Stallion Storm Cat retired
Top American stallion Storm Cat has been retired due to infertility at the age 25.
The Storm Bird horse has sired such horses as six-times Group One winner Giant’s Causeway, Hennessy, Tale Of The Cat and Tabasco Cat and stood for a $500,000 (€324,000) fee from 2002 until this year.
Ric Waldman, stallion operations manager for Overbrook Farm in Lexington, said: “His statistics for (impregnating) mares last year were erratic but he did finish the season very strong.
“This year he wasn’t (impregnating) mares and his semen quality was dropping off as well. His health is good for a 25-year-old horse,” he told www.thoroughbredtimes.com.
Storm Cat’s retirement comes just two days after that of legendary European sire Sadler’s Wells, who bowed out on Monday.
