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Storm Cat Pensioned Aged 25

US sire Storm Cat (who carried the world's highest stud fee at US$500,000 from 2002-07 & was standing the 2008 season for US$300,000 at the Young's family's Overbrook Farm in Kentucky) has been pensioned from stallion duty aged 25 because of declining fertility. Overbrook's manager of stallion operations Ric Waldman confirmed early this morning (Australian time) that Storm Cat (Storm Bird-Terlingua, by Secretariat) impregnated only 3 of 32 mares bred to him this season (he got 68 mares in-foal last year) & noted: "He wasn't stopping any additional mares & his semen quality was dropping off as well. But his health is good for a 25-year-old horse." Storm Cat (who stood for just US$20,000 in 1991) is represented by 160 stakes-winners & the earners of US$112 million. He was leading US sire (by year-end progeny earnings) in both 1999 & 2000, as well as 13 times ranking in the Top 15. And his influence is in full force on this year's leading US sires list: 3 of Storm Cat's sons (Giant's Causeway, Stormy Atlantic & Tale Of The Cat) rank in the top 7; in addition "this year's top 2 freshman sires Roll Hennessy Roll & Lion Heart are grandsons of Storm Cat" noted bloodhorse.com. And in the sale ring, dozens of his offspring have sold as yearlings for US$1 million or more. Storm Cat's top track performers include champions Giant's Causeway, Storm Flag Flying & Sweet Catomine, as well as Gr1-winners Tabasco Cat, Cat Thief, Sharp Cat & Bluegrass Cat. On the track himself, Storm Cat (who raced for Overbrook founder William Young) won the 1985 Gr1 Young America Stakes. (May 14)

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