Phone Trick was retired after breaking a sesamoid in a workout about two weeks prior to the Breeders' Cup. Speculation was Phone Trick may have actually incurred the injury two months earlier when he suffered his only defeat in 10 career starts in the Tom Fool Stakes (gr. III). He lost that day by 6 1/4 lengths to Groovy, who was subsequently upset as the favorite in the Sprint, finishing fourth behind Smile.

Since retiring to stud at Walmac International near Lexington, Phone Trick has sired 45 stakes winners including Horse of the Year Favorite Trick and champion juvenile filly Phone Chatter. Those two horses also represent Phone Trick's two Breeders' Cup winners, Phone Chatter winning the Juvenile Fillies (gr. I) in 1993, and Favorite Trick taking the Juvenile (gr. I) in 1997.
Phone Trick has had his share of good sprinters, names such as Intidab and Mazel Trick coming to mind. He has also gotten runners who could get two turns, like the multiple graded stakes winner at nine furlongs, Semoran.

Phone Trick is by Clever Trick and is inbred, 4x4, to Nearco, who is best known as the sire of Nearctic, who in turn sired Northern Dancer. Clever Trick is by Icecapade, by Nearctic.

On the female side of his pedigree, Phone Trick's damsire, Finnegan, is by Royal Charger, by Nearco.

Caller One, who ran fourth in last year's Sprint, is one of two Sprint starters by Phone Trick. He is the sire of Confide, who finished fifth in 1997.

Caller One is out of the unraced Danzig mare Baltic Sea, who was bred in Canada by Bob Anderson. She was sold twice, as a yearling for $150,000 and later as a broodmare, in fact while carrying Caller One, for $250,000.