Fierceness to Retire to Coolmore America

We are delighted to confirm that the 2023 Champion 2-Year-Old and leading Breeders’ Cup Classic contender, Fierceness will take up stud duties at Ashford Stud at the end of his already outstanding career on track.

A runaway winner of the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita, Fierceness dominated in the Grade 1 Florida Derby winning by 13 ½ lengths and proved himself the best three-year-old in the country by putting one of the deepest fields in recent years to the sword in the Grade 1 Travers.

Fierceness in name and Fierceness by nature, he showed both class and determination to defy multiple Grade 1 winners such as Thorpedo Anna, Dornoch and G1SW Sierra Leone.

A son of the promising young sire City Of Light and a grand-son of the top-class Quality Road, Fierceness is out of Nonna Bella who is a sister to the Grade 1 Wood Memorial winning Outwork.

“Fierceness hails from a young and hugely exciting family of his owner/breeder Mike Repole. He is an outstanding physical and has proven himself to be a champion on the dirt at both 2 and 3 years, commented Ashford Manager Dermot Ryan, “We’re tremendously excited to welcome Fierceness to Ashford, be it this year or next. We will discuss his future with Mike, Todd and the team following what looks to be the race of the year in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.”