Super Ninety Nine Retired

Super Ninety Nine (Pulpit–Exogenetic, by Unbridled's Song) has been retired from racing and will stand at Josh and Mike Pons' Country Life Farm near Bel Air, Maryland, as the property of Spendthrift Farm and Country Life. He will be part of Spendthrift's Share the Upside Program, where mare owners who breed at a fee of $5,000 for the first two seasons earn a lifetime breeding right with no expenses. Alternatively, mare owners can access the stallion at a live foal fee of $4,000. Super Ninety Nine will retire with a lifetime record of 8-3-1-1 with $378,260 in career earnings. Career highlights include a win in the GIII Southwest S. and a third in the GI Santa Anita Derby. Super Ninety Nine's dam, the unraced Unbridled's Song mare Exogenetic, is a full-sister to ill-fated Exogenous, Grade I-winner of $945,560. He will be available for inspection through the Keeneland September yearling sale before shipping to Maryland. 

“The new breeder's awards program in Maryland is attracting better mares,” said Spendthrift owner B. Wayne Hughes. “We started Malibu Moon at stud with the Pons boys, and we bred good mares to him to get him going. We sent Malibu Moon's son Freedom Child to stud there last year. You don't make stallions like Malibu Moon unless you support them early, and we will send a large draft of mares to Maryland. We studied the Maryland-bred program and it's a big incentive for us to make stallions with Country Life.” 

“Super Ninety Nine is a very fast horse,” said Country Life's Mike Pons. “He is by Pulpit, the sire of Tapit, and Pulpit is the grandsire of this year's classics winner California Chrome. Pulpit is clearly a sire of sires. Super Ninety Nine's potential as a sire should be apparent to anyone familiar with Spendthrift's Share the Upside program. Look what they've already done with Into Mischief and Warrior's Reward. It's a program that rewards breeders by giving them a piece of the stallion. It's fun to be partnering with Spendthrift on this talented horse.”