A.P. Indy
A.P. Indy (foaled March 31, 1989) is a champion stallion Thoroughbred racehorse bred in Kentucky, USA, by William Farish III and William Kilroy. As of 2010, he is the oldest living winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic. He is known for his ancestry, his race record, and his successful progeny. He was sired by Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and out of mare Weekend Surprise, who was sired by another Triple Crown winner: Secretariat. He was the top-priced yearling of 1990 at $2.9 million.
Trained by Hall of Famer Neil Drysdale, A.P. Indy raced in 1991 and 1992. As a two-year old, he won the Grade I Hollywood Futurity. At three, he took the Grade I Breeders' Cup Classic, the Belmont Stakes, the Grade I Santa Anita Derby, the Grade II San Rafael Stakes, and the Grade II Peter Pan Stakes, and finished third in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. In 1992, he was voted the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year and the Eclipse Award Champion three year old. In his career, he made 11 starts, winning 8 and showing once, earning a total of $2,979,815. He was entered in the 1992 Kentucky Derby but was scratched the morning of the race.
A.P. Indy was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2000.
Since being retired to stud, he has sired hundreds of winning Thoroughbreds. Through 2011, he sired 140 stakes winners. In 2005 alone, he sired 16 stakes winners. Among his progeny are Sweet Symphony, Suave, 2003 U.S. Horse of the Year Mineshaft, Golden Missile, Aptitude, Delta Princess, and Dreaming of Julia. In 2006, he sired Preakness Stakes winner and Three-Year-Old Champion Bernardini. He is also the sire of history-making 2007 Belmont Stakes winner Rags to Riches, the first filly to win that race in over a century. In 2009, his son Eye of the Leopard won Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate.
A.P. Indy is also well-established as a sire of sires. Among his sons and grandsons are successful and popular sires Mineshaft, Pulpit, Malibu Moon, Bernardini, Congrats, Flatter, Sky Mesa, Jump Start, Majestic Warrior, and Tapit.
As a broodmare sire, mares A.P. Indy has sired have produced 14 more stakes winners. He stood in stud at Lane's End Farm, where he commanded $150,000 for a single live cover breeding stands and nurses in 2010.
A.P. Indy was pensioned on April 8, 2011 upon failing to produce a confirmed live foal in the 25 mares he covered.
Major progeny
Bernardini (Preakness Stakes)
Dreaming of Julia (The Frizette)
Friesan Fire (Louisiana Derby)
Mineshaft (Jockey Club Gold Cup)
Music Note
Pulpit
Rags to Riches (Belmont Stakes)
Symboli Indy (NHK Mile Cup)
Malibu Moon, sire of Kentucky Derby Winner Orb
Majestic Warrior, sire of Kentucky Oaks winner Princess of Sylmar
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