World champion Ecurie D DK has been retired from racing and will stand stud commencing with the 2023 breeding season.
Owners Marko Kreivi Stables Inc., Suleyman Yuksel Stables Inc. and Ake Svanstedt Inc. announced on Tuesday (Dec. 6) that Ecurie D DK, 6, 1:49.1, ($1,655,480) will stand at Southwind Farms in New Jersey.
Ecurie D began his racing career in Europe at age three by winning his first 11 starts, which included establishing a new world record for three-year-old trotters in a rated time of 1,12.2 over 1,640 metres and by winning the Grade 1 European Derby, which was won the previous year by Face Time Bourbon.
At ages four and five, Ecurie D won numerous high dollar European graded stakes before his owners were strongly encouraged to bring him to the United States late in his five-year-old season in 2021 in order to show off his incredible talent. Indeed Ecurie D did just that by winning his only two starts in the States that year defeating the likes of Back Of The Neck, Ready For Moni, Forbidden Trade and Its Academic in both the $136,000 Allerage Farms Open Trot at The Red Mile and in the $650,000 Breeders Crown Open Trot at The Meadowlands.
In his final season racing exclusively in North America in 2022 at age six, Ecurie D opened his season in awesome fashion by trotting a world record-equalling 1:49.1 in the $170,450 Arthur Cutler Memorial at The Meadowlands. He finished out a stellar season by amassing $872,111 in earnings by winning for the second straight year the $810,000 Breeders Crown Open Trot along with the $330,000 TVG Open Trot, both in dominant wire-to-wire fashion.
In 31 lifetime starts, Ecurie D won 20 times despite having to face the very best trotters in the world.
"Blessed with superb size, striking conformation, a beautiful head and a powerful gait, Ecurie D is a product of the combination of the finest American and French blood the trotting sport has to offer," said his owners in a press release.
His sire, Infinitif, is a son of Pine Chip. Infinitif's mother, Island Dream, is also the mother of Clarabelle, and her immediate family has produced extreme two-year-old speed in her noted son Cuatro de Julio, 2, 1:51.3 ($879,061) and in Una Madonna, 2, 1:55.1f ($120,678). Clarabelle’s last two yearlings sold at Lexington for $200,000 and $360,000, respectively.
Eucurie D’s mother, Too Soon, hails from the immediate families of several of France’s greatest trottings stallions which include Dream With Me (€1,327,831), Daquet Rapide (€1,396,695), Arnaquer (€1,034,583), Oyannax (€1,877,690) and Indy de Vie (€500,666), who is the sire of Ready Cash.
Ecurie D will now take his place alongside three of the greatest trotting sires in the sport -- Walner, Muscle Hill and Tactical Landing -- at Southwind Farms, New Jersey for an introductory service fee of $10,000 USD. He is currently being syndicated both in North America and in Europe where frozen semen will be available for European shareholders.
For more information on bookings or breedings, contact Mike Klau or Laura Young at Southwind Farms: 609-737-9067 or 917-930-2709 or [email protected]. For more information on the syndication and purchase of shares, contact R. Kevin Greenfield, Ecurie D Syndicate Manager, at 419-346-0609 or [email protected].
(With files from Southwind Farms)