Top 25 freshman sire Slumber is being relocated to Rockridge Stud near Hudson, N.Y., for the 2021 season. The 12-year-old son of Cacique will stand for a private fee.
"We are honored to have Slumber join us at Rockridge," said owner and operator Lere Visagie. "This horse already has a stakes winner with a very modest first crop, and that kind of stallion can really be useful in New York."
A grade 1 winner that raced from 2 to 8, Slumber was a homebred for Khalid Abdullah. He won or placed in 11 graded/group stakes, with his best win in the 2015 Knob Creek Manhattan Stakes (G1T) in which he beat multiple grade 1 winner Big Blue Kitten by 2 3/4 lengths. He also was runner-up in the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (G1T), United Nations Stakes (G1T), and Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Stakes (G1T).
The star of Slumber's first crop is stakes winner Fluffy Socks, a Head of Plains Partners homebred who won the Selima Stakes on the turf at Pimlico Race Course and was second in the Chelsey Flower Stakes at Belmont Park.
Slumber is out of the Woodman daughter Sound Asleep, who has produced five winners from six to race. Cacique is out of the extraordinary Juddmonte mare Hasili, making him a full brother to successful European sires Dansili and Champs Elysees.
