Can The Man joins sire at Spendthrift Farm
BY BLOODSTOCK WORLD STAFF
GRADE 3 winner Can The Man has been retired from racing and will stand alongside his sire Into Mischief at Spendthrift Farm this season.
The four-year-old will be included in the stud's 'Share the Upside' programme for a fee of $5,000, rewarding early supporters with a lifetime breeding right.
Trained by Bob Baffert, Can The Man won three of his six starts including the Grade 3 Affirmed Stakes, a 1m½f contest on dirt. A winner on debut at two, he also finished just a length third in the Grade 1 Futurity Stakes, with subsequent dual Classic hero California Chrome in sixth.
Bred by Malibu Farm, Can The Man topped the Barretts May Two-Year-Old Sale when selling to Baffert for $320,000.
One of seven winners from nine runners for his dam Smolensk, a daughter of Danzig, he is closely related to dual Oaks winner Rags To Riches, Peeping Fawn and Thewayyouare, while further back it is also the family of Eclipse heroine Close Hatches, El Gran Senor and Redoute's Choice.
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