First Foal for Soaring Empire is a Colt

Grade III winner Soaring Empire   was represented by his first reported foal when a colt was born Jan. 24 at Phoenix Farm near Paris, Ky.

Owned and bred by Dan Bearden, the colt was produced from the Vision and Verse mare In Your Eyes.

A 7-year-old son of Empire Maker   who won the 2011 Hal's Hope Stakes (gr. III), Soaring Empire stands at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y., where his 2014 fee will be $3,500.