Tony Bin - Stud Record

Stud Record

Tony Bin was sold for US$4 million to the Zenya Yoshida family of Japan. He stood at stud at their Shadai Stallion Station in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, where he met with considerable success. The leading sire in Japan in 1994, Tony Bin produced progeny that includes:

• Air Groove (1993) - Horse of the Year and 1997 Champion Older Mare in Japan. In July 2004, her foal (later named The Sunday Fusaichi) by Dance in the Dark sold for ¥490,000,000 (U.S.$4.54 million), making it the world's highest-priced foal and the most expensive horse ever sold at auction in Japan.
• Jungle Pocket (1998) - winner of the Tokyo Yushun and Japan Cup, voted the 2001 Japan Horse of the Year and rated that year by Timeform as the third best three-year-old colt in the world.
• Narita Century (1999) - Japanese stakes winner of US$2,466,527.
• North Flight (1990) - winner of Yasuda Kinen and Mile Championship.
• Telegnosis (1999) - winner of GI NHK Mile Cup with career earnings of more than US$3 million.
• Vega (1990) - winner of the 1993 Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas) and Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks).
• Winning Ticket (1990) - winner of the 1993 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby).

Tony Bin sired other Grade I millionaire winners and was also the damsire of the Japanese colt Heart's Cry, winner of the 2006 Dubai Sheema Classic, who handed Deep Impact his first-ever loss in winning the 2005 Arima Kinen.

In 2000, Tony Bin died unexpectedly of heart failure at the age of seventeen.