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Primed and Ready - Coltimus Prime now at Stud
New stallion Coltimus Prime has arrived at Curraghmore Farm in Ontario where he will be offered for breeding purposes this year.
Although arriving late on the scene he is ready to start receiving mares and to get him going in his new career owner Jayson Horner is offering his stallion’s services at no charge to quali ed mares.
September that year. It was worth the trip for the connections as Coltimus Prime kicked clear in a late drive to win the one and a quarter mile race by 2-1/2 lengths.
In 2018, before the injury that ultimately ended his racing career, Coltimus Prime won three Allowance races and placed in
Speaking with Jayson recently he explained the reason for his Canadian Classic winner’s late start to his stud duties.
“I thought I would be
running him again this year
in the Invitational Cup (Copa Invitacional de Importados) at Gulfstream.” A race he won the previous year after winning the Panama - Clasico Presidente De La Republica in June of that same year. “He sustained a soft tissue injury in training leading up to the race and wanted to give it time to see if he could continue to race.”
The now 8 year-old son
of Milwaukee Brew out of Jayson’s Distorted Humor mare Certainly Special is well travelled beginning his career at age two winning on his second outing at Woodbine before nishing second in
the Display Stakes for trainer Justin Nixon.
New Ontario Stallion Coltimus Prime with owner Jayson Horner on February 24, two days after the horse arrived at Curraghmore Farm in Waterdown, Ontario
three Graded Stakes in Panama.
Coltimus Prime raced for Cabernet Racing Stables, a partnership with Jayson Horner and Michael Weingarten,
and raced under a leasing agreement with Rene Douglas while in Panama.
By December the decision was made to retire him from racing and give him a chance to come back to Canada to stand at stud in Ontario.
Jayson’s current breeding mares are the dam of Coltimus Prime, Certainly Special along with his stakes winning half sister Crysta’s Court, who
was the rst stakes winner for Horner and for the now proli c stallion Silent Name (JPN). Therefore he has purchased a few mares to breed to Coltimus Prime. The now eight year-old stallion is a grandson of Wild Again and Distorted Humor with the direct female line of Ballade as well as the family
of Glorious Song, producer
of champion Singspiel and leading sire Rahy.
His three year old campaign
began with a run in the G2 Tampa Bay Derby and the G1 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland before returning to Woodbine to nish 2nd and win allowance races in early Spring. He nished ninth in the 2014 Queen’s Plate and then romped home, in record time to win the second jewel of Canada’s Triple Crown, the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie Race Track.
A win in the G3 Ontario Derby at Woodbine followed his Classic win before stepping up to run in the G2 Hagyard Fayette Stakes at Keeneland nishing out his three year old year.
A move to Presidente Remon Hipodromo in Panama City, Panama in 2017 allowed the then six year to return to his winning ways thus prompting the owners to accept the challenge to compete in the Invitational Cup Stakes for horses imported by a representative country of the Caribbean Riding Confederation (Confederacion Hipica del Caribe) at Gulfstream Park in
Jayson’s main reason for offering Coltimus Prime for no stud fee is to support the Ontario breeding industry and encourage breeders to foal in Ontario and support the Ontario bred program.
Jayson mentioned that he has had a lot of support for his initiative and some interest to breed to Coltimus Prime has already been generated. “And if the foal is a registered Ontario bred the mare will receive a lifetime, non-transferable breeding right.” Explained Jayson who is going to see how his offer plays out this year.
Jayson Horner began coming to the races with his father Russell, who had owned horses back in the day, “I was always a fan.” said Jayson who mentioned that his father passed away when he was 14. He went on to tell the happenstance story of how he ventured back into horse racing more than a decade
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