Grade 1-winning stallions Flat Out, Verrazano, and Itsmyluckyday leaving Kentucky

The fall means the announcement of accomplished runners preparing to enter stud in Kentucky, the epicenter of the Thoroughbred industry in North America. Alongside that, the fall also often includes announcements of active stallions exiting the state to continue their careers in other regional or international markets, with the timing of the announcements allowing them to be inspected at their new locations prior to the season. That is already the case this fall, as, in the past week, new locations were announced for Grade 1 winners Flat Out, Itsmyluckyday, and Verrazano.

Flat Out and Itsmyluckyday both previously stood at Spendthrift Farm, which has announced plans to bring in five new stallions for 2020. Flat Out has been sold to continue his stud career at Dr. Warren Center's Mighty Acres near Pryor, Okla., in a deal brokered by Chad Schumer of Schumer Bloodstock. Flat Out, by the A.P. Indy son Flatter, earned more than $3.6 million while winning or placing in 16 graded stakes. His career highlights include back-to-back victories in the Jockey Club Gold Cup in 2011 and 2012, and a third Grade 1 score in the 2013 Cigar Mile in his career finale.

As a stallion, Flat Out is the sire of six black-type winners to date, with his top earner being Pacific Gale, who owns four graded stakes placings in the last calendar year. He is currently sixth on the North American third-crop sires list by earnings, but third among stallions who stood in Kentucky in 2019.

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Itsmyluckyday has been purchased by Ohio-based Gigi Chiandussi and will stand for her at Dr. Robert Maro's Maro Veterinary Services near Youngstown. The Lawyer Ron horse, whose oldest foals are 3, is the sire of multiple stakes winner Itsmyluckycharm.

Millionaire Itsmyluckyday won eight stakes races, earning a Grade 1 win the 2014 Woodward Stakes. He finished second in the 2013 Preakness Stakes.

The versatile Verrazano, who previously stood for the Coolmore operation, has been purchased by a syndicate to stand at Haras Old Friends in Brazil. The son of successful shuttle sire More Than Ready had previously shuttled internationally from his base at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Kentucky, standing the 2015 Southern Hemisphere season in Australia before standing in Chile in 2016 and 2017.

Verrazano won the Grade 1 Wood Memorial and Haskell Invitational on dirt as a 3-year-old before competing creditably in major Group 1 events on turf in Europe the following season, including a runner-up effort in the Queen Anne Stakes at the Royal Ascot meeting. His first foals are 3, and his top runner is the turf filly Seek and Destroy, winner of the Grade 3 Soaring Softly Stakes and Grade 3 Ontario Colleen this season.

Meanwhile, the stud book of the Korea Racing Authority shows that classic-placed graded stakes winner Revolutionary arrived in that country on Aug. 28 to continue his stud career. The son of War Pass won three graded stakes for WinStar Farm, highlighted by the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby prior to finishing third in the 2013 Kentucky Derby. He is the sire of three black-type winners to date.