Flying Pidgeon has sired 11 runners that have won or placed and the earners of $4.3 million. A 24-year-old son of Upper Case out of the Minnesota Mac mare Miss Minnesota, Flying Pidgeon last stood at Maui Meadow Farm in Pennsylvania.
Fastness and Flying Pidgeon, both millionaires and grade I winners, will stand in 2006 at Carlo DeThomasi's C & R Horse Farm near Milmay, N.J. Each will stand for $3,000.Fastness, who ran second in the 1995 Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. IT), has sired eight runners that have won or placed in stakes. They include Canadian champion and multiple 2005 added-money winner Le Cinquieme Essai. Fifteen-year-old Fastness (Rousillon--City Fortress, by Troy) is represented by the career earners of $3.7 million. He formerly stood at Godstone Farm in Pennsylvania.