Hollywood Futurity-G1 winner MATTY G will soon be joining the Washington sire ranks. The $443,275 multiple graded stakes-winning son of champion Capote—Star Gem, by Pia Star, will be standing the 2007 breeding season at Nina and Ron Hagen’s El Dorado Farms. In addition to winning the Hollywood Futurity by seven lengths, Matty G won the Ascot Handicap-G3 and placed in two stakes at Santa Anita.
Among the 13-year-old Matty G’s stakes winners are recent winners Stillstillmovin, the-two-yea-old filly who won the $111,812 Ontario Debutante Stakes at Woodbine by 2 1/4 lengths on August 19; and A. J. Melini, who upped his totals to $199,965 when he came home first in the $45,000 Absent Russian Stakes at Calder Race Course on August 27.
Matty G’s dam, $152,941 stakes-placed Star Gem, is a 100 percent producer from seven foals, including $2.3 million earner Star of Cozzene, winner of eight graded stakes, led by the Arlington Million-G1 and Man o’ War Stakes-G1; $359,581 graded stakes winner J. F. Williams; and $222,925 graded stakes-placed King of Swing.
Matty G is one of 56 stakes winners sired by 1986 juvenile champion Capote, one of 115 stakes winners sired by three-time champion Seattle Slew.
Matty G, a 16.1-hand dark bay stallion, is in the process of being re-syndicated. For more information, contact syndicate manager Dana Halvorson. Matty G will stand for $4,500 live foal.
Wow...less than half his stud fee last year (at Darby Dan)!
