Kafwain purchased by Tommy Town. October 31st, 2008
Kafwain purchased by Tommy Town. California-based Tommy Town Thoroughbreds has purchased Kafwain privately from Darley Stud and will move the stallion from Darley to Alfred Nuckols Jr.’s Hurstland Farm in Midway, Ky.
Nuckols announced the sale Thursday and said the 8-year-old Cherokee Run horse will stand for $6,500 in 2009.
Kafwain is the sire of two crops to race. Massive Drama, a Grade 3 winner who also is Grade 1-placed, is his leading runner so far. He also has gotten stakes winners Yonegwa, Kadira, Rasierra, and Hartfelt among his nine stakes performers. His progeny earnings stand at more than $2.2 million.
Kafwain is out of the stakes winner Swazi’s Moment, by Moment of Hope.
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Gainesway boosts Tapit’s fee to $35K.
Tapit, whose first crop included the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner, Stardom Bound, will get a hefty fee raise from $12,500 to $35,000 for 2009.
Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky., noted Stardom Bound’s three Grade 1 wins this year as part of the decision to boost her sire’s fee. Tapit, a 7-year-old Pulpit horse, also has sired Laragh, a stakes winner who was third in this year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, and the Grade 3-placed Retap in his initial crop.
Tapit is the only Gainesway sire whose fee will increase next year. The farm lowered prices on all other stallions except Birdstone, who remains at $10,000.
Other Gainesway stallions and their 2009 fees are Afleet Alex, $25,000; Corinthian, $30,000; Cuvee, $6,500; Mr. Greeley, $100,000; Orientate, $17,500; Smoke Glacken, $17,500; Strategic Mission, $4,000; and Whywhywhy, $7,500.