GRADE 1 WINNER MIZZEN MAST SIRES FIRST WINNER
Grade I winner Mizzen Mast came through with his initial winner
when his son, Tropical Light, won at first asking June 24 at
Fukushima in Japan.
Bred in Kentucky by James M. Herbener Jr., Tropical Light won at
five furlongs in :59.70 for Hiroyoshi Usuda. A half-brother to
Japanese millionaire Ekolu Place, he is out of the stakes-placed
Secreto mare Tropico Cielo.
Mizzen Mast (Cozzene--Kinema, by Graustark) initially raced for
Khalid Abdullah in France, where he won the Gr.3 Prix de Guiche and
was second in the Gr.1 Grand Prix de Paris. He racked up three more
stakes scores including the Gr.1 Malibu St in the US where he
stands for $15,000 at Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms near
Lexington.
Date:
26 June 2006