Lane's End Sets Stud Fees for Strong Sire Trio

Lane's End Farm has set the 2019 stud fees for its strong trio of entering-year sires: recent Breeders' Cup World Championship winners Accelerate  and City of Light , plus champion West Coast .

Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) winner and five-time grade 1 winner Accelerate will stand for an advertised fee of $20,000. City of Light, who captured the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1), has been priced at $35,000. Both horses are still in training and are being aimed for the $9 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) before heading to stud.

Gary and Mary West's champion and dual grade 1 winner West Coast has been retired and will also stand for $35,000.

"This is a very exciting crop of new stallions," said Bill Farish of Lane's End. "Accelerate offers breeders a chance to breed to a brilliantly fast, sound, classic distance-winning champion-elect with five grade 1 wins under his belt. West Coast offers a blue-blooded pedigree, outstanding good looks, and is a champion 3-year-old that defeated all three Classic winners. City of Light, who is by leading Lane's End Farm stallion Quality Road, has an unmatched brilliance. We're looking forward to seeing Accelerate and City of Light face off in the upcoming Pegasus World Cup and for the 2019 breeding season."

Accelerate, the leading candidate for champion older horse honors, beat 10 grade/group 1 winners in the Classic and earned a 124 Equibase Speed Figure, capping off four consecutive grade 1 wins with speed ratings all at 120 or above. The son of multiple champion Lookin At Lucky  represents the Smart Strike sire line and is out of the stakes-placed dam Issues (by Awesome Again ). 

City of Light, raced by William Warren Jr. and his family and trained by Michael McCarthy, also earned a 124 Equibase Speed Figure in winning the Dirt Mile. The three-time grade 1 winner has never been off the board in 10 career starts. With earnings of $1,662,600, City of Light is the top son of leading sire Quality Road . He is from the female family of grade 1-winning millionaires Cacoethes, Subordination, and Careless Jewel. 

West Coast, the 2017 champion 3-year-old colt, defeated classic winners Always Dreaming , Cloud Computing, and Tapwrit , as well as champions Arrogate  and Stellar Wind, during his career that includes two grade 1 wins and three grade/group 1 runner-up efforts in the U.S. and Dubai. The well-traveled runner finished his career with a record of 13-6-5-1 and $5,803,800 in earnings. 

West Coast descends from the dominant A.P. Indy sire line and is out of champion 2-year-old filly Caressing, who is also the dam of graded-placed winners Gold Hawk and Juan and Bina.