Leading Sire City Zip Dead at 19

Lane's End Farm announced July 25 that prominent stallion City Zip   has been euthanized at age 19 because of chronic foot problems.

A member of the Lane's End Stallion roster since 2005, City Zip's progeny have reached the highest echelon of Thoroughbred racing. City Zip was a perennial leading sire and has emerged as one of the most successful sires of Breeders' Cup winners, a list that includes Finest City, Catch a Glimpse, Dayatthespa, and Work All Week.

"City Zip has had many significant achievements at stud and it has been a privilege to stand him at Lane's End," said Will Farish, owner of Lane's End Farm. "We are very grateful to the members of his stallion syndicate and our breeders for supporting this special horse throughout his career. City Zip's extraordinarily kind disposition and strong spirit endeared him to all, and he will be greatly missed. We want to thank Dr. Scott Morrison of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital for the diligent and compassionate care that he and his associates provided to City Zip."

On the racetrack, City Zip used his facile speed to win the grade 1 Hopeful Stakes. His stellar juvenile season also featured graded stakes victories in the grade 2 Saratoga Special Stakes, grade 2 Sanford Stakes, and grade 3 Tremont Stakes. At 3, he notched wins in the Amsterdam Stakes (G2), Jersey Shore Breeders' Cup Stakes (G3), and two others stakes races. His career record was 9 wins, 5 seconds, and 4 thirds from 23 starts, for earnings of $818,225.

City Zip was a half-brother to Horse of the Year and champion older male Ghostzapper  .

City Zip finished among the leading sires in 2014 when Dayatthespa earned champion grass female honors and Work All Week was named champion sprinter. In 2015 2-year-old filly Catch a Glimpse was named Horse of the Year in Canada. Last year Finest City secured champion female sprinter honors. 

From 899 starters of City Zip's 1,124 foals of racing age to date, the sire boasts 700 winners.