One of the best sires in the Mid-Atlantic region, with nearly 40 lifetime stakes horses, average earnings per starter of more than $50,000 and 75 percent winners per starters, LION HEARTED offers incredible value for a $3,000 stud fee! And breeders were quick to take note in 2011 as the fashionable son of Storm Cat covered 72 mares, the most of any stallion in Maryland.
A Mid-Atlantic region top-five stallion, LION HEARTED has had progeny earnings exceed $3 million each of the past three years, and he is fast approaching the mark for 2011. And with 13 stakes horses for the year, he’s proven to be one of the most prolific stakes sires in the region.
Among LION HEARTED’s 2011 runners are the full sisters SILVER HEART and ASPENGLOW. SILVER HEART accounted for the richest race for fillies and mares on West Virginia Breeders Classic night as she flew home in the $250,000 Cavada Breeders Classic. ASPENGLOW, winner of the What a Summer S. at Laurel in the winter, followed with a second in the Gr. 2 Barbara Fritchie H. The two combined have earned more than $860,000 during their careers!
The leading Mid-Atlantic freshman sire in 2004, LION HEARTED struck quickly with his first starter in his first crop, stakes-winning juvenile filly CHOCOLATE BROWN. The stakes list continues to grow and includes $542,536-earner ROARING LION, a five-time stakes winner who captured his second consecutive Mr. Prospector S. at Monmouth Park in 2011.
At the sales, LION HEARTED’s lifetime 2-year-old average is $58,479, nearly 20 times his stud fee. Multiple graded stakes-placed, out of a Gr.1 winner, LION HEARTED descends from the classic lines of champions EASY GOER and RELAXING and is a half-brother to Gr.2 winner CAT CAY and Gr.1 winner and sire STROLLING ALONG.
LION HEARTED
1996, Dark Bay, Brown, 16.1 hands,
Storm Cat-Cadillacing, by Alydar
2012 STUD FEE: $3,000 Live Foal Stand & Nurse
Nominated to Breeders' Cup & Maryland Million, Ltd.
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