Marking, a Grade 1-placed runner, will debut at stud in 2017 at A & A Ranch in Anthony, N.M., for an advertised fee of $3,500.
The 4-year-old son of Bernardini won three of eight starts for earnings of $426,200 racing as a homebred for Sheikh Mohammed Al-Maktoum’s Godolphin operation and trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. He finished second in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes in his third start, and finished his career with a runner-up effort by a head in the Grade 3 Belmont Sprint Championship Stakes in July.