Real Quiet - Retirement

Retirement

As a 4-year-old, Real Quiet suffered a fractured splint bone in his right front leg. He had won or placed in 17 of 20 starts and earned $3,271,802.

Real Quiet entered stud for a fee of $25,000 in 2000 at Vinery Kentucky near Lexington. George Hofmeister's Highland Farm had purchased the breeding rights in Real Quiet the month before the Kentucky Derby. Hofmeister had bought majority interest in Vinery, owned by Ben P. Walden Jr. and his wife, Elaine.

Real Quiet later stood at Taylor Made Stallions in Kentucky and Pin Oak Lane Farm then Penn Ridge, both in Pennsylvania. Real Quiet also shuttled to Australia and Uruguay, taking advantage of the reversed breeding season observed in the southern hemisphere.

In 2005, he was relocated to Regal Heir Farms in Pennsylvania. He has produced a prime runner in the Philippines named Real Spicy who is owned by Hermie Esguerra. The horse is a strong contender for that country's own version of the 2005 Triple Crown Championship. Although Real Quiet's progeny has not been nearly as successful in the United States, he managed to produce Pussycat Doll, who won the La Brea Stakes and the G1 Humana Distaff Handicap (defeating her stablemate Behaving Badly), No Place Like It, winner of the U.S.A Pine Oak Stakes, and Wonder Lady Ann L, winner of the 2006 Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) at Belmont Park. He also sired back to back Breeders' Cup Sprint winner, Midnight Lute. Real Quiet died on September 27, 2010, after falling in his paddock at Penn Ridge Farms.