I’ll Have Another will join the stallion roster at Japan’s Big Red Farm from 2013.
Owner Paul Reddam said a deal had been reached with Shigeyuki Okada’s stud on the island of Hokkaido but the terms of the deal were confidential.
The winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, I’ll Have Another missed the chance to become the first triple crown winner since Affirmed in 1978 when he was withdrawn from the final leg, the Belmont Stakes, on race eve due to injury.
The Daily Racing Form reported Reddam had held conversations with stud owners in the United States and abroad over the past few weeks and said the Japan offer was far superior.
“It was in the range we were looking for,” Reddam said.
“Kentucky wasn’t anywhere close to where the Japanese were.
Any rational person would have gone to the Big Red (offer) versus the Kentucky, even though we wont get to breed to the horse because he will be so far away.
“It’s kind of sad. I would have liked to have had a lot of I’ll Have Anothers.”
The colt is tentatively scheduled to leave for Japan in August, after completing quarantine requirements, Reddam said.
Reddam paid $35,000 for I’ll Have Another as a two-year-old in training.
I’ll Have Another follows Sunday Silence and Empire Maker as outstanding American three-year-olds to stand at stud in Japan.
Sunday Silence, also the winner of the Derby and the Preakness, became a breed shaper for the Japanese industry.
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