Empire Maker (Unbridled–Toussaud, by El Gran Senor) will stand for a fee of $85,000 at Gainesway Farm in 2020. Sire of two champions, 12 Grade I winners, 62 stakes winners, and 33 graded winners, Empire Maker has amassed progeny earnings of over $109 million to date. Bred by Juddmonte Farm, the 19-year-old is responsible for three-time Eclipse champion Royal Delta, also a two-time winner of the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff and earner of $4,811,126. The 2003 GI Belmont S. winner is also the grandsire of champion juvenile and Triple Crown hero American Pharoah. Empire Maker's first Gainesway-sired 2-year-old runners in 2019, included 'TDN Rising Star' Eight Rings, winner of the GI American Pharoah S. His 2019 Keeneland September Book 1 average $475,666.
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