Timeline to wear colors of Iowa State Cyclones

Multiple graded stakes winner Timeline will begin his stud career next year at Iowa State University, joining a solid group of stallions and mares at the teaching program, which has developed into a prominent regional commercial program.

Timeline, by Hard Spun and from the female family of the great broodmare Courtly Dee, had his best season as a 3-year-old in 2017. He won the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont by 3 1/4 lengths, then took the Grade 3 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth by the same margin.

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Timeline joins Stroll and Newport on the Thoroughbred stallion roster at ISU, which also breeds and raises Quarter Horses. Grade 1 winner Stroll, who began his career at Claiborne Farm, has been Iowa’s leading stallion since relocating to the state in 2016. He is the sire of 20 stakes winners, including Canadian champion Van Lear Rose and Grade 1 winner Wet Your Whistle.

Alongside its stallion roster, which also is available for public breeding, ISU maintains a band of Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse broodmares for use in education. The 13 Thoroughbred mares in the teaching herd are led by stakes winners Launch Light Lady, She’s Better Loud, and Swede. Launch Light Lady and She’s Better Loud are Iowa-breds.

The foals produced by ISU are either sold privately or in breed-specific public auctions. The ISU program has finished in the top three consignors by gross at the Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association’s fall mixed sale each year since 2016, leading all consignors in 2017 and 2019.