'Our goal is to provide breeders with a good value roster of stallions'

Dialed In, who has been represented this year by Grade 1 winner Defunded, will continue leading the stallion roster at Darby Dan Farm, which has confirmed 2023 fees for its line-up of 14 stallions.

The 14-year-old son of Mineshaft will hold steady at $15,000 with a stands and nurses guarantee. The roster also features Higher Power and Modernist, who will each stand for $10,000, as well as Mutasaabeq, who is new for 2023 and will stand his initial season at stud for $7,500.

"We are excited to announce the Darby Dan stud fees for the upcoming breeding season," said Stuart Fitzgibbon, stallion director at Darby Dan. "Our goal is to provide breeders with a good value roster of stallions representing commercial and successful sire lines.

"We are delighted with the initial response to Mutasaabeq, new for 2023. By Into Mischief out of a Scat Daddy mare, he has all the commercial attributes for the market. Grade 1-producing sire Dialed In continues to fly the flag for Darby Dan, and our younger stallions like Flameaway, Modernist and Higher Power have been exceptionally well-received and should ensure memorable moments for the farm going forward."

Dialed In, the leading North American freshman sire in 2016 and top five ranked in subsequent years, is the sire of six stakes winners and 14 black-type horses in 2023, topped by Defunded, who won the Awesome Again Stakes and was runner-up in the Hollywood Gold Cup.

He is also represented this year by stakes winners Mr Wireless, Erase and Gambling Girl, as well as Grade 1-placed winner Get Her Number. Dialed In has sired a new Grade 1 winner each of the last three years: Get Her Number won the 2020 American Pharoah Stakes, Super Stock captured the Arkansas Derby in 2021, and there was Defunded this year.

Tapiture continues to rank among the leading sires once again this season and will stand for $7,500. He is the fourth-leading sire by winners in 2022 with 137, as of October 27. Among his five stakes winners and 16 stakes horses this season are Graded-placed winner Li'l Tootsie, stakes winners Grand David and Remain Anonymous and Graded-placed Repo Rocks, Valiancer and Life Is Great.

Higher Power, a Grade 1-winning millionaire by Medaglia D'Oro from a deep Pin Oak family, welcomed his first foals this season. He won the 2019 $1 million Pacific Classic Stakes by five lengths at Del Mar and posted eight triple-digit Equibase Speed Figures in an outstanding career, including a 113 in the Pacific Classic.

Stakes-placed on dirt and turf, Higher Power also placed in the Breeders' Cup Classic, Hollywood Gold Cup and the Awesome Again Stakes en route to banking nearly $1.6m.

Modernist will stand his second season in 2023. He is a multiple Graded winner by Uncle Mo out of the Bernardini mare Symbolic Gesture, a half-sister to both Sweet Catomine, champion two-year-old filly and winner of the 2004 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, and Life Is Sweet, winner of the 2009 Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic.

Victorious in the 2020 Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds and the Excelsior Stakes at Aqueduct the following year, Modernist banked $576,300 in his racing career.

Mutasaabeq, a versatile Grade 1-placed, Grade 2-winning juvenile by perennial leading sire Into Mischief, will stand his first season at stud in 2023.

A $425,000 weanling purchase by Shadwell at the 2018 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, Mutasaabeq broke his maiden on his debut at Saratoga by four and a half lengths and in his next start finished third to future champion Jackie's Warrior in the Hopeful Stakes.

He returned a winner in the Bourbon Stakes on the turf at Keeneland in his first route try, and he added the Mucho Macho Man Stakes at one mile on the main track at Gulfstream Park the following year and retired having hit the board in four of six lifetime starts. He hails from the family of this year's Florida Derby winner White Abarrio and Graded winners Sam Who and Cool Cowboy.

Darby Dan will once again be offering various incentive programmes in 2023 to provide value to breeders, including Profit Protection, Share the Upside, Black Type Bonanza and Goldmine 20/20 Match Programme.

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