Multiple Grade 2 winner TOO MUCH BLING (Rubiano) has been retired and will enter stud at Sequel Stallions near Ocala, Florida, where he will stand
for a fee of $10,000. Stonewall Farm Stallions, near Versailles, Kentucky,
purchased the three-year-old from Stonerside Stable and Blazing Meadows Farm.
Stonewall also stands Da Stoops, Unforgettable Max and Frisco Star at Sequel
Stallions in Florida.
Too Much Bling won four of six starts this season, the Carry Back S. (G2),
San Vicente S. (G2), Bay Shore S. (G3) and San Miguel S. The gray finished
second in the Woody Stephens Breeders’ Cup S. (G2) and concluded his racing
career with a sixth-place effort in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1).
Too Much Bling finished third in the Hopeful S. (G1) last year and will head
to the breeding shed with a record of 11-5-1-2, $509,674.
“Talk about bling, this horse has a big-time reputation,” said Becky Thomas,
owner of Sequel Stallions. “The numbers say he was the fastest sophomore
sprinter in America this year, and as a grandson of Fappiano, he should be
wildly popular in Florida.”
Out of stakes winner Rose Colored Lady (Formal Dinner), Too Much Bling is a
half-brother to stakes winners Barnsy (Langfuhr), Ready for Roses (More Than
Ready) and Littlebitabling (Carson City). His fourth dam, French stakes winner
River Rose (Fr) (Riverman), produced five stakes winners, including multiple
Group 1 winner Baiser Vole (Foolish Pleasure).