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Highcliff Farm-based Millennium
Wind added to Millennium Rewards Program
(2/14/08) Millennium Stallions' Highcliff Farm-based MILLENNIUM
WIND, a Grade 1-winning third-crop sire whose progeny earnings
recently topped $1.1-million, has been added to an innovative
rewards program for Millennium Stallions that rewards breeders
for achievements of its stallions' offspring in both sales rings
and at racetracks.
The Millennium Rewards Program, launched on January 1, 2008 but
retroactive to January of 2005 to allow Millennium Stallion-sired
juveniles of 2008 to earn points, is modeled on affinity programs
popular in consumer marketing. It awards points to breeders who
breed to Millennium stallions on a regular basis, using the following
criteria:Opening a Frequent Breeder Account automatically earns
10,000 points.
a) Additional points are earned for every dollar spent on stud
fees.
b) Additional points are earned for every dollar a Millennium
Stallion-sired offspring brings in its first trip through a sales
ring.
c) Additional points are earned for every purse dollar a Millennium
Stallion-sired offspring earns while racing.
d) 10,000 points (minimum) are earned for every black-type stakes
win registered by the offspring of a Millennium Stallion.
e) 25,000 points are earned for every Grade/Group 3 win (group
races in Part I of the International Cataloguing Standards) registered
by the offspring of a Millennium Stallion.
f) 50,000 points are earned for every Grade/Group 2 win registered
by the offspring of a Millennium Stallion.
g) 75,000 points are earned for every Grade/Group 1 win registered
by the offspring of a Millennium Stallion.
Points are converted to dollar credits at a ratio of 10-to-1,
and those credits are applicable towards stud fees for stallions
on the Millennium Stallions roster in Kentucky and now in New
York. A Millennium Stallion-sired yearling that brings a $100,000
sales price, for example, qualifies its breeder for a $10,000
credit on a Millennium Rewards account that is applicable towards
stud fees of any stallions on the Millennium Stallion roster.
Millennium Wind, a Grade 1/Grade 2 winner in Kentucky and California
whose graded-winning half-brothers include Horse of the Year and
multi-millionaire-siring Charismatic, has sired 40 winners from
his first two crops, and nearly half of his winners (nine from
each crop) broke their maidens as 2-year-olds. His juvenile winners
that won or placed in black-type stakes in 2007 included six-length
stakes winner Berry's Pride. The son of Cryptoclearance - Bali
Babe, by Drone, has stood at Carl Lizza Jr.'s and Joseph Bartone's
Highcliff Farm in Delanson, NY for a $5,000 live foal fee since
2006.
"Millennium Farms should be congratulated for developing
this concept, which supports breeders - whether they breed to
sell or to race," commented Highcliff Farm stallion manager
Suzie O'Cain. "This is a huge benefit which helps to offset
some of the expenses incurred by broodmare owners."
HIGHCLIFF FARM
944 Eatons Corners Road
Delanson, NY 12053
www.highcliff.com
highcliff@worldnet.att.net
or Millennium Farms in Kentucky (859) 294-5439
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