Sergei Prokofiev, Europe’s Champion First-Season Sire, To Stand In Ontario

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'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' and Europe's Champion First-Season Sire of 2024 Sergei Prokofiev (Scat Daddy–Orchard Beach, by Tapit) will return home to Ontario to stand at stud at Ballycroy Bloodstock, David Anderson of Anderson Farm announced Tuesday. The news was first reported by Canadian Thoroughbred.

Originally bred in Ontario by Anderson, the 9-year-old son of Scat Daddy was a $1,100,000 Keeneland September grad in 2017 to Coolmore's M.V. Magnier and he carried the blue and orange silks to victory at second asking to earn his 'Rising Star' status at Navan in 2018. As a juvenile, he won the G3 Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes and placed in the G2 Coventry Stakes but also made a pair of trips to America, contesting both the GI Keeneland Phoenix Stakes (fifth) and the then-listed Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (eighth). After winning another stakes as a 3-year-old, he finished his racing career with a record of 14-4-1-1.

He retired to stud at Whitsbury Manor Stud in England and had 53 winners from his first two crops led by G1SW Arizona Blaze. He was named the Champion First-Season Sire for 2024 in Europe.

Sergei Prokofiev will stand his first season in Ontario for $10,000 (CDN).

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