Volume Eight, the 2022 Dan Patch Award Winner as two-year-old trotting colt of the year, has added a familiar face to his ownership group in advance of his three-year-old season.
Two horsemen stood out in front of the rest during the first weekend of racing at The Meadowlands in 2022 as driver Yannick Gingras recorded eight winners over the course of January 7-8 while trainer Mark Ford schooled four to victory lane.
The connections to Always A Virgin have announced a stud-fee deal for the stallion s 2021 season.
“Always A Virgin might have had his best two-year-old season ever in 2020 with such standouts as the Champion filly Somethingbeautiful p,2,1:51.4 ($312,000) and the Fox Stake winner Virgo p,2,1:51.4 ($126,817), and I have been quite surprised that he has not had more breeding requests for the 2021 season,” said Jeff King of Victory Hill Farm, where the sire of more Breeders Crown winners than any other Indiana stallion stands. “I discussed this with Mitchel Skolnick and Bob Boni, his Syndicate Managers, and to be proactive we think we have come up with a very attractive approach that will continue to give this special stallion the opportunities he has earned and also extend a thank you to those that have and continue to support him.”