Morning Line Relocated to New Mexico
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Photo: Courtesy Lane’s End Farm/Lee Thomas
Morning Line at Lane's End
Grade 1 winner and second-crop sire Morning Line has been sold and will stand next year at Fred Alexander's A & A Ranch near Anthony, N.M., according to the farm and Lane's End, where the stallion entered stud in 2014.
Morning Line, an 11-year-old son of Tiznow , is the sire of grade 1-placed Seven Trumpets and of black-type winners Surrender Now, who took the listed Landaluce Stakes at Santa Anita Park, and Empire Line, who won the Damon Runyon Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack and placed in the New York track's Gander Stakes.
Bred by Dell Ridge Farm out of the A.P. Indy mare Indian Snow, Morning Line was a $700,000 yearling bought by Legends Racing out of the Lane's End consignment at the 2008 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. His second dam is November Snow, a multiple grade 1 stakes-winning daughter of Storm Cat, and his third dam, the Alydar mare Princess Alydar, produced the graded stakes-winning Storm Cat sire Scatmandu.
Trained first by Nick Zito and then by John Shirreffs, Morning Line won the 2011 Carter Handicap (G1) in a final time of 1:21.46, took the 2010 Pennsylvania Derby (G2) and the 2012 Mervyn LeRoy Handicap (G2), and finished second in the 2010 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) on his way to earning $1,251,300. He will stand for $3,500 in 2019.