Lane's End sets Accelerate's fee at $20,000 for debut season

Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Accelerate will debut for a stud fee of $20,000 at Lane’s End Farm in 2019, the farm has announced.

Accelerate keys a strong incoming trio for Lane’s End, which will also welcome Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner City of Light and champion West Coast, both for $35,000. All three are from sirelines Lane’s End has cultivated. City of Light is by current Lane’s End stallion Quality Road; West Coast, by Flatter, is a grandson of the pensioned leading sire A.P. Indy; and Accelerate, by Lookin At Lucky, is a grandson of the late leading sire Smart Strike.

Accelerate won five Grade 1 events during a 2018 campaign that is certain to earn him an Eclipse Award as champion older dirt male. Those awards are presented in late January, the same week as the $9 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park, in which Accelerate and City of Light are expected to meet in their final career starts. Accelerate and West Coast – who finished seventh in the Breeders’ Cup Classic in his final start – both were vanned from Churchill Downs to Lane’s End on Sunday in order to show to breeders in town for the major Kentucky breeding stock sales. Accelerate, who was accompanied by a groom, was then to return to trainer John Sadler in California.

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