Kodiak Kowboy (G1)
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Kodiak Kowboy wins the Grade 1, $380,000 Vosburgh Stakes at Belmont Park on Oct. 3, 2009
Kodiak Kowboy nails Fabulous Strike in the final strides of the Grade 1 Carter Handicap on April 4, 2009
Kodiak Kowboy wins the Amsterdam Stakes (G2)
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Kodiak Kowboy wins the 2009 Grade 1 Cigar Mile
Kodiak Kowboy wins the Saratoga Special (G2)
Kodiak Kowboy wins the Sport Page H (G3)
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Champion Male Sprinter: Kodiak Kowboy
Kodiak Kowboy was a symbol of versatility his championship season as a 4-year-old. He was a grade 1 winner not only at sprint distances of six and seven furlongs, but also at a mile.
Kodiak Kowboy, who has been retired from racing for stallion duty at Tom Simon’s Vinery near Lexington, cemented his claim to the championship with a triumph in the Nov. 28 Hill ‘n’ Dale Cigar Mile Handicap (gr. I) at Aqueduct. His Cigar Mile triumph also was at the heart of Kodiak Kowboy’s being a finalist in the older male division.
Kodiak Kowboy, who has been retired from racing for stallion duty at Tom Simon’s Vinery near Lexington, cemented his claim to the championship with a triumph in the Nov. 28 Hill ‘n’ Dale Cigar Mile Handicap (gr. I) at Aqueduct. His Cigar Mile triumph also was at the heart of Kodiak Kowboy’s being a finalist in the older male division.
“Boy, that’s huge…that’s huge winning at a mile,” Vinery president Tom Ludt told The Blood-Horse after the Cigar Mile. “Big for a stallion career… we couldn’t be happier. It was our plan all year to finish up big in the Cigar Mile, and we did it.”
Kodiak Kowboy to Shuttle to Brazil
Champion male sprinter and second-crop sire Kodiak Kowboy will shuttle to Haras Bagé Do Sul in Brazil to stand this year's Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
"We are delighted to be working with Haras Bagé Do Sul Farm on the exciting young stallion career of Kodiak Kowboy. With his high number of individual winners and horses of the caliber of Cool Cowboy, it is evident that Kodiak Kowboy is a stallion on the move."
— Darren Fox, WinStar's director of stallion seasons
"Kodiak Kowboy will have a tremendous impact in Brazil with the speed he will bring to his mares. We have a strong market for sprinters down here, and Kodiak Kowboy represents the typical speed and precocity that American horses are known for. One extremely important factor for Brazilian breeders, and one of the main reasons we pursued the horse, is Kodiak Kowboy's high percentage of winners to runners among first-crop stallions in 2013."
— Mario Marquez, TBS director