COOLIDGE, AZ—DECEMBER 02, 2020—Martha Well's multiple Grade 1 winner Tell Cartel SI 105 will retire from racing following the Champion of Champions(G1) to stand at stud at Fales Ranch in Coolidge, Arizona. His fee has been set at $5,500.

The two-time Grade 1 winning son of 2020's leading sire of money earners Favorite Cartel won or placed in 13 of 18 career starts. He won the Los Alamitos Super Derby(G1), Los Alamitos Winter Derby(G1) and the El Primero Del Ano Derby(G3). He was second in the PCQHRA Breeders' Futurity(G2) and third in the Pat Hyland Memorial. Tell Cartel also qualified for the Golden Derby Derby(G2), Los Alamitos Juvenile Invitational and California Breeders Freshman Stakes.

"All my favorite horses in history won the Champion of Champions as 3-year-olds," trainer Matthew Fales said following Tell Cartel's win in the richest Los Alamitos Super Derby(G1) in history on November 7th. "To do that would just be incredible. I think (the extra 40 yards) will be an advantage for him. I feel like he was accelerating at the end of this race instead of getting caught. If he can catch one more gear, it’s there for us."

Tell Cartel's sire Favorite Cartel SI 105 ($607,669) is a Grade 1 winning son of Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Favorite Trick (TB). From only six crops of racing age, Favorite Cartel has sired 400 winners, 70 stakes winners, 2 champions, with earnings in excess of $22.2 million.

His top performers include Cartel Jess Rockin SI 96 (champion, to 3, 2020, $849,101, Los Alamitos 2 Million Futurity-G1, etc.), Tarzanito SI 102 (champion, $429,657, Go Man Go H.-G1, etc.), Lotta Blues Man SI 94 ($935,399, Golden State Million Futurity-G1, etc.), Powerful Favorite SI 102 (to 4, 2020, $830,222, Los Alamitos Winter Derby-G1, etc.), Flokie SI 96 (to 3, 2020, $711,819, Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1, etc.), etc.

Tell Cartel's dam is the stakes winning Chicks Beduino mare Checks Tell SI 98 ($41,115), a sister to Grade 1 Go Man Go Handicap winner Metalico SI 105 ($194,289) and stakes winner Sisal Buff SI 95 ($57,538).

Checks Tell is the dam of 29 ROM, 27 winners, 9 black type including Grade 1 winner Tell Cartel SI 105 (see above), multiple stakes winner Forrest Fire SI 102 ($335,306), stakes winner My Favorite Cartel SI 106 ($89,454 to 5, 2020), stakes-placed Chicks Fayvorite SI 99 ($117,373 to 7, 2020), RG2-placed Tough To Tell SI 91 ($68,651), G3-placed Fire By Night SI 91 ($68,561), stakes-placed Fayvorite Chick SI 93 ($31,833 to 3, 2020), RG3-placed Red Hawk Chick SI 97 ($25,890), and G3-placed Chicks Cocktail, etc.

She is the granddam of stakes winners Red Hawk Cartel SI 97 ($211,056), Yanque SI 96 ($164,961), Zendaya SI 102 ($77,090), Favorite Rock SI 94 (64,265), etc.

The second dam is Sunland Park Derby(G3) winner Tell The Boys No SI 94, by On A High. She is the dam of 10 ROM, 8 winners and 3 black type.

For additional information or breeding contract call Ralph or Carrie Fales at 520-723-7480.