Grade 2 placed ABARTA, a son of North America’s leading sire Into Mischief, will stand the 2022 breeding season at Thomas Kniznet’s Tara Horse Farm in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON. His fee will be $3,000 (Can.).
Abarta is a 4-year-old bay colt who raced just three times, all as a 2-year-old in 2020 for Donegal Racing and Newtown Anner Stud and trainer Brad Cox. The colt won his career debut at Ellis Park at 1 1/16 miles on turf and then rallied to be second in the Grade 2 Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland.
Abarta had a troubled trip in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Keeneland won by Fire at Will. Abarta did not race again after that outing.