FRIESAN FIRE

A.P. Indy - Bollinger (AUS), by Dehere
2006, Bay , 16.1-1/2 · Entered Stud: 2012
Fee: $2,000 LFSN

FRIESAN FIRE is the best son of legendary sire A.P. Indy in the Mid-Atlantic.

Sire of undefeated G1 Carter Handicap winner and young top sire in Kentucky ARMY MULE and G2 Saratoga Special winner CALL PAUL. Friesan Fire is a leading Maryland General Sire who can get you a graded stakes winner and/or a 6-figure sale horse (Kissed by Fire sold for $350,000 at the FT May 2022 Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale).

FRIESAN FIRE was a debut winning 2-year-old who placed in the historic Futurity Stakes-G2 at Belmont Park before rising to the top of racing’s elite as a 3-year-old.  He swept the Fair Grounds’ series of Triple Crown prep races that included the Louisiana Derby-G2 (which he won by 7 lengths), the Risen Star Stakes-G3, and the Lecomte Stakes-G3. That stellar form sent him postward as the favorite for the 2009 Kentucky Derby-G1. As a 4-year-old, he won the $100,000 Louisiana Handicap.

FRIESAN FIRE is by sire-of-sires A.P. Indy and out of the G1-winning Australian racemare Bollinger, a daughter of Australian Champion 2-year-old and G1 winner Bint Marscay.

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Pedigree
A.P. INDY (USA)
dkb/br. 1989 [IC]
SEATTLE SLEW (USA)
dkb/br. 1974 [BC]
BOLD REASONING (USA)
dkb/br. 1968
BOLDNESIAN (USA)
REASON TO EARN (USA)
MY CHARMER (USA)*
b. 1969
POKER (USA)
FAIR CHARMER (USA)
WEEKEND SURPRISE (USA)*
b. 1980
SECRETARIAT (USA)
ch. 1970 [IC]
  BOLD RULER (USA)
SOMETHINGROYAL (USA)
LASSIE DEAR (USA)*
b. 1974
BUCKPASSER (USA)
GAY MISSILE (USA)
BOLLINGER (AUS)
b. 1999
DEHERE (USA)
b. 1991
DEPUTY MINISTER (CAN)
b. 1979
VICE REGENT (CAN)
MINT COPY (CAN)
SISTER DOT (USA)
b. 1985
SECRETARIAT (USA)  
SWORD GAME (USA)
BINT MARSCAY (AUS)
ch. 1990
MARSCAY (AUS)
ch. 1979
BISCAY (AUS)
HEART OF MARKET (USA)
EAU DETOILE (NZ)
b. 1982
SIR TRISTRAM (IRE)
FILLE DETOILE (NZ)
Race Record
Age Starts 1st 2nd 3rd Earned
2 4 1 1 1 $63,265
3 6 3 0 1 $545,500
4 4 1 0 0 $51,071
5 4 0 0 1 $19,520
Totals 18 5 1 3 $679,356
Won at 2

A maiden special weight race at Delaware Park
(6f, D, defeating Zak’s in Town, Hovig, Unser, Sweetest Rhythm, Inmigrante, War Action, Royal Cyclone, Matador Moon).

3rd at 2

Futurity S. (gr. II) at Belmont Park
(7f, D, to Charitable Man, Flying Pegasus, defeating Girolamo, Gone Astray, Kensei, High Mesa).

Won at 3

Louisiana Derby (gr. II) at Fair Grounds
(8.5f, D, defeating Papa Clem, Terrain, Giant Oak, Soul Warrior, Flying Pegasus, Uno Mas, Patena, Free Country).

Risen Star S. (gr. III) at Fair Grounds
(8.5f, D, defeating Flying Pegasus, Uno Mas, Nowhere to Hide, Giant Oak, Soul Warrior, Indygo Mountain, Au Moon, Dumar, It Happened Again, Map of the World, Summer’s Empire, Code of Honour).

LeComte S. (gr. III) at Fair Grounds
(8f, D, defeating Patena, Au Moon, Uno Mas, Big Push, Indygo Mountain, Citizen, Dynamic Force).

Won at 4

Louisiana H. at Fair Grounds
(8.5f, D, defeating General Quarters, Good and Lucky, Secret Getaway, Fundy, Coragil Cat).

FRIESAN FIRE Videos
Progeny
Sire of G1-winner ARMY MULE and G2-winner CALL PAUL in 2018

At the sales his weanlings have sold for up to $55,000, and yearlings have brought as much as $140,000. In 2016, at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in Training Sale he had the highest priced colt who went for $825,000. That colt, later named ARMY MULE, won the 2018 G1 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct in near track record time of 1:20.94 for 7 furlongs, earning him a 114 Beyer! Army Mule was undefeated and retired to stud at Hill ‘n Dale Farm in KY for the 2019 season. Also in 2018, Friesan Fire’s 2-year-old son CALL PAUL (a $210,000 May 2 yo purchase) won the G2 Saratoga Special and placed in the G1 Champagne and G3 Nashua Stakes.

FRIESAN FIRE’s first crop hit the races in 2015, and he got his first winner in July of that year at Parx when his son Morning Fire took a $42,000 maiden special weight despite a troubled trip!  Read the Blood-Horse write-up about FRIESAN FIRE’s first winner and see a video replay of the race here.  FRIESAN FIRE’s second winner came in a $70,000 maiden special weight at Del Mar on August 26th when On Fire, a $140,000 yearling purchase, broke his maiden at a mile (video replay here). Morning Fire went on to become a multiple stakes winner. His other stakes horses include Fire Key (3-time stakes winner), Saratoga Bob (winner of the 2018 Maryland Million Classic S), Flash McCaul (multiple stakes-placed), She Rolls (multiple stakes-placed), Ripple (stakes-placed) and Forest Fire (2nd in the Private Terms Stakes).

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