By: Blood Horse

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Channel Cat and True Timber lead the new stallions with $7,500 fees.

Calumet Farm will have three new stallions on its roster for the 2022 breeding season, led by grade 1-winning millionaires Channel Cat   and True Timber  .

Channel Cat, a homebred son of Calumet’s late leading turf sire English Channel , is a multiple graded stakes winner who won this year’s Man o’ War Stakes (G1T) at Belmont Park for trainer Jack Sisterson. He compiled a 6-4-5 record from 30 starts and retired with $1,456,022 in earnings. The 6-year-old horse is out of the Kitten’s Joy   winner Carnival Kitten , a half sister to group 1-placed stakes winner Red Moloney . The immediate family also has produced grade 1 winner and sire Lieutenant’s Lark and multiple graded stakes winner and sire Dove Hunt. Channel Cat enters stud at $7,500.

True Timber is a 7-year-old son of Mineshaft   who won the 2020 Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) for Sisterson and Calumet, who acquired him for $170,000 as a weanling from St George Sales at the 2014 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. Racing from 2 to 6, True Timber also placed in eight other graded stakes, including three at the grade 1 level and retired with $1,215,150 in earnings. The young stallion is out of the unraced Tiznow  daughter Queen’s Wood , a half sister to two stakes-placed winners, including Tustarta , the dam of grade 3-placed stakes winner Lickety Lemon  and English stakes winner Cry of Freedom . True Timber also stands for $7,500.

Multiple grade 3 winner Hence  , a 7-year-old Calumet homebred son of Street Boss  , is the third new stallion for 2022. The Steve Asmussen trainee won five of 24 starts, including victories in the Sunland Derby (G3) and Iowa Derby (G3) in 2017. He retired with $935,731 in earnings. Hence is out of the A.P. Indy  daughter Floating Island , a multiple stakes producer and a half sister to multiple graded stakes winner Pico Teneriffe , grade 3 winner Salmon Ladder, and stakes winner Capote’s Prospect . Pico Teneriffe is the dam of Canadian champion older horse and sire Marchfield  and stakes winner Congor Bay . The immediate family also produced grade 1-placed, grade 2 winner and sire Minister Eric  and multiple grade/group 2 winner and sire Regal Ransom . Hence enters stud at $5,000.

The other stallions on the high end of the Calumet roster, all at $7,500, are top-12 freshman sire and 2015 Travers Stakes (G1) winner Keen Ice  ; top-five fifth-crop sire and 2013 Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Oxbow  , sire of Pennsylvania Derby (G1) winner and the twice classic-placed Hot Rod Charlie ; and, multiple grade 1 winner Ransom the Moon  , whose first crop are yearlings of 2021.