Outwork (Uncle Mo–Nonna Mia by Empire Maker), has been purchased to continue his stud career in Saudi Arabia through a deal brokered by Chad Schumer.
The GI Wood Memorial winner won three of five career starts before retiring to WinStar Farm in 2017 with $701,800 in earnings. He's gone on to sire two Grade I winners, Leave No Trace and Brightwork. Another top performer includes millionaire Outadore, who won the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Turf Sprint in 2020 before running in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Keeneland, making a gallant effort to finish third behind Fire at Will and Battleground.
In his five crops of racing age he has sired two graded stakes winners, 13 black type winners and additional seventeen black type placers.
At two, Outwork won first time out at the Keeneland spring meet before taking an allowance going six furlongs at Tampa. Runner-up in the GII Tampa Bay Derby, he later added a victory in the Wood Memorial before finishing off-the-board in that season's GI Kentucky Derby.
Bred and raced by Repole Stable and trained by Todd Pletcher, Outwork is out of Nonna Mia, an impressive winner at Belmont in her second start as a 2-year-old. Subsequently third in the GI Frizette Stakes and the GIII Tempted Stakes, she also finished second in the Loudonville Stakes at Saratoga.
Nonna Mia is also the dam of Nonna Bella who won her first two starts before finishing fourth in the GII Gulfstream Park Oaks. Nonna Bella is the dam of 2-year-old champion, and one of the nation's leading 3-year-olds, Fierceness (City of Light) as well as Outwork's full-sibling, 2-year-old Mentee.
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