Two-Time Champion Aged Stallion Eagles Fly Higher will stand his second season at Royal Vista Ranch, LLC in Wayne, Oklahoma.

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WYANE, OK—JULY 22, 2022—Two-time AQHA Racing Champion Aged Stallion Eagles Fly Higher SI 114, a grade 1 winning son of leading sire One Famous Eagle, will stand his second season at Royal Vista Ranch, LLC in Wayne, Oklahoma  in 2023. His fee will remain $3,500 with consideration to approved mares.

"When Mr. Darling approached Laura about Eagles Fly Higher coming to RVR to stand in 2023 the entire team was ecstatic," Royal Vista Ranch, LLC owner Cole Morehead said.  "There is no doubt this young stallion has everything it takes to put runners on the track.  On top of that, when an owner is willing to put a $100,000 incentive behind their horse it is hard not to get excited about what the future could hold."

The 5-year-old owned by Darling Farms is from the black-type-rich family of Champions of Champions winner and multiple stakes sire The Down Side SI 107 ($361,792) and Kindergarten Futurity(G1) winner Rev It Up SI 98 ($277,078), etc.

For the second year, Eagles Fly Higher's owners will pay a $100,000 Bonus to the breeder of the highest earning offspring by the stallion for the 2026 race season.

Eagles Fly Higher, under jockey Mario Delgado, winning the $58,000 Grade 2 Eastex Stakes at Remington Park.
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At the racetrack, Eagles Fly Higher won or placed in 20 races earning $623,821, racing soundly through age 5.

He won the Sooner State S.(G1), Mr. Jet Moore Stakes(G2), Eastex Stakes(G2)-twice, Prairie Meadows Championship Challenge (G2), Remington Park Juvenile and was second in the Texas Classic Futurity(G1), Downs At Albuquerque Championship H.(G1), and Canterbury Park Championship Challenge(G3).

Eagles Fly Higher was also third in the AQHA Challenge Championship S.(G1), Mighty Deck Three S.(G2), and Town Policy Stakes and a finalist in Refrigerator Invitational Championship S.(G1), Debbie Schauf Remington Park Invitational Championship S.(G1), Vessels Maturity(G1), Robert L Boniface Invitational Championship(G1), Sooner State Stakes (G1), Go Man Go Handicap(G1), Boyd Morris Memorial, Jack Brooks Stakes and Easy Jet Stakes.

Eagles Fly Higher winning the Bank of America Prairie Meadows Championship Challenge(G2).
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Eagles Fly Higher is out of the multiple black type producing First Down Dash mare Lone Bet, dam of 8 ROM, 6 winners, 2 black type including Champion and Grade 1 winner Eagles Fly Higher SI 114 (see above), stakes winner Bet I Make U Famous SI 103 ($112,078), Ill Make U Famous Si 91, etc.

The second dam is the Grade 2 West Texas Derby winning Easy Jet mare Rr Le Mistral SI 105 ($90,233), a sister to stakes-placed Rr Oklahoma Slick and half-sister to stakes-placed Rr Expert Witness and Rr Double Brown. Rr Le Mistral is the dam of 18 ROM, 13 winners, 3 black type including Champion of Champions(G1) winner and stakes sire The Down Side ($361,792), Kindergarten Futurity(G1) winner Rev It Up SI 98 ($277,078), and stakes-placed Dewars SI 95 ($13,882), etc.

Rr Le Mistral is also the granddam of La Primera Del Ano Derby(G2) winner Revv Me Up SI 92 ($183,599), stake's winner Cc Revv Her SI 103 ($29,562 to 3, 2021), stakes winner Secret Profit SI 104 ($26,004) and G3-placed Truly Tempered SI 99 ($33,046), etc.

For additional information and breeding contracts to Eagles Fly Higher call Laura Erickson, Farm Manager, at 405-449-7575.