GUTHRIE, OK—OCTOBER 17, 2017—Lazy E Ranch, who in September announced that Grade I winner Big Lew $638,878 will retire from racing in December and enter stud in 2018, has announced a fee of $2,500.

A son of Corona Cartel, Big Lew won the $767,450 Los Alamitos Super Derby G1 last year and was third by a half-length as a 3-year-old in last year’s $600,000 Champion of Champions G1. He was 3rd just last Sunday in the $125,000 Robert L. Boniface Handicap to the newest member of the $2,000,000 club, Heza Dasha Fire.

In 23 lifetime outs, the four-year-old brown horse has competed in a total of 8 Grade I races at Remington, Los Alamitos and Ruidoso: Los Alamitos Super Derby, Champion of Champions, Leo Stakes, Rainbow Derby, Ruidoso Derby, Remington Park Invitational Championship, Robert L. Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship and Go Man Go Handicap. In addition to those 8 Grade I races, he also was a finalist in the Oklahoma Futurity G2 and Oklahoma Derby G3. He has been in the finals of 10 stakes races, all graded. Next, Big Lew will be competing in the Z. Wayne Griffin Director’s trials, in an effort to compete in back-to-back Champion of Champions G1 races.

“Competing successfully against many of the nation’s best horses for the past three seasons, Big Lew certainly underscored his class by winning the Grade I Los Alamitos Super Derby but also distinguishing himself in graded stakes from 300 yards to 440 yards. In fact, 6 of his last 7 outs were in Grade 1 events. Big Lew is an extremely handsome horse with all the credentials to make an excellent sire. His conformation is what sets him apart, along with his soundness, pedigree and distance versatility.” said Butch Wise of Lazy E Ranch.

“We are proud to add him to our stallion battery, and we think he brings a lot to the table for our breeders.” Wise added.

Big Lew’s full brother KVN Corona $575,250 has already won this year’s Ed Burke Million Futurity G1 and PCQHRA Breeders Futurity G2. KVN Corona is the nation’s No. 6 money earner through October 10 and is the nation’s only undefeated Grade I winner this year.

KVN Corona is next expected to start in the November 26 trials for the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity G1.

Big Lew and KVN Corona are both sired by Corona Cartel, the breed’s No. 1 living sire of money earners. They are out of the Grade I winning Executive Menace mare Executive Looks.

Executive Looks won the Manor Downs Futurity G1, the Heartbeat Of America Handicap and the La Villita Stakes and five other races. She was also a finalist in the Dash For Cash Futurity G1 and Southwest Juvenile Championship G1. Executive Looks is a full sister to multiple stakes winner Executive Prince $94,226, G1, and a half-sister to 2017 three-year-old stakes placed winner One Sweet Picky $104,003.

Sticky N Picky $117,391, the second dam of Big Lew, was a multiple stakes winner at Los Alamitos and is Grade I placed. The pedigree also includes Grade I winner Executively $81,278; multiple graded stakes winner Weeza Gone Gray $145,125; 15-time winner All Wacked Out $217,339; and G1 winner and World Record Setter Classic Sassy Chic $221,377.

Courtesy TRACK Magazine Monday Report.