Three-time Grade 1 winner Flat Out switches to Mighty Acres

Three-time Grade 1 winner Flat Out, a leading third-crop sire in 2019, has been sold to continue his stud career at Dr Warren Center's Mighty Acres near Pryor, Oklahoma, in a deal brokered by Chad Schumer of Schumer Bloodstock.

Flat Out is the leading US third-crop sire of 2019 by winners thanks to 89 individual scorers as of Sunday, September 22. Progeny earnings of approximately $3.7 million for 2019 also makes the son of Flatter a top three third-crop sire by prize-money, and the leading Oklahoma-based stallion.

Flat Out has sired six stakes winners from the crops conceived during his time at Spendthrift Farm, including successful two-year-olds Flat Out Speed, winner of the Iowa Sorority Stakes, and Pacific Gale.

In total, Flat Out has been represented by 18 black-type performers. He also has a crop of 106 yearlings in the pipeline.

Flat Out boasts a top-class race record, having won nine of his 29 starts for $3,645,383 in prize-money earnings. His victories include two runnings of the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup, in which he defeated the likes of Drosselmeyer, Stay Thirsty and Fort Larned, and the Cigar Mile, in which he defeated Private Zone and Verrazano.

He was also Grade 1-placed on a further eight occasions, notably when third in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

A member of the thriving Flatter branch of the A.P. Indy sire-line, Flat Out is a half-brother to Lil Indy - dam of Maximum Security, who was first-past-the-post in this year's Kentucky Derby - and out of the stakes-winning Cresta Lil, by Cresta Rider.

A 2020 stud fee for Flat Out will be confirmed at a later date. Flat Out will stand alongside Den's Legacy, Liaison, Pollard's Vision and The Visualiser at Mighty Acres.

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