Haryana based Sohna Stud Farm has acquired Grade II winner Dean`s Kitten to stand as stallion during the on-going breeding operations. Sohna Stud Farm stood the high profile Noverre (Rahy) but unfortunately the horse died of colic during last year`s breeding operations after covering for just three years in India. The Sohna Stud Farm immediately acquired Mull of Kintyre who was at the Pune based Capricorn Stud Farm to complete its breeding operations for the year.

Six year old Dean`s Kitten was a stakes winner in all the three years he raced but was retired from racing just as he was to start his racing as a five year old due to injury. Dean`s Kitten was bred and raced by Ken and Sarah Ramsey and raced last in the 2011 Emirates Airline Breeders` Cup Turf (gr. IT), finishing ninth. His first stakes win was in 2009 in the Vision Stakes on grass at Belmont Part.

Dean`s Kitten

Dean`s Kitten is son of the prolific Kitten`s Joy, the Ramseys` Eclipse Award-winning turf star out of Ide mare Summer Theatre. He won the Lane`s End Stakes (gr. II) over Polytrack at Turfway Park at three, and claimed the Dallas Turf Cup Stakes at Lone Star Park at four. Dean`s Kitten finished 14th in the Kentucky Derby. Two of his best performances came against 2011 champion male turf runner Cape Blanco . Dean`s Kitten was beaten a nose by Cape Blanco in last year`s Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Stakes (gr. IT). In the Arlington Million Stakes (gr. IT) last summer, Dean`s Kitten finished third behind Cape Blanco and three-time champion Gio Ponti .

Sohna Stud Farm has had a glorious success in the last decade through progeny of pregnant mares mostly brought from Goff`s breeding sale. Sultan Singh, the promoter of Sohna Stud Farm, bought big from Goff`s and has had remarkable success through these purchases which put his stud farm in the elite league. Jacqueline (King Charlemagne) who won four Indian classics in a row including the Indian Derby, Becket (Hawk Wing), winner of the Gr 1 Indian Turf Invitation Cup, Velvet Rope (Turtle Island), winner of Gr 1 Indian Derby, Versaki, winner of Gr 1 Poonawalla Breeders` Multi-Million and Gr 1 Nanoli Stud Pune Derby were also through pregnant mares purchased from Ireland. Noverre was expected to have a big say in Indian racing but he had only a short stint. From his first crop, he had two Group I winners through Hachiko, winner of Gr 1 Poonawalla Multi-Million and Commander, winner of Group 1 Nanoli Stud Pune Derby.

Dean`s Kitten has already arrived in India and is at the quarantine yard and will move to the stud farm shortly to start his career in the stud farm in the month of April.