Stallion Stormy Atlantic passes at 32

The successful stallion Stormy Atlantic, who spent the last several years of his life back at his birthplace, Bridlewood Farm in Florida, has died from the infirmities of old age at 32, the farm reported Tuesday evening.

Stormy Atlantic, by Storm Cat, as bred and raced by the late Arthur Appleton, who founded Bridlewood; the farm is now owned by John and Leslie Malone. Stormy Atlantic won six of 15 career starts, including the 1998 Damitrius Stakes at Delaware Park and Havre de Grace Stakes at Pimlico, before retiring to stud at Bridlewood in 1999. After he was Florida’s leading freshman sire, he moved up to the Kentucky stallion ranks at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in 2003. He was a Kentucky mainstay until his pensioning in 2021, when he returned to Bridlewood to live out his years.

Stormy Atlantic is the sire of 996 winners, including 118 stakes winners, for earnings of more than $105.2 million, according to Equineline statistics. His best runners include Stormy Liberal, winner of the 2017 and 2018 editions of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, earning an Eclipse Award championship for the latter season.

Stormy Atlantic is the sire of 2013 Canadian Horse of the Year Up With the Birds, a Grade 1-winning millionaire; of Grade 1 winner and Canadian champion El Tormenta; and of additional Sovereign Award champions Conquest Typhoon, Leonnatus Anteas, and Maritimer. His other standout runners include multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire Get Stormy and Grade 1 winners Next Question and Stormello.

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