Ecurie D to stand at Southwind Farm

Owners Marko Kreivi Stables, Inc., Suleyman Yuksel Stables, Inc. and Ake Svanstedt, Inc. are pleased to announce that their two-time World Champion Écurie D, 6, 1:49.1M, ($1,516,807) (Infinitif-Too Soon-Muscles Yankee), has been retired from racing and will stand stud at Southwind Farms, New Jersey commencing with the 2023 breeding season.

Blessed with superb size, striking conformation, a beautiful head and a powerful gait, Ecurie D is a product of the combination of the finest American and French blood the trotting sport has to offer.

Ecurie D began his racing career in Europe at age three by winning his first eleven starts which included establishing a new World Record for three-year-old trotters in a rated time of 1.12.2 over 1,640 meters and by winning the Grade 1 European Derby which was won the previous year by Face Time Bourbon.

At ages four and five, Ecurie D won numerous high dollar European graded stakes before his owners were strongly encouraged to bring him to the United States late in his five-year-old season in 2021 in order to show off his incredible talent. Indeed, Ecurie D did just that by winning his only two starts in the States that year defeating the likes of Back of the Neck, Ready for Moni, Forbidden Trade and It’s Academic in both the $136,000 Allerage Farms Open Trot at The Red Mile and in the $650,000 Breeders Crown Aged Trot at The Meadowlands.

In his final season racing exclusively in North America in 2022 at age 6, Ecurie D opened his season in awesome fashion by trotting the co-fastest mile in harness racing history, 1:49.1M, which also equaled the World Record, in the $170,450 Arthur Cutler Memorial at The Meadowlands. He finished out a stellar season by amassing $733,439 in earnings by winning for the second straight year the $600,000 Breeders Crown Aged Trot along with the $330,000 TVG Open Trot in dominant wire to wire fashion. In thirty lifetime starts, Ecurie D won an amazing twenty times despite having to face the very best trotters in the world.

As impressive as his racing career was, Ecurie D’s bloodlines represent the absolute finest cross of American and French blood anywhere to be found in the world. His sire, Infinitif, is a son of Pine Chip. Infinitif’s mother, Island Dream, is also the mother of Clarabelle, and her immediate family has produced extreme two-year-old speed in her noted son Cuatro de Julio, 2, 1:51.3M ($879,061) and in Una Madonna, 2, 1:55.1f ($118,918.00). Clarabelle’s last two yearlings sold at Lexington for $200,000 and $360,000 respectively.

Ecurie D’s mother, Too Soon, hails from the immediate families of several of France’s greatest trottings stallions which include Dream With Me €1,327,831; Daquet Rapide €1,396,695; Arnaquer €1,034,583; Oyannax €1,877,690; and Indy de Vie €500,666, who is the sire of Ready Cash.

Ecurie D will now take his rightful place alongside three of the greatest trotting sires in the sport, Walner, Muscle Hill and Tactical Landing at Southwind Farms, New Jersey for an introductory service fee of $10,000 US. He is currently being syndicated both in North America and in Europe where frozen semen will be available for European shareholders.

For more information on bookings or breeding’s, contact Mike Klau or Laura Young at Southwind Farms: 609-737-9067 or 917-930-2709 or at southwindfarms@aol.com.

For more information on the syndication and purchase of shares, contact R. Kevin Greenfield, Ecurie D Syndicate Manager, at 419-346-0609 or at kgreen56@gkflaw.com.

From the Ecurie D Syndicate