Keane Stud Acquires Second-Crop Sire Dublin

Spendthrift Farm's stallion roster in New York is shuffled a bit with the announcement that Keane Stud has acquired a controlling ownership of Dublin  , a grade I-winning son  of Afleet Alex  , and that grade I winner The Lumber Guy   has been sold to stand in Chile.

As Spendthrift considered relocating Dublin, the owners of Keane Stud, where Dublin now stands, agreed to buy the 9-year-old stallion to keep him in the Empire State.

"This deal was as smooth as they go," said Spenthrift's Mark Toothaker. "The only thing that changes with the horse is the ownership. Everything else stays the same."

Any breeders with "Share the Upside" breeding rights retain those rights with both stallions.

Dublin won the Three Chimneys Hopeful Stakes (gr. I) at 2 and later placed in the Arkansas Derby (gr. I), the Rebel Stakes (gr. II), and the Southwest Stakes (gr. III) at 3. His first crop are 3-year-olds this year and Dublin is the sire of multiple stakes winner Dr. Blarney and multiple stakes-placed Taoiseach. He stood for $2,500 this year.

In a deal brokered by Bowling Bloodstock, The Lumber Guy, a 7-year-old son of Grand Slam, was sold to J.P. Sullivan's Sullivan Farm in Chile. The Lumber Guy won the 2012 Vosburgh Invitational Stakes (gr. I) and the grade II Jerome Stakes before finishing second in the Xpressbet Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I). He was named New York horse of the year for 2012. His first foals are yearlings of 2016. He also stood at Keane Stud for $2,500.

Sullivan Farm is still working out a shuttling arrangement with a North American farm for The Lumber Guy.