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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2020 GRADE I WINNER COMPLEXITY TO AIRDRIE CLAIBORNE ANNOUNCES Klaravich Stables, Inc.'s Complexity (Maclean's Music-- 2021 FEES; WAR FRONT Goldfield, by Yes It=s True) will stand stud at Brereton and Elizabeth Jones's Airdrie Stud upon his retirement from racing, DROPPED TO $150K the farm announced Thursday. Trained throughout his career by Chad Brown, Complexity was a convincing winner of his most recent start, the GII Kelso H. at Belmont, where he defeated multiple Grade I winner Code of Honor (Noble Mission) by two lengths in a time of 1:33.82, earning a 110 Beyer Speed Figure, the highest number earned by any horse at a mile or longer in 2020. Daily Racing Form currently lists him as the favorite for both the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint and the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. Cont. p4 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY MARKET RALLY EXTENDS INTO BOOK 3 War Front | Sarah Andrew Four yearlings–by Mehmas (Ire), Churchill (Ire), Farhh (GB) and Night of Thunder (Ire)--made 130,000gns during the first day Claiborne Farm has released stud fees for the majority of its of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 3. Chris McGrath stallions who will stand at the Paris, Ky.-based farm during the has the report. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN upcoming 2021 breeding season, which included a significant Europe. reduction in price for its international super-sire War Front (Danzig). Among Claiborne's 13 stallions, War Front leads the charge with a stud fee of $150,000. The internationally acclaimed son of Danzig and emerging sire of sires is North America's top sire by percentage of lifetime stakes winners, graded stakes winners, and Grade I winners. In 2020, War Front has added three new Grade I winners to his record, bringing his lifetime total to 23, second in North America behind only Tapit's 27. War Front=s most recent Grade I winners include Flower Bowl S. heroine Civil Union and GI Fourstardave H. victor Halladay, as well as classic winner War of Will, who will stand alongside his sire at Claiborne Farm for the upcoming breeding season. In the sales ring, he had a yearling filly sell to Mike Ryan at Keeneland September for $1.05 million and on the racetrack, no other sire in North America has more Grade I winners than War Front in 2020. War Front previously stood for $250,000, which was the highest advertised fee in North America. 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Andrew @SarahKAndrew The field sorts itself out in Thursday's Sycamore S. | Coady Photography [email protected] Social Media Strategist Justina Severni NOT THIS TIME BUMPED TO $40K 5 Leading freshman sire Not This Time (Giant’s Causeway) will stand Director of Customer Service for $40,000 in 2021, up from $12,500 this past breeding season. Vicki Forbes [email protected] Marketing Manager KY DOWNS HOPING FOR BETTER NEWS FROM AGSC 7 Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen Given the way its product has improved over time, officials at Kentucky Downs are hopeful that some of its stakes races will be upgraded in the Director of IT & Accounting Ray Villa coming years. 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AIt is now more important than ever that we do what is best for the sustainability of our industry.@ Eclipse champion and three-time Grade I winner Blame (Arch) will stand for $30,000. One of the leading sires of his crop with 63 stakes horses and 30 stakes winners lifetime, his 16 graded stakes winners include Nadal, winner of this year=s GI Arkansas Derby. Yearlings sired by Blame have sold for up to $400,000 this year. Nadal | Coady Photography Flatter, the prolific son of A.P. Indy, will stand for $35,000. He has sired more than 100 stakes horses and 50 stakes winners lifetime, including recent champions West Coast and Avie=s Flatter. This year, his two-year-olds sold for up to $600,000, while yearlings bringing up to $330,000 in the sales ring. Mastery, the undefeated Grade I-winning son of Candy Ride (Arg), will remain at $25,000. The much-anticipated first yearlings by Mastery sold for $510,000, $450,000, $400,000 this year, with an average of $142,425. Catholic Boy (More Than Ready) and Demarchelier (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who both stood their first seasons at Claiborne in 2020, will remain unchanged at $25,000 and $5,000, respectively. First Samurai (Giant=s Causeway), the sire of undefeated 2-year-old filly Plum Ali, a Breeders= Cup hopeful and winner of the recent GII Miss Grillo Stakes S., will stand for $15,000. Stud fees for Eclipse Champion Runhappy and War of Will will be announced following the Breeders= Cup. GI Preakness S. hero War of Will added a score in the GI Maker=s Mark Mile S. at Keeneland this summer and is being pointed for the Breeders= Cup. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • OCTOBER 16, 2020 Complexity To Airdrie cont. Added Airdrie's Bret Jones: "We are extremely grateful to Seth Complexity was named a >TDN Rising Star= in his six-furlong Klarman and Chad Brown for the opportunity to stand two-year-old debut at Saratoga when drawing off to win by Complexity. His resume is that of a sensational stallion prospect. 4 1/4 lengths in 1:09.78. Made the favorite for the Grade I He was a brilliantly precocious Champagne winner that has Champagne S. in his second start, Complexity led every step of trained on to run the highest speed figure of any horse in the way through fractions of :22.51, :45.31 and 1:09.40 en route America at a mile or more. He's by a truly ascendant sire that to a three-length victory over Code of Honor. His final time of looks to have every chance to be important. He's from a 1:34.63 trails only Uncle Mo top-class Stonestreet female (by 0.12 seconds) in the last 35 family, he was purchased by one runnings of race, better than of the all-time great judges in Jackie's Warrior, Tiz the Law, Mike Ryan and his talents are Scat Daddy, Daredevil, Union revered by one of the all-time Rags, Maria's Mon, First great trainers in Chad Brown. Our Samurai, Dehere, Easy Goer hope is that he will be Mr. and Forty Niner amongst more Klarman's next Breeders' Cup recent winners. winner and we are committed to While a quarter crack giving him tremendous mare partially derailed his support in working to make him a sophomore campaign, great Airdrie stallion." Complexity still managed to Complexity will stand for run one of the fastest Ragozin $12,500 S&N for any contract numbers of his 3-year-old crop signed and returned before this when earning a 3 in a Complexity wins the Kelso | Sarah K. Andrew year's Breeders' Cup. dominant 7 1/4-length win Airdrie also announced the against older horses at Aqueduct. As a 4-year-old in 2020, entirety of its 2021 fees. Said Bret Jones, "In keeping with what Complexity has again returned to top form. Following an should always be the goal of any stallion farm, we feel we have impressive allowance victory over Win Win Win (Hat Trick {Jpn}) priced our stallions where breeders have the opportunity to at Belmont, Complexity laid down fractions of :44.63 and profit in the sales ring and help their mare produce Saturday 1:08.90 amidst a blinding rainstorm in Saratoga's GI Forego S. horses. We are extremely proud of our young roster that before being caught in the last few jumps by Win Win Win. includes Cairo Prince, the leading third-crop sire by stakes Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, LLC, winners, stakes horses, graded stakes winners and graded Complexity is out of the Yes It's True mare Goldfield, who has stakes horses; Upstart, who is currently the number one produced three black-type horses from five to race including first-crop sire in America by winners and is equaled only by Valadorna (Curlin), winner of the Grade III Doubledogdare S.