Last month’s Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another has been purchased to stand at stud in Japan.

I’ll Have Another (3c Flower Alley – Arch’s Gal Edith by Arch) was retired after going amiss in the lead-up to the G1 Belmont Stakes.  He bowed out with an unbeaten record this year after victories in the LR Robert B. Lewis Stakes, G1 Santa Anita Derby, G1 Kentucky Derby and G1 Preakness Stakes.

“I’m sad that he is not going to stand in America,” owner J. Paul Reddam said.  “The interest in him as a stallion prospect was light domestically.  The estimates of his value here were so different from Japan.”

I’ll Have Another will stand at Shigeyuki Okada’s Big Red Farm on Hokkaido.  He will be based alongside 2009 Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Conduit and Japanese champion Agnes Digital.

I’ll Have Another joined champions Majestic Prince (1969), Affirmed (1978) and Sunday Silence (1989) among a select group of horses to have won the Santa Anita Derby, Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes

Sunday Silence went on to breeding-shaping career at Shadai Stallion Station winning the Japanese sires’ premiership 13 times and leaving champion sire sons Deep Impact, Neo Universe and Special Week.