Graded Winner Ommadon to Metropolitan in New York

Graded stakes winner Ommadon will enter stud at Metropolitan Stud, managed by Michael and Debra Lischin, near Pine Plains, N.Y., as the property of Dr. James Kirvin for $3,000 live foal. A 6-year-old son of Grindstone, Ommadon won four of 14 races and earned $214,650 as a homebred for Kirvin's Sorin Stables.

Ommadon, who won at Saratoga as a 2-year-old in 2000 in his first start, recorded one of the highest Beyer Speed Figures of the year for a juvenile. He registered a 99 Beyer in winning the Nashua Stakes (gr. III) at Aqueduct. He then ran second in the Remsen Stakes (gr. II), also at Aqueduct.

Ommadon's dam, graded stakes winner Missymooiloveyou (byTurkoman), is a half-sister to grade II winner Lady D'Accord.