Grade I winner Catholic Boy (More Than Ready) has been relocated to California and joined the roster at Harris Farms for the 2025 breeding season, a release announced Monday afternoon.
A winner at the highest level on turf and dirt, and only the third American 3-year-old in history to accomplish the feat by winning the GI Travers and GI Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes, he has two crops of racing age with 65% starters, 26% winners, and one stakes winner, El Catolico in Puerto Rico as of Oct. 21. He also has seven stakes-placed runners with Faith Understood a recent flagbearer in his adopted home state with a third-place effort in the GIII Honeymoon Stakes at Santa Anita in June.
Catholic Boy will stand for $6,000 live foal.
“I feel Catholic Boy has unlimited potential, and will be a major player. He is one of the best stallions Harris Farms has had, and we have had several,” said John Harris, president and chairman of the board of Harris Farms.
Jonny Hilvers, the general manager, added, “Catholic Boy had speed that could carry, winning Grade 1 [races] on both dirt and turf at a mile and one-quarter. We are very excited for the opportunity to stand him in California.”
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