Instilled Regard's book to include Blue Prize, Concrete Rose

Grade 1 winner Instilled Regard has been retired from racing, and while particulars of his stallion career, such as a farm and stud fee, have yet to be announced, one thing is sure – he will get a solid first book in 2021.

Owner Larry Best, who breeds and races as OXO Equine, announced that multiple Grade 1 winner Blue Prize will be bred to Instilled Regard, by Arch, in 2021. Best purchased Blue Prize for a sale-topping $5 million at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale, days after she won the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. She is carrying her first foal, by Into Mischief.

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Best was bullish in the bloodstock market this November, and one of his purchases was Grade 1 winner Concrete Rose, who topped the Keeneland November breeding stock sale at $1.95 million. At the time, Best said that she was a future mate for Instilled Regard.

Instilled Regard was Grade 1-placed as a juvenile. The following year, he won the Grade 3 Lecomte on dirt and finished third in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby on turf. He won the Grade 2 Fort Lauderdale on turf last season. After opening 2020 by finishing third in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf, Instilled Regard won the Grade 2 Fort Marcy and then the Grade 1 Manhattan at Belmont in his career finale.

Best will have two horses at stud in 2021, as his Grade 2 winner Instagrand will stand at Taylor Made Farm. Best purchased three mares for a total of $1.85 million at Fasig-Tipton November to support his young stallions, then landed nine mares for of $5,545,000 at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale. His Keeneland purchases were led by Concrete Rose and $1.9 million Indian Miss, the dam of Mitole. Indian Miss is intended for Instagrand.