Multiple graded-stakes winner Fulsome is retired to stud

Multiple Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-placed Fulsome, a millionaire son of Into Mischief from a deep Juddmonte female family, has been retired and will stand the 2024 breeding season at Gary Broad’s Walmac Farm in Lexington, Ky., in partnership with Matt Bowling of Bowling Bloodstock, the farm announced Monday.

A stud fee will be announced later.

A Juddmonte Farms homebred trained by Brad Cox, Fulsome broke his maiden in his first start at 3 in January 2021 and proceeded to win three of his next four outings, and five overall as a sophomore, including the Smarty Jones (G3) at Parx Racing and the Matt Winn (G3) at Churchill Downs.

Fulsome secured the most lucrative victory of his career in the $400,000 Oaklawn Mile (G3) as a 4-year-old in 2022. In that year’s West Virginia Governor’s (G3) at Mountaineer, Fulsome won as the prohibitive favorite in a field of eight. He brought the curtain down on his 2022 campaign with a runner-up effort to subsequent Grade 1 winner West Will Power in the Fayette (G2) at Keeneland and then finished third to Proxy and West Will Power in the Clark (G1) at Churchill Downs.

Fulsome retired with a record of 17: 8-2-2 with earnings of $1,244,553.

By the four-time reigning champion sire Into Mischief, Fulsome is out of the winning Distorted Humor mare Flourish. He is a half-brother to graded stakes-placed Mr Darcy and a full brother to multiple stakes-placed Citrus Burst.

He descends from a prolific Juddmonte family that includes Grade 1 winners Sightseek, Tates Creek, Expert Eye and Country Grammer.