Welcome to the Millennium Minute!  With breeding season right around the corner, our roster is set for 2009.  We welcome Student Council and Zanjero to Millennium Farms, and invite you to visit the farm to see them or any of our stallions.

 We have an exciting new Student Council Highlights Video online at www.millenniumfarms.com.  It chronicles the racing career of the horse the Orange County Register called "...the prototype horse of the future."

Student Council won the Pacific Classic (gr. I), Pimlico Special (gr. I) and the Hawthorne Gold Cup(G2), finished second in the Whitney Handicap (gr. I) and third in the Hollywood Gold Cup (gr. I).  His 112 Beyer Speed Figure in the Whitney is faster than Big Brown and as fast as Curlin. In 31 starts at 14 tracks and eight states, Student Council earned over $1.5 million.  Out of the Kris S. mare Class Kris, Student Council is by  Kingmambo. 

“We are pleased to welcome Student Council, one of the most exciting new stallion prospects for 2009,” said Parra. “We announced his fee at $20,000 in early September, and since then the economic conditions in our industry have changed greatly.  The decision was made to price him very aggressively at $17,500, with terms 'stand and nurse', as a recognition of the uncertainty in the economy.”

“Student Council is by international sire star Kingmambo from a great female family, and a grade one winner of more than $1.5 million on dirt and synthetic,” Parra continued.  “He retires sound after a great career on the track. He'll join our freshman stallion duo of Even the Score and Scrimshaw, both off to a great start at stud, and promising stallions Shaniko, Will He Shine and Woke Up Dreamin.  Our stallions are priced to provide great value to breeders, whether for the commercial market or those who breed to race.”

Even the Score will stand for $7,500. Winner of the 2004 editions of the Californian Stakes (gr. II) and the Mervyn LeRoy Handicap (gr. II), Even the Score earned more than $750,000 during his racing career, and is one of the leading sons of Unbridled’s Song at stud.  He is a leading first crop two-year-old sire with a stakes winner and four stakes horses, including winners on dirt, synthetic and turf.

Will He Shine will stand for $6,500. The winner of the True North Handicap (gr. II) at Belmont and earner of $331,041, Will He Shine finished  second or third  in four additional stakes races.  Will He Shine, by Silver Deputy, is out of the Star de Naskra mare Christmas Star and is a half-brother to gr. I Belmont Futurity winner Cuvee.

Scrimshaw will stand for $5,000 . Winner of the Coolmore Lexington Stakes (gr. II) who placed in the 2003 Preakness Stakes (gr. I), his first crop  includes 10 winners and a stakes horse.  This year, a Scrimshaw two-year-old sold for $435,000 and a yearling went for $170,000. By Gulch, Scrimshaw is out of the Sham mare Rogue Girl.

 Shaniko will stand for $5,000. Shaniko set the track record on polytrack in the Kentucky Cup Classic (gr. II) at Turfway and won on five different tracks.  His first nine dams are stakes producers, including his dam, Sapphire n’ Silk, who was a G2 winner from the family of sires Icecapade, Buckfinder and Private Terms. Shaniko is by A.P. Indy.  Shaniko’s first foals will be yearlings in 2009.

Woke Up Dreamin will stand for $5,000. The winner of the Smile Sprint Handicap (gr. II) and the True North Breeders’ Cup Handicap (gr. II) is by Holy Bull, sire of leading freshman sire Macho Uno, out of a Storm Cat daughter of Champion Flawlessly.

All Millennium Farms stallions are available for inspection.  Further information on the Millennium Farms stallions can be found at www.millenniumfarms.com.

Millennium Farms Stallion Roster with Pedigree/ 2009 Prices(Live Foal, Stand & Nurse)

Student Council (Kingmambo - Class Kris, by Kris S.): $17,500

Even the Score (Unbridled's Song-Ashtabula, by Rahy): $7,500

Will He Shine (Silver Deputy-Christmas Star, by Star de Naskra): $6,500

Scrimshaw (Gulch - Rogue Girl, by Sham): $5,000

Shaniko (A.P. Indy - Sapphire n’ Silk, by Pleasant Tap):  $5,000

Lexington, Kentucky - On November 6 Millennium Farms announced that Zanjero, the leading money-earner by Cherokee Run with over $1.6 million, will join its stallion roster for the 2009 breeding season.  Zanjero will stand for a fee of $10,000, live foal stand and nurse.

"Zanjero is a great addition to our roster," said Ro Parra, owner of Millennium Farms.  "Zanjero is an outstanding physical specimen by champion Cherokee Run, himself the sire of champions War Pass and Chilukki, out of a young, 100% stakes-producing  A.P. Indy mare. He was versatile, with graded stakes wins on dirt and synthetic, and precocious at two when placed in the Remsen Stakes(G2).  We look forward to working with Ron Winchell to offer Zanjero to breeders in 2009."

“We enjoyed Zanjero's great racing career and now look forward to the next phase of his life,” said Ron Winchell, who raced Zanjero and will retain an interest in the horse's breeding career.  “We raced Tapit, too, and he is off to a great start at stud, and we plan to support Zanjero just like we did Tapit.”

Purchased for $700,000 by Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Zanjero is the highest-selling progeny ever by Cherokee Run. He earned $1,620,786 and  finished in the money in 16 of 18 starts. He competed in 13 graded events and was in the money in 11 of those.  As a two-year-old, he broke his maiden on Keeneland's Polytrack, then won an allowance at Churchill Downs, defeating Grade 1 winner First Defence.  He then ran second to Nobiz Like Showbiz in the Remsen Stakes(G2) at Aqueduct.

As a three-year-old, Zanjero competed well against the best of his generation, including a Grade 1 placing in the Blue Grass Stakes(G1), beaten a head in a blanket finish with Dominican and Street Sense.  Trained by Steve Asmussen, Zanjero capped his four-year-old year with a stylish win in the Kentucky Cup Classic(G2) on Turfway's Polytrack.

“He was a versatile and top class horse his whole career,” said Asmussen.  “He's a gorgeous horse with a great pedigree.  He worked with Curlin all last year and never backed off and made over $1 million at the races.  He always traveled well,  and was very sound and consistent.  He's a very exciting stallion prospect.”

Zanjero will stand as the property of a partnership that will include Ron Winchell's Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC, joining Even The Score, Scrimshaw, Shaniko, Student Council, Will He Shine and Woke Up Dreamin at Millennium Farms.

“We now have three of our stallions in Louisiana, which is a testament to how highly we rank the state-bred program there,” said Ro Parra, owner of Millennium Farms.  “Littleexpectations is a perfect fit for Louisiana and that region; his full brother Valid Expectations has made a national name for himself in Texas and he stacks up well with Louisiana's top stallions. As the sire of King of the Roxy,  who won graded stakes at two and three, we already know he can produce 'the big horse'.  We look forward to offering him to breeders in Louisiana.”

Littleexpectations will join Easyfromthegitgo and Millennium Wind in the Louisiana-Bred Program and the Louisiana Stallion Stakes.  All three will participate in the Millennium Rewards program, where breeders can earn points for sending mares to stallions owned by Millennium Farms and redeem them on future stud fees.

Littleexpectations, by Valid Appeal, is a full brother to leading sire Valid Expectations.  He was an undefeated multiple stakes winner at two.  He is a leading third crop sire from the family of Purge, Foolish Pleasure and Jersey Girl.  He is the sire of King of the Roxy, winner of the Futurity Stakes(G2) at two and Hutcheson Stakes(G2), and  2008 Two-Year-Old Texas Stallion Stakes winner He's Boy Wonder.