Sequel Stallions New York has announced that multiple grade 2-winning millionaire and former leading northeastern first-crop, second-crop, third-crop, fourth-crop, and fifth-crop sire Mission Impazible ($1,284,949) has been retired to Old Friends Equine in Georgetown, Ky.
The striking gray/roan won or placed in nine graded stakes (three grade1, three grade 2, three grade 3) from his 2-year-old through his 5-year-old seasons. Many of his offspring were as rugged as he was, earning a total of almost $15 million to date.
Bred by Summer Wind Farm and raced by Twin Creeks Racing Stable, which had purchased the son of Unbridled's Song-La Paz, by Hold Your Peace for $200,000 at Keeneland's 2008 September Yearling Sale, Mission Impazible won his debut in a 4 1/2-furlong Keeneland
April "baby" race. Two weeks later, he placed third among nine in Churchill Downs' graded Kentucky Juvenile Stakes at five furlongs. He was better at 3 and still better at 4, showing his best form at 1 1/8 miles. In two of Mission Impazible's three runner-up efforts in grade 1 events, the Donn and Stephen Foster Handicaps, he missed victory by a nose and a neck.
Retired to stud at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson, Mission Impazible quickly emerged onto the breeding scene when his first-crop son, Silver Mission, won Belmont's historic Tremont Stakes by more than six lengths in a time that equaled Hall of Famer Buckpasser's clocking. From his second crop came speedy daughter Pure Silver, 2-year-old winner of Saratoga's Adirondack Stakes (G2) by 9 1/2 lengths under top weight.
Mission Impazible's next two crops also produced North American black-type stakes winners, including hard-hitting filly/mare Espresso Shot ($516,625), who won stakes at 2, 3, 4 and 5.
