ROYAL EMPIRE
Forty Niner - Kostroma (IRE), by Caerleon
Alabama's Sire of the New Millennium
Six-times State Leading Sire (2002-2008)
21% Stakes Horses from Lifetime Starters
Sire of 2006 SWs BIG FRED (7 1/2- length winner of Oaklawn's $50,000 Vulcan S.) and SW $126,777 earner FANCY EMPIRE. Sire of multiple SW and $311,080 earner COMALAGOLD. Offspring ran one-two in River Downs' $55,000 Magic City Classic S. in 2006, and one-two-three in Fairgounds' $50,000 Kudzu Juvenile.
Gets versatile runners that win on all surfaces, from 5 furlongs to 1 1/16 miles.
Bred in the purple - by FORTY NINER, out of a winner of the Yellow Ribbon S. and stakes producer, KOSTROMA (IRE) by a Champion, CAERLEON.
ROYAL EMPIRE'S half sister, ARIEGE, has won three graded stakes including the Santa Anita Oaks (Gr1) in March of 2008, she sold at the Keeneland sale in the fall of 2008 for $3,800,000 |
