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It was announced today that 4-year-old Grade 1 winner Mr. Speaker (Pulpit) has been retired to Lane’s End for the 2016 season, joining Honor Code (A.P. Indy) and Liam’s Map (Unbridled’s Song) as new stallions on the roster. When winning the Grade 1 Belmont Derby in 2014, Mr. Speaker defeated 10 other horses, with four eventual Grade or Group 1 winners and last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic runner-up in the field. Among his other victories were the Grade 2 Commonwealth Cup Stakes, Grade 3 Coolmore Lexington Stakes, and Grade 3 Dania Beach Stakes. He retires with six victories and two other on-the-board finishes in 18 starts for $1,247,544 in earnings. Mr. Speaker at Keeneland in April 2015 Mr. Speaker will be the sixth A.P. Indy son or grandson to sit on Lane’s End’s stallion roster for 2016 with the farm also having A.P. Indy’s son Honor Code visiting the shed for the first time next year. A.P. Indy stood at Lane’s End for his entire career and is currently pensioned at

American Pharoah Perhaps the most exciting stallion prospect to hit the market this century, American Pharoah accomplished nearly every task thrown at him including the Triple Crown. The colt, by Pioneerof the Nile, finished fifth on debut in a Del Mar maiden special weight but he was beaten by some talented colts with two of them going on to win graded stakes races and the two others placing in Grade 1 events. That debut loss may not have been an eye catcher for American Pharoah but his victory less than a month later caught the attention of everyone in racing when he pulled away to win the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity by 4 ¾ lengths. He was at the top of the conversation for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile after winning the Grade 1 FrontRunner Stakes later that month but the colt suffered a season-ending injury only a few days before the Breeders’ Cup. On the sidelines for five months, American Pharoah romped in the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes in his first race as a 3-year-old and made

City Zip at Lane's End in 2014 Retiring in late 2001 as a 3-year-old after winning nine of his 23 starts, including the 2000 Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes, City Zip was the first notable racehorse out of stakes winner Baby Zip. That mare would go on to produce two more graded stakes winners in addition to being the second dam of three others. The third foal out of Baby Zip, City Zip retired to Contemporary Stakes in New York as only the fourth horse to sweep the Hopeful, Saratoga Special and Sanford. The stallion would start his career at a modest stud fee of $7,500. City Zip held his own during his few years in New York, breeding a combined 305 mares between 2002 and 2004 with Grade 1 winner Bustin Stones, Grade 2 winner With a City and multiple Grade 3 winner Get Serious leading the 13 stakes winners produced from those crops. But the best was yet to come when his younger half-brother Ghostzapper burst onto the scene in 2004, winning Horse of the Year honors and convincing Lane&