G2-Winning Millionaire and G2 Sire Mission Impazible Retired to Old Friends in KY
Sequel Stallions New York has announced that multiple Grade 2-winning millionaire and former leading northeastern first-crop, second-crop, third-crop, fourth-crop, and fifth-crop sire MISSION IMPAZIBLE ($1,284,949) has been retired to Old Friends Equine in Georgetown, Kentucky. The striking gray/roan won or placed in nine graded stakes (three Grade 1, three Grade 2, three Grade 3) from his 2-year-old through his 5-year-old seasons. Many of his offspring were as rugged as he was, earning almost $15 million to date.
Bred by Summer Wind Farm and raced by Twin Creeks Racing Stable, which had purchased the son of Unbridled’s Song – La Paz, by Hold Your Peace, for $200,000 at Keeneland’s 2008 September yearling sale, Mission Impazible won his debut in a 4 1/2-furlong Keeneland April “baby” race. Two weeks later, he placed third among nine in Churchill Downs’ graded Kentucky Juvenile Stakes at five furlongs. He was better at 3 and still better at 4, showing his best form at 1 1/8 miles. In two of Mission Impazible’s three runner-up efforts in Grade 1 events – the Donn and Stephen Foster Handicaps – he missed victory by a nose and a neck.
Retired to stud at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson, Mission Impazible quickly emerged onto the breeding scene when his first-crop son, SILVER MISSION, won Belmont’s historic Tremont Stakes by more than six lengths in a time that equaled Hall of Fame member Buckpasser’s clocking. From his second crop came speedy daughter PURE SILVER, 2-year-old winner of Saratoga’s Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes by 9 1/2 lengths under top weight. Mission Impazible’s next two crops also produced North American black-type stakes winners, including hard-hitting filly/mare ESPRESSO SHOT ($516,625), who won stakes at 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Mission Impazible made his mark as both an accomplished racehorse and well-respected sire. We wish him the best during his retirement.
