{"id":1305,"date":"2015-10-06T13:03:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linda-rice.com\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2015-10-11T13:04:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T13:04:36","slug":"spendthrift-acquires-breeding-rights-to-multiple-g1-winner-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/spendthrift-acquires-breeding-rights-to-multiple-g1-winner-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Spendthrift acquires breeding rights to multiple G1 winner Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Palace is the fastest and most accomplished son of leading sire City Zip<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

B. Wayne Hughes\u2019 Spendthrift Farm has acquired the breeding rights to leading sprinter Palace, the multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire son of City Zip who is set to retire at the end of his 2015 campaign that will include a start in the $1,500,000 Breeders\u2019 Cup Sprint (G1) on Oct. 31 at Keeneland.<\/p>\n

\u201cPalace is the best colt by perennial leading sire City Zip, and he\u2019s a great-looking individual,\u201d said Ned Toffey, Spendthrift general manager. \u201cHe\u2019s been one of the classiest and fastest sprinters in the country the last couple of years, and we believe breeders will find him to be an exciting opportunity through our \u2018Share The Upside\u2019 program in 2016. We\u2019re thrilled to have him, and believe he has a big shot in the upcoming Breeders\u2019 Cup Sprint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Palace will participate in Spendthrift\u2019s renowned \u201cShare The Upside\u201d program that the farm offers for its first-year stallions. His \u201cShare The Upside\u201d fee has been set at $7,500, and will require breeders to breed a mare in 2016 and 2017, and then have two live foals on a stands-and-nurses basis to earn a lifetime breeding right in Palace starting in 2018 and lasting throughout his stallion career. Palace\u2019s one-time stud fee is $6,000 on a standard stands-and-nurses contract for people who do not wish to participate in the \u201cShare The Upside\u201d program. Commitments to Palace are being honored prior to the Breeders\u2019 Cup, and his stud fees are subject to change pending race results through the rest of the year.<\/p>\n

On the racetrack, Palace owns 11 wins and has been on the board 20 times in 26 lifetime starts for trainer Linda Rice, who also campaigned his sire City Zip a decade prior. Palace broke through on the national scene in 2014 with a win in the $250,000 True North H. (G2) on Belmont Stakes weekend, defeating a cast of top sprinters in a crisp 1:08.29 for six furlongs. He went on to Saratoga last summer where he validated his status as one of the elite sprinters in America, winning the $350,000 Vanderbilt H. (G1) and $500,000 Forego S. (G1) in back-to-back starts.<\/p>\n

In the Vanderbilt, Palace zipped six furlongs in 1:08.56 and earned a career-high 107 Beyer speed figure \u2013 one of the fastest Beyers recorded at six furlongs in 2014. Just 28 days later in the Forego, he stretched out to seven furlongs and scored a dominant 3 \u00bd-length victory in 1:21.95. Palace would ship to California as one of the favorites for the Breeders\u2019 Cup Sprint, but he encountered traffic trouble and was beaten by only three lengths at the wire.<\/p>\n

Palace will look to avenge that defeat and put an exclamation point on his stellar career when he lines up as a contender in the 2015 Breeders\u2019 Cup Sprint in coming weeks. He enters that race off an unlucky fourth-place finish in the $400,000 Vosburgh Inv. (G1) at Belmont, where he was beaten just three-quarters of a length by winner Rock Fall in 1:08.70 after being stuck down on the rail for much of the stretch run.<\/p>\n

Palace currently holds earnings of $1,391,550 for owner Antonino Miuccio, making him the most accomplished colt ever sired by City Zip. He\u2019s out of the End Sweep mare Receivership, a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner French Park.<\/p>\n

For more information about Palace or Spendthrift\u2019s Share The Upside Program, please contact Des, Mark, Brian, or David at 859-294-0030, or visit SpendthriftFarm.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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