Classic sire and Grade 1 winner Forestry dies at 27

Forestry, the sire of 2011 Preakness Stakes winner Shackleford, died on Dec. 27 at Haras Sao Jose da Serra in Parana, Brazil, due to “health problems associated with old age,” according to the Brazilian Association of Racehorse Breeders and Owners. Forestry was 27.

Forestry has stood exclusively in South America since he was purchased by a partnership in Brazil in 2015. Previously, he had stood at Taylor Made Farms in Central Kentucky, and he began shuttling to South America in 2010.

A Grade 1 winner as a runner by the top-class stallion Storm Cat, Forestry has sired 84 stakes winners to date and 38 graded or group winners. Twenty-three of his group winners won stakes in the Southern Hemisphere, among them 18 classic winners in Brazil and three champions.

“The stallion figured as one of the longest living and most successful breeders in all of South America,” the Brazilian Association of Racehorse Breeders and Owners said in its announcement of his death.

In the Northern Hemisphere, his top runners included Forest Danger, Diplomat Lady, Discreet Cat, and Smokey Glacken.

Forestry got off to a relatively strong start at stud, with an advertised stud fee of $50,000 in his first year as a stallion in 2000. By 2007, the fee had risen to $125,000, before dropping as low as $8,000 in 2014, his last season at stud in the Northern Hemisphere.

Forestry was bred by Robert S. Evans and campaigned by Aaron and Marie Jones. He was trained by Bob Baffert.

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