Empire Maker
2000, Dark Bay Horse
(Unbridled - Toussaud, by El Gran Senor)
Empire Maker's first crop included four grade one winners: Acoma, Country Star, Mushka, and Icon Project.
Acoma won the 2010 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (gr. I), and earned $1,060,898 in her career.
Keeneland Photo
Country Star won the Darley Alcibiades Stakes (gr. I) and the Hollywood Starlet Stakes (gr. I) at 2 in 2007.
Anne M. Eberhardt
Icon Project won the Personal Ensign Stakes (gr. I) in 2009.
Coglianese Photos
Mushka picked up her grade I win in the 2009 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (gr. I), after the disqualification of Proviso. Overall, Mushka earned $1,096,125 in 19 starts.
Anne M. Eberhardt
The star of Empire Maker's second crop was Pioneerof the Nile, who won the CashCall Futurity (gr. I) at 2.
Benoit Photography
Pioneerof the Nile's three-year-old wins included the Santa Anita Derby (gr. I). He also placed second in the Kentucky Derby (gr. I), while earning $1,090,000 that season.
Benoit Photography
Pioneerof the Nile has already made a splash in the breeding shed, as the sire of 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah.
Anne M. Eberhardt
Empire Maker's next crop included Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (gr. II) winner Acting Happy.
Skip Dickstein
Another prominent member of Empire Maker's 2007 crop was grade III winner Soaring Empire, who earned $386,393.
Coglianese Photos
Empire Maker's fourth crop had yielded just six winners when Empire Maker's importation to Japan was announced.
Royal Delta, a member of that crop, broke her maiden in late October of 2010. But, by late 2011, she was tops in her class, completing a championship season with a win in the Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic (gr. I).
Rick Samuels
Royal Delta would win the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic (gr. I) again in 2012, and she was named champion older mare for that year.
Royal Delta earned $4,811,126 in her career, including 10 graded wins.
Skip Dickstein
Empire Maker's fifth crop included 12 stakes winners. Bodemeister won the Arkansas Derby (gr. I) by 9 1/2 lengths in 2012, and finished second in both the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) and the Preakness Stakes (gr. I).
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Additional grade I winners from Empire Maker's fifth crop were Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (gr. I) winner In Lingerie.
Keeneland Photo
And Grace Hall, winner of the 2011 Spinaway Stakes (gr. I). Grace Hall raced through age 5, and earned $1,546,360.
Coglianese Photos
The top horse from Empire Maker's sixth crop is Emollient, earner of $1,350,400, including wins in the 2013 Central Bank Ashland Stakes (gr. I), the 2013 American Oaks (gr. IT), the 2013 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (gr. I), and the 2014 Rodeo Drive Stakes (gr. I).
Coady Photography
Also from Empire Maker's 6th crop is Grade II winner Frivolous, who is his leading North American earner for 2015. Through October 6, her year-to-date earnings are $357,220, including victory in the Fleur de Lis Handicap (gr. II).
Churchill Downs/ Reed Palmer
After five years in Japan, Empire Maker is returning to Kentucky and will stand at Gainesway in partnership with Don Alberto Corp.
Kate Hunter