Cowboy Cal retired to Pin Oak Stud

Multiple Grade 2-winning millionaire

COWBOY

CAL (Giant's Causeway) has been retired to Josephine Abercrombie's Pin Oak

Stud and will stand the 2010 season for a fee of $7,500.

By 2009 leading sire Giant's Causeway, the four-year-old Robert and Janice

McNair homebred won five graded stakes and earned $1,037,810 from a 19-7-5-2

line. A three-time Grade 1 runner-up, Cowboy Cal concluded his racing career

with a third in the Citation H. (G1).

Trained by Todd Pletcher, the dark bay colt captured the Bryan Station (G3)

and Tropical Park Derby (G3) in 2008 and rounded out his sophomore campaign with

a close second in the Hollywood Derby (G1). He opened this year with victories

in the San Pasqual H. (G2) and Strub S. (G2), and went on to capture the Oak

Tree Mile (G2) in October, stopping the teletimer in 1:33.

"A genuine miler that carried his speed over a distance," Pletcher said. "He

gave his best effort in every race, but the Oak Tree Mile in 1:33 was pretty

special."

Cowboy Cal is out of the Seeking the Gold mare Texas Tammy, a half-sister to

multiple Grade 1 winner and $4.5 million earner Behrens (Pleasant Colony). His

second dam is multiple Grade 2 winner and Grade 1 runner-up Hot Novel (Mari's

Book), a half-sister to the granddam of two-time Whitney H. (G1) winner

Commentator (Distorted Humor).

"He's a grand-looking horse," Abercrombie said. "We're very excited to have a

top son of Giant's Causeway join our roster, and we're so pleased to be partners

again with Janice and Robert McNair."