Lexington, KY — The announcement on Sept. 25 that the Kentucky Sires Stakes program will increase in value to $17 million next year, with bigger purses across the board and additional racing opportunities, has prompted Diamond Creek Farm to move trotting stallion Southwind Frank to Kentucky.

Southwind Frank will join trotting stallion Gimpanzee at Diamond Creek’s Bluegrass operation.

“We notified the shareholders, and we are thrilled with the changes in the Kentucky program,” said Diamond Creek’s Adam Bowden. “We are also considering moving one of our pacing stallions from Pennsylvania to Kentucky.”

Southwind Frank, a son of Muscle Hill, will be standing his sixth season at stud in 2022. He was bred to 64 mares in Pennsylvania this year.

Bowden said Diamond Creek is actively soliciting broodmares for boarding. Eligibility to Kentucky’s Sires Stakes program requires a mare to reside in the state for 180 days total, with no requirement that the days are consecutive.

Diamond Creek owns a 260-plus acre farm in Scott County in the heart of the Kentucky Bluegrass region and will be leasing an additional 260 acres. Bowden said he is also actively looking to purchase another Bluegrass farm.

Although Diamond Creek’s broodmares have in the past spent much of their time at the Pennsylvania farm so the resulting foals are eligible for Pennsylvania breeders awards, Bowden said that because of the growth of the Kentucky program, “we may consider bypassing PA breeders awards.”