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Swifty Farms History
After many years in the Thoroughbred Industry, Don and Dana Myers have developed what many consider to be Indiana's premier breeding operation.
Swifty Farms, the Seymour, Indiana operation owned by Don and Dana Myers, has led the way in the attempt to raise the level on quality among Thoroughbred operations in Indiana. Swifty Farms has three stallions at their Seymour facility--Desert Warrior (by Deputy Minister), El Nino (by Storm Cat) and Pass Rush, a Grade 2 multiple stakes winning son of Crown Ambassador has his first two year olds in 2010. Crown Ambassador, the all-time leading sire in Indiana, was euthanized July 7, due to the effects of degenerative arthritis is his stifle.
The facility has more than 50 broodmares, many of them stakes-producers or stakes winners.
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Swifty Farms Stallions
CROWN AMBASSADOR
Storm Cat--Rare Mint, by Key to the Mint |
- At two, won Keeneland allowance by 7 1/2 lengths, and placed in three consecutive stakes at three (two graded).
- By perennial leading sire STORM CAT
- Half-brother to 5 SWs, including champion ROBIN DES PINS and ROBIN DES BOIS, sire of G1 millionaire GENTLEMEN (ARG) in his first crop.
THE BOLD FACTS:
- 9% stakes winners from starters.
- 10% stakes horses from starters.
- 13% stakes horses from foals.
- 19% stake horses from winners.
- Average earnings per starter in excess of $33,500
- Indiana’s Leading Sire of all time.
- Progeny earnings in excess of $3 Million.
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Crown Ambassador
Died 2009
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- NY's Leading 2nd Crop Sire of Winners
- #1 by lifetime winners, #1 by 2008 juvenile winners
- Sire of a $65,000 Auction Juvenile in 2008
- Graded stakes horse at two and three
- Out of a full sister to the dam of STORM CAT
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Desert Warrior
Stud Fee: $2,500 Live Foal
(payable stands and nurses)
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EL NINO
Storm Cat - Bay Harbor, by Forty Niner |
Grade 2 Sprinter By Storm Cat
El Nino is a fast, versatile son of
Storm Cat capable of :21 & change opening quarter speed. Stakes
placed at Saratoga (G2), Churchill and Arlington (on turf), he also
posted wire-to-wire victories at Keeneland, Churchill and Oaklawn,
including a 6 1/2-furlong allowance just .26 off the fastest time at
Churchill in 2006.
From A Family Of Champions
El Nino is out of a half sister to
record-breaking Champion two-year-old and Breeders' Cup Juvenile-G1
winner Boston Harbor (sire of 19 SWs), and his second dam is
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El Nino
Stud Fee: $2,500 Live Foal
(payable stands and nurses)
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PASS RUSH
Crown Ambassador--Profitable Knight, by Knight |
- Grade 2 Stakes Winner of $594,603
- Outstanding STORM CAT / MR. PROSPECTOR Cross
- 2002 Champion 3YO & Horse of the Year in Indiana
- 2003 Champion Older Horse & Horse of the Year in Indiana
- 2005 Champion Older Horse in Indiana
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Pass Rush
Stud Fee: $3,500 Live Foal
(payable stands and nurses)
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Swifty Farms Services
Services provided by the knowledgeable staff at Swifty Farms include:
To accommodate the expanding broodmare band and broodmare services, a new state-of-the-art broodmare barn has been constructed, along with a new yearling barn, with an annex that functions as a stud barn and breeding shed, 12 miles of newly installed fencing, and run-in sheds in the paddocks. Swifty Farms is also the only breeding facility in Indiana that employs a full time a resident veterinarian.
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Contact Swifty
Farms
Don and Dana Myers, owners
General Manager: Christina Lawton
Resident Veterinarian: Dr. Louis Johnson
Consulting Veterinarian: Dr. Ric Pelphrey
351 S. US Hwy 31 | Seymour, IN 47274
Phone: (812) 523-3805 | Fax: (812) 524-1449
E-Mail: swiftyfarms@verizon.net
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