Musket Man Retired

Grade 2-winning millionaire MUSKET MAN (Yonaguska) has been retired and will stand at Vinery near Summerfield, Florida, this year for a $2,500 live foal fee.

A four-time stakes winner, Musket Man also placed eight black-type races, including five Grade 1 events, and earned $1,236,820 from a 16-6-3-5 line.  

"Musket Man is an exciting addition to the Vinery Florida roster," Stallion Director Declan Doyle said. "As a Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed millionaire, he dodged no one at the racetrack while demonstrating the qualities and class breeders crave in a stallion. Local breeders will no doubt remember his stirring win in the Tampa Bay Derby (G3)."

Owned by Eric Fein and Vic Carlson and trained by Derek Ryan, Musket Man became a top contender for the 2009 Kentucky Derby (G1) with victories in the Illinois Derby (G2), Tampa Bay Derby and Pasco S. He was third in both the Derby and Preakness (G1), and recorded a pair of runner-up efforts in the Metropolitan H. (G1) and Carter H. (G1) as a four-year-old. He also captured the Super S. and finished third in the Whitney H. (G1) last season, and concluded his racing career with an eighth in the November 27 Cigar Mile H. (G1) at Aqueduct.