Too Much Bling to stand in Florida

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).