STUDENT COUNCIL TO STAND FOR $20,000
Will Finish Racing Career in Breeders' Cup Classic

Lexington, KY...September 8, 2008—Millennium Farms' Student Council, a Grade I winner on dirt and synthetic surfaces,  will stand for a stud fee of $20,000, due November 1 of year bred, when he begins his stallion career next year at Millennium Farms.  The six-year-old son of leading international sire Kingmambo will stand at Millennium Farms as property of a syndicate that  includes breeder Will Farish's Lane's End Farm. 

Student Council's initial syndication has been completed with both Millennium Farms and Lane's End Farm as members.  Millennium Farms will offer a limited number of  its shares to interested parties.  Lane's End Farm and Millennium Farms will both support Student Council by sending mares to him throughout his stud career.

Trained by Steve Asmussen, Student Council is training at Churchill Downs as he prepares for his final career start in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic on October 25 at Oak Tree at Santa Anita.

“We are going to stand Student Council for a  fee that will be very attractive to breeders,” said Millennium Farms owner Ro Parra.  “He has a true stallion's pedigree with a great race record that has displayed how tough and durable he is.  We know he likes to travel and has already won a Grade I on a synthetic surface, so we are pointing him for the Breeders' Cup in California as his next, and final, start.”

“Lane's End Farm is pleased to be a part of the Student Council syndicate,” said breeder Will Farish.  “We always believed he would make a great stallion, and we will strongly support him.”

Student Council has earnings of over $1.5 million from eight wins, four seconds and four thirds in 30 starts. He is out of the Grade 2 winning mare Class Kris and is a half-brother to graded winner Gradepoint. Prior to his purchase by Parra  in August, 2007,  Student Council took the  Maxxam Gold Cup Handicap at Sam Houston Race Park. After his victory in last year's Pacific Classic in his first start for Millennium Farms, Student Council won the Hawthorne Gold Cup(G2).  He won the Pimlico Special(G1) in May, and was third in the Hollywood Gold Cup(G1) on June 28. This summer in the Whitney Handicap(G1) at Saratoga, Student Council ran second to the front-running Commentator, running a 112 Beyer Speed Figure, second best of the year at one mile or more on dirt and higher than Big Brown and Curlin's best. He most recently ran fifth in the Pacific Classic(G1).

Student Council has raced at 14 different tracks, in eight states and on two continents. He has won stakes in California, Maryland, Illinois and Texas. His sire, Kingmambo, is the sire of 80 stakes winners.  In addition to Student Council,  his Group/Grade 1 winners in 2008 include Henrythenavigator and Archipenko.

Established seven years ago, 320-acre Millennium Farms is home to stallions Even the Score, Scrimshaw, Shaniko, Will He Shine, Woke Up Dreamin and Littleexpectations. Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Wilko was bred, foaled and raised at the farm.

For more information on Student Council, Ro Parra or Millennium Farms, visit www.millenniumfarms.com.  Mare nicking reports for all Millennium Farms stallions, including Student Council, are available at www.truenicks.com.

Even the Score gets first stakes WINNER and his 4th
2 YO winner

Recent winner ENJOY THE SCORE, f. 2, Even the Score - Time to Enjoy, by Distorted Humor became the first stakes winner for her sire, annexing the DONNIE WILHITE MEMORIAL H. at Louisiana Downs. She went a flat mile on the turf, winning by 3/4 of a length. She broke well and then fell steadily back, was seventh at th top of the stretch, and then accelerated in the middle of the track to enjoy her score full of run at the wire! She is owned by Jerry Hardin and Dwight Fugate and was bred by Millennium Farms (La.). Watch for this one.
Lifetime: 4-2-1-1, $78,200.

On the same day at Woodbine, QUEBEC CITY, c. 2, Even the Score - Perth Lassie, by On Target broke his maiden going 7 furlongs on the all weather track. He won off by by 2 1/2 lengths for owners Penny S. Lauer and Ralph Piercy. He was bred by Michael E. Lauer & Ralph Piercy,
Lifetime: 5-1-1-1, $31,395

Even The Score has now sired 2YO winners on dirt, turf and synthetic.

Lexington, Ky.—Stakes winner and successful sire Service Stripe has relocated from Pin Oak Lane Farm in Pennsylvania to James and Laura Jackson's  Belair Farm in Highland, Michigan for the 2009 breeding season.  Ro Parra of Millennium Farms will retain majority ownership, while the Jackson's will manage Service Stripe’s stud career.  He will stand for a stud fee of $2,000 live foal.

Service Stripe, a 1991 horse who like Awesome Again is by Deputy Minister out of a Blushing Groom (FR) mare, has sired Cashier’s Dream,  who was trained by James Jackson,  winner of the 2001 Spinaway (G1), Debutante Stakes (G3) and the 2002 La Troienne Stakes (G3); Secret Romeo, who earned $865,790 and equaled or set four track records between 2000 and 2002; and eight-time stakes winner and twice graded stakes placed Born to Dance, who earned $577,519.  Current runner Born to Tango won the 2007 Lansing Stakes at Great Lakes Downs. Other stakes winners sired by Service Stripe include Sweetwater Promise, Tank Grrrrl, Demanding and Mad Adam.

Out of nine crops of racing age, Service Stripe has sired 14 black type winners with 25 total stakes horses. Service Stripe progeny have set or equaled six track records. He is currently the fifth-leading sire in Pennsylvania, and is a Top 20 sire in the Northeast region.

Service Stripe’s sire Deputy Minister is also the sire of noted stallions Awesome Again, Touch Gold and Dehere.  His dam, Wedding Picture, is also the dam of Wedding Vow, in turn the dam of Broken Vow.  The second dam of Service Stripe is Strike a Pose, the dam of Strike a Balance, who is the dam of Peaks and Valleys.

On the track, Service Stripe was a multiple stakes winner who won his first five career races.  Raced by Rene Dar Farm, Service Stripe had 10 wins in 22 starts.  He placed three times and finished third three times, for a lifetime earnings of $130,043. 

“With the rebirth of racing in the Detroit-area at Pinnacle Race Course, we decided to move Service Stripe to Michigan, where he was a stakes winner himself and a sire of many stakes winners, including promising young stallion Secret Romeo,” Parra said.  “We have always had mares and racehorses with James and Laura in Michigan, and are optimistic that Pinnacle will spur a rebirth in the breeding program there.  Service Stripe is a perfect fit and we are pleased to offer him to Michigan breeders next year and beyond.”

Parra added that Millennium Farms will continue to support Service Stripe by sending mares to him to foal in Michigan, enabling full participation in the breeding program there. Service Stripe will also be eligible for the lucrative Michigan Sires Showcase.

“We are happy to have Service Stripe back in Michigan,” said James Jackson.  “He will be very well received by breeders here, as people remember him as a stakes-winning racehorse and are familiar with many of his stakes runners.  We'll be supporting him with many of our own mares, and promoting him enthusiastically to Michigan breeders.”  The Jacksons recently completed a lease-to-purchase arrangement of Belair Farm, which has been operated by Betty Tripp, the widow of longtime Michigan horseman Ed Tripp.