:: Airdrie Stud ::

By Benchmark

Arguably Alydar's most succesfull son to stand at stud, Benchmark is already the sire of no less than 36 stakes horses and 21 stakes winners to date, including multiple Grade 1 stakes winner Brother Derek, Grade 1 winner and 2007 G1 Breeders' Cup Sprint runner-up Idiot Proof and G1 Santa Anita Oaks winner Silent Sighs. Benchmark consistently ranks at the top of California's leading sires in stakes horses and earnings with Grade 1 winners in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

2010 STUD FEE :
$8,500 - payable Stand and Nurse
OR
$7,650 - (10% discount)if pd by 11/1/2010

FAST FACTS:

TWO-YEAR-OLD BRILLIANCE
- Grade 1 Hollywood Futurity
- Grade 2 Norfolk Stakes
THREE-YEAR-OLD DOMINANCE
- Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby
- Grade 2 San Rafael
- Grade 2 Santa Catalina
8 Beyer Speed Figures over 100.

John Brocklebank said of Brother Derek in 2006:

"Brother Derek was everything you dream about in a horse. The way he looked, the way he moved, he just radiated with class. With certain horses, you can just tell, they have an air about them. We've trained some very good horses, and Brother Derek, well, he just toyed with the others."