Prince of Monaco blossomed from a $950,000 Saratoga Yearling buy for “the Avengers”, to an 8-length TDN Rising Star, to a record-setting Grade 3 winner, to an unbeaten Grade 1-winning juvenile, to supremely exciting stallion prospect who enters stud in 2025 at Claiborne Farm, and we are ecstatic to have our friends at Wasabi Ventures Stallions in on him as a shareholder.
Bred by Stonestreet Farm, Prince of Monaco is a son of the Eclipse Champion, leading sire, and sire-of-sires Speightstown, out of a young Medaglia d’Oro mare from a wickedly fast female family. His fantastic physical led him to be purchased by “the Avengers” group at Saratoga for just shy of a million dollars.
Debuting over just 5 furlongs at 2 for Bob Baffert, Prince of Monaco won by 8 and was named a TDN Rising Star. In his second start, he set a stakes record in the Grade 3 Best Pal Stakes, earning a 103 Beyer Speed Figure, and he then triumphed in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity as a 1/9 shot, making him the only Grade 1-winning juvenile sired by Speightstown over his long and successful stud career.
Prince of Monaco returned at 3 to finish a close 2nd in both of Saratoga’s historic, Grade 1, 7 furlong sophomore sprints, namely the Woody Stephens and H. Allen Jerkens. His Ragozin numbers in both of those races were better than the winners’. He retires with three wins and two 2nds from six starts, and figures to have a huge chance to join Speightstown’s successful stallion sons like Munnings and Central Banker, along with Charlatan, Nashville and Olympiad.
Prince of Monaco wins the G1 Del Mar Futurity as a 1/9 shot
Prince of Monaco romps in the G3 Best Pal