Super Ninety Nine to Country Life for 2015
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Graded stakes winner Super Ninety Nine has been retired from racing and will stand in 2015 at Josh and Mike Pons' Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Md., as the property of Spendthrift Farm and Country Life.
The 4-year-old son of Pulpit is being offered in Spendthrift's popular Share the Upside Program, whereby mare owners who breed at a fee of $5,000 for the first two seasons earn a lifetime breeding right with no expenses. In the alternative, mare owners can access the stallion at a live foal fee of $4,000.
Super Ninety Nine posted a 3-1-1 record from eight career starts that included his victory in the 2013 Southwest Stakes (gr. III) at Oaklawn Park. He also was third in last year's Santa Anita Derby (gr. I) and second in the 2012 Hollywood Prevue Stakes (gr. III). He retired with a lifetime bankroll of $378,260.
Super Ninety Nine arrived at Spendthrift Sept. 11 from trainer Bob Baffert's barn in California, and is available for inspection through the Keeneland September yearling sale before shipping to Maryland.
"The new breeders' awards program in Maryland is attracting better mares," said Spendthrift owner B. Wayne Hughes. "We started Malibu Moon at stud with the Pons boys, and we bred good mares to him to get him going. We sent Malibu Moon's son Freedom Child to stud there last year. You don't make stallions like Malibu Moon unless you support them early, and we will send a large draft of mares to Maryland. We studied the Maryland-bred program and it's a big incentive for us to make stallions with Country Life."
Bred in Kentucky by Northwest Farms, Super Ninety Nine is out of the unraced Unbridled's Song mare Exogenetic, who is a full sister to ill-fated grade I winner Exogenous, an earner of $945,560.
"Super Ninety Nine is a very fast horse," said Country Life's Mike Pons. "He is by Pulpit, the sire of Tapit , and Pulpit is the grandsire of this year's classics winner California Chrome. Pulpit is clearly a sire of sires. Super Ninety Nine's potential as a sire should be apparent to anyone familiar with Spendthrift's Share the Upside program."