G1-winning sprinter Euroears starts stallion career at JEH Oklahoma

Nov. 12, 2011 - Millionaire Grade 1-winning sprinter Euroears (TB) has been retired from racing and will begin his stud career at JEH Stallion Station's Oklahoma Division near Wynnewood in 2012. His fee will be $2,000 for Quarter Horse mares and $4,000 to Thoroughbreds.

Owned by Jim and Marilyn Helzer, the 7-year-old chestnut stallion won or placed in 14 of 21 starts while earning $1,043,894. He won the Grade 1, $250,000 Big Crosby Stakes last year while setting a new six-furlong track record at Del Mar in 1:08.17. He was also second in the Grade 1, $2.5 million Dubai Golden Shaheen Stakes at the Dubai World Cup and competed in the $1.5 million Sentinet Jet Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) in Louisville this season.

"Euroears is one of the fastest Thoroughbreds in the world and he has the conformation of a Quarter Horse," Jim Helzer said.

Among Euroears' other stakes wins are the Palos Verdes Stakes (G2), Duncan F. Kenner Stakes, F.W. Gaudin Memorial Stakes, Colonel Power Stakes and Thanksgiving Handicap. He was also second in the Texas Mile (G3) and third in the Lone Star Park Handicap (G3). He ran the quarter-mile in :21 and change 10 times and earned a 110 Beyer Speed Figure. Bob Baffert, an Eclipse Award-winning former Quarter Horse trainer, conditioned him this season.

His sire is Canadian sprint champion Langfuhr ($698,574), a son of Danzig. Langfuhr has sired 59 stakes winners, five champions, and the earners of $78.7 million, including champion Lawyer Ron ($2,790,008), Canadian Horse of the Year Wando ($2,563,038), champion Mobil ($1,977,136) and champion Kimchi ($519,047).

Euroears’ dam is the stakes-winning Heff mare Unky And Ally ($98,600), a half sister to the dam of True Course ($363,958).

For additional information or breeding contracts to Euroears, contact the farm at (405) 665-2246 or JEH Stallion Station's General Manger Andrew Gardiner at (903) 300-9097.