Disco Partner Retired From Stud Duty to ReRun

World-record-setting sprinter and New York stallion Disco Partner has been retired from stud duty and will spend his retirement at ReRun in New York. ReRun announced the retirement March 25 on X and it was confirmed by Erin Robinson at Rockridge Stud, where the 14-year-old son of Disco Rico entered stud in 2020. Disco Partner raced as a homebred for prominent New York owner/breeders Frank and Patricia Generazio. He won consecutive editions of the Jaipur Invitational Stakes (grade 2 on turf in 2018, grade 3 on turf in 2017) and during those same years repeated in the Belmont Turf Sprint Invitational Stakes. One of his best performances came in the 2017 Jaipur, where he stopped the clock in a sizzling 1:05.67 and set a world record for 6 furlongs on the turf while earning a 120 Equibase Speed Figure. Out of his 33 lifetime starts, he won three other stakes and placed in 12 others, including consecutive third-place finishes in the 2017-18 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T). Disco Partner was named New York's champion grass horse for 2017. Disco Partner, out of the Generazio's homebred winner Lulu's Number (Numerous), retired with an 11-6-8 record and earned $1,487,560. He was one of several homebred graded stakes winners for the Generazios along with grade 1 winner Discreet Marq and grade 3 winners Pure Sensation and Don Six. As a stallion, Disco Partner was largely supported by the Generazios. Frank Generazio died in November 2020 after the stallion had completed his first breeding season. Patricia Generazio dispersed her breeding stock about two years later at the 2023 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale. Disco Partner bred 31 mares his first year at stud, and his book size fell to 12 the year of the Generazio dispersal. He did not cover any mares last year. "He was a very gentle stallion to handle, and we loved having that rare Citidancer sire line as an option for breeders," Robinson said. "He threw some lovely foals and had some impressive commercial sales to boot. We just did not have enough volume to get the job done." Disco Partner has sired nine winners to date led by multiple stakes-placed winner Disco Star, who ran second in last year's Suzie O'Cain Stakes and third in the Take The A Train Stakes on the turf and third in the New York Stallion Stakes Park Avenue Division on Aqueduct Racetrack's main track. ReRun has been the retirement home for a number of prominent New York stallions including Frost Giant, Giant Surprise, and Killybegs Captain.