Trot Insider has learned that multiple Ontario Sires Stakes winner Beaumond Hanover has been sold in advance of his four-year-old campaign.

The son of Sportswriter-Bittersweet Terror amassed a solid 6-6-1 summary as a sophomore for owner and trainer Jack Darling after an abbreviated freshman season with four wins and five starts. A $45,000 yearling, Beaumond Hanover banked $432,352 in his 20 lifetime starts while taking a mark of 1:49.1 in OSS action at Woodbine Mohawk Park in July.

Darling admitted that it will hard to see a horse of that caliber leave his stable but the reality of racing a four-year-old with his credentials surely equates to a fair amount of travel on the Grand Circuit.

"The thing with a horse like him: to make that kind of money, you've got to travel, you've got to race him in some stakes. And I just don't want to do that myself anymore. I would have had to send him to a trainer down there.

"That's how I make my living. If you can buy them, make some money with them, and then sell them for a good profit at the end of it, that's as good as it gets."

Beaumond Hanover was sold for an undisclosed amount to Pollack Racing LLC of Venetia, Penn. and trainer Jeff Cullipher. The sale leaves Darling with a stable of 10 horses -- five two-year-olds and five three-year-olds, with hopes that another promising young horse like O'Brien Award finalist Bulldog Hanover can take over the role of stable star.

"He is a special type of horse and you wouldn't mind keeping a horse like [Beaumond Hanover] around, but the right price came along."