Peace and Justice , a brilliant miler by War Front and sire of multiple stakes winners, will stand the 2025 breeding season in New York at Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions, the farms announced Dec. 3.
Peace and Justice had four performances earning triple-digit Equibase Speed Figures. He dominated a Santa Anita Park allowance race on the turf by 5 1/4 lengths, and overcame a troubled start to win another one-mile contest going gate-to-wire in a swift 1:32.36, a final time just three-fifths of a second off the turf course record at the time set by two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan in 2012. He defeated multiple graded stakes winners, including grade 1 winner Drill.
Out of the winning Smart Strike mare Strike the Sky, Peace and Justice is a half brother to grade 2 winner Hudson Steele (Johannesburg) and to stakes-placed winner Lauren Byrd, the dam of Blue Grass Stakes (G1) runner-up and winner My Man Sam and group 3 winner Hakam. He is bred on the same proven grade 1 cross as Peace and War, winner of the Alcibiades Stakes (G1) and placed in the Cotillion Stakes (G1).
Peace and Justice has a high strike rate, with nearly 70% winners from starters lifetime. Among his progeny's starts this year, they've produced 41% finishes and 14% wins. His progeny earn a cumulative $71,854 per starter.
His top runners include the 4-year-old filly Dontlookbackatall, winner of the Caress Stakes (G3T) at Saratoga Race Course and two other black-type stakes. He also sired Like a Saltshaker, winner of the Fitz Dixon Jr. Memorial Stakes, as well as Capo, winner of the Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes.
"We are very excited to bring a proven stallion like Peace and Justice with his credentials and numbers to New York," said Steven W. Young. "With the advent of a third racing surface, combined with the purse parity coming to the state, Peace and Justice should do very well."
Peace and Justice will stand for an advertised fee of $7,500 with a stands and nurses guarantee.
