Shakin It Up Retired to Spendthrift Farm

Shakin It Up (Midnight Lute–Silver Bullet Moon, by Vindication), hero of the 2013 GI Malibu S., has been retired and will stand the 2015 breeding season at B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky. The 2014 GII Strub S. winner will command a fee of $10,000 stands and nurses and will participate in Spendthrift’s Share the Upside Program for a fee of $12,500 stands and nurses. Bred in Kentucky by Michael E. Pegram, Shakin It Up was campaigned by his breeder in partnership with former U.S. Representative Dennis A. Cardoza. Shakin It Up was produced by an unraced daughter of Pegram’s two-time champion Silverbulletday (Silver Deputy). He, of course, also campaigned the back-to-back GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner and leading young sire Midnight Lute (Real Quiet). “We’re thrilled to be able to offer breeders Shakin It Up as the newest addition to Spendthrift’s stallion roster and Share the Upside Program,” said Ken Wilkins, Spendthrift’s Director of Stallions. “Physically, he’s a striking comparison to his sire Midnight Lute, and he also showed his sire’s brilliance, versatility, and class on the racetrack. Shakin It Up reminded us a lot of Into Mischief, who was also a brilliant, precocious, top-class runner in California by an exciting young sire at the time we retired him to stud. So we think the sky is the limit for Shakin It Up.” Shakin It Up, a close second in the GII Churchill Downs S. earlier this spring, retires with a record of 10-4-2-1 and earnings of $664,982. Shakin It Up will be at Spendthrift Farm and available for inspection this weekend prior to the Fasig-Tipton July Sale.