Shaman Ghost relocating to Adena Springs in Kentucky

Grade 1 winner and Canadian champion Shaman Ghost will make the latest move of his stud career as he relocates from California to owner-breeder Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs in Kentucky for the 2019 season, the operation announced Monday.

Stronach said last fall that he was putting Adena's Kentucky property up for sale, with plans to further expand his operation into other states where he held interests, hoping to bolster the breeding and racing industries from the ground up through quality stock. He also indicated that he was willing to work with potential buyers of his farm regarding options to keep his stallions standing in Kentucky.

Meanwhile, Shaman Ghost was retired in December and took up residence at Tommy Town Thoroughbreds in Santa Ynez, Calif., as part of Stronach’s plan, giving the state one of its most buzzed-about incoming stallions in recent memory.

Shaman Ghost, a homebred son of Stronach's champion and prominent sire Ghostzapper, was relocated in March to Lovacres Ranch in Warner Springs, Calif., for the remainder of the 2018 breeding season. In total, he covered 92 mares in his first season, Adena said in a press release.

“We were gratified to introduce a stallion of Shaman Ghost’s caliber to California breeders in his first season at stud,” Stronach said in the release. “Now he can join his Hall of Fame sire Ghostzapper in the stall next door.”

Shaman Ghost, who earned more than $3.8 million, was named Canada’s champion 3-year-old male in 2015 after winning the Queen’s Plate and the Grade 3 Marine Stakes and finishing second in the Prince of Wales Stakes. He went on to win the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap, Grade 1 Woodward Stakes, Grade 2 Brooklyn Invitational, and Grade 3 Pimlico Special, and finished second to Arrogate in the inaugural Pegasus World Cup Invitational.