Airoforce to stand at Swifty Farms in Indiana

Airoforce, a Grade 2 winner, has been retired to Swifty Farms in Seymour, Ind., where he will stand the 2018 breeding season for an advertised fee of $2,500.

The 4-year-old Colonel John colt was purchased by Jeff and Stacey Jeans for $12,000 on Tuesday during the racing-age portion of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.

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Prior to that transaction, Airoforce raced for owner John Oxley and trainer Mark Casse, winning three of 12 starts for earnings of $679,130.

He won three of four starts at 2, taking his debut at Kentucky Downs, then following up with a win in the Grade 3 Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland, a second in the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Keeneland, and a victory in the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill.

At 3, Airoforce ran second in the Grade 2 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes at Saratoga and Grade 3 Penn Mile Stakes at Penn National.

Bred in Kentucky by Stewart Madison, Airoforce is the first foal out of the stakes-placed Cuvee mare Chocolate Pop, whose two runners are both winners.

Airoforce is from the extended family of Grade 1 winner Sea Cadet, Grade 2 winner On Target, and Brazilian Group 2 winner Vanua Levu.