Classic hero Exaggerator retired to stand at WinStar Farm

Beat Nyquist to land this year's Preakness Stakes

Exaggerator: son of Curlin is a three-time Grade 1 winner

This year's Preakness Stakes hero Exaggerator has been retired from racing and will enter stud at WinStar Farm in Kentucky.

The son of Curlin was trained by Keith Desormeaux and was among the best of his generation at two, when he won the Grade 2 Saratoga Special Stakes and Grade 3 Delta Down Jackpot Stakes, and finished second in the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity and fourth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile.

At three Exaggerator won the Santa Anita Derby by six and a quarter lengths before finishing second to Nyquist in the Kentucky Derby.

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Martin StevensBloodstock journalist

Published on 13 October 2016inInternational

Last updated 13:48, 13 October 2016

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