Champion, millionaire, and grade 1 winner Storm the Courtroom has been retired and can enter stud subsequent yr at Eclipse Thoroughbred Coaching and Sports activities Remedy in California’s Santa Ynez Valley, the farm confirmed Nov. 27.
First reported by Each day Racing Type, the 7-year-old son of Courtroom Imaginative and prescient retires from a six-year marketing campaign with a 2-4-7 report from 30 begins and earnings of $1,426,503.
Eclipse Thoroughbred Farm purchased a controlling curiosity within the younger stallion and his earlier homeowners SAF Racing, David Bernsen, Susanna Wilson, and Dan Hudock all stayed in as companions, in accordance with Mike Scully, who owns the farm together with his spouse Angie. The farm is the previous website of the Wygod household’s River Edge Farm.
Storm the Courtroom made his largest impression at 2 when he received the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1)Â in commanding gate-to-wire style at odds of 45-1 and delivered a Juvenile report payout of $93.80 that also stands. Raced initially by Exline-Border Racing, Bernsen, Wilson, and Hudock with coach Peter Eurton, Storm the Courtroom additionally ran third within the American Pharoah Stakes (G1) previous to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships and was honored as 2019’s champion 2-year-old colt.
In subsequent years, Storm the Courtroom didn’t win one other stakes however he positioned in 4 graded stakes at 3, ending second within the Mathis Brothers Mile Stakes (G2T) and La Jolla Handicap (G3T) and third within the San Felipe Stakes (G2) and Ohio Derby (G3).
Storm the Courtroom at Santa Anita Park
Scully stated Storm the Courtroom’s stakes report on each grime and turf will make him notably enticing to California breeders.
“That’s most vital,” he stated. “Our Irish stallion (Henry Adams) additionally has each surfaces in his pedigree, and I feel breeders actually worth that versatility.
“Storm the Courtroom has not performed a lot since he was juvenile champion, however he has been within the cash in a number of graded stakes so the flexibility is there,” Scully continued. “He’s a handsome horse bodily and can match properly with California mares.”
Bloodstock agent Marette Farrell picked Storm the Courtroom out of the 2019 Ocala Breeders’ Gross sales Spring 2-Yr-Olds in Coaching Sale and Exline-Border Racing purchased him for $60,000 out of the Woodside Ranch consignment. He’s Courtroom Imaginative and prescient ‘s solely grade 1 winner thus far and the one stakes winner produced by My Tejana Storm, a profitable daughter of Tejano Run.
My Tejana Storm is amongst seven winners produced by her dam Sarah’s Settlement, a daughter of Settlement Day, who was a grade 3-placed profitable son of Buckpasser and a homebred for Phipps Steady. Sarah’s Settlement is a full sister to stakes-placed winner A Style of Wine.
Storm the Courtroom adopted the lead of Courtroom Imaginative and prescient by delivering dual-surface black-type performances. Courtroom Imaginative and prescient (by Gulch) received the 2007 Remsen Stakes (G2) and Iroquois Stakes (G3) on the grime at 2, after which received 5 grade 1 stakes on turf: 2008 Hollywood Derby (G1T), 2009 Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes (G1T), 2010 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (G1T), 2010 Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1T), and the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1T).
Storm the Courtroom will stand subsequent yr for an introductory price of $2,000.
