Dialed In retired to stud at John Phillips’ Darby Dan Farm
Nicholas P. Zito trained 4-year-old colt, Dialed In, will no longer be racing, as he is ready for his stud career which will undergo in 2013 when the Breeding season starts at John Phillips' Darby Dan Farm near Lexington.
Stud fee is yet to be decided, but as far as his racing was concerned, there were high hopes pinned on his as he emphatically broke his maiden at Churchill Downs and at first asking, and in his first ever graded stakes start in only his second career start, the talented son of Mineshaft landed the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes on 30 January, 2011 at Gulfstream Park.
"This horse will be as bittersweet of a story for me as I'll ever have," said trainer Nick Zito. "He showed how brilliantly gifted he was breaking his maiden at Churchill first time out, and then winning the Holy Bull (Stakes, gr. III) like he did in his second start, before, of course, winning the Florida Derby. I know the phrase gets overused in this game, but Dialed In was truly one of the best—if not the best—I ever trained. He was up there with Bellamy Road, Commentator, War Pass, all of them."
Robert V. LaPenta’s Whitehorse Stable bought Dialed In at the 2009 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale for $475,000. He was bred in Kentucky by W.S. Farish, Madeleine Pickens, and Skara Glen Stables, and he was trained by Nick Zito throughout his career.
Dialed In is out of the multiple stakes winning Storm Cat mare Miss Doolittle. The 4-year-old concluded his racing career this year in March in an allowance optional claimer at Gulfstream Park over a mile.
He finished fourth to winner Pants on Fire, who covered the 1 mile distance in 1 minute and 35.94 seconds.
Dialed In as a sophomore was on the Triple Crown trail, and he was in conversation for winning the Kentucky Derby when he downed a major prep race, the Grade 1 Florida Derby, but went on to finish 8th in the Kentucky Derby and fourth in the Preakness Stakes.
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