Malibu Moon

Malibu Moon is a Thoroughbred (Foaled February 23, 1997) bred in Kentucky, by B. Wayne Hughes.^[1] He is sired by the leading thoroughbred stallion A.P. Indy out of a Mr. Prospector mare, Macoumba, who was a Grade 1 winner in France before she was imported to the United States.^[2]

Race career

Despite his very short career, Malibu Moon showed initial promise. His first race was a maiden special weight as a two year old at Hollywood Park, and despite brushing the gate at the start he made his way through the crowd in the stretch to finish second. His second and final start was also a maiden special weight at Hollywood Park, in which he finished first. He suffered a slab fracture in his knee in May of his two-year-old season, which forced his early retirement.^[3]

Stud career

Malibu Moon first entered stud in 2000 for a low stud fee of $3,000 at Country Life Farm in Maryland. After producing an Eclipse Champion two-year-old Declan's Moon and graded winner Perfect Moon in his first two crops, he was relocated in 2004 to the Castleton Lyons Farm in Kentucky to service a wider range of mares for a fee of about $10,000. He was then relocated again in 2008 to Spendthrift Farms, where he currently resides at a stud fee of $75,000 (2017).^[4]

Malibu Moon's most notable progeny include-

• Orb, 2013 Kentucky Derby Winner^[5]
• Declan's Moon, Eclipse Champion Two-Year-Old Colt
• Life at Ten, Multiple Grade 1 Winner
• Devil May Care, Multiple Grade 1 Winner
• Gormley (horse), Multiple Grade 1 winner
• Carina Mia, Grade 1 Winner
• Obruchev, Grade 1 winner in Japan
• Ransom the Moon, Grade 1 winner
• Farrell, multiple graded stakes winner
• Stanford, multiple graded stakes winner

Malibu Moon is the damsire of-

• Stellar Wind, Eclipse Champion Three-Year-Old Filly
• Girvin, Grade 1 winner

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