Quiet American pensioned

Darley has announced that Grade 1 winner and perennial leading sire Quiet

American has been pensioned from stud duty and will retire at Sheikh Mohammed's

Jonabell Farm near Lexington, Kentucky.

A 27-year-old son of Fappiano, Quiet American was purchased as a yearling for

$300,000 at the 1987 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Yearling Sale by Sheikh Maktoum al

Maktoum, brother of Sheikh Mohammed.

Lightly raced at two and three, Quiet American excelled as a four-year-old,

winning such races as the Grade 1 NYRA Mile, before entering stud at

Gainsborough Farm in 1992 where he stood until 2006. Quiet American, along

with Elusive Quality, moved to Jonabell Farm at the beginning of 2007 when

Darley consolidated its stallion operation at Jonabell.

Charlie Boden, Darley's head of sales in America, reflected on Quiet

American's career.

"His retirement marks the end of an era," Boden said. "He has been a special

horse from the beginning and has done it all, siring champions and Derby winners

and has emerged as one of the most sought after broodmare sires of his

generation."

As a stallion, Quiet American saw success early, siring 16 percent stakes

winners to foals in his first three crops. The standout from his first crop was

Hidden Lake, winner of the Grade 1 Hempstead, Grade 1 Go For Wand and Grade 1

Beldame, who was then voted champion older mare of 1997.

Champion and Kentucky Derby winner Real Quiet, from his third crop, remains

the closest thing to a Triple Crown winner in the past 35 years when missing out

by just a nose in the Belmont Stakes, third leg of Thoroughbred racing's elusive

prize.

His daughter Switch became a multiple Grade 1 winner and placed in the

Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint three years running.  An earner of more

than $1.4 million, Switch sold at the recent Fasig-Tipton November Select Mixed

Sale for $4.3 million.

Quiet American's cumulative totals as a sire reflect the earners of more than

$57 million, 55 stakes winners (111 total stakes horses) and 15 percent stakes

horses from starters.

His influence as a progenitor is also very apparent through his

stakes-producing daughters. These include Cara Rafaela, winner of the Grade 1

Hollywood Starlet and the dam of champion and classic winner Bernardini, now a

leading sire in his own right. Horse of the Year Saint Liam is another example

of his continuing impact as a broodmare sire.

"He is as healthy as a 27-year-old can be and is an easy keeper who has

earned his time off and certainly will be in good company with the likes of

Cherokee Run and Holy Bull," Boden said.

Quiet American was produced by the winning Dr. Fager mare Demure. Because his

sire Fappiano was himself out of a Dr. Fager mare, Quiet American is inbred 3 x

2 to that all-time great.

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