Champion Summer Bird to Stand for $15k

Champion Summer Bird (Birdstone–Hong Kong Squall, by Summer Squall), hero of the 2009 GI Belmont S., GI Shadwell Travers S., and GI Jockey Club Gold Cup S., will stand his first season at stud for $15,000 at Mr. and Mrs. Ben P. Walden Jr's Pauls Mill in 2011, it was announced Tuesday. “Our mission at Pauls Mill is shower breeders with stud fee value and personal attention,” Walden commented. “To that end our 2011 fees speak for themselves, but Summer Bird's introductory fee breaks all the rules.”