The Arden Homestead Stable of Delhi, New York and Crystal Springs Farm of Millersburg, Ohio have announced that Flex The Muscle will stand 2016 stallion duty at Crystal Springs Farm in Millersburg.

A foal of 2007 with lifetime earnings of $937,460 and a winning record of 1:52.4f, Flex The Muscle was foaled and raised at Silver Linden Farms in Woodburn, Indiana and sold at the 2008 Standardbred Sales Company Yearling Sale for $140,000.

Sired by Muscles Yankee and from the mare Alix Hall (by Conway Hall), Flex The Muscle chalked up 32 wins and hit the tote board in 46 per cent of his 176 starts. In addition, he won two of his four lifetime starts racing under saddle with a record of 1:59.2m and won $19,750 in addition to his $937,460 purse earnings.

During his racing career, Flex The Muscle showed both stakes speed and raceway durability, with a combined 13 stakes wins at ages two and three, and 19 wins as an aged trotter.

At age three, he won the Dexter Cup, the New Jersey Sire Stakes Final, the Charles Smith Memorial, the Galt Memorial and the Old Oaken Buckette, in which he set a new track record at the time for three-year-old trotters at Delaware, Ohio.

Flex The Muscle stands for a fee of $2,000 with multiple breeding discounts with shipped semen available.

Inquiries should be made to Ray Yoder at Crystal Springs Farm, 4351 State Rte 557, Millersburg, OH 44654 or by telephone: Tel# 330-231-2776, Fax# 330-893-1914 or to Peter Gerry at 609-865-0137.

(Arden Homestead Stable / Crystal Springs Farm)