Flameaway retired to stand at Darby Dan Farm

Flameaway, a versatile multiple graded stakes winner, has been retired and will enter stud at Darby Dan Farm in Kentucky. The 4-year-old son of Scat Daddy will stand for $7,500.

An Ontario-bred trained throughout his career by Mark Casse for John Oxley, Flameaway retires with a record of 6-3-1 from 18 starts and earnings just shy of a million, at $911,634. After winning his debut on a synthetic track, he won a pair of off-the-turf stakes as a juvenile, taking the Grade 3 Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland and the Skidmore Stakes at Saratoga.

As a 3-year-old, Flameaway won the Kitten's Joy Stakes on turf to start his season and then moved on to the Kentucky Derby trail, winning the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis Stakes and finishing second in both the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby and Grade 2 Blue Grass Stakes. He finished 13th in the Kentucky Derby won by Triple Crown winner Justify. Flameaway was winless the rest of the year, but did pick up another graded stakes placing, finishing second in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes.

This year, Flameaway won once from five outings, taking the Challenger Stakes at Tampa. He was also third in the Grade 3 Mineshaft Handicap at Fair Grounds.

“We are excited to stand Flameaway, a versatile and talented son of Scat Daddy,” Ryan Norton, stallion director at Darby Dan, said in a release. “He possesses a stallion’s pedigree, he was precocious, proven over all surfaces, and won sprinting and routing against some of the top runners of his generation.”

Flameaway is a half-brother to stakes winner Ellan Vannin and to stakes placed Segumi. It is the extended family of English 1000 Guineas winner Salsabil and Group 1 winner Marju, as well as graded/group stakes winners Bint Salsabil, Echo of Light, Essential Edge, Flame of Athens, Flame of Tara, Qaraaba, Sahm, Sefri, and Tiz a Slam.