Avie's Flatter heads group of new Ontario sires for 2023

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Champion Avie’s Flatter and Grade 1 winners Collusion Illusion and Tamarkuz are three promising new Ontario sires for the 2023 breeding season.

Avie’s Flatter was recently retired and will stand for a fee of $3,500 at Colebrook Farm near Uxbridge, northeast of Toronto.

Canada’s champion male 2-year-old in 2018, Avie’s Flatter won the Grade 3 Transylvania at Keeneland at 3 and took the Grade 2 Nearctic and Grade 2 Connaught Cup last year at 5. Bred by Tall Oaks Farm and campaigned by Ivan Dalos, the 6-year-old son of Flatter won 7 for 20 starts and earned nearly $1.2 million Canadian.

“With a racing career where he won on multiple surfaces at different distances, and a page rich with black type, Avie’s Flatter has the ontrack success and pedigree to become a great stallion,” Tall Oaks Farm director Colleen Dalos said. “We look forward to standing Avie’s Flatter in Ontario in partnership with Colebrook Farms, where he is well suited to sire runners that will succeed on the world-class synthetic and turf racing at Woodbine.”

Collusion Illusion was retired earlier this year and will stand for $6,000 at Ballycroy Bloodstock near Loretto, north of Toronto.

Based primarily in Southern California with trainer Mark Glatt, Collusion Illusion won the Grade 2 Best Pal at Del Mar at 2. At 3, he defeated older rivals at Del Mar in the Grade 1 Bing Crosby before earning second money in the Grade 2 Santa Anita Sprint Championship.

A 5-year-old son of Twirling Candy, Collusion Illusion won 5 of 13 starts and banked $480,351.

Ballycroy Bloodstock also has acquired 2016 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile victor Tamarkuz, the sire of Grade 3 Bob Hope winner Red Flag and two stakes-placed runners this year.

A 12-year-old son of Speightstown, Tamarkuz stands for $4,000.

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