It has been announced that Sweden Cup champion and European season’s leader Volstead 1:51.3f ($773,903) will be standing his inaugural season at stud in 2020.
Volstead will be standing in Ohio at Dublin Valley Farms for a fee of $4,500.
An imposing individual, the impressive son of Cantab Hall stands 16.2 hands at the shoulder. Bred in the USA, Volstead is a European Group 1 winning stallion that has defeated Elitloppet winners Ringostarr Treb and Magic Tonight on multiple occasions.
Volstead, who is a winner of 23 races and US$773,903, is from the Yankee Glide mare Madame Volo and hails from a contemporary family packed with world champions, fast-record stakes winners and solid money earners.
Volstead was very competitive at the highest levels of European trotting sport. From ages four through seven, he averaged well over $170,000 per season during his four influential years, as he won and/or placed in Group 1 and Group 2 events annually.
His longtime trainer, Stefan Melander, was quick to praise his former pupil, “The reason I bought Volstead as a yearling was his great conformation and excellent pedigree.
“Volstead was very fast right from the beginning when we started training him and was a very, very strong horse. Volstead could race on the outside the whole race if it was a distance race or a mile race...it didn’t matter and he could still win when racing outside the entire race.”
The Hambletonian winning trainer/driver continued by expressing his intentions to support the new stallion, “I love Volstead very much and have retained breedings to breed my own mares in the USA, as I can see Volstead within the next five years becoming highly successful and one of the top trotting stallions in the world.”
It is also important to note that his sire, Cantab Hall, is now a proven sire of sires, including Father Patrick, Uncle Peter, My MVP and Explosive Matter. Volstead has already stimulated significant interest in the Buckeye State, as well as from commercial breeders throughout the east coast and Midwest.
For more information about Volstead, please contact Joseph Yoder at 330-473-5863 or via email at [email protected].
Dublin Valley is located at 3968 Township Road 606, Fredericksburg, Ohio 44627.
Multiple mare, loyalty and proven producer discounts are available. Check out all of Dublin Valley’s stallions at dublinvalleyfarms.com.
(With files from Dublin Valley Farms)