By Bloodhorse.com
ELK GROVE, Calif. (Feb. 16, 2016) — Canadian champion Alpha Bettor and grade I winner Mast Track have joined the stallion ranks at Daehling Ranch in Elk Grove, Calif., Adena Springs announced Feb. 16.
Adena Springs’ homebred Alpha Bettor, Canada’s champion older horse of 2013, retires to stud with a 12-5-3 record from 40 career starts and earnings of $838,275. By Alphabet Soup—Scatter Buy, by Relaunch, he was a winner every year he raced from ages 2 to 8.
Over the course of his championship season, Alpha Bettor won the Eclipse Stakes (Can-II), Autumn Stakes (Can-II), and the Seagram Cup (Can-III), a race in which he was victorious in the previous season, all on Woodbine‘s all-weather track. In his final start this year, Alpha Bettor rallied determinedly to capture the Portland Meadows Mile Handicap in just his second effort on dirt.
Mast Track, a 12-year-old son of Mizzen Mast —Nawal, by Homme de Loi, entered stud in 2011. His top offspring include multiple stakes-placed Shez a Masterpiece, an earner of nearly $150,000.
Wire-to-wire victories in the 2008 Hollywood Gold Cup (gr. I) and 2009 Native Diver Handicap (gr. III) helped boost Mast Track’s lifetime earnings to $928,835. He was bred in Kentucky by Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel.
“This is an incredible opportunity for Daehling Ranch and the California breeding community,” Daehling Ranch owner Joe Daehling said. “Anytime you can bring in a pair of stallions that were talented enough to compete against the best of their generation and accumulate nearly $2 million in earnings between them, you have to appreciate the potential for future success with their progeny.”
Fees for Alpha Bettor and Mast Track were not announced.