He was graded stakes-placed at 2 and won his first stakes in the Tenacious Stakes at 3 at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. At 4, he won the Ben Ali Stakes (G3) at Keeneland and was runner-up in the Stephen Foster Handicap (G1), Alysheba Stakes (G2), and Mineshaft Handicap (G3). He added another stakes victory at 5 when he won the Michael G. Schaefer Memorial Stakes at Horseshoe Indianapolis.

Eagle was retired with a 7-7-2 record from 24 starts and earned $754,186.

As a stallion at Valor Farm, he has sired three winners, led by Texas Stallion Pan Zareta Division Stakes winner Eagle Express .

Eagle is out of the Mineshaft winner Sea Gull, making him a full brother to multiple graded stakes winner Royal Flag  and a half brother to multiple graded stakes winner and freshman sire Catalina Cruiser   (Union Rags).