First-crop yearling sire and four-time grade 1 winner Oscar Performance will stand for $12,500 for first-time breeders and $10,000 for repeat breeders and those booking multiple mares, Mill Ridge Farm announced Nov. 11.
Oscar Performance, bred by Mrs. Jerry Amerman and campaigned by Amerman Racing with Brian Lynch as his trainer, was raised at Mill Ridge. The now-7-year-old son of leading sire Kitten’s Joy was a grade 1 winner each year he raced from 2 to 4. At age 2 in 2016, he won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T). The following year at 3, Oscar Performance won three of seven starts, which included victories in the Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes (G1T) and Secretariat Stakes (G1T) on his way to earning more than $1 million in 2017. He kept the momentum going at 4 when he won the Ricoh Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1T). Oscar Performance also set a one-mile turf track record at Belmont Park when he received the 2018 Poker Stakes (G3T) in 1:31.23.
For his profession, Oscar Efficiency compiled an 8-0-1 report from 15 begins and earned $2,345,696.
Oscar Efficiency has been effectively obtained by breeders, protecting 118 mares his first yr at stud, 116 his second, and 85 mares in his third yr. Oscar Efficiency has been represented by 33 yearlings bought this yr, together with 5 that bought for six figures. His prime vendor up to now is an $180,000 filly out of the Street Sense mare Wild Silk.
