Touch Tone, who sired the first two finishers in this year's Texas Stallion Stakes at Lone Star Park, will stand in 2013 at William S. Farish's Lane's End Texas near Hempstead, Texas. A fee will be announced later. Touch Tone formerly stood at JEH Stallion Station near Pilot Point, Texas.
In the Texas Stallion Stakes, Im a Bear won and Perfect Meadow finished second. The victory was the second stakes win for Im a Bear.
Fourteen-year-old Touch Tone also has sired stakes winner Hidden Recipe and stakes-placed No Other Tone.
As a racehorse, Touch Tone won the Iowa Derby and the Alysheba Breeders' Cup Stakes and finished second to Horse of the Year Point Given in the Haskell Invitational Handicap (gr. I).
A son of grade III winner Pick Up the Phone, Touch Tone is out of the El Baba mare Super Senorita. Touch Tone, a $230,000 2-year-old, was bred in Florida by Sandra Ezell and raced by Tom Durant.