Officer, who is out of the Septieme Ciel mare St. Helens Shadow, has sired 17 winners, including four stakes winners, and the earners of more than $950,000. Unbeaten in his first five races as a 2-year-old, Officer scored his major win in the Champagne Stakes (gr. I).
Officer, who ranks second on the first-crop sires list by progeny earnings and third on the overall 2-year-old sires list, will stand for a $40,000 fee at the Taylor family's Taylor Made Farm near Nicholasville, Ky. Taylor Made acquired a 50% interest in the 7-year-old son of Bertrando from Dennis Narlinger, who stood Officer for four years at the Beck family's Gainesway Farm near Lexington.