Sizziling Effort, a son of Triple Crown Winner Special Effort, will begin his stallion career in 2025 at Kansas Center For Equine Reproduction in Lawerence.

© Oswaldo Simental

LAWERENCE, KS–DECEMBER 4, 2024–Sizziling Effort, a royally bred son of Triple Crown Winner and former leading sire Special Effort, will begin his stallion career in 2025 at Kansas Center For Equine Reproduction in Lawerence. His fee has been set at $1,000.

Owned by Oswaldo Simental, Sizziling Effort sustained a career-ending injury in his only start at 3.

His sire, world champion Special Effort SI 104 ($1,219,949), was the first Ruidoso Triple Crown-winning 2-year-old in 1981. He won the All American Futurity, Rainbow Futurity, and Kansas Futurity (now Ruidoso Futurity). From 28 crops to reach racing age, Special Effort has sired 75 stakes winners, 6 champions, 908 winners, and earned nearly $19 million in the USA.

Hip top performers include Easygo Effort SI 108 (champion, $431,551, Golden State Futurity-G1, etc.), Special Project SI 108 (champion twice, $429,302, All American Derby-G1, etc.), Special Leader SI 103 (World Champion Racing American QH, $292,605, Champion of Champions-G1, etc.), Bully Bullion SI 104 (champion, $225,384, All American Gold Cup-G1, etc.), Sweet N Special SI 106 (champion, $209,103, Sunland Park Fall Derby-G3, etc.).

Sizziling Effort's dam is the stakes winner and G1-placed Corona Cartel mare Sizzling SI 102 ($147,912). She is the dam of 15 ROM, 12 winners, 4 black type including Grade 1 winner Imaqtpie SI 94 ($106,733, Los Alamitos Winter Derby-G1, etc.), G1-placed Fire Fortune SI 95 ($366,198, 3^rd All American Futurity-G1, etc.), stakes-placed G1-finalist Famous N Hot SI 95 ($58,445), stakes-placed Down Rite Fast SI 98 ($19,267), Ruidoso Futurity(G1) finalist Jessy Jane SI 93 ($32,184), etc.

The second dam is the Grade1 placed Dash For Cash mare Tiny Dash Of Cash SI 105 ($211,118, 2nd Rainbow Futurity-G1, etc.). She is a half-sister to champion Tiny First Effort SI 105 ($445,393), Tiny First Down SI 105 ($317,881), and stakes winner Crash Thru Traffic SI 108 ($140,595).  

Tiny Dash Of Cash is the dam of 15 ROM, 14 winners, 5 black type including stakes winner Sizzling SI 102 (see above), All American Futurity(G1) runner-up Dash Of Perry SI 103 ($382,390), Texas Classic Futurity(G1) runner-up Red Storm Cat SI 104 ($226,439), G3-placed Pepper Perry SI 013 ($113,287), and stakes-placed Significant Legacy SI 94.

For additional information or breeding contracts, call Oswaldo Simental at (913) 257-6351 or Dr. Shelby Hayden, Kansas Center For Equine Reproduction, at (785) 813-5922.