Two-time Grade 1 winner Hoppertunity retired to Northview Stallion Station

The hard-knocking multiple Grade 1 winner Hoppertunity has been retired and will begin his stud career at Northview Stallion Station in Peach Bottom, Pa.

Hoppertunity, by former Pennsylvania stallion Any Given Saturday, retires with a record of 9-8-5 from 34 starts over five seasons of racing, and was a graded stakes winner each of those seasons. The 7-year-old earned more than $4.7 million and, according to Northview, is the richest stallion prospect ever to begin his career in the Mid-Atlantic region.

“I could go on and on about his racing statistics, but everyone can look them up,” Northview’s general manager David Wade said. “What most haven’t seen yet is this horse. I went to Santa Anita to inspect him for purchase and I thought they had brought me the wrong one. How could a horse that’s run 34 times, 31 of them stakes races, have legs this clean and joints this tight? As a group, our breeders are very savvy and inspect our stallions diligently, so conformation is high up on our list when shopping for new stallions. This one certainly won’t disappoint anyone.”

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A May foal, Hoppertunity was unraced as a juvenile, and recorded his first stakes victory in the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park, his fourth career start, before finishing second to California Chrome in the Santa Anita Derby. He was made the second choice on the morning line behind that eventual dual classic winner for the Kentucky Derby, but scratched two days before the race with a foot injury. In his second start off the subsequent layoff, he defeated older horses in the Grade 1 Clark Handicap. He made it back-to-back graded stakes triumphs by winning the Grade 2 San Pasqual Stakes to start his 2015 season.

Hoppertunity won his second Grade 1 by taking the 2016 Jockey Club Gold Cup. He also won the Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes that season, and scored a repeat victory in that race in 2017.

This year, Hoppertunity won the Grade 2 Brooklyn Invitational Stakes and the Grade 3 Tokyo City Cup Stakes to bring his total number of graded stakes scores to eight. Including the Santa Anita Derby, he placed in 11 graded stakes, and his seven Grade 1 placings included a third in the 2016 Dubai World Cup.

“Speed, class, stamina, and soundness will make you a multimillionaire in this business. Hoppertunity has them all,” said Bob Baffert, who trained Hoppertunity throughout his career. “He could dominate the breeding industry in that region.”

Hoppertunity is a half brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Executiveprivilege, and his third dam is champion and Hall of Fame race filly Davona Dale.