Funtastic To Stand at Three Chimneys

[Wandering Eyes]

Funtastic (More Than Ready–Quiet Dance, by Quiet American), who became his sire’s first American Grade I-winning turf horse when wiring the field in this year’s GI United Nations S. at Monmouth Park, will enter stud at Three Chimneys for the 2019 breeding season. He will stand for a fee of $7,500 LFSN.

One of 190 worldwide stakes winners and one of 23 top-level winners for his wildly successful dual-hemisphere stallion, Funtastic raced in the colors of Three Chimneys, winning four of his 11 trips to the post while earning $410,711.

Funtastic is a son of SW & GSP Quiet Dance, the dam of Horse of the Year Saint Liam (Saint Ballado) and GSW Quiet Giant (Giant’s Causeway), whose son Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}) was named 2017 Horse of the Year following a sensational all-the-way victory in the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar last November. The further female family includes More Than Ready’s Grade I winner Buster’s Ready and GI/G1 winners Rolling Fog (Posse) and Minstrella (The Minstrel).

“Ned Evans was an artist at breeding Grade I winners and developing female families,” said Chris Baker, Three Chimneys’ chief operating officer and former farm manager at Evans’s Virginia-based Spring Hill Farm. “This family was his masterpiece. Funtastic will get our full support as Three Chimneys looks to extend this legacy through his offspring. We encourage breeders to come see him.”

Board Member Doug Cauthen added, “Funtastic is bred very similarly to Saint Liam (by Saint Ballado by Halo), being by More Than Ready (by Southern Halo, by Halo). When you look at him physically, he looks more like a sprinter/miler than a horse that can get a classic distance. When a breeder looks at the complete picture before them, I believe they will see good value in a horse like him at $7,500.”

 

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