Stalwart stallion Dialed In and top 10 second-crop sire Flameaway lead Darby Dan Farm's 2025 roster of 13 stallions with a stud fee of $15,000 each, the farm announced Oct. 31.
The roster also features a trio of newcomers in Blazing Sevens , who will stand for $12,500, along with Gufo and Shirl's Speight , who will both stand their first seasons at stud for $5,000. All stud fees carry a stands and nurses guarantee.
Flameaway, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Scat Daddy, was one of three members of his stallion class to sire a graded stakes winner during his freshman year. Currently ranked sixth on the leading second-crop sires list by progeny earnings, black-type horses this year are 2-year-old filly Ando Soltera, a group 1 winner in her native Chile; 2-year-old filly Dreamaway, winner of the Colleen Stakes at Monmouth Park and third in the Speakeasy Stakes at Santa Anita Park; Bear River, victorious in the Dade Park Dash Stakes at Ellis Park; and, Where's Marilyn, who won the Northern Lights Debutante Stakes at Canterbury Park. Flameaway also sired graded stakes-placed Northern Flame, who finished third in the Rebel Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn Park.
Dialed In, a son of Mineshaft and the leading freshman sire of 2016, has been represented by 11 stakes horses in 2024, including 2-year-old stakes winners Precise Timing, winner of the W.T.B.O.A Lassies Stakes and the Angie C. Stakes—both at Emerald Downs, and Kanojo, winner of the Iowa Sorority Stakes at Prairie Meadows. Dialed In's leading earner this year is Defunded, who has banked $620,000 from starts in the Saudi Cup (G1) and the Dubai World Cup (G1). Defunded, who won the 2023 Hollywood Gold Cup Stakes (G1) and Californian Stakes (G2), has career earnings of more than $2.28 million.
Blazing Sevens is a classic-placed son of Good Magic . He became a grade 1 winner after taking the 2022 Champagne Stakes (G1) and went on at 3 to be runner-up in the 2023 Preakness Stakes (G1). He broke his maiden at Saratoga Race Course at first asking by 6 1/4 lengths for Rodeo Creek Racing and trainer Chad Brown. Blazing Sevens next ran third in the 2022 Hopeful Stakes (G1) and followed with a 3 1/4-length win in the Champagne. Blazing Sevens is out of the winning Warrior's Reward mare Trophy Girl, a half sister to grade 1 winner King David and stakes winner Bertsgoldenmissile. Bred in Kentucky by Tracy Farmer, Blazing Sevens brought $225,000 as a yearling during Fasig-Tipton's 2021 The Saratoga Sale and has earned nearly $1 million.
Gufo, a 7-year-old son of Declaration of War, won grade 1 stakes at 3, 4, and 5. He has been relocated to Darby Dan from Ballycroy Bloodstock in Ontario and will have his first crop arrive in 2025. Gufo won or placed in 12 graded stakes, including wins in back-to-back renewals of the Sword Dancer Stakes (G1T) in 2021-22, and the 2020 Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes (G1T). Gufo set a 1 1/8-mile course record at Delaware Park in the 2020 Kent Stakes (G3T), covering the distance on grass in 1:46.94. He finished in the top three in 18 of 21 lifetime starts and retired with earnings of $2,176,530. Out of the Petionville mare Floy, Gufo is a half brother to multiple graded stakes winner and millionaire Hogy and out of the immediate family of 1986 champion 2-year-old male and prominent sire Capote.
Shirl's Speight is a grade 1 winner by Speightstown out of 2011 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1T) winner Perfect Shirl. A homebred for Charles Fipke and trained by Roger Attfield, the 7-year-old horse captured his biggest win in the 2022 Maker's Mark Mile Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland, and he was among the top milers that year when also second by three-quarters of a length to 2022 champion male turf horse Modern Games in the Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T), also at Keeneland. He also was runner-up in the 2023 Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1T) to multiple grade 1 winner Master of The Seas. Shirl's Speight raced from 3 to 7 and retires sound. He hit the board in 10 of 25 appearances competing against top-level horses and banked $1,497,245.
Darby Dan's full roster is as follows:
| Darby Dan Farm 2025 Stud Fees | ||
| Stallion | 2025 fee | 2024 fee |
| Bee Jersey | $5,000 | $5,000 |
| Blazing Sevens | $12,500 | NEW |
| Country House | $5,000 | $7,500 |
| Dialed In | $15,000 | $15,000 |
| Flameaway | $15,000 | $25,000 |
| Gufo | $5,000 | CA$4,500 |
| Higher Power | $5,000 | $10,000 |
| Leofric | $5,000 | $7,500 |
| Modernist | $5,000 | $10,000 |
| Shirl's Speight | $5,000 | NEW |
| Tale of Ekati | $5,000 | $5,000 |
| Tale of Silence | $2,500 | $2,500 |
| Title Ready | $2,500 | $2,500 |
