For Immediate Release October 23, 2008
Ramsey Farm Announces 2009 Stud Fees Nicholasville, Ky.—

Ramsey Farm has set the stud fees of its two stallions for the 2009 breeding season, with terms live foal guarantee payable October 1 of year bred. Eclipse Champion KITTEN’S JOY will stand for a fee of $20,000. By El Prado out of the Lear Fan mare Kitten’s First, Kitten’s Joy was an allowance winner at two and went on to become the Champion Turf Horse of 2004. As a three-year-old he won the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (GI), Secretariat S. (GI), and Virginia Derby (GIII) on his way to Championship honors. Kitten’s Joy is a half brother to Breeders' Cup Mile entrant Precious Kitten, a multiple grade I winner, and Justenuffheart, the stakes-winning dam of Champion and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies(GI) winner Dreaming Of Anna, and Lewis Michael, winner of the Pat O’ Brien H. (GII). His first foals are yearlings of 2008 and he bred over 100 mares this year.

CATIENUS will stand for $10,000. By Storm Cat out of the Mr. Prospector mare Diamond City, Catienus was the leading sire in New York for 2006 and 2007 before he returned to Kentucky for the 2008 season. He has sired multiple grade I-winning millionaire Precious Kitten, grade I winner Dawn Of War, and Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) placed Talent Search. In 2007, he sired eight stakes winners with more than $5.5 million in earnings, with six stakes winners and more than $3 million in earnings so far in 2008. He has sired 18 lifetime stakes winners.

“Our two stallions reflect great value for breeders, and we support both of them strongly with our best mares,” commented Ramsey Farm manager Mark Partridge. “We look forward to Kitten's Joy's first two-year-olds running in 2009, and we know that Catienus can get you any kind of horse: turf, dirt, synthetic, sprinters, two-turns, two-year-olds, older horses. We reduced fees for both of them to show support for breeders, and we look forward to offering both of them in 2009.”

In 1994, Ken and Sarah Ramsey purchased the former Almahurst Farm, birthplace of 1918 Kentucky Derby winner Exterminator and Standardbred legend Greyhound, and renamed it Ramsey Farm. The Ramseys received the 2004 Eclipse Award for outstanding owner, due in large part to the success of homebred champion turf male Kitten’s Joy. That year, three of their homebreds ran in the Breeders’ Cup, with Kitten’s Joy finishing second in the Turf and Roses in May second in the Classic, for purse earnings of $1,200,000. The next year, Roses in May won the Dubai World Cup. The Ramseys were North America’s leading owners by earnings in 2005. In 2006 they won the Kentucky Thoroughbred Media award for owning the most winners at Kentucky tracks in a calendar year, marking their seventh consecutive KTM honor. They have collected a record 12 leading owner titles at Churchill Downs, including nine straight titles between the spring 2000 and spring 2004 meets. They also have been leading owners at Gulfstream Park, Keeneland, Saratoga and Turfway Park, where they won two leading owner titles in 2007.

In 2007, the Ramseys had three starters in the Breeders’ Cup: John C. Mabee Handicap winner Precious Kitten, eighth after encountering trouble in the Filly and Mare Turf, Vosburgh runner-up Talent Search, who finished third in the Sprint, and Cannonball, who finished third in the inaugural Juvenile Turf. Precious Kitten was a finalist for the 2008 Eclipse Award for Champion Female Turf Horse. The Ramseys finished 2007 as top 10 owners nationally, with earnings of $3,996,973.