OUTWORK (Uncle Mo – Nonna Mia by Empire Maker), has been purchased to continue his stud career in Saudi Arabia through a deal brokered by Chad Schumer.
The eleven-year-old Grade 1 Wood Memorial winner, who earned over $700,000, entered stud in 2017 at WinStar Farm. He’s gone on to sire two Grade 1 winners, Leave No Trace and Brightwork. Another top performer includes millionaire Outadore, who won the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Turf Sprint in 2020 before running in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf at Keeneland, making a gallant effort to finish third behind Fire at Will and Battleground. In his five crops of racing age, he has sired two graded stakes winners, thirteen black-type winners and additional seventeen black type placers.
On the track, Outwork showed plenty of speed as a precocious two-year-old. Running first time out at the Keeneland spring meet of his two-year-old year, he won easily going four and one half furlongs on the dirt. After a win in an allowance going six furlongs, he ran a very game second in the Tampa Bay Derby, just getting out run by multiple Graded Stakes winner, Destin.
Bred and raced by Repole Stable, Outwork is out of the Empire Maker mare, Nonna Mia. An impressive winner at Belmont in her second start as a two-year-old, she went on to run third in the Grade 1 Frizzete Stakes and the Grade 3 Tempted Stakes while second in the Loudonville Stakes at Saratoga. Nonna Mia is also the dam of Nonna Bella who won her first two starts before finishing fourth in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks. Nonna Bella is the dam of two-year-old champion, and one of the top three-year- olds in the country at the moment, Fierceness as well as his exciting 2YO full brother Mentee.
