Danzing Candy to stand at Rancho San Miguel

Danzing Candy, a multiple Grade 2 winner, will enter stud during the 2018 breeding season at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel, Calif., where he will stand for an advertised fee of $5,000.

The 4-year-old son of Twirling Candy was retired in August after suffering an ankle fracture during a gallop the day before he was to start in the Grade 2 Pat O’Brien Stakes at Del Mar.

The colt raced for the partnership of Halo Farms and Jim and Dianne Bashor. He was trained by Bob Baffert.

Danzing Candy finished his on-track career with six wins in 11 starts for earnings of $700,930. He won the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes last year at 3 and ran in the Kentucky Derby. The colt followed up with his strongest season yet at 4, taking the Grade 2 San Carlos Stakes and Grade 3 Lone Star Park Handicap.

Bred in Kentucky by Halo Farms, Danzing Candy is out of the placed Songandaprayer mare Talkin and Singing, whose three foals to race are all winners. The extended family includes 2004 Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Better Talk Now and Argentine Group 1 winner Bien Toi.