A.P. Indy's sons add to his legacy on Kentucky Derby and Oaks days

The late Hall of Famer A.P. Indy left a lasting legacy as a sire of sires and as a leading broodmare sire. A.P. Indy and three of his sons accounted for seven graded stakes victories as broodmare sires on the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks cards last week at Churchill Downs.

A.P. Indy, who resided at Lane’s End Farm until his death last year, was the broodmare sire, via his Grade 1 winner Dreaming of Julia, of unbeaten Kentucky Oaks winner Malathaat. The following day, he added another Grade 1 winner as a broodmare sire as Flagstaff defeated a stellar field in the Churchill Downs Stakes. That gelding is out of Indyan Giving, also the dam of champion juvenile Game Winner.

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Champion Bernardini has ably taken up the mantle of his sire, A.P. Indy. The Darley stallion is the broodmare sire of Pegasus World Cup Turf winner Colonel Liam, who added another big score when he dead-heated for the win in the Grade 1 Old Forester Turf Classic on Saturday. Bernardini also is the broodmare sire of Du Jour, winner of the Grade 2 American Turf on Saturday, and of Maxfield, winner of the Grade 2 Alysheba Stakes on Friday.

A.P. Indy’s son A.P. Five Hundred is the broodmare sire of Jackie’s Warrior, winner of the Grade 2 Pat Day Mile on Saturday. Last year’s Kentucky Oaks winner Shedaresthedevil won the Grade 1 La Troienne on the Derby card. Her broodmare sire is Congrats, also a son of A.P. Indy.