Darby Dan Farm announces 2026 stallion roster and fees

Darby Dan Farm has set 2026 stud fees for its roster of 11 stallions that will stand the upcoming breeding season, led by Blazing Sevens, Flameaway, and Dialed In, who will each stand for $10,000 S&N.

Blazing Sevens, winner of the stallion-making Champagne Stakes (G1) at two and runner-up by just a head to subsequent Eclipse Champion Older Male National Treasure in the Preakness Stakes (G1), hails from the first crop of leading sire Good Magic. Blazing Sevens broke his maiden at Saratoga in his career bow, winning by 6 ¼ lengths and earning TDN Rising Star status. Also at two, he finished a rallying third in the Hopeful Stakes (G1) at Saratoga. In the Champagne, he overcame a troubled start, made a sweeping five-wide move on the far turn and powered home a 3 ¼-length winner for trainer Chad Brown. Demand for Blazing Sevens was strong in his debut season at stud. He displayed excellent fertility, breeding 139 mares and his first foals will arrive in 2026.

Flameaway is making a major impact as a stallion and is a leading Cumulative Third-Crop Sire this year. A multiple graded stakes-winning son of the prolific Scat Daddy and his only son at stud to win stakes at two, three, and four, Flameaway is represented by the outstanding Bear River, who enters the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1) in top form, having captured the $2 million Kentucky Turf Sprint Stakes (G2) at Kentucky Downs, along with the Kentucky Downs Preview Turf Sprint Stakes at Ellis Park in his last two starts. In his “Win and You’re In” Kentucky Turf Sprint Stakes score, Bear River set all the pace and defeated a contentious international field while sizzling six furlongs in a swift 1:07.71. Flameaway is also represented this year by 2-year-old filly Amada Mila (CHI), a Group 1 winner in her native Chile; and Dark Saffron, who became the first 3-year-old in history to defeat elders in the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1) at Meydan Racecourse in the United Arab Emirates. Among the horses Dark Saffron vanquished in that lucrative fixture was Eclipse Award Champion Sprinter and last year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) winner Straight No Chaser.

A proven powerhouse, Dialed In has been a leading sire since earning the title of Champion Freshman Sire of 2016. He continues to sire top-tier runners, highlighted in 2025 by Whatchatalkinabout, who showed his grit with a determined victory in the $175,000 John A Nerud Stakes (G3) during the Belmont at the Big A meet. Watchatalkinabout followed that win with a third-place finish in the Phoenix Stakes (G2) at Keeneland. Dialed In is also the sire of stakes winners Train the Trainer, winner of the New York Derby and the Mike Lee Stakes; Striker Has Dial, victorious in the Endine Stakes; and Kanojo, winner of the Iowa Breeders’ Oaks and the Hawkeyes Handicap. Overall, Dialed In is the sire of 76 black-type horses, 29 stakes winners, and more than $57 million in progeny earnings in a remarkable stallion career.

Modernist, a son of the late Uncle Mo and a graded stakes winner at three and four, including the Risen Star Stakes (G2) as a sophomore, is represented by first-crop runners in 2025. Among them are Trendsetter, winner of the $100,000 Hickory Tree Stakes at Colonial Downs and an impressive debut maiden special weight winner; multiple stakes-placed Grazie, designated a TDN Rising Star off a 4 ½-length maiden special weight victory on debut at Saratoga and third in both the Joseph A. Gimma Stakes and Seeking the Ante Stakes; and Last Candy, third in the Illinois Debutante Stakes. In the auction ring, first 2-year-olds by Modernist caught the eye, commanding up to $310,000 (Grazie), and $300,000 (Embry Show).

The 2026 Darby Dan Farm roster is as follows:

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