Quiet American, whose Champion son Real Quiet won the G1 Kentucky Derby and the G1 Preakness Stakes, has been euthanized. Pensioned from stud duties in 2013 at Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Fappiano was out of the winning Dr. Fager mare Demure and raced in the colors of Sheikh Mohammed.
Godolphin in America COO Dan Pride said, “To achieve what he did as a racehorse and as a stallion, and then be able to live a long and happy life, is really what one hopes for of any horse. His legacy will certainly live on through his sons and daughters. He was such a favorite of ours as well as fans in general. We’re all going to miss him.”
Bred in Florida by Tartan Farms Corporation, Quiet American celebrated his 30th birthday earlier this year on April 29th. He was purchased for $300,000 at the 1987 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale by Darley Stud Management. Lightly raced at two and three, Quiet American rose to prominence at four in 1990, winning the G1 NYRA Mile Handicap and the G3 San Diego Handicap, defeating the great Bayakoa, and finishing second in the G1 Woodward Handicap and the G1 Charles H. Strub Stakes. He entered stud at Sheikh Maktoum's Gainsborough Farm near Versailles, Ky., where he stood until 2006. He was moved at the beginning of 2007 when Darley consolidated its stallion operation to Jonabell.
As a stallion, Quiet American achieved early success, siring 16% Stakes winners from foals in his first three crops. His first crop included Hidden Lake, the 1997 Champion older female and his third crop yielded champion Real Quiet, who nearly won the Triple Crown in 1998, beaten by just a nose in the G1 Belmont Stakes.
His other major performers include G1 winners Switch, Seattle Smooth, and Cara Rafaela, plus English and Irish highweight Warrior Queen. Switch, a multiple G1 winner, sold for $4.3 million at the 2012 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November select mixed sale.
Quiet American, whose stud fee reached as high as $35,000, sired 54 black type winners and the earners of more than $64 million.
As a broodmare sire, Quiet American is represented by such successful runners as Champion and leading sire Bernardini, also standing at Darley, and Horse of the Year Saint Liam.
