Multiple Grade 3 winner Mr. Money retires to Journeyman Stud in Florida

Multiple graded stakes winner Mr. Money will enter stud at Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla., in 2021. The move brings a prominent representative of the nation's leading sire line, which is known for its strong juvenile runners, to Florida, a state with a racing and commercial marketplace built around young horses.

Millionaire Mr. Money is by two-time Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Goldencents, in turn by the nation's leading sire Into Mischief. Into Mischief rose to prominence as a perennial leading juvenile sire before taking over at the nation's leading general sire two years running, with a record-setting bankroll in 2020. Goldencents followed in his footsteps with strong young stock, finishing as the leading freshman sire by individual winners in 2018, and the leading second- and third-crop sire by earnings in 2019 and 2020.

Both Into Mischief and Goldencents stand in Kentucky at Spendthrift Farm, which bought into Mr. Money from owner Chester Thomas's Allied Racing in the fall of 2019. The young stallion will stand as the property of Allied Racing and Spendthrift.

"I intend to breed a dozen or so of my own mares to Mr. Money," Thomas said in a release. "I have a huge amount of confidence in him."

Mr. Money won four Grade 3 races in succession in 2019, taking the Pat Day Mile, Matt Winn Stakes, Indiana Derby, and West Virginia Derby. He finished second by a neck to Math Wizard in the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby, with Grade 1 winners War of Will and Improbable third and fourth. Mr. Money finished seventh in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita to end his season.

This year, Mr. Money won the Grade 3 Ack Ack Stakes at Churchill Downs before finishing 11th in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Keeneland in his final start. He retires with earnings of $1,360,430.