Eliza Park has announced 2010 Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver will join its roster this spring.
An outstanding racehorse with a pedigree that is pure Kentucky blueblood, Super Saver is clearly one of the most exciting prospects entering stud in 2011. He is a syndicated stallion whose partners include USA based SF Bloodstock and leading Kentucky stud Winstar Farm.
Super Saver (4c Maria’s Mon – Supercharger by A.P. Indy) set a new stakes record in taking out the G2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes by five lengths as a 2YO before trumping 11 Group 1 winners in the 136th edition of the Kentucky Derby.
A majestic athlete whose victory in America’s most coveted race was a raw display of power and grit, Super Saver was trained by renowned mentor Todd Pletcher who had earlier claimed the colt was his fastest 2YO in 2009.
Super Saver is a son of the highly successful North American stallion Maria’s Mon who provides an ideal outcross for the majority of Australian broodmares.
Also a brilliant 2YO who took out the G1 Champagne and Futurity Stakes, Maria’s Mon sired two Kentucky Derby winners along with an Eclipse champion filly in a relatively short career
Super Saver is from Maria’s Mon’s penultimate crop and his dam Supercharger hails from the celebrated family of legendary mare La Troienne.
Super Saver has no less than seven lines to La Troienne throughout his pedigree. The sires of his first four dams are AP Indy, Mr Prospector, Northern Dancer and Buckpasser.
The Kentucky Derby winner’s second dam Get Lucky (Mr. Prospector) was a G3 winner and a full sister to 1989 G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Rhythm. He stood in NZ and among his 10 southern-hemisphere bred stakes winners was Champion mare Ethereal.
Super Saver has been immensely popular in his first season at Winstar Farm covering his 140th mare on Monday. Of the 140, no less than 100 are either stakes horses or producers of stakes horses. And 10 of them are G1 winners or dams of G1 winners.
Super Saver joins fellow Kentucky Derby winners Street Sense ($38,500) and Big Brown ($27,500) standing in Australia this year and is poised to continue the marvellous success of Derby winners in Australia. In fact, Kentucky Derby winners boast a greater percentage of stakes winners to runners in the southern hemisphere than Golden Slipper winners over the past three decades!
“Eliza Park is delighted to be given the opportunity to stand such a good looking and talented racehorse as Super Saver,” Eliza Park CEO Cameron Croucher said. “He has a wonderful pedigree and we made a conscious decision to seek an outcross for the coming season.”
Super Saver will stand at a fee of $16,500 (inc gst).