Acclamation to start his stallion career at Old English Rancho in 2013
Out from racing since July due to a strained ligament in a foreleg, the connections have decided that their champion older male of 2011, Acclamation, will begin his stallion career in 2013 at Old English Rancho in Sanger, Calif.
The Donald Warren trained 6-year-old horse by Unusual Heat will stand for a fee of $20,000.
Acclamation, who has put together a colossal winning streak of seven graded stakes victories, with five grade 1 victories will resume his racing career in the second half of the year, but it all depends on how he recovers from his ligament injury.
“We need to evaluate the injury and see how it heals,” Johnston said. “There is a possibility we can do it. The injury has to be healed 100 percent. The vets say in four or five months it should be 100 percent. If we plan on bringing him back, we’d start jogging every day and breeding him when we want to.”
Winning all of his last seven starts, Acclamation is currently 11 of 30 starts and has gone on to amass $1,958,048 in earnings.
His seven race win streak started on 14 May, 2011, when he bagged the Grade 2 Jim Murray Handicap after 4 successive defeats, and then went on to defend his title in the Grade 1 Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap in June at Betfair Hollywood Park.
At the Del Mar meet last summer, Acclamation was able to win both his races he participated in, bagging the Grade 1 Eddie Read Handicap and then the Grade 1 Pacific Classic.
The Cal-bred didn’t stop there, as he capped off an award winning year with victory in the Grade 2 Clement L. Hirsch Turf Championship at Santa Anita.
Acclamation started the new season where he left off in the last, and won the Grade 1 Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap for the third successive year. He went on to make it seven in a row, when he defended his title in another race that he won in 2011, the Grade 1 Eddie Read Handicap at Del Mar.
“He’s with me right now,” Warren said. “I’ve been putting a blister on the ligament that has been a problem. When I’m done with that, I’ll send him to the farm.”
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